Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-03-09
Of you desire it, sir

sat the end of that time, / will tell
you what think upon the mattel
At Mr.. Stedhurst went on with the
repairing of the Sunday harness
The next day he brought down an
sl1nful Of old coats, pants and vests
from the garnet.
| judith" he said, these things are
! getting moth eaten. They belonged to
Ian old uncle Of mine, Who died ten
wears ago-an odd, mlserlv, old fellow
who boarded everything thing up, and
died in cellar at last | wait H., N
cut up into carpet rags
| "Yes, sir" answered Judith Black,
tuaI to her 4ad when her days
routine OF duty was done she went to
work diisenfy with Mrs. Sedh'msts
big shining shears.
She was all alone in the kitchen the
next afternoon just as the clock was
liking three. Edmund was in the
barn sorting cut winter apples Mr.
! Stedhurst was, hamlnering away in the
the milk dairy, and Mrs. Stedilurst had
| gone to neighbor's with her knittings
work. And at IN 18th Black worked
she sang softly to herself an oil Scotch
ballad, s'Bonnie Dundee
Picking UP an old wais.coat OF GIN
ger colored cloth, she clipped off the
buttons and mechanically turned the
pockets inside out to cut them away.
There was piece of folded brownish
paper in one of them. Judith took it
out without thinking much of it, and
untolded il.
To her surprise she perceived that il
was fifty dollar treasury note.
In her first establishment she uttered
a little cry, all alone though she was.
! And then she remembered what Mr..
Stedhurst had said about the miSefly
old uncle who had ''hoarded up his
little gains and died in cellar at last
This, doubtless, was one of the old
mans hiding places land ne had died
and made no siga
And this precious bit of paper was
it not hers by right of discovery? Her
eyes cleaned and her fingers trembled
conyulsively as they frightened their
grasp upon it! She needed it so much I
She was so poor-so pinched for mon
ey And these Stedhursts. TO whom it
would naturally revert, were rich, did
not need it, They would never know
Nobody would know.
For a minute the temptation baitlod
fiercely with her better nature. For a
minute only And then Judith rose up
and went straight to the door of the
tool-room--w went with dropping eye.
lids and a scarlet stain on each cheek.
sCome in said Mr. Stedl,ursts, ~
Judith knocked at the door, aud she
entered
..Mr. Stedhurst," said she III a voies
that would talter little in spite of her
resolution to control it, ''here ia some
money, a fffty-dollar bill. [ have
found it i'll the pocket of one of those
old waistcoats"
s.Ah T. said Mr.. Stedhurst, putting
down his plane, and taking the erum-
pied bit of paper. "And why didn't
you keep it? Did it not occur to yoa
that l would never know any thin !.
about it,
EYES," said Judith, sit did occur to
me, sir"
"Then, why didn't you keep z
s.It was not mine, Judith answered
in low tone.
judith said .Phineas Stedhurst,
sscome here aud kiss me, my girl. l put
that money there
ssYou did :"
81 did. 10 test you. To make sure
that the girl to whom my hoy had Civ
en- his heart was worthy of him. y
| Judith's face glowed deep scarlet.
IL don't understand you sir, said
she. sv
"NoI suppose not But you will in
few days.
Aud she did when Edmund Sted-
hurst asker her to be his wife
MY own love, he said, '',he farm
house has been like different place
since you came into 1t. Will you
promise me to stay here always?"
| And Judith's answer was "Yes 2"
Ezra w. Wiuslow, the Boston for
ger, comes of a family of dissolute chsr-
acters and law breakers. who were well