The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1878-10-26
VOL. XIII.-NO. 49.

continued Black. II shall have to fall
back upon what little money remains fc
my wife, and I've come round here at her
suggestion to hire this little palace of yours
for the coming year"
My good gracious !" said voice be.
hind US; and there stood Sally, as red as
the feathers in the buster she held in her
hand.
"Yes, Mr.. Brown" said Black, ''we' We
always been fond of this little place, and
really believe we shall be as happy here in
our adversely as you will in your fine new
house.
"Perdition seize my fine new house, and
every one that has led me into this mud
die" / cried, beside myself with fright and
exertion. "You know that shan't have
the money now to 20 on with it. 1t will
be all | can do to keep from bankruptcy
myself"
"GO5. forbid that 1 should refuse to aid
my husband in this extremisy4" said
Sally, with great nobility of accent and
manner. "We'll make the sacrifice our
selves, Joe; Wen keep our own little place;
Wen 90 on in the old way, dear Well stay
here ourselves, Joe"
lrrF'- E'amE Obliged tosyOu for your consider
alton, madam, replied; "but when the
horse is gone, it's too late t. shut the sta
bic door. The house is let, and the fur
niture is Sold
"My furniture sold y shrieked Sally.
Oh oh oh my furniture, my dear old
furniture, taken from me 1t amt yours.
They can't take my things for your debts. "
"Just wait, said |, 'will you till you're
called upon to pay my debts? You gave
orders for the furniture to be sold and the
house to be rented yourself The agent
told me this morning that young marri-
ed couple had taken them. Wen have to
60 TO town aud take furnished fiat.
"a furnished fatl' echoed my wife,
sinking into a chair, and covering her face
with her aprOn-'a furnished fat?" And
although 1 can safely swear she had time
and again held this. way of living to be
domestic felicity, there was an unspeaka-
bic misery in her view Of it now. "Td
rather 60 to my grave than to a furnished
hat-just in the lovely spring time when
the Brahmas are beginning to set, and the
strawberry bed is one mass Of bloom
Oh, my poor childIa she cried, to Rosalie,
who had run in and thrown herself at her
mothers knee, ''your DIR. Green has turned
out to be defaulter. A young married
couple have robbed US of our house and
home, and your father has the cruelty to
talk to me of furnished fiat"
"He isn't my Mr.. Green" ROsalie broke
in, "nor never was, and the married couple
won't rob you of anything but-but-a-
u bad, undutiful daughter You shall
stay here, mother dear, and-and Bo-
Bob and l will go to the city and take
the furnished fiat
cam to understand" said |, advanc-
ing to this dear, blushing, vaaping child,
and feeling a singular warmth and cheer
creeping about my heart-"am to believe
that you and Bob are the married couple
in question ?"
Rosalie hung her sweet head, and my
wife cried out to me, with the coolest as
surance, that she told me how it would be
all along, and that all further opposition
on my part would be useless
"You go to the train, "Joe," she said;
'poor old Black has been gone this ten
minutes. And bring home some garden
seeds with you, and bring Bob to supper.
Wen all live here together. And please
God, my darling" she said, fiinging her
arms about our little daughter, "we'll all
be happy yet y