South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1885-01-23

tseoco '10er0o mo- o0Cb thing tbeoo
days; les:sre nov all M one wny and
Il one tin,c. aud lhat's Z deal quicker
Nan they once did. Bot ron run
home low. and u 500 like y0u ueedn't
tell yonr s.-osher anything about the
waiting. nor the syys either: l'll a.
stamp on for 90 and send il @ coon
- cam
The little eves boosI1od like stars
through the tAliicx toas,. sOh. cir, If
700 wouid I she q ~. and when my
lieu lays thrse moro eggs will DO
%. 9 - bring them to yOu.'
( One turned % ckly to the DIOR. bat
pses':4 these. - " with m uMc0n.
qossasss iuapssSe. she Ioa)esd beck, ny.
iog' ARA q y0o plesee, CIR, do make
~ IN 10 t4eks uhs1 80 eaid-
IN nasse.
aa' child iias got more heart than
head, thought Mr.. Higgins to him.
sell, 10 ne sllentIy watched her depart
without making further efforts to ex-
PLAIN the mail regulations. lie knew
the iitlle customer quite well as the
child oi Widow Carson, who had come
10 me ne'shhorhood Just after the first
o' those Terrible Hoods that had sent
81 many homeless ones back from the
oanss OF the 'reacherous Ohio. II
was sal'i that ner husband had PERISH
e" IN tie waves after placing his wife
and Guild IN safety, and here she had
lived ever since ia little log cabin
not lar from the store where with her
small patch OF corn and potatoes she
sup 0rted, as best she could, herself
aud jess and the little yellow dog.
Bat only few days previous to tins,
Dir. Higgins had felt compelled to re.
fuse her any further credit. till the bill,
slowly frightening on his big book,
was vaid NJ, end II was doubtless be
cause OF this that she had not sent to
him at once TO ask the advance OF a
stamp for this all-lmpOrtant letter.
Medita'i. ely he looked at the en-
velope, with the address scrawled ia
so tremulO7s and unpraclised hand
that he doubted mach whether IT
would ever reach it's destination, and
the words sof Jessie returned to his
ml0d-'She ssid It you would read IT,,
You would know ii must 90 in haste.
1t seemed sufficient permission TO
the kind tGought in his heart, and o.
pening the a~kwarily scaled cover
ing. Mr.. lIu2gins with difficulty made
out The words written evidently by u
hand tiemulous with emotion:
Il have just heard YOU We're seen in
Rockp0rt yesterday, looking for jess
and me; but 1t seems TOO good and
wonderful TO be true, but | write at
once to say that we are here, and
God grant my letter may reach you
IN time. l will write IN haste on it,
ana VIII pray day and night tGGt
lie VIII make II go quickly. Tor jess
and are IN snch need That unless
you come 10 US soon. l do not know
what VIII become OF Us We have
moufned Tor yon 80 long as dead,
that | can scarcely write now fer the
beating oil my heart at the thought
of seeing yol. again
Though Mr.. liuggins was often
called a rough cold man. yet there
was certainly u strange moisture ID hrs
eyes as he closed The letter. In "a
u omcnt he had taken IN the whole
situation. Jessie's father, was not
dead as suppo ed. but bad been sep
arated from has vie and child IN
that terrible night. and had lost sight
OF them The sorrowing woman had
just heard that he had been seen seek
ing those VINO niourned him; but II
was evident that he was not long to
remain at Rockpor:. What if this
chance OF reunion should be lost.
These words. i will pray day and
night that God will make my letter
} go quickly,' and the wan. ANXIOUS
face of little jess rose together bef re
Mr. Uuoo;us, mind and With n s,J,
don ,,,,,,','., g.. s,lS,,.'