Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-03-05

seen your husband.h
Why, then, have you come with his
horse and cartp' she asked.
This horse and cart, madam said
Mr. 81. Clair, still mildly. "belongs 10
Mr. Stimpcett, Of Gilead."
DO you think / don't know our
horse and cartg' cried the woman, In
an angry tone. 4" Besides, here's my
husbands name on the bag-I. Eli
SON."
81 must have taken the wrong
horse and cart. said Mr. st. Clair. II
will go back at once and find Mr.. Eli
SON"
"The quicker the better" said the
woman, as he turned the horse,
just after Mr.. st. Clair had passed
from the Cherry Valley road into the
mill road, n man came out Of wood
path and sprang at the horse, crying,
"StOp thief p
Where is the thief ?r asked Mr.. St.
Clair, looking all around.
You are The thief p cried the man.
"YOu have stolen my horse and cart"
Maggie Brien began to cry.
Are you Mr.. l. Ellison?" asked Mr..
St. Clair.
Eyes, am" said the man, angrily.
Mr.. st. Clair explained his mistake,
and gave up the horse and cart to Mr..
J. Ellison. He then took Maggie's car
pet-bag and heavy bundle, and walked
all the way to Aunt Debby's.
BY the time they reached Aunt Deb
by's it was nearly dark, and as for
Moses, he was already travelling home
in his fathers cart. II happened i'm this
way: Aunt Debby heard that Mr. st.
CLAIR had been seen driving off, and
knew he must have taken the wrong
horse and cart, for Mr.. Stimpcett's was
still standing near the mill. Therefore,
as Moses had already waited until after
supper, she let him take his fathers
horse and cart and drive home behind
a man with an OK team who was going
by a roundabout way to Gilead.
Now as soon as Moses had driven off,
Aunt Debby locked her doors and went
to an evening meeting, 50 that when
Mr.. st. Clair came there on foot, with
Maggy Brien and her bag and bundle,
TO find Moses, he found no one. He
questioned some boys standing BY a
fence, and they told him that Moses had
gone home in his fathers cart, behind
an OK team. Maggy Brien began to
cry again. Don't cry, DEAR" said Mr..
St. Clair "I'n hire a buggy"
He hired from the stable a buggy,
fast horse and driver, and away they
started for Gilead, and reached Mr..
/ Stimpcett's house at about half past
eight o'clock in the evening. Moses
had not arrived.
Mr.. St. Clair found Mrs. Stimpcett,
with her bonnet and shawl on, walking
the floor, sobbing and signing and
wringing her hands. Grandma, also
crying, was wrapping a bottle Of the
Sudden Remedy in piece of newspa-
per.
"Oh, how is MOsesP' cried Mrs.
Stimpeett. 50 val it have to be taken
off?''
SIS not Moses here?' asked Mr.. St.
Clair. in a mild voice.
"Herer' cried Mrs. Stimpcett. "How
can he be here. when he has broken his
leg? / am going to him as soon as Mr..
! StimPcett can borrow horse
| Mr.. St. Clair thought that Moses must
have fallen from the cart on his way
home; but before he had time to speak,
Mrs. Odell came in.
Where is my niece?" she asked.
where is Evelyn?'
"Here she is" said Mr.. St. Clair,
presenting Maggie Brien.
What do you mean?r shrieked
Mrs. Odell That my niece? Mo-
no! no! Oh, Evelyn! Evelyn! Evelyn!
Dear child, where are your
Maggie Brien began to cry bitterly.
'Alasl what a wretch am, to have
made this mistaker' cried Mr.. St.
! Clos- ttn,A I'M GnI ,-,,,, E,-ol,-,
IN 60 for a horse. I'll take this child
back. Don't cry, little girl. won't
rest till l find your Evelyn" and he
rushed from the house, almost knock
ing down several children in the pass
age-way-the Stimpcett children; for
Obadiah, Debby and little Cordelia had
been awakened by the noise, and had
come down in their night-gowns.
But the lost Evelyn was near, and
coming nearer every moment. You
viii remember that Maggie's mother
Mrs Brien, was to send for Maggie to
come and visit her. The man whom
she sent went back and told her that
he could not find Maggie, and that her
grandmother was afraid she had been
stolen from the station. Mrs. Brien
hired a horse and wagon, drove to the
station and inquired of the station
master. A stable-boy who stood near
told her he saw a little girl who looked
like Maggie riding off in buggy with
man, and that the man hired the
buggy to go to Gilead.
''The wretchr' cried Mrs. Brien;
"tO be stealing away my childl l will
keep on to Gilead. l will follow him
up.n
81 wish you would let this little girl
ride with you to Gilead," said the sta
tiOn-master "She has been waiting a
long time for some one to call and take
her to Mr.. Stimpcett's, and Mr.. Stimp-
cett will help you find your Maggie" :"
He then brought out a slender, haxen-
haired little girl and placed her in Mrs.
Brien's wagon. This child was Eve
lyn Odell, and Mrs. Brien took her to
Gilead.
1t happened that they reached Mr..
Stimpcett's Just as Moses was driving
into the yard with his fathers horse
and cart, and they three, Mrs. Brien,
Moses and Evelyn, went into the house
together.
Scarcely had they entered before Mr..
Stimpcett, and then Mr.. st. Clair, ar
rived in haste, each with a horse and
wagon. Mr.. Stimpcett rushed in to get
his wife, and Mr.. st. Clair to get Mag
gle. There they found Mrs. Stimpcett
with her arms around Moses, Mrs.
Odell with hers around Evelyn, and
Mrs. Brien with hers around Maggie;
and there were huggings, and kissings,
and laughings, and cryings, and it was:
"Oh you dearr' and, "Oh, you dar-
lingF and "oh, my childr' and, oh,