The Penn's Grove record., 1883-09-22

ItllOW uObbiCo uOnh OhO Pd1i
way and puts his head in the
door.
ISIS" he begins, with wide excited
eyes, ''did you meet q big fellow down
the road-a dark chap with lot:
of bumps, and black, frizzled wisk.
ers ?"
had not, and said SC.
swell, he came by here hunting W
some scamp who robbed a bank III
Richmond and got down to these parts
with the money in his pocket and q
bullet in his flesh. l started him down
the main road, l wonder you didn't see
him."
81 drove around by the MILL"
answered quietly enough considering
L feel like a tornado shut he won't
catch his scamp tonight, dad"
"Think not ? Why ?"
because I've got him snug in the
barn p
Goodness gracious then I'll just
-D
Pa is making his way toward JUS
tice as fast as his weak legs will
let him, when l steady him against
the stable door and take away bis
cane.
dad, +" / cry ~savagely, ~ adore you,
but if you take another step to harm
that man why-you've only got a dozen
daughters to go through the rest of your
life."
"Youi" gasp pa-and | wonder the
wisp of straw he has been chew
ing does not strangle him black on
the spet-"a child of mine help a
thief-n
Exactly and she means to make
you an accessory after the act Now,
see here, pa, / don't set up to be a
cherub, but when a fellow creature,
starved and bleeding, asks ms help
him in the name Of God why L
mean to help him if. 1 break every
law in Virginia to atoms-so there 7"
Pa looks stunned a bit, and then
laying one big brown paw on my
head, as likewise expected, know
ing pas way as l do, cries stout
ly:
spoken like a man, Sis and now
let's have a look at your william"
When we stand at last before the
poor fellow he looks so pitifully help
less stretched out there on the friendly
straw that pas loving heart gets the
best of his law-abidirg principles, and
he bathed the hurt arm as tenderly as
if it had never been raised in crime.
When pa first notices the jug of water
l have brought him from the spring,
and carriage-robe rolled up for a pillow
with the rough side in, he looks at me
wonderfully for a second, and then
calculates with most contented happi-
ness:
ssThank God, Sis, you are only a
woman, after alll'
l suppose pa meant well, but it does
not sound encouraging I've been trying
to do my duty like a a Even faith
ers are human
Its no use," means the poor crea-
ture, when pa has done his best with
the wound. ''I'm goin' fast, boss,
but she said they should not-touch
me- a.
Don't worry, my lad" cries pa,
cheerily. "Right or wrong here You
stay until"
''It won't be-long-I feel it coming
fast-and hard-I would have died out
there ON the black roadside except for
her, Ged bless herl If you-don't
mind''-and here he looks at me so like
some gaunt, faithful dog, that | lean
over him by pa to catch his dying
words-''if you don't mind-will you
take this bag from-around my neck :
1t chokes met chokes---"
"Thete, there" says pa, tenderly,
land now, my lad, before you go o.
sleep, tell, me, does this money belong
to the bank ?"
Eyes, yes," cries the dying man,
with an i%mploring glance at pa, while
he tries to touch my hand with his own
poor, feeble fingers take it back,
boss, and tell them-tell them-that
the-reward-belongs to-her--"
~ y
Yes, that is the true and simple story
of my fortune, no matter what the pa
pers said. For a long time pa would not
let me toach a penny of that $1,000,
but when the people at the bank insist
ed that business was business, l had
earned the money and there it was,
why
. Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper i.
No insect, properly 50 called, has
eve been proved to take up a perma-
aent abode in the human alimentary
canal. Their presence, where they
were found, was accidental, as when