The Red Cloud chief., 1879-11-20

which the caustic oil gentleman ever IN.
dulged a. be neatly labeled and docket
ed this letter also and opened It'll th,
third, in which Mr.. benjamin Courtruay
regretted the straitened case 81 hi
financial affair, and bluntly recon-
mended some public charitable insii,u-
ton a. the best refuge for his cousin
declining years.
"Humph, humph,'' mutierezl Mr. Wat
kins. $50 he would pack me IF to the
P~oor-honse, would be-? Very Kind and
confederate Of him, very"
Mr.. Peter Dilks Wa a stage les cerp-
monious still.
Did his cousin Watkins think be was
made Of money? Did he think il Wa
his business 20 supply every old paupcr9
In that case Mr.. Watkins would find
himself considerably mistaken, and -
no more from his To- command,
"P. DILK~.
The fifth cpi-tle from Mrs. Million
naire was excessively civil and a. hard
a. granite.
She begged 10 call Mr.. Watkins at
tention to the fact that -he. Mr.. Nil
~honnaire, was bat hi second cousin AZ
ter all, and she really wondered Al hi
audacity in expecting her IL patch uP
has ruined fortunes. She inclrsrd a card
to an employment office, and hoped Ia
Ice troubled no more with such u-clc--
applications.
Mr.. Watkins silently folded this letter
and placed il with the other before he
opened the one directed in Moses Hay
woods clerkly calligraphy.
To his surprise, when he brols g
seal, out fell "A po-t-ofice order for ESQ.
My dear cousin Watkins wrote
the schoo!mastcr, II grieyc deeply Ia
hear IF your financial distress, and here
by inrIo-e all | have ON hand. J, i, not
much-bui beg 81 you Ia accept i Ia
th" same spirit in which il j. given
Old Walter Watkins brushed hi
wriuklcd hand across hi- shaggy brow.
The poorest, most obscure If them
all said be. The one II whomI cN-
pectcd least. Wei, well, wonder, viii
never cease"
And taking up hi, pen he wrote back
briefly
COUSIN HAYWOOD: thank Won.
". WATKINS.
enough 20 60 back to school:
Alice had drawn her wheeled char
clos TO the I"gnEe on which old Mo-e-
h'H dragged himself INTO a sitting pos
iurc.
"Ye-. child, YES" he said. drawing
hic hanh vaguely across m> forehead:
-" must be well enough, The children
parents are getting impatient. | shall
los" my scholars n don't 20 back into
harnc>- today
~Nfath'F. filhcF' cred poor Aii"r.
rf'"i~iy, III wc had bn' that money
you saved mp :" long and painfully
,H't none! you cav 10 "ld Mr., Wat
hlNs-i, ""iid have brought you health,
Strength I"ppoe now.
'll@htci, sad The old man.
mildly AN Thai J. past now. And. re-
member ne thal gA"ihlplhr poor lend
en- !" 'i' I"Fd;
IL was M the school that morning
'.lih- L" .''cU-t"il VI "h',i'ng head Il"
'h' '~I5ih"'""N voices al The irtl" "Hr~
men there rliiir = io'iu raj al ih' u""T
"h' "a wei dressed. hi"i-I'"hlh@
>'r'nge' walked ia and iooheI uuecr"-
ih"hi"U,iN around nim.
Is ms MOSES Hay wood The school
master asked he, with "utNlr"irhed
h'"d.
"a i my name, sit, Said Oh" 'it
man:
II congratulate" y"l,' cried the bluff
STRANGER, nearly "riH@ln- poor Moses
hand "ii.
Hlr. sand In" ~'h'"lma~irr.
You IT. IL rich man, roarri the
stranger
~ THINK must bc dreaming.
sud Moses. putting his hand 20 Ai~
head.
Not a hIi II II, sad the -trir@.r
." not a h:' of 1t. ltsyour wife cousin,