Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1885-07-03

/ menC tnan II ne naQ Deen QlSaOleu
and tipsy beggar instead of very
handsome, dashing young fellow and
heir prospective to old Mr.. Blanks
millions. She had only one idea-to
save soul. There are just few such
women.
GAS for Sam, all this had a curious
effect upon him. He was simply be-
wildered. The strain of the last few
months, the uneasiness, the sleepless
nights, the suddenness Of this scene,
the consciousness of discovery proved
too much for him. He stood motion
less, staring blankly before him.
"'Please-say you will stop now
right here" said the girl, with eager
insistence.
"Sam looked down into the fresh,
honest face, with its soft lines harden
ed into firm, pressing determination,
and suddenly threw himself on seat
before Miss Lows desk, and hiding
his face in his arms broke right down.
Overtaxed nature took its revenge.
"At sight of those heavy, soundless
sobs, little Miss Lows face for the first
time showed a faint touch of personal
Consciousness. But it was very feet
ing. She had saved her man-Pm
sure that's the way she put it in her
straight forward, practical, democrat
ic little heart-and that was the prin-
cipal thing. She tied her bonnet
strings with quick fingers. Her eyes
shone. She stepped up to her employ
er's son and touched him gently on the
shoulder.
"'Tell your father" she said, very
briefly; "that will be the safe way out
of The whole difficulty. 1t may be
lizard, hnt you ought not to mind that"
There was perhaps faint trace Of
contemptuousness in these last words,
but il so. little Miss Low was probably
unconscious of it herself She hur-
ried out Of the now deserted Office and
into the bustling, crowded street.
The ponderouslv handsome resi-
dence of old Mr.. Blank witnessed a
very stormy interview that night. Sam
was completely tanned. He had gone
to his father and done precisely y as that
girl. to whom he had never spoken 20
words in his HE Lefore, had hidden
him.
"Old man Blanks fury was some
thing to be imagined. but not describ-
ed. He talked Of publishing his sons
disgrace in the newspapers, of public
/ " disowning him. etc, etc. He thought
better Of these extreme measures before
putting them into effect. but the con-
sequences of young Sans folies came
upon him heavily enough, neverthe
less. His father put him out Of the
firm and temporarily ont of the house;
on these two points the outraged old
100. .aman held firmly. Let him shift
for HIMSELF" he shouted, and shift for
himself Sam did.
at was not easy work by any means.
| have reason to know that Samuel
Blank, Jr., ex member of one or two
fashionable clubs, great connoisseur Of
horses, good wines and womeD, and so
forth and so on, found life made up
of sterrer realities within the next
Year or two than he had certainly ever
before imagined. But Sam came out
all right. The fact was, there was
plenty Of grit in the fellow, and this
experience brought it triumphantly
20 the surface.
"Oid Mr.. Blank gave in after time,
as was to be expected. The Old gen.
tleman had grown broken and feeble
with grieving after his dismissed black
sheep.
sam had been reinstated in the pa
ternal favor ana al its advantages
some SIX months when he one day
sought out little Miss Low. He found
her looking even prettier than two
wears before Without any prelimi-
naries whatever he asked her to be his
wife.
"She looked at him a moment atten-
lively. "Iou know nothing about
me" she said.
81 know that you saved me from
becoming a blackguard as surely as
woman ever saved man. | shall al
ways reverence y"u as the bravest, the
/ truest-
"She interrupted him.
and don't know you-very we'll, "
she said, cycling him keenly.
There was no disillusion for Sam
in her quiet little matter of fact way.
/ She looked extremely pretty at the
same time. And he had spoken the
| truth If had become the faith of his
! live to reverence her.
"'No; and what you know is not to
my credit. But | can say that have
/ changed within the last two years. If
was not sure of being different iel-
low from what | was then | wouldn't
come to you thus now. don't expect
YOU to care for me now, you know. |
only want you to give me a chance"
"And the chance was given,' con-
tinued Bacon. Little Miss Low is
now Mrs. Samuel Blank, Jr."