Weekly Trinity journal., 1879-08-30

% like the ghost Ot II SttD, going ch1fnp,
champ. oyer the frozen snow; kind %
like - voice, saying: Let me lie on the
q ,or before your fire. and give me any
kind of n crust:' kind % like some one
that had mother down on wintry
road freezing AID starving to dra'h there.
That j. what il was. But put it away.
and only thought Of Charlie.
We drew up together by the fire when
tea was done, and be tod us things about
the war never heard before how the
soidrcrs suffered, and what weary mar
che> aud short ratons they sometimes
had. And then lie told me his life had
been in danger; how he had been set up
on by the Toe and been badly wounded,
and how, at the ii,L of his own life, II
te How had saved him, and carried him
away, fighting III, way bae, to camp.
II never would have seen you but for
him, " says Charlie. And il there's II
man on earth | love, it is Rob Hndaway
the dearest, best fellow! We've shared
each others ratiOns and drapk from the
same eHnteen many aud many time;
aud it ! hud brother could not think
more OF him ="
"Why didn't you bring him home to
see your mother, ClmIles?" aid /.
"Why, I'd love IN, too, and anything
] could do for him, for the man who osav-
ed my boys life. could not be enough.
Send for him, CharIie.'
But Charlie shook hi, hcnd aud cover
hi, face with hir hands.
"Molher," '" said he. Il don't know
whether Rob Hndawny is dead or alive
to-day. While | WAS still in The ranks
he WAS taken prisoner. Aud military
prison, were poor places to live in, moth
or. I'd give anything To be able To do
him any gpud; but | cant find amy unce
rf him. Aud ne has mother, too, aud
she is 80 fond oi him. Sh, lives NJ Green
bank-pnor old lady My dear, good,
noble Rob, the preserve. OF my life"
Ard | enw Charley wns nearly crying.
Not to let us see his tcnrs he got up
and went to the ntntle- piece. did not
hook around un'i heard cry.
"Gfent heaven! hat i, thi,?"
Aud | turard, nan Charlie had the to
! bacco pouca the man mad droppe1, in hi
/ hand.
Where did this come from? leel rs
! though had seen ghost. | gave this
J a., Pa, Lid l,. Iut 10
! We soldiers had not much To give, you
! know, aud he vowed never 20 part with ii
while he lived. How did it come here,
noiher?i'
And | fell back in my chair, white and
cold. Said |:
"a wandering tInmp left it here. New
er your Bob, my dear. never your Rob
/ He must have. been an inpo,tor. !
wouldn't have turned awHy "a person ienI-
! ~ in want. Oh, no, no: 'snnotlar pouch
ch i'd, or he stole it. A tall telluw with
/ blue eyes aud yplow brown hait: wound
ed, he said aud gong to his mother nj
Grrcubauk.
Aud Charlie stood staring at me with
cienchrd hands; an said ne:
at wa my dcnr old Rob, wounded
and!-my deal Rob who saved my life,
and you have driven him out such ~
night II, lhi-, mother. My mother, t.
use Bob sol"
"Condcmn me, Charlie" snid |, "cnn-
denim me if you like; am afraid GOD
will. Thee times he came back: llilcc
Tunes he a,hcd Tor only II crust nnd II
place to he d ,wn, and drove him away
|, l. and he is lying in the foad now.
Oh il had ,nly known!'
And Charlie caught up his Int.
"I'lI lihd him ii he's alive" said he.
"Oh, Bot my dear friend. >
Aud then-I never saw the girl in such
n taking. Down went Drsilla On her
knees, as ii she was saying her prayer,
aud -nys:
"Thank God, dared to dp it!'
And snysshe To me:
"Oh, auni. | have been trembling with
fright, not Knowing what you'd say to
ne. took him in the kitchen way
couldn't see him 60 faint aud hungry,
aud wounded, and | put him in the spaIc
chamber over tn" pnnr, and have been
so frightened al! the while"
The lord bless you, Dru,ila," said
Charlie.
"Ampn," says /.
And she, getting holder, went on.
"Aud | took him some hot short-cakrs
and apple snss and ten scys she, "nnd
| took hlm candle aud hot brick for
his feet, aud | told him To eAt and 60 t.
bed in the bes. chamber, Aunt Fairfax,
with the white counterpnne and all. and
/ ] locked him in and put the key in my
pocket, and | told him he should have
Que nights rest, and ho one should turn
him ont unless they walked over my
! dead body.
Dru.illa said it like mn nctIess in
tragedy, aud went off into Mysteries the
moment the word, were out 0t her mouth.
She d been expecting To be halt murder.
cd, you know, and the girl, who WAS tx,
teen, always before minded Inc as if |
was her mother.
Never was there m old sinner 50 hap
py II, | WA that night. 20 thankful to the
good Lord; aud it wculd have done your
heart good # you md grne Ia see the Two
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