The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1880-05-07
i AS A MISSIONARY"



81 should like to do something
to help the missionaries said Amy
Peake.
Times were dull in the store, just
then. Purse strings were drawn
tightly-pockets were bnttoned up
TO correspond. The vague intangi,
Bile shadow of coming "panic' v
overhung the commercial world
and Mr.. Moneymint, OF the firm OF
Moueymint & Makecasn was talk
ing of discharging half a dozen or
SO OF his assistants.
Amy Peake, the prettiest and
the brightest of them all, had just
sold a pair of castor beaver gloves
to an old gentleman, and was now
thoughtfully replacing the stock in
trade on the shelves. She was a
blue-eyed lassie, with black, wavy
curls, lips AS red as holly berries,
and a pretty, round nose, just the
least bit turued up ut the end, in
an in inquiring sort of way, that
was, to say the least, bewitching.
"Nonesenser said Miss Wigson,
who had had the smallpox, aud
whose light.blue eyes didn't look
the same way. "You'd "A deal bet.
ter help yourself! If you take
care of number one, you're certain
that one person is taken care of y
"That is a narrow and selfish
theory!' said pretty Amy lndig'
nantly.
"Well, Tn narrow and selfish y
said Miss Wigson. And so will
YOU be, when you have lived as |
have! What can | have the plea
sure Of showing your to a yellow.
faced lady in seal jacket and dia.
monds as big AS peas.
But Amy rev0lved these things
in her mind.
"Are you really in earnest my
child n asked old Mr.. Day, the
ncarsighted, white.l,aired, kindly.
injured old clergyman, who had
cssi1stened her, us Il babe. aud cate.
chised her from time immemorial.
"Ot course rm in earnest said
Amy.
Because said the old man,
thoughtfully, "Tve heard OF a va.
cuucy that wantsa filling. But it's
at the very bottom of the ladder,
Amy-a menial position, which"
Nothing is menial in the details
of missionary liie,' said cnthusias.
tic Amy.
"l It's the Reverend Briggs Bad.
get" said Mr.. Day. "He is going
to Madagascar on II special mission
to the heathen-"
"Oh, that is gloriousi7 cried
Amy, with kindling cheeks aud
eyes.
"Apd he wants a help
"A helpr
"Well, my dear, to put it in plain
English" said the old man, al sup.
pose it means u servant maid. He
has .witten to me to know If | can
recommend II meek-spirited, eff.
cient young woman, who would not
shrink from the path of duty, how.
ever thorny it might prove"
"The very tbiugw cried Amy.
"And as Tor servants-are we not
all the servants one One Master 7
Yes, III 20 to Madagascar-that is,
ii the Reverend Mr.. Badgett will
take me. Since poor mamma died
and my brother Daniel married,
there is nothing on earth to keep
Inc in one place more than another.
But what sort of a person is this
Reverend Briggs Badgett r. with a
little natural curiosity.
~ don't know, my DEAR" said
Mr.. tDay. Our communications
have been carried on entirely by
letter, and l shouldn't know him il
l were to meet him tomorrow face
to face. But saw Mrs. Briggs Bad
gett once-a pretty little old lady,
with white curls aud a face like q
winter apple"
"pll gol" said Amy, promptly
" can sew, cook, wash and iron
and whatever l can't do shall BE-
glad and willing to learn"
"That's the right spirit, my dear
beamed Mr.. Day.
"How soon will my services bt
required ~
"At once so my correspondent
says.n
"Then I'll goat opce,n said Amy
"Please give me the address.
Mr.. Briggs Badgett was sitting
alone in his shabbily furnished lit
tie study, before a meagre fire
drinking a cup of semi-cold tea
for the landlady didn't think il
worth her while to put herself ouI
for q lodger who was 30 soon tt
emigrate to Madagascar.
He was a slender, pleasant .facet
young man with dark, pensive eyes
asilky beard, and features that be
tokened a delicacy of character ant
extreme refinement. Aud, as b,
sat there. lie was mentally taking
himself to task, in that his hear
should fail at the very outset Of th,
career he had most coveted eve
since he graduated from theological
institute.
Alone!" soliloquized Mr.. Brigg
Badgett. "Ot course | must q
alone. What right have | to ex
Dect ANYTHING elsa 2 II IL for me