Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1886-10-16
HIIEs no THE Z s DEBT

ooh, Charley, Charley, how could
ron do such u rffing2"
Lillian ayland's round cheek
Twas. blanc,led to All unwonted
|5wlliteress as she stood before her
Ilhrother iG>tlle close, cramped room
which constituted I,eI sole home.
S Charley Waylan.l, a handsome
l:dissipated-lookng you'll, Of two or
three and twenty, with bold, black
l:eyes and merry month that
seemed made only to smile, sat OF
I;sposite her, looking hall repentant,
I:balf defiant, as shA spoke.
Chilly. / couldn't help it. / tell
You was hard up. A fellow must
Ihaye money; you women don't
know anything about the teinpta.
| lions and necessities Of the wOrld!''
'sliut, Charley" she faitered. "do
yon know how this same world, as
,yon phrase it, looks at the deed
yon have just committeds on,
Charley, and her voice grew low
and tremulous, cit is forgery"
"Nonsense, Lill! It's only boz
rowinga part of old Glencross I'M.
used mlllionsto aid my needs. ]
wrote and asked him for cash, and
he, the unmannerly lout, refused
Well, what could lie expect after
this, but that / should help my
seliYn
Lillian wrung her slender hands,
SHOW dare yon, Charley! That
Ia Wayland should come to this!'
she walled.
aDaredp' he echoed, recklessly;
.sit was but the stroke of a pen, at
ter all; and old Glencross would be
a paltrier miser3t than I5take him to
be if he makes n fuss ab0nta mat
/ ter of five hundred dollars"
at is.sthe right and the justice
Iof the thing,,ncried Lillian, almost
frantically. we could spay him
in any way; but I have sold every
thing that remains of our former
wealth. Seel' and SHE looked
round the miserable apartment
sSee how / live! Last night sat
up until midnight sewing to have a
little money to pay tile rent.
have not Il jewel left, nor a trim
ket.n
sob, bother, Lill! If old Glen.
cross cuts up rough, it is only TAX
ing a run across the water. | know
lots of ship captains that would
stow me away under their holds,
almost any moonlight night"
Lillian looked despairingly at
him. Was it, then, impossible 10
make him comprehend the moral
obliquity OF the deed he had just
committei7
s.But ] can't stay iooling here"
observed the young man, with a
toss OF bis black curls. II must be
off abont my business. Good by,
iLill. Give us kiss, my girl. E1-
cept that you're uncommon fond of
lecturing a fellow, you're not bad
sister in the main."
After he had gone, Lillian sat
down to try and realize the new
situation in which she and her
brother we're placed. All now de-
pended upon the spirit IN which
Paulus Glencross should receive
this encroachment upon his purse
and PATIENCE
Lilly had never seen this distant
relation, vet she had formed an
opinion ofhim IN her inmost mind,
as we are all apt to do of unseen
persons whom We hear a great deal
about; and whenever she thought
of Mr.. Glencross the image Of a
hook nosed old man, yellow-skinued
and cadaverous, engaged in sort
ing over piles Of mortgages or
counting bags of gold, suggested
itself to heI mental eye.
.But he must be human, at
laast,l thought Lilly, in the agony
Of her distress. "IfI go to, him
myself, and tell him just what poor
-C6arley's necessities were, and
how good hearted he is, in spite of
all4bis faults and thoughtleSsness
If say frankly to him that |
have no money or jewels to reim-
.burse him, but that will stay and
work for him, as a servant girl
might work III the kitchen, until I
have discharged tue horrible debt,
oh, surely, he cannot have the
heart to refuse. can do % great
many things. 1 can sew .iand EN-
can make good bread
and biscuit, and poor mamma al
ways said 1 was good housekeep
er, and if Mr.. Glencross is really so
misery as Charley thinks, he would
look at the economy OF the thing.
AT least, it is worth trying.
.4Sofavorably did Lillian Wayland
regard this idea, hloachel in her
ssore extremity, that in two days
from the evening in which she had
;bidlel good-by to her handsome,
reckless brother, she stepped from
the cars at the New York depot,
dressed in a sober brown suit that
made her look like a shrinking little
mouse, with her carpet bag IN her
hand.
z A little inquiry sufiiced to bring
her to- the street where Mr.. Glen
cross 1esided-a stately avenue,
lined on either side with elegant