The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1883-02-08

Charley. You can go on with you
divinity lectures now, and we car
be married whenever we please
Doesn't it seem exactly like 8
fairy tale?' said Franklin, with 6
1 smile. s.To think that / read
through four of the battered old
volumes before [ came to the one
in which the ten thousand dollars
were neatly fattened out between
the leaves, touched with the least
possible speck of gum arabic, at the
four corners, to prevent them from
falling out.
.Whati" cried aunt Polly. aTen
thousand dollars? What on earth
fare you talking about, Charley
Franklin?"
"About some old volumes that I
bought last September-just before
your husband died you know-out
of a rag wagon" exclaimed Charlie
Franklin.
/ q got them at bargain, for they
were real antiquities in their way;
and I'm trying to get little classi-
cal library together, by degrees,
and, gummed between the leaves of
volume FIVE, I found these old bank
notes.
Mrs Meredith started, then grew
alternately red and pale.
eYou-you didn't tell US the
name of the book" she gasped, in
stinctiyely putting her hand up to
her throat.
@Didn't II" said Charley. q
thought of course I had mentioned
it."
ut was history-.Rollin's An
cient History"
Mrs. Meredith gave grasp at
sMary's arm to keep herself from
falling.
Mary she calculated. "dary,
it was the very pile Of old books
that l sold myself-uncle Benaiah's
books.
1T was uncle BenaiaRs boarded
fortune that I flung into the rag
wagon that day"
.What does it matter, aunt Pol
ly," said Mary, '.if it comes back
to the original owner again?"
"0f course, it is yours, Charley
will restore it to you at once.''
.0f course I shall, young Frank
lin declared, when matters had been
explained to him"
sDo you think / could for an in
slant retain money which was not
rightfully my own?''
.But it is yours said Mrs.
Meredith, recovering herself. "Yours
by bona fde purchase and SALE
LET it go. Uncle Benaiah's
money! It has only blighted my
life with hopes unfulflled and am
bition that never was satisfied
..My poor old husband died, and
never knew that it was his, and /
shall be better off without it,
..Take it, you and Mary. Make
yoursely a home with it and Heaven
grant that it may be a happy
one.
And SO the young people took
her at her word, and were happy.
But in the prettiest southern angle
of the little Gothic cottage, which
the young clergyman inhabits, is
nook, which is always called:
"Aunt Polly's room.''
And after life, day of drudgery
and disappointment the sunset is
closing brightly down upon aunt
Polfy's heart.
For Mary, her darling, is hap
py.
And in the reflected sunshine of
Mary's brow, aunt Polly finds her
own well-spring Of peace.
A short time ago, Roanoke Col
lege, OF Salem, Virginia, was closed
on account Of the prevalence of
small pox in that town; and last
week, in consequence Of a case of
scarlet fever, the Rev. W. A. Harris, |
principal Of the Wesleyan Female
Institute, at Staunton, suspended
the, exercises of his school for the
time being. It is sad that these
seats of learning are plague strick-
ems We fear that Roanoke College
will suffer serious loss.
$50 <D%-----
Speaking of the recent change of
schedule on the Blue Ridge Rail
road the Seneca Journal says: The
world never ooes backward bnt