The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1877-08-17

tween MS knees ana lcctured him. To
be good was to be happy. Honesty is
the best policy. Cleanliness came ncxt
to godliness. These were the heads of
his discourscs.
Then he gave him half crown. and
bade him go and be good and clean.
And the boy was of like fash.
Thousands just such as he in this
great city;" sighed the Captain, and
walked along. "Ah, me- ~
Then he went in search of Mrs. Ann
Golden and his own fair darling.
But Mrs. Golden was not so easily
found as he had hoped. There was a
little shop in the house he had been di-
rected to, and the keeper thereof said
she had bought it of Ann Golden; "but
| haven't seen her since" she said "only
there's a bit of card with her number OH
is, can find it,"
After search, she did find il; and
the Captain, thanking her, hurried
away; but another disappointment
awaited him.
Mrs. Golden had not lived in this sec
ond place for years. She had moved
into Clumber Row, but what number
no one could remember.
AT Clumber Row, whittier the Cap
tain drove in cab, woman owned to
having had lodger.
"She had a little child staying with
her, too" she said. "Little Ned she
called him; but to tell the truth, she
drank so that / turned her out. ]
couldn't abide such doings. She went
to Fossil Lane, No. g."
EAccfI Il l,o +.
was filthy place, and there was a
drunken woman at No. 9, who was not
Ann Golden, and who threw a piece oi
wood at him for asking for that lady
And now every clue was lost, and the
Captain, nearly beside himself for anx.
iety, applied TO the authorities for help
and after many days of great unhappi
ness, he heard of an Ann Golden who
lived in quarter ofLondon so low and
dangerous that all decent people shun
ned it..
"No wonder,' the Captain thought
"if she lived there, that she should have
had his remittances sent to the post of
flee, and left him to believe that his
child was still in the decent home tC
which she had at first taken him."
LhDhOot III W ltu tut pOOl
Captain drove with policeman as pro-
tector, into the maze of hideous lanes
and courts that led to Ann Golden'i
dwelling, and following his conductor
dropped into filthy cellar, where, annie
the horrible leakage of drain pipes, ant
almost in utter darkness, sat an old wo
man with bottle beside her, who start
ed up when the Captain and his guar,
entered, and cried: "What now
What's the perlice here for? Is il on,
of the boys again.
And, altered as she was with year
and drink, the Captain knew his wife
old nurse, Ann Golden. lie gave a or,
of rage. and darted towards her
"My boy" he cried.
And she screamed, dts the Captain. =
''ls my boy living?" he asked.
"ics," said the woman, shaking al
over: "hc's alive and WE'LL"
GLOW dare you keep him herc?'
cried the Captain.
''IIow can help being poor?' whin
ed the woman. 81 couldn't give up th
bit You pay for him. I'm very old
I'm very i'll. Don't be hard on me-"
Good Heavens" cried the Captain
"My Ellen's baby in place like this I
He dropped his head on his hands
then he lifted it and clasped them.
OH have him away from here now !!
he gasped. "It's over, and he's youn
and will forget it. Where is he? IIav
you lied? Is he dead?"
"No, no." said the old woman. "He'l
be here soon. | hear him now. That
him. He'll be here in minute. Don
kill poor old body, Captain-don't." !"
~ could do it," cried the Captain
"Listen There is some one coming
My child. My childw
The door opened softly, head peer
ed in low down, then drew back.
"Come in" piped the old woman
"The perlice arn't after you-leastwa
for harm. Captain, that's him-you
boy Ned"
And as the Captain stood with on
stretched arms there crept in at the doc
who? what? The wan, deformed an
dirty creature who had picked his pocl
et-whom he had fed for the sake of hi
beautiful dream-child-th wretche
waif, forgotten utterly in the last fe,
days of anxiety.
"That's him." croaked the old cron
again. That's your boy-that's Ned
The Captain gave a cry; he san
down on an old box close at hand, an
hid his face and wept. His sobs shoe
him terribly; they almost shook tn
crazy building. They frightened III
old woman, and set the policeman [
rubbing his eyes with his cuffs. I'll
boy stood and stared for moment, an
then vanished.
And what was the wretched fatht
thinking? So many thoughts, that thei
are no words for them; but, first of al
this horrible one-that that vile lit
object, that wretched child of Il
streets, was the darling for whom |
had searched SO long.
"Better l had never found him
moaned the Captain, cor found hi
deadw
And just then little hand crept ov,
his knee. The thrill of hair was again
his hand, and piping voice said NEE
ly, "Please, Pm clean now. I've was
ed myself"
The Captains swollen eyes unclose
They turned upon the child.
Some queer knowledge Of his father
leeIilSS nau crepi mo MS lmnd, ana
had tried TO clean his face A roul
white spot appeared amidst The grim
and out of il shone two beautiful eve
that looked wistfnlly up into The Ca
iain's.
All OF a sudden, food of such pit
lnl tenderness as he had never felt b
fore swept over Captain Penryn's hear
All the grief and shame and wound,
pride left it, TO come back no more.
"Ellen's eyes," he sobbed; "Ellel
boy" and took his son to his hear
''For his sake" he said, softly ,as thou,
, he stood by the grave of the beautii
dream child he had just buricd-"f
his sake and Ellen'sw
! And then he led the child with him
SLAyING THE GREEKS AND RoMANs.
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