The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1880-06-05

III uOeS go a9ln the gram 10 see That
teller maxim success on it with his
rascality.'
81 tried to prevail on him to 90 and
see his mother and tell her the hull
story, but he was terrible sot on it. He
felt meachin', and when young teller
goes off to seek his forth, as you might
say, and comes home, AFTER ten years,
with his pockets empty and nothin' but
rags on his back, and not much to boast
on in the record of all them years, it's
material he should feel meachin'. | new
er gin Bart to understand that l didn't
think he was accountable for most of
his misfortins, though l couldn't help
pityin' on him from the bottom o. my
heart, KNOWN how easy influenced he
was, and how different he might "a
turned out if he'd fell into good company
instid of bad
''We went down to see Mis- Aminidab
and tell her the hull story, me and three
or four others that had knowed he was
Bart from the fust. But contrarier,
crabbeder cretur than Mis- Aminidab |
never see. You see that teller had ben
a coaxin' on her up, and she wouldn't
hear nothin' at all to what we had to
say. She Jest as good as slammed the
door in our faces. / felt as eff I'd
ruther do most any thing than come
back and tell Bart what she said. Bart
he'd sot a great deal by his mother,
allus.
8" He riz up and said he guessed he'd
go. He had the hopelessest look on his
face that | ever see on mortal face.
But Garafely, she chung to him.
&c When l can hold up my head like a
man I'll come back to you, Garry,
says he.
"'I can't let you go! 1 couldn't bear
to lose you agin, Bart says Garafely.
And she hid her face on his shoulder,
but | could see the bushes creepin'
clear up to the roots of her hair. And
L heerd her say-though It was a
terrible faint kind of a whisper eff you
must 90 take me with you'll
"Wel, it kinder come acrost me that
that was about the only chance there
was for Bart. Commonly when man
can't keep himself stiddy l don't think
nobody can do it for him; but this
seemed to be kind of uncommon sitoo-
alton. Hevin' Garafely to look out for
would give him some pride to keep him
up, and eff he sot out to sink down agin
she'd hold onto him, and she wouldn't
let 90 easy. Then they wouldn't come
to want, SEEM Garafely was an heiress
Useless Jerdun he spent all her mothers
money, but the aunt that fetched her up
was savin' old maid, and she'd left
Garafely nigh on to three thousand
dollars. knowed Bart wouldn't squan-
der her money.
"Bart gin her a kinder longin' look
when she said that-though l knowed
well enough that he had never sot by
her such terrible sight as she sot by
him; she wouldn't never "a stayed
ten years away from him, for no
reason whatever; but / expect it's
most allus the way, one sets by a
sight more'n t'other - and then he
looked at me.
"I couldn't be such mis- able sin
ner as that!' says he.
81 kinder put my oar in then, and we
talked it over, and the upshot on it was
that Bart went over to Porkerpine and
got himself slicked up in store close, and
Elder Niles, he merried 'em. The FL
der, he kinder hung back little, and
he told the Lord in his prayer that he
want any ways sure that Bart want
an impositor, and, any ways, he was 8
prodigal son that hadn't gin no evidence
o. repentance. But he merried 'em
good and strong-and L kinder run OF
an idee that the Lord was as well &C
quainted with the Jacks of the case as
Elder Niles, so L want took down no
great by what he said. And as for Bart
and Garafely, guess twas as much as
ever that they heerd it.
"When they went off on the Portland
steamer together, Bart he held his head
up pretty well. There was great
crowd went over to see 'em off, for ex-
element run pooty high, and opinions
was poorly well divided.
The other Teller, he settled the mat
ter by clearin' out, as l expected he
would, takin' with him every thing he
could lay his hands on. He expected
Bart had gone arter proofs, and would
fetch em back pretty soon. Well, it
killed the old Cap'n outright, and Mis-
Aminidab she had fever that fetched
her nigh to deaths door. When she
got better she shet herself in the house
and wouldn't see nobody.
"But alongin June, Bart and Garafely
they come home to see her, and some
how or mother they fetched her round.
Bart, he'd got a sitooation as agent or
somethin' o. that kind for steamboat,
and was DOM first rate, and you
wouldn't a. knowed him for the same
man that hung round the meetin' house
door that Sunday; and as for Garafely,
you wouldn't although she was more'n
seventeen. 1t done me good to look at
her. They kerried Mis- Aminidab home
with 'em, and the old house down to the
Pint is shet. 1t does seem as if Bar
berry Island was runnin' down, so many
houses is shet." And the Deacon
seemed to fall into a somewhat melan-
choly reverie.
His silence was the signal for COM
ments upon the story of Garafely and
Bart from the men who were " settin'
in the store," and had listened in re-
spectful silence to the Deacon, who was
the oracle of Burberry Island. Some
of them thought that Garafely "run
consid able resk hevin' on him." and
that being san heiress' she might have
"done better" But the majority were
very fond of Bart, and very much NOR