Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-09-04

seen a ghost. / gave this to
Rob Hadaway the day he saved
ME. We soldiers had not much
to give you know, and he VOW
ed never to part with it while he
lived. How did it como here,
mother?"
And / fell back in my chair
white and cold, and said I:
"A wandering tramp left il
here. Never your Rob, my
dear; never your Rob. III G
must have been an impostor. ]
wouldn't have turned away q
person really III want. 0, no,
no; it's another pouch, child, or
he stole it. A tall fellow, with
blue eyes and yellow-brown
hair; wounded, he said, and go
ling to his mother at Grecnbank k.
Not your Rob. ~
And Charlie stood staring at
me with, clcnched hands, and
said he:
cit was my Robl it was my
dear old Rob, wounded and
Istarging!-my dear old Rob,
who saved my life, and you
have driven him out such a
night as this, mother. M y
mother. to use Rob so."
"Condemn me, Charlie" !" said
7; condemn me, if you like;
Pm afraid God will. Three
times he came back; three times
he asked only for a crust and a
place to lie, and / drove him a.
way-I-I-and he's lying in
the road now. Oh! if / had
knownlp
And Charlie caught up his
hat
'1'll find him if he's alive"
said he. "Oh, Bobl my dear
friend." a
And then / never saw the
girl in such taking on. Down
went Drusilla on her knees as
if she were saying her prayers,
and says she:
''Thank God, I dared to do
itppTg
And she says again to me:
"Oh, aunt, I've been tremb-
ling with fright, not knowing
what you'd say to me. I took
him in the kitchen way. /
couldn't see him go so faint and
hungry and wounded, and /
put him in the spare chamber;
and I've been SO frightened all
the while"
"Lord bless you, Drusillal"
said Charlie.
"Amen," saidI.
And she getting bolder, went
on: - et.4
"And I took him up some
hot short cakes and apple-sass
and tea. And I took him a.
candle, and a hot brick for his
feet; and told him to eat and go
to bed in the best chamber,
Aunt Fairfax, with the white
counterpart and all; and l lock-
ed him in and put the key in
my pocket, and / told him he
should have one nights rest,
and that no one should turn
him ont unless they walked o.
yer my; dead body"
And Drusilla said 1T like. an
actress in a tragedy, and went
of, Into Mysteries the moment
the words were out of her
mouth. She'd been expecting
to be half murdered, you know,
and the girl was but sixteen, and
had always min ded me before
as if | was her mother.
~ Never was there any old sim
ner SO happy as l was that
night, so thankful to the good
Lord;o and it would have done
your old heart good if you had
gone to.sce the two meet in the
morning-Charlie and his friend
Rob. And Charlie, who had
got SO well, and had a mother
who was not poor either, helped
Rob. into business. And he
got SO we'll over his wounds at
last, and grew as handsome as
picture, and to day week he is |
going to marry Drusilla. ]
"I'd give yor any thing /
have" / said, sand won't even
refuse, you Drusilla," when he
asked me, telling me that he
had loved her ever since she
was so kind to him on the night
] have told you of.
And Charlie is to stand up
with him, and / am to give Dru-
silla away, and Rob's sister is to
be bridesmaid, and [ have a
guess that some day Charlie
will bring her homo to me in
Drusilla's place.
1 don't drive beggars from the
door now as l used to, and no
doubt I'm often imposed upon;
but this is what / say:
"Better be imposed upon al
ways, than to be cruel to one
that really needs help" And
Pye read my Bible better of
late, and, | know who says
"Egen as you have done it unto