The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-23

But you have no funds"
Every little will suffice me, and GER
tainly can find some mode of earning
it.n
"Permit me to advance 1t to you,"
said Harry.
81 beg your pardon--no. have
breakfasted at your expense, aud though
am very much obliged for the brief
opportunity that 1t has given me to for
get that am an outcast, still 1t has
cost you only the same courtesy that
you are ready to extend to any ac-
quaintance who can readily breakfast
without your assistance. Consider me
one of those gentlemen, and do not
tempt me to put myself in the attitude
of canting beggar"
"Shall 1 never see you again P"
"1 don't know. Look hard at the
broom corps when you meet them, but
If you see me, don't speak Character
is something to q streetsweeper and,
If am suspected of being a broken
down gentleman, there is no knowing
that may not lose my situation ~
But, my dear sir, said Harry, with
much earnestness, "you do not intend
that this, our first, shall be our last
meetingr'
Here" said Melton, pointing to the
advertising columns of daily paper,
which had just attracted his attention,
if you really wish to serve me, as no
doubt you do, attend to- day this sale
of forfeited collaterals. In your Qua
ker city that is another phrase for un-
| redeemed pledges at a pawnbrokers.-
There is among those goods, perhaps, a
Bible which my sister gave me. Her
name and mine are erased but you
will find in the book, if it be mine,
those familiar lines, commencing
within this sacred volume lies
The mystery OF mysteries
If you see a small Oxford Bible with
that mark, buy and preserve it. Give
me your address, and when / can, will
call for it. If never call, keep it as a
memorial of this meeting. Good morn
ing, sir, and think of me as friend
who will never forget the kindness
which, trifiing as it may seem to you,
has given me new hope; since ] find
that L have not yet forgotten how to
meet a gentleman.
The stranger was gone. Harry sat n
few moments thoughtfully. He then
went to the pawnbroker'g, and without
waiting for the book the stranger SO
much valued to be put up to form the
subject of unfeeling jokes, redeemed and
carried it away with him. The quota
ton to which Melton had referred was
there; and it looked as if the page had
been blistered with tears. Henry care
fully placed the book away; for IL
seemed to him almost PROCLAMATION that
any Indifferent eye should see the me-
mortal of his unknown friend.
Months passed away, and Harry
had nearly forgotten the stranger. For
few weeks he had looked curiously at
the street-sweepers, and scanned care
fully every decayed or seedy gentleman
whom he passed. But he did not en-
counter the stranger. For a while, the
influence of his story checked young
Baker in his follies; but his dissolute
companions had regained theirinfuence
over him, and his friends verify believed
that he was on the fast path to ruin. AS
he was one evening about turning aside
to enter one of the places of evil rem
devious, where the scorner's seat is es-
tablished, he felt hand laid upon his
arm. HIS followed the signal to lamp
and there stood Arthur Melton. The
Englishman was restored in health, and
if he was sad in countenance, it was
more for his friend than himself They
stood moment in silence.
"Excuse friends liberty" said
Melton, "but / fear that you have
found mode of forgetting father and
mother and true friends, without cross
ing the sea-"
An angry answer sprang to Bakers
lips, but the other had already gone
He followed the footsteps for an instant,
but Melton was lost in the crowd. Once
diverted from his purpose, Bakers steps
turned homeward, for he felt rebuked
and ashamed in spite of himself,
/ am so glad you are here,'' said his
sister, coming out of the parlor, and
following him to his room. 1--WE have,
quite unexpectedly, visitors this eve
ming, and you are just in time to enter
tain them"