Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1879-04-11

Pembroke, do believe you've taken leave
of YOUR senses! There is the tell; the
gates are closed!"
ssWhat of it? said Polly.
1.-THE Chicago express has gone!"
"Well." said Polly, "what of that?"
"Child, don't you comprehend Your
fine gentleman was going in the Chicago
express" cried Miss Jones.
II SUPPOSE lie has missed the train, said
Polly, quietly.
.sNot he - shifted Miss Jones.-s'He
has skunk quietly in b, another way, and
is laughing in his sleeve at you and your
folly this very moment"
.Nonsense!" said Polly.
But she looked little disturbed, never
theless, and glanced rather anxiously at
the door through which the tall gentle
man with the Spanish eyes had disap-
peareti
"Come," said Miss Jones, jumping up
briskly, and gathering her parcels in her
hand. "There's the bell for our train"
"But I can't 60 and leave the child,
cried Polly.
"Humph!' snorted Miss Jones, "Are
you going to stay here all night with it,"
"But what shall do?" said Polly, be-
ginning to be a little bewildered and
frightened. ''Perhaps, Miss Jones, we had
better wait until the next train"
"And not get home until O'Clock at
night ~ croaked Miss Jones.
II don't see what else we can do"
But the trains came and went, and still
no one appeared to claim the baby.
Miss Jones grew desperate.
| "Polly Pembroke" said she. 'I've no
patience with you for getting us into this
scrape. What do you suppose is to be the
end it alp"
| Polly rose quietly.
II am going to take the child homo with
u.s." said Polly.
"Polly!''
II anil" reiterated the girl. "Poor little
helpless innoccntl what else can We do?''
'.Let it be sent to tho House of Refuge
or to the poor-house, or some such place!''
screamed Miss Jones. s1...
with those eyes?" said Polly, looking
down into the tender, pleading orbs
"Never! 1t will be all right, I am quite
sure, Miss Jones. All this is only a mis-
take. Stewardess," to the suspicious
quadroon, who had taken care to keep at y
safe dis ance all the while, ''here is my ad.
dress. Give it to the gentleman when he
comes back"
YES" said the woman pursuing up hel
lips. "But it's my private 'pinion as no
body won't see hide nor hair of him
again."
So Polly Pembroke brought home, not
only blue silk dress, but a dark-ayed baby
into the bargain.
"Child," said Deacon Pembroke, IL
can't blame you for doing charitable &C
lion, but am afraid you've taken a ter
rible charge upon yourself
"Don't fret. father don't fret" said
Mrs. Pembroke, who was a CHEEKY little
body with an invincible habit of lookin.
on the sunny side Of everything. "1i
seems nice, healthy child enough, and
dare say it will soon be called for. Besides
don't the Good Book say that whoever
gives one of the Lords little ones even a
cup of cold water, in Ills name, shall not
be without reward ?''
And so the days passed by, and the
weeks, and even Polly Pembroke, the
most trusting of mortals. began to think
that she had been the victim of conspi-
racy, and that she was destined to beal
the whole responsibility of this little
nameless life.
''Mother," said she, wistfully. ~ may
keep her, mayn't If III give up going t.
visit cousin Sue, in Boston, and not ask
father for new cloak this winter? And
we'll take summer boaraers next season,
and LII raise poultry, and she shall be no
expense to you, mother, indeed!''
"Well, well child,'' said Mrs. Pembroke
with moisture in her eyes, shave your
own way"
"You'd deal better send it to one of
the public institutions" said Miss Jones,
severely.
"Our little Rosebud" said Polly, show
ering soft kisses on its velvet cheeks. ''Oh,
| never, never, Miss Jones ~
"You was big fool to begin with, ana
| I don 'tsee but what you mean to be fool
all the way through said Miss Jones.
She had come to bring Miss Pembroke's
fall hat bome-a venerable Leghorn,
trimmed with drab satin bows-and when
she was gone, Polly happened to pick up
the New ork daily paper which had been
wrapped around it.
Mother" cried she. springing breath
lessly to her feet, ''just listen to this adver-
| tisement!'
"'If the young lady who took charge of
an infant in the -- depot ON the after
noon of Saturday, July 80, 1875, will SEN
DER address to Messrs Kobel & Ledg, r.
No. = Broadway, she will confer an ines
| Unable favor"
Mother" said Polly, "what does it
mean?"
sit means you," said Mrs. Pembroke.
"Shall answer it," said Polly.
"Of course" said Mrs. Pembroke.
'But suppose they want 20 tax, Roe
bud away from mep" faltered Polly.
"My dear, we must accept our fate as
Providence metes it out to us,'' said tho
old lady.
so Polly wrote her little note, and by
the next train the tall gent emau with the
Spanish eyes arrived at Whip-poor-W
Glen.
"Do you think me heartless wretch?"
said he to Polly, with his voice choked
with emotion. but am not. When
went out of the depot that day my foot
slipped in crossing the street, and I fell
under holse's feet. They carried me in
sensible to the hospital, and lay there for
weeks in the delirium Of brain fever. cans-