Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1874-07-20
60 home with you
Mary turned around.

-tAt<A AAS- seAONaS<-
1.-The button holes can wait. / shall
not receive my pay until Saturday night,
Ill any event. Yes, come home with me.
l get so little sympathy nowadays,
that cannot afford to put away the Of
fered hand of any one"
So the spoiled child went into the
dreary precincts of tenement house,
and stood face to face with Death and
Famine.
Henry Ford had been trying to work,
but hand and eye alike refused to obey
the dictates of the tireless BRAIN. The
tiny tools and satin smooth block of
wood lay beside him on coarse pine
talle, and he sat with closed eyes, so
still, that Kitty involuntarily exclaimed !:
..My God he is dead p
'.No. he is not" the wife answered,
going softly to him. ''He often looks SO,
| When he1S weary.
And ii the same second he opened his
eyes, will faint smile.
"You hive come back, my guardian
.angel," sad he-and Mary made haste
to introduce her friend.
Il have peen asleep" he resumed. 81
dreamed | vas eating and drinking wine,
and fruit, and jellies Oh the anguish
of waking p
"God help US" groaned the poor wife,
wringing her hands, ''we are starving,
and he dreams of such things as this :"
"Starving, Mary l'' once more echoed
Kitty.
Mrs. Ford opened drawer and point
ed to the crust of loaf Of bread.
.'That is all we have" said she.
'sThat is all we shall have until to-mor.
row night. / can eat it soaked in a
little water, but he-he has the capri
cious appetite of an invalid, and dry
bread is certainly not an inviting diet, y
with a jarring laugh.
'.Mary," sobbed Kitty Kane, clinging
around her friend S neck, II never dream.
ed of destitution and misery like this.
Here-take this money-spend it !" and
she put her purse into Mary's wan hand
"My God and not an hour ago wa:
repining because I could not waste it in
silks, and hces, and gew-gaws."
Mary Ford looked eagerly at the bills
"Ten dollars Ten dollars |" she fee
bly, gasped, as she looked down at the
crumpled bits of paper. do you NEAR
all this for me ?''
''Take it,"
"God bless you, Kitty, said Mar,
Ford, with choking sob in her throat
''To me it is more than ten Thousand
would have been two years ago Coz
bless you'll"
"And l will go home" Kitty added
''for wine, and jelly, and delicate crack
ers. such as invalids like. [ will no
be gone long, dear Mary
Kitty Kane did not go to the party
She spent no time ON founces and furbe
lows. All her leisure hours were devote,
to the sad necessity of her friends.
The evening after the party, Mr.. For
dyce called.
"You were not at Miss Porter's las
night" he said, when the first greeting
were exchanged.
..No."
s'But know where you were, Kitty
I never felt towards you as felt whe
the poor, sick man, in the tenemen
house, told me how you had been an an
gel of mercy and tenderness to him an
his !"
''FIow did you happen to know {
him ?" Kitty asked, coloring.
"a friend, benevolent old clergy
man, desired me to go there. They nee
help said he. sAll Gods childre
should help one another. You have lei
J ure, Harry Fordyce, and you have MOI
ey.' So / went-and so / heard of yol
, gentle and charitable office, Kitty"
She was silent
, "How many of the bellies who waltze
away the hours at Miss Porter's bal
last night, would have given up ever.
thing to Gods work, as you have don
do you suppose, Kitty p asked Fordyc
after moment or two.
..Many, hope p
But, as | know of only one, wou
like to make sure of that one, said Fo
dyce, smiling. Il always liked 20
Kitty. To-day, as | stood by poor Ford
S pillow, and heard him speak Of you,
knew that loued you. Will you be Il
D wife, Kitty"
So Kitty won the coveted treasure
her heart, and won it too, without ;
effort. She had enlisted under the {
I vine banner of Charity, and she had b
reward
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