South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1882-06-23
with considerable less favor. Miss
Waldrcn was beauty aud q belle with

Waldron was o beauty aud q belle, with
an uncle in the United States Navy. a
father who dealt in mining stocks and
bonds, and q French maid. And the
Rockinghams were oil delighted, and
said, what great thing for lIal3ert
to marry into such family.
Good gracious me = said Miss Wal.
dron cycling the ancient sealskin wrap
through . gray eye glass, what does
the old eccentricity mean by sending
me such a, rag as this?'
And the mamma, the sister, and
the French maid didn't find them
selves provided with an answer.
'Therese. said Miss Hortensia, 'take
that old thing TO Mrs. Lewis ON Sc
venth Avenue. She will give you
something for it, l dare say. and I
can lay it out in 6-button gloves
But, my dear demonstrated Mrs.
Waldron, What will lIalbert's Aunt
Deborah tl,ink?'
What she pleases,' said Miss lIor.
tcnsia, with toss OF the head. But
you needn't look so frightened, mama,
she will never know how should
she?'
4 do hate ouch stinginoss,' said the
sister,
so do T. said Iortensia, with en-
phasis.
And Ma'amselle Theresa, whose
mother had been Aunt Deborah's
humble friend and seamstress, and
who was in that lady's secret service,
carried off the jacket, MOTTO Mrs. lie.
Wis OF Seventh Avenue, but back TO
its original donor:
'She don't want ii, eh?' said Aunt
Deborah. Ma'aInseIle Theresa shrug-
ged her shoulders. 'Oh WELL said
the old lady, indiferently, Just rs she
pleases.'
Early the next morning, willie
Aunt Deborah was yet drinking her
coffee, III matutinal curl papers, there
came knock ut the door. TWAS A.
my Falkland. flushed and lovely.
'Eh?' said Aunt Deborah, what's
wanted now2'
It's the soalskin jacket, please, Miss
Rocllingham,' said Amy. i was rip
ping it Up TO put in a new lining, and.
there quilted in n square panneI at
the very back Of the old brown silk
facing, ! found--a thousand collar
treasury bond =
Nonsense ! said Aunt Deborah.
Such things only happen in old To-
gends.
But indeed it has happened to me ,
Amy said And Felix and agreed
that the money didn't belong 10 us,
and go | have brought it back -
Look =
kiss NE, my dear said Aunt De-
borah, setting down her coffee CUP
y on Gro wrouS-the money does be-
long 70 you. [ put it there myself
with the express intention and desire
that you should find it, | pufIanoth-
er ore into hejacl<et that l gave the
girl who is going 70 marry lIalbert.
But she'll never get it now And
Aunt Deborah chuckled.
oh cried Amy, DO YOU really
mean to give us-Fclix and me-aiI
this money? a thousand dollars T.
and she opened her blue eyes very
wide.
4 do really mean It, said Aunt De
borah, smiling down upon tie fresh
primrose-face
Miss IIorteusia Wddron was much
chagrined when the rumor of the
tLousand-dollar treasury bonds tina.
we're hid away in the old seaIgkin Jack
cts reached her ears. She sent at once
to Mrs. Lewis, but the jacket, as
might have been expected was never
recovered.
And / do believe. said Mrs. Hal.
bert Rockingham, that is the reason
Aunt Deborah makes such an absurd
pet Of Felix's chiua.doll Of wife
| wish ! hadn't been in such q hurry
about the scaIslsin jacket