The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1878-05-30
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Bat what alternative u open 10 Hs =
shall We alloW Tom 70 como 10 grief!
Ton richly deserves ell tho grief that
will fall to bis share, poor fellow. Such
sghemer Expected 10 make fortune
for o. 81, forsootb, that We might hauBt
10 cur yeyelg, drive our span, and fare
.ump,uoasly every day One dollar for
o. ard two lot himself, reckon. What
should iUch boy know about specula-
liony Its the old story over and over.
I Speculation with other peoples money
les little indisoreet, tc say the least. !
should have chosen sackcloth aud ashes
rather than yelyeis won by such means.
Certainly, Bat now that Tom 10 IN
VOWED, nothing bu, money viii eXsriesse
him. There's my watch, the heirloom
from grandma Penlecot; there are fifty
diamonds bedded in the case, II there's
one
Rose diamond, every spark OF them.
Not TO mention the pearls and emer-
aids.
Doubiets aud split pearls, dare say
! You are so discouraging, Liddyl We
mud have The money don't suppose
that he watch would bring tenth of the
sum, but il would help. Dear dear !
there's Hannah dc Rothschilds with two
millions Of income, while you and | can't
raise FIVE thousand dollars though We
should break our hearts even TO save
sn old aud honorable name from con-
tempt and foolish young fellow from
ruin. Alasl alas
i You know, llitty, II might have been
different, suggested Liddy, her eyes wan
dering toward the old-fashioned square
mansion crowning the bill within sight,
with its spicy orchards beyond. You
might have had enough and TO spare,
Hitty-enough TO keep Tom out Of temp
tation.
Aud il scas a temptation to poor Tom,
no doubt, returned Hi,ty, ignoring the
allusion, seeing so much money lying
idle, and such chance for doubling 1t
over and over as he fondly believed.
Pshawl A Thorne had no business to
be tempted. Was our grandfather tempt
cd at the time Of the embargo, when he
could have had false papers made out, as
everybody was doing and saved his for
tune, and left us all independents If we
mortgage the place, 1t won't bring five
thousand dollars; and whom could we
call upon to take the mortgage, aud what
should we do sfterwards-live in tent,
gypsy stylef Oh, Hitty, If only you
hadn't been SO headstrong about Searle,
all this would have been spared usl
Don't speak ofit, Liddy, 1t hurts me
still. How could know what would be
best? and Miss Hitty, pacing the long
room with head bent, paused at the case.
ment, and saw the sunset reddening up
on Seare Hill, aud touching the window
panes into ewelry. The twenty years of
happiness which might have fallen TO her
share up yonder had proved twenty years
Of silent endurance merely. She had
watched the seasons as they passed over
the Hin with an interest which she had
hoped would die, but which bad only
strengthened with the years-the lovely
dallying of the spring-time, the summers
overflow of bloom, the splendor that au-
tumn wears, the white magniiicence bor-
rowed from winter. If, twenty years
ago, Hitty had loved Auson Searle well
enough to die for him, II need be, she
had loved little Tom well enough TO re-
nounce happiness and children and love
for his sake, aud TO live on through the
barren, hopeless days without murmur
Tom had come to her arms forlorn and
helpless two years old baby, without
father or mother, when Elitty was eight
cen, and her love had grown with her
strength. Toms mother had cloped with
her music teacher, and had broken her
iatber's heart; and when the old gentle
man died, he had left respectable for.
tune, the interest for the benefit of his
two living daughters, the principal fall
ing to their children; and only u case
Liddy aud Hitty died without leaving
any direct heirs could anything more
than the merest trifle revert TO poor little
Tom. Hitty had been engaged to Anson
Searle year when old Nr. Thorne shut.
fed off the mortal coil aud this unjust
will came to light, and Sesrle himself
was at that time only young lawyer
wrestling with circumstances, with no
great amount OF funds at bis command
Aud nothing for little Tom but this
paltry hundred dollars groaned Hitty,
when the will had been read aud the es.
tate administered.
OF course 1 shall never marry, said
Liddy, who was plain and old looking
for her years, and whose one lover Tilted
her years ago, when the bloom Of youth,
at least, bad been hers. There wasn't
the smallest danger that Liddy would
threaten Toms interests by marrying.
No, you may never marry, Liddy,
sighed her sister; but III love Anson,
aud obi love litlle Tom. too-my hule
motherless Toni cannot rob bim Of
bis pa,rimony, and ! cannot live without
Anson. How can wrong Tom 10 please
myself Whist will be have to go out in
this bard world With, if--if--
Hush, you silly girl; be will have biz
bead aud hands, like other men; and
ihen-you may never have aBy children
TO stand In his wsy.
Bat bow unhappy Il woald make me
10 Iee them enriched At bis expebse "a
see him earning bis bread by The sweAs q
his brow, while they Jared Ike the lillies