Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1875-02-11

! AkcfS. >dll the sailor. II expect he
wants to tell you about Mrs. Durnford's
| business. lie wants to make an affidavit
/ that she was innocent, think. She was.
and he wants to right the woman, as he
| says he can, before he dies"
! Where has your father been ?" asked
/ NJ Escriot
West Australia. He will do right now
! am afraid he is going, and he has been
| good father to me-"
NJ. Escriot shook his head Nothing
| could be done with these English, thcv
were such fools. Akers had been twice
| Imprisoned for starving and beating his
/ children, and here was his son and heir
\ crying over the loss ofan excellent par
ent.
/ Yet it Is so. \ few pence and a few
/ kind words, now and then, viii in an Eng
/ li>h or American boys heart, atone tor
/ months or years OF cruelty aud neglect.
/ As for The French, we have nothing to say.
I Their piety (iu the Old Latin scnse) to
ward their fathers is more like a craze than
anything else
II was late tn the night before VI. e.
I criot had done with Akers. The man was
! dying, aud wished 10 make a clean breast
ofit. TO make long story short. he en-.
tirc!y cNonerated Mrs. Durnford aud ulti-
mltcly the judge who had tried her allow
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justice. We rather anticipate here, be-
cause the course of the story carries us
away with VI. k~criot and Young AAers
lie camv soon after to VI. Escriof aud
announced hi, fathers death. II am
G'a" >t'.' VI E>C:'"t' "that he eaNed hiN
mind louuG ANcr.. the sailor said.
NV ! "'h' l"u 70 ease mine. i Mr-.
Durutord handy h
hFS bNf"'oid A"d HIHetlc were produc-
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- remember you now. and thank You
i"r "ht you nave done ior me-, said Mrs.
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"u remember !ourhoy Mcerschaum y
.;".
ST. y WAS that lo"A nun away out
"I tu'~' ne was 100 Good Tor lt, ana 50
W'> l. th'"-h / never Was 80 good aN HIM.
So'N hun away "ut OF i. and am proud
nh lS- tpok h4iif I" fleld l.anc.and then he
wen, /" ,'rrAt Queen street, and "c went
% IN. th''h'@'"r together ana We mere
h''u d'''t. n iit" the hsSA1 Navy.
Nhd "h'F" 7, my boy now -ald Mrs.
purhl"Td' eagerly
Bum my y | kuoW' maam There
wa- only ri1hi "f a. drafted into the
Qntrn. serve" mat year anu be might be
anYW mere d"ht a much a know wha.
shp he went lnt"' because lrit thiche--
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by hi' nhmr "i Mr'r'chnnm, WAich he Az
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are not clever enough 10 see one thing. II
had wished 10 trace nv son Tor Am evil
purpose. | should scarcely have acknowl-
edged To vou t,vo gentlemen that | had
been a convict"
rhl> wa, - trdubitably true that the
twp manager. looked ~ one another
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