The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1879-10-18
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And so it came about that the engagement
was Cancelled, and Judith Grey was sitting
there. alone in the wintrY twilight, with
clasped hands and head drooped low upon
| her breast.
Doctor Dedling plodded home to the viii
lage, and as he passed the brilliant windows
of the little hostelry, he paused, remember
ing the bitter cold of the winter air, the
frosty influence of the breeze.
1 may as well go in and warm myself u
he thought.
Mine host met him with q CHEEKY air.
"Walk in, doct ,r - walk in!" said he
"Not that room," as Dedling mechanically
laid his hand upon the door knob Of the
apartment he usually entered. "The Rail
way Committee is a-settin' there. This way
please !"
"The Railway Committee |" echoed Ded-
ling "What Railway CommtteeP You
don't mean that they are actually taking any
steps about that old idea of a railway be.
tween here and Glassville ?"
"Yes, l do" said the landlord. ats a
committee of rich capitalists, as are building
factories close to the Falls and they mean
to put up tenement-houses all along, and
lay down line of rails, and-don't say as
mentioned it, doctor, because only caught
a snatch here and there, when l was carry.
ing in the plates and setting on the fruits
and nuts, and wine-but it's to go right
through old Miles Grey's cranberry swamp
the new railway is And the chairman OF
the committee is going to offer Miss Judith
five thousand dollars in good, clean, hard
money for her share in It'll"
Doctor Dedlng stared.
ive-thousand-dollar |" repeated he
slowly.
Could it really be q fact2 If so-and
there seemed very little reason for doubling
! it-what a fatal mistake he had made in re-
jecting bride who could bring him the rich
portion of a cranberry swamp as her wed.
ding g-dower. If he had known this half an
hour-one little half an hour-ago!
y
"Don't fret about him, Judith, dear; he
isn't worth itr urged honest Marmaduke
Rcdield, who had stopped in on his way tc
the post-office to bring message from hi:
mother. "He was always pretentious sort
of fellow, all for outward show, with heart
like stone, and nature asshallow as Deacon
Doler's brook!"
Judith looked up at the clumsy, good
hearted, hard-handed farmer, and wonder.
ed that she had never before noticed what
true face, and what clear, frank eyes he had
Forget him, Judith" pleaded Redfold
and she began seriously to think that she
would at least make the trial. "Come tC
our house, and stay with mother. It's toe
bleak and lonesome for you here-for the
present,at least. Spring will be time enough
for you to come back to the cranberry
swamp.
Judith Grey looked around at the solitary
room, and thought of Mrs Redfeld's big
cosy kitchen, with its bright-colored ral
carpet, its windows lined with blossoming
geraniums, and its shrill-voiccd canary bird
hanging over the workable.
(" Do you think" she hesitated, "that youl
mother would be willing to be troubled with
such guest as me"
Duke Redfeld's face grew radiant.
"only try her." said he. "Dear Judith
you'd be as welcome as flowers in May"
And the next day Mrs. Redfeld camt
over in the old farm carryall to claim hel
guest, and the Swamp House was left to il
own dreary desolation and the driving snow
of January.
Scarcely three weeks had elapsed, wher
young Doctor Dedling came to the RedaelC
farm in his new gig, with the old roam horse
that really made quite a good appearance
when you didn't hurry him, and the roaC
was tolerably good, and he was free from ,
visitation commonly known as "heaves"
"There amt nobody sick here" said Ju
Illus, the hired man, who was splitting wooC
at the side of the house, as he eyed the doc
tor rather suspicously.
"No, know it," said Doctor Dedling
"but have called to see Miss Grey"
"Miss Grey amt noways ailin', as know
Of" persisted Julius, feeling the edge of hi
axe, and still staring hard at the medica
representative Of Glassville.
al have called" said Doctor Dedling,witl
dignity, as a friend"
"Oh," said Julius.
"Will you be so kind as to let me in p
persisted the doctor.
"Tain't no use" said Julius, rolling I
prodigious pine-knot down from the pile
ard preparing himself for a stupendous ef
fort; "there ain't nobody to home"
" "Nobody at home ?" echoed the doctor.
" They've all gone to church," explained
Julius.
"To church, man? Why, it's Tuesday
"Who said it wa'ntY" retcrted julius
"Thcy amt gone to hear sarvice-they il
gone TO be married"
"Who demanded Doctor Dedling.
"our Marmaduke and Miss Judith"
And down came the axe upon the end o.
the pine-k knot, with q crash that made tn,
man of medicine start back.
The new railroad was duly constructed
directly across the boggy depth of old Mile
Grey's cranberry swamp, and the $4,000
was placed to Mrs. Marmaduke RedGeldi
account in the nearest national bank; and
Mrs. Pytchley thinks she made a mistake il
taking the gold eagles instead of the cram
berry swamp but young Doctor Dedhnl
thinks his mistake was greater still.
On one occasion when the late Lord
Bishop of Litch6eld had spoken Of the I'M