The Sentinel. [volume] (Trenton, N.J.) 1880-1882, 1881-04-02

evening when we went to walk, she said
to me:
"Mr Wetherbee has his faults; no
one knows them better than I. But
where" added she, touchingly, ''where
will you find a man who hasn't faults?"
Where, surely!" responded I.
1 don't look for perfect happiness
here below" continued Hannah, pen
sively; "Ive seen too much of life for
that Hannah is'some years my Junior
and must at this period have arrived at
the mature age of nineteen years.
I returned home and two years slipped
away. was still hating between two
opinions and looking inquiringly at a
third, and the Opinions had bgun to
manifest lively symptoms of taking care
of themselves, when one day in neigh
boring city, strolling through paper
friend, [ came across Hannah.
Chow in the world came you here?"
bluntly CALCULATED I.
"By the fortunes of life and the rail-
way"
[ didn't know whether she was to be
addressed as Farley or Wetherbee, and
observing that she was dressed in deep
mourning, avoided anything that might
suggest explanations. She presently
told me that her father was dead. Then
as sought her confdence-on the fra
ternal basis-she told me that her father
had left his estate incumbered.
"Those disagreeable Wetherbees hold
mortgage ON the house." said she,
"and they are just the exacting, unac-
commodating kind of people who
wouldn't hesitate in foreclosing the day
the time expires p
She had set herself about earning
money to pay the Indebtedness.
You see, said she " the property is
left by will to mamma and myself con
jointly. If it is disposed of at a forced
sale it must be at great sacrifice, and
then poor mamma will be left without a
home. She has done everything for me"
here Hannahs large eyes filled with
tears" and it is small thing for me to
Try to save the home for her"
| said [ wondered she hadn't sought a
different kind of employment and sug-
gested teaching.
ooh, I've tried applying for schools
Two or three times I've received invita-
tons to examinations; and they've given
me perfectly dreadful lists of questions
asked reasons why we performed
operations that never before knew we
did perform"
Music, then
81 love music; but there are three
teachers to every pupil. This is pleas
ant work, and [ am happy in feeling [
shall save the home for mammal
When I reached home that evening I
sold an opera ticket I had purchased in
the morning, and, whereas had always
smoked ffteen-cent cigars, now pur-
chased box at ten cents I gave them
away before the close of the week and
went back to fifteen's) and asked mother
if there wasn't place somewhere in
the city where they cleansed and dressed
over-soiled kid gloves to look as we'll
as new.
For the next few weeks [ had consid-
cradle business in neighboring city,
and I used to transact it in season for
the three-o' clock train, and then con-
clude to wait for the express. Hannah
was always in fine spirits, buoyed up by
the belief that she was making sure
progress in paying that debt. / should
as soon thought of discharging the
national obligation by peddling matches.
One warm Saturday afternoon, when
T stood by her side, and she leaned back
fatigued, but distractingly pretty with
the loose hair culling around hel
temples, she inadvertently laid her hand
on the corner of the table next me. II
was growing thin and the III formed by
the blue veins on the back, and which
in the days of youthful simplicity she
had told me stood for Hartman, stood
out with great distinctness.
I suggested being allowed to make al
arrangement removing her from the
, necessity of iquidating those debts
She refused to listen. I pressed the
matter unavailingly.
, | then went to the proprietor, TOLD
him Miss Farley was an old schoolmatt
and q friend of mine, who was heroically
trying to save the family residence fol
: her stepmother, and asked him if ht
could not furnish her better position
} but Frank is the most obtuse of creatures
He finally asked me if she could keel
: books. Remembering the splurges il
that useful epistle of hers, | felt by M
J means confident, but saidI:
GIVE her the books, any way, and
, look to me for damages"
: He found that she wrote neat hand
} and had slight mixing of double
| entry but when it came to the subject
, of remuneration, and she asked hin
| how much he had paid his last book
, keeper, he had the stupidity to reply
'tHe had $500, but | shall allow yor
I 81, 300
{ "Ah p said she, he was an old and
experienced bookkeeper, while L know
little about it. Why under such cir
| cumstances do you increase the salary ?
) Frank wouldn't have scrupled at ar
} entire series of equivocations In his owl
behalf, but since only my interests were
t at stake, his conscience became as ten
/ der as George Washington's. He finally
acknowledged that the increase was pro
; vided for by friend.
81 shall accept the position at $500,
said she, with dignity.
, went nm and held q conversation