The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1885-03-17

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toolwould hayelel me alone How.
ever good Samaritan sotto people
here IreckonGg as hetaggedat
hislast bandage
"sort Of new atit, said slant
Good plaything, that sort IL thing
E0atgFow II when they end out just
about how gralsiul8folks are,
.Thes 'llEfndols iustabout how
grateful lamllsai the stranger.
Setting every dropof blood in my
body into.blaseSl I've halta mind
toseI Gre TO their old rookery ola
ihoose What did you say ii was
called9s
3BlOSsambank. TomEyans, you
know; held inhiswiie shame Mrs,
Rpse.p
H'ml h'ul Iilslewamap ~.
low c'irls brown esesl I've seen
ber sometimes goiugby- lookslike
my Nell that died. and they
thought ] had apoplexy,n said the
stranger, after the pause. "And
didnltknow me from the side ola
sole.leather2 Andhad me fetched
intotheir house forlbetteror worse.
That's about the breadlhof it,"
sAbout,e = saidslolt,
@Put up my horseSp
Certain"
4Look here. Isuppose for City
cents you'd go out and put my
horse in, and help,me limp along9
Curse the luckI Ishould thihkI'd
been raked upon a bed of hotcoalsl
That's christian fpllowl H'ml
Pen andink round hefeH" heasked.
gazing about. ''He'ml Leave 'em
a line to tell 'em what l think Of
their tearing the skin Of the soles
Of my feet, and you give IL to 'em
in the morning"
Il don't want to be hurtingMs.
Roses feelings" said Stout. 1--WE
kinder like the Eyanses."
"You do as you're bid, and no
questions asked. You don't get
fifteen cents every day for that.
Therel' Aud he flung down the
pen be hal been using, and left a
folded paper in stout's hand. Aud
then Stout put his shoulder under
the indignant persons arms and
helped him through the dining
room and passages aud Kitchens,
and out the buck door and into his
wagon, hitched in the horse, took
the fifty.cent piece, bade the stran
ger goodnight, and returned and
laid the folded paper at what he
Judged ought to be Mrs. Roses
place at the breakfas. table, which
Mandy, with her customary pro-
vision, had laid overnight, lfter
clearing of the fragments e tho
previous banquet
It was at the peep Of day that
Mrs Rose, throwing on her wrap
per, thrust her feet into her little
slippers, and crept down stairs.
Her eyes were but halfopen, but
they sprang wider 1.-THE vision Of
the reception.room. stout's chair
was empty, the cot was empty, the
bed clothes we're tossed about, the
carpet was strewn with dried mus
tatd plasters and torn bandages
and Plus and strings-lier sacred
reception,rooml Fur an instant
she stared about her, and then
sprang for the back door. II was
open; the yard was empty. She
boiled the door, and came back
, through the dining roou in be.
Wilderment over the abstraction Of
, this dying pafalytic, and her eyes
fell on the folded paper, and she
paused.
Do you think Mrs. Rose was a
foolR that she should not know
, what that paper meant when she
. looked 1t ovst2 Had she not fg.
ured to herself-a a thousand times
how such paper woaldilook when
) their ship came in2 The appafi
tion that flashed through Sarah's
room and Mary's room, and would
have liked TO orun over to Louisa's
aud startle grandmother, and that
wound up proceedings 10 her own
foOm, was tlourishing a legal dOcu.
ment and crying ouE Aud hewds
an Angel in disgnisel and ! said
soI and what do you think this is2
Toni oh, Toni it is our mortgage,
and il is discharged And that
man was the man that held it,
and he has cancelled the whole
, thing, and with his thanks, too
think Of III And, oh, can you call
that anything else than an an.
GEL" Is.
"In disgui'ea' said Tom, pres.
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