The Delaware ledger., 1883-09-22

IellOW mobiles DOWN tne pain
way and puts his head in the
door.
"Sis," he begins, with wide excited
eyes, "did you meet big fellow down
the road-a dark chap with lots
of bumps, and black, frizzled wisk-
ers ?"
had not, and said 80.
"Well, he came by here hunting up
some scamp who robbed a bank in
Richmond and got down to these parts
with the money in his pocket and a
bullet in his flesh. l started him down
the main road, wonder you didn't see
him."
81 drove around by the MILL" l
answered quietly enough considering
| feel like tornado :-"but he won't
catch his scamp tonight, dad"
"Think not Why ?"
"Because I've got him snug in the
barn ~
Goodness gracious then I'll just
--n
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 his
cane.
"Dad," cry savagely, 81 adore you.
but if you take another step to harm
that man why-you've only got dozen
daughters to go through the rest of your
life.'
"$ou l'' gasp pa-and l wonder the
wisp of straw he has been chew
ing does not strangle him black on
the spot-"a child of mine help a
thief
Exactly and she means to make
you an accessory after the act. Now,
see here, pa, l don't set up to be a
cherub, but when fellow crea ure,
starved and bleeding, asks me help
him in the name of God why
mean to help him if l break every
law in Virginia to atoms-so there ="
Pa looks stunned bit, and then
laying one big brown paw on my
head, as likewise expected, know
ing pas way as 1 do, cries stout
ly:
'Spoken like 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
| have brought him from the spring,
and carriage-robe rolled up for pillow
with the rough side in, he looks at me
wonderfully for a second, and then
calculates with most contented happi-
ness:
"Thank God, Sis, you are only a
woman, after all |"
suppose pa meant we'll, but it does
not sound encouraging I've been trying
to do my duty like man. Even faith
ers are human
SITS no use," moans 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-
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, God bless her If you-don't
mind"-and here he looks at me 50 like
some gaunt, faithful dog, that 1 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 melt chokes--"
"There, there" says pa, tenderly,
sand now, my lad, before you go to-
sleep, tell, me, does this money belong
to the bank p''
eyes, yes" cries the dying man,
with an imploring 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---"
Yes, that is the true and simple story
of my fortune, no matter what the pa
pers said. For loug time pa would moi
let me touch penny of that 81, 600
but when the people at the bank insist
ed that business was business, l haC
earned the money and there it was
why
Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper
No insect, properly so called, hai
ever been proved to take up perma
nent abode in the human alimentar!
canal. Their presence, where thel
were found, was accidental, as wbel