The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1877-11-17
AN UNEXPECTED "SITUATION :"

AN UNEXPECTED SITUATION. :"
What can a man do in place like
this?" cried Steve Parker. "Look al
the New York Herald look at that en-.
tire page! Situations for Malesp Moth.
ing to do but to go and pick and choose
your place. 1 tell you, Harry, if you
could once walk down Broadway, the
very thought of living in Oldborough
would sicken you ever after"
Then he lowered his voice, that Mrs.
Flaxman, Harry's mother, might not hear
him.
The good Quaker lady sat sewing at
The other side of the room, pleased to see
her boy SO eager and interested. She
caught now and then chance word
of Steve's harangue, )" marble stores, "
brown'stone palaces" diverted serv-
ants" and :'diamond studs in his shirt
bosom, worth thousands of dollars, sirp'
"Who is it that shows so costly a
front, Stephen" the mild little lady
asked. She was always anxious to be a
companion to Harry and his friends.
Mr.. Clements, ma'amw cried Steve.
zone of the first young men in New
York. He's clerk in clothing store on
Broadway. He boarded with u.s. last
summer. He used to say to me: Parker,
come to town, and We'll make a man of
you. You're wasted in country village
like Oldboroughr That's the way he
used to talk to me-" rubbing the light
down on his upper lip triumphantly.
81 always thought thee fitted into the
grocery shop very well, Stephen" said
Mrs. Flaxman, quietly. "Thee might be
a little more prompt in waiting on a
customer, it is true. But if l were to see
diamonds on tailor's clerk, l should
suspect something was wrong with the
diamonds-or the clerk" -.
/. Steve scowled and even Harry thought
his mother unjust. The glitter of those
diamonds he remembered well-their
red and yellow blaze of splendor. It
all New York. .....
Steve and he talked in whispers after
that, and went out to the back gate to
finish their discussion, which lasted until
late at night.
The next morning Harry Flaxman
found Steve's complaint the burden of
all his own thoughts. "What can man
do in place like this?" " Pretty
business for man like me" he thought,
as he drove the COW to pasture, swapping
the whip at her, and after breakfast
went to the doctors office, and brushed
all the bottles with their gilt labels,
"Magnes., ~" Quin. Pill" etc
Yet this oman" was only fourteen, and
6 ro,, bol oclyod him, Uactardou bo vuara
his best friends, he would certainly have
counted old Brindle among them. ~.
A year ago, too, Harry Flaxman had
been one of the happiest boys in Oldbor-
ough when DR.. Harley had offered him
the place in his office.
Harry is good boy" he had said to
the widow, land has enough knowledge
of Latin to qualify him for doctor, as
doctors go. / cannot afford to take him
as student for nothing. But let him
come and keep the office in order, and
stay in it when l am out, and will board
and pay him enough to clothe him, and
give him the use of my books and such
instruction as can"
The doctors deeds had been better
than his words. Harry's light duties lief
him plenty of time to study. He recitet
his English lessons to his mother at night
and had begun seriously at the very
foundation of medical course. .. ...
Mrs. Flaxman was a widow, and poor
A great load had been lifted from he
mind She fancied Harry grown youn.
mana successful student-a physician
DIR. Harley's partner. Ittook her bu
an hour to build that castle in Spain, anC
she built it every day.
Meanwhile Steve Parker had beer
down on days visit to New York, anC
brought back very different ideas, where
with to dazzle Harry.
DR.. Harley, during the week that fol
lowed, observed that the boy was care
less, inattentive, and lost in his owl
thoughts; supposing that some care o
his mothers troubled him, he did moth
ing, but resolved to call the next day a
the widows and see what was wrong.
The next day was too late. Harry di
not come to the Office in the morning a
usual. An hour afterwsrd the docto
was sent for to Mrs. Flaxman's.
"Harry," said the old woman, VIII
came to the doctor, has run away, an
it has gone near to killing his mother
I've seed that Parker boy putting tn
mischief into the lad for weeks. Her
ery's not bad 'un in the grain"
He left this letter." said Mrs. Flax
man, when the doctor reached the house
"The poor boy did it for the best. Blu
, but would rather he had died."
The poor little woman was not strong
and the sudden blow had shaken her tel
ribly, but she would not hear word c
blame of Harry. The letter he had lei
d. was to say that he had gone to make
, fortune for himself and her; that he ha
r influential friends and the best prospect
} in New York. .........
! "Tbe influential friend is the youn
: man Clements, who wore paste dis
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