Weekly Chillicothe crisis. (Chillicothe, Livingston Co., Mo.) 1878-19??, 1879-01-23

without waiting for his answer, ] put o
. my things and went, Mamie wiped he
= eyes and pretended she hadn't been cry
ing, but neither of us said much, w
5 didn't feel like it.
+ Mr.. Eldridge was watching for us, an
4 he opened the door, He took me into tn
Y library, and there, upon stool by the fir
= sat my poor boy, his eyes looking so lik
his fathers that fairly started, and hi
t face aS pale as il ghost.
. Ills mother sat upon a lounge quite nca
+ him. He didn't seem TO notice her or IN
, one else. He wa, gazing straight into tn
tirr, and his face had Il strange, unnatural
look, as if some great trouble had sudclcnl
: set him apart from all his friends.
Miss Adams y said the minister
twill you tell me ifmy son has ever re
cciyed any money from your establish
| mcnt2'
, Yes, sir, said |, "hc has.
'llow much:'
| Ten dollars and half
> did he receive SlO biIl?'
"Gcs, sir"
"Andh earned this money!"
"Ges. sir"
''For doing WHAT"
then. 10 nv n,tonishmant th" MIN; m,in;.is,
went nm IN Som and brlJ out his hard
God hc tbani;cJ " said So I'd "tbDt ni,. r".', .or
* innocent Torgi,,, mo nv Lnv t'r tr ~, ~,
ur;m.t i,L,,,,nrt :, ''' '''' ''' ''''
Sam looked up. His face was whitcand
set, Father, said he, 'you wouldn't
believe me, ! can't forgive You vet. If
Won tLon"bf me- Iia,, " " '''' ""'
"6h nv L"y nav In,.,v ,o;l ,,o ,,;,;,.
fer G@yTvon SEQ n' tbof b1v" h"cr @ 'i,,'' barl
win W., iI.t as Laro L hoon h LorI ,r;ti' m,;,
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rausn Won arr y nIrt nr ,m"soif ' Il ,,Jt Ip"I ia
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bcII ont n,fppv" rn,%ir lq "" hrt ",y' Ss g SUI,
m anJ too # in bnfh Of III hi, '" ~ TO-" 90" ! !
W yaa "i'I F,tboc rH :" ,ri"I %I. " nRam+ S,' ,
forgirn yon csnt st,rI tbot ErrNia ~ io
mla1sn bcl;cvo mo rSr inJneJ '' oil, III" tr, ", W.
he go,d -" ''''' ''' ''''''' w ~ ''' -
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IN r", tbm 'rf nf = an ,Gg, In 'air ,oTs come nov
thon c,n iii II yor ["' "V r%mV, I"'i ',TiUIS TIS
tnou uL"t M tbo tr,mIIo i,.,, "S"7 a.;"I "t'"l T.. ,
tL,t ,"s % o,H,maJ 'ir az ,"nynIr ,nI I' un. a'
i,iI1U was ashamed OF myself ana MIS-
EltrluEe kept WiplhE hrr eyes. Name
out r rtorua, ] H. ,nt S ' I, a, "v :l J':. iou'I'
Im,s o,,n ''i,, , -" iV0' .tia '," 90, ,o"
t'r5er,', t''e J", n.L '''''' ''''"''''
All - o,',o I''v ~ u ,n ol ~ .L,. Il.l
sail ,, ~ ora ,"'I,v ~ Ia, I ,''I' r as ;,,'
' r;y iay ,, a"' ii'r,o ,,,, 'tl Nv nruo @ J., iS '
'rudlnS myself upon item any longer. !
was slipping quietly outol theroom, when
sam sald, suddenly:
Mother, you haven't thanke! Miss
Adams for coming; You must thanI; her.
too, ior her Kindness while YOU were
away She been IKE mother TO me.
Nonsense! SAID |. 1t made me
ashamed to hear HIM speak so, for what
had done', .,,
she has, he persisted, "She knows
how to play mother
And then-5Ht can I begin to tel sou
what they All sud, and wonIdm II !
could, | coaIdn see mat deserved it.at
AL. t nude me feel Ike It goose, and !
told nm so. 90.
IN the midst OF 1t an, sam happened TO
think that they hadn t tod me what was
sent for Well, Mrs, okcr was at the
bottom OF the troubIeaS ! suspected. She
was at the minister and ns wife as soon
as they came home ,"hont Sans queer be-
haylor; told them that She was quite ,arc
Sam had got into bad company, and II she
was in their place she would know where
be went at four o clock III the morning.
They didn't THINK much Of it at first, for
they believed in sam as they did
will wear a stone, they saw. ind.