The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1880-08-18
WEDNESDAY MORNING. AUGUST Is, $780,

who sat whiting a pine stick be-
side the fire.
Il dare say she could manage
very nicely said Martha. I've
heard Uncle Miles say that he
sold $50 worth Of cranborries one
year out Of the swamp
'Humph!' gruntcd Mr.. PytchIey.
'And that's tho legal interest on
$1,000, you know added his wife.
what do you say, Judith 2
1T makes no difference to ME,
said Judith, quietly.
1T does to me, then = said Mrs.
Pytchley; because, as you know
very we'll, Hobart's business is in
the city, and we could do nothing
at all with a lot of swamp land
down here in the back woods.
So Mrs. Pytehley had taken the
lions share Of the; old mans be-
quests and gone back to her city
home, over Hobart's grocery and
young DR.. 'Dedling, who had con-
fdently calculated on at least $500
TO buy surgical instruments to TT
up an Office ia the village adjoining
$500 as the dowry Of his bride
elect-broke his engagement in a
pique that Judith should have so
deliberately flung her fortune
away.
"A set of shsrpers!' cried he,
with disgust.
Stop, DR.. Dedling!' SAID Judith,
coloring up. You forget that
you are speaking of my sister and
her husband
But they had no business to i'm
pose on you thus!' exclaimed the
doctor.
L agreed to the plan without
remonstranco.'
DR.. Dedling shrugged his shout
ders.
lin that said be, sharply, you
showed your lack Of sense! If
you had no good regard for your
self, you might have had some for
mer
WAS it for my money you want
ed me {? demanded Judith, stung
to the quick.
DIR. Dedling colored and hesita-
ted.
a man must take monetary
matters into consideration he
said.
And so it came about that the
engagement was Cancelled, and Ju-
dith Grey was sitting teere alone
in wintry twilight, silently, with
clasped hands and head dropped
upon her, breast.
DR.. Dodling ploddod home to
the village, and as he passed the
brilliant windows of the little hos.
telry he paused, remembering the
bitter cold Of the winter air, the
frosty influence of the breeze.
I may as we'll so in and. warm
myself thought he.
Mine host met him with o
CHEEKY air.
Walk in, doctor? walk I'M
said he.
Not that room,' as Dedling me-
chanically laid his hand upon the
door-nob Of the apartment he usu-
ally entered. The Railway Com
mittee is a sitting there. This
way if you please!
'The Railway Committee' echo
ed DedGng. 'What Railway Com
mittee? You don't mean that
they're actually taking any steps
about the old idea of q railway
between here and Glassville p
Yes, l do,' said the landlord
It's a committee ofrich capitalists.
as are building factories close to
the Falls; and they mean to put
up a row Of tenement houses all
along; and would lay down 3 line
of rails; and don't say l mention
ed it, doctor, because | only
caught d snatch here and there,
when l was carrying in the plates
and sitting on the fruit, and nuts
and wine-but it's to go right
through old Miles Grey's cranbcr
ry swamp, the railway is ! and the
Chairman is going to offer Miss
Judith $4,000 in good, clean, harc
money for her share in IT.!
Doctor Dedling started!
'Five-thousand dollars 1! re
peated he, slowly.
Could it really be fact? lfso-