The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1879-11-13
BROOKHAVEN. MISS, THURsDAN. NOVEMBER I3. lS7
speaking of my, sister and her hus

spcuhlnS Vi Mys OioeCA oHu HcA n"o
band"
"'But they had no business to inn
pose on you thus" exclaimed the doc
tor impntiently.
II agreed to the plan, without remon'
strances.
Doctor Dedling gave shrug to his
shoulders.
"In that" said he. sharply. ''you
showed your lack of common sense! Ii
you had no reg d for yourself, you
might have had some for mel"
"Was it for money you wanted me?'
demanded Judith, stung to the very
quick.
Doctor Dedling colored high and
hesitated.
"A man must take monetary matters
into consideration, said he.
And it came about that the engages
ment was Cancelled, and Judith Grey
was sitting there, alone in the wintry
twilight, with clasped hands and head
dropped upon her breast.
Doctor Dedling plodded home to the
viilage, and MS he passed the brilllf~
windows of the little hosterly. he pens.
ed remembering the bitter cold Of the
winter air, the frosty influences OF the
breeze.
II may as we'll go in aud warni my
eeIf" he thought.
Mine hoss met him with very
CHEEKY air.
"Walk in, doctor-walk ln!' said he.
"Not that ROOM" as Dedlin2 laid his
hand mechanically upon the door-know
of the apartment he usually entered.
"The Railway Committee is a-settin'
there. This way please!'
"The Railway Committee?' echoed
Dedling. "What Railway Committee?
You don't mean that they're actually
taking any steps about that old idea of
a railway between here and Glassville?'
eyes, do" said the landlord. "It's
a committee of rich capitalists. as are
building factories to the Falls. and
they mean to put mp rows of tenement>
honses all along, and laydown line of
rails, and-don't say as l mentioned it,
doctor, because I only caught snatch
here and there. when I was carrying in
the plates, and setting on the fruit, and
nuts and wine-but it's to go right
through old Miles Grey's cranberry
swamp, the new railway is! Aud the
chairman of the committee is goin' to
offer Miss Judith five thousand dollars
in good. clean, hard money for her
share in it.
Doctor Dedling stared.
"Five-thousand-dollars!" repeated
he slowly.
Could it really be fact? If So
and there seemed very little reason for
doubling it-what a fatal mistake had
he made in rejecting bride who could
bring the rich portion of cranberry
swamp as her dover. If he had known
this half an hour-one little half-hour
ago!
"Don't fret about him, Judith dear,
he isn't worth it," urged honest Mar
maduke Redfield. who had stopped on
his way to the post office to bring a
message from his mother. "He was
always pretentious sort of fellow. oil
for outward show, with heart like
stone. and nature as shallow as Dea-
con Doler's brook!'
Judith locked up tho clumsy, good
hearted, uUTu-uauutu latibVi, "">' ''''
dered that she had never before noticed
what true face, aud What clear, frank
eyes he had.
Forget him. Judith" pleaded Red
field; and she began seriously to think
that she would at least make the trial.
Come over to our house and stay
with mother. It's too bleak and lone
some for you here-for the present, at
least. Spring will be here time enough
fer vou to come back to the cranberry
swamp"
Judith Grey looked aroun1 at the soli-
tary room and thought of Mrs. Reds
fields big, cosy kitchen, with its bright
colored rag>carpet, it's windows hned
with blooming geraniums and its shrill
voiced canary bird hanging over the
work table.
"Do you think" she hesitated. ''that
your mother would be willing to be
troubled with such guest as me?'
Duke Redfeld's face instantly be-
came radiant.
"Only try her." said her; "dear Ju
dith, you'd he as welcome as the How
ers in May"
And the next day Mrs. Redfield came
over in the old farm carry-all to claim
her guest, and the old Swamp Honse
was left to its own dreary desolatlon
and the driving SHOWS of January.
Scarcely three weeks had elapsed
when young DR.. Dedling came to the
Redfeld farm III his new gig. with the
old roam horse. that really made quite
a good appearance when. you dld not
hurry him and when the road was toler-
ably good, and he was free from Vls'>
tation of what is commonly known as
the "heaves." -,
.'There amt nobody sick here" said
Julius Brown. the hired man, who was
splitting wood at the side OF the house,
as he eyed the physician rather suspic-
ionsly.
"No; I know that. my man.. said
Doctor Dedling; but I've called TO see
Miss Grey
"Miss Grey amt noways ailin' as l
knows Of" persisted Julius, feeling
the edge of his axe. and still staring
hard ut the msdicsl representative OF
Glassvilie. .-.,-------.. =
II have called, said Doctor Dodling,
''as friend
"Oh!" said Julius.
"WiIl You be SO kind as to let mo imp
persisted the doctor. =.
"Tain't no use." said Julius. rolling
prodigious pine knot down from the
pile. and preparing himself for stu
pendous effort; ''there amt nobody to
home"
Nobody at home p echoed the docr
tor.
..They've all gone to church, ex-
planned Julius.
"To church, man? Why this is Tues
day!" -, ,;,.
"They amt gone to hear sarvice-thes
are gone to be married"
"Who?"
"Why, our Marmanduke and Miss
Judith"
And down came the axe upon the end
Of the pine knot with crash that made
the man of medicine start back kward,
=
The new railroad was constructed. di.
rectly across the bo8gy depth OF old
Miles Grey's cranberry swamp, and the
81. 900 was placed to Mrs. Marmaduke
Redoeld's account in the nearest nation
al bank, and Mr.. Pytchley thinks she
has made mistake in taking the gold
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