Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser., 1886-10-22
selftf Rfabing.
HER BROTHERS DEBT.

otl, NbailtN, NbaEttS, now CCuIu
you do such a thing:
Lilias Wayland's round cheek va
blanched to an unwontrd whittne>s a>
she stood before her brother in the
close, cramped room which constl
tuted her sole home.
Charley Wayland, handsome. dis
| sipated looking youth Of two or three
and twenty, with bold eyes and u
merry mouth that seemed made only
to smile, sat opposite her, looking
half.repeutanf, halfdeliaut, as she
spoke.
Lilly, | couldn't helplt. tell VOC
| was hard up. y fellow must have
money; YOU women don't know any
thing about the temptations aud nee
essitles OF the world -
bat, Charley she falterei, do
you know how this same world. ~ YOU
phrase IT. Looks at the deed you have
Just committed. Oh, Charley. and
her voice grew low and tremu!ous. lit
IS a forgery.
"Nonsrnss, Liil. Its only borrow.
ing a part of old Glencross' unused
~mTi!,on4 to AID my needs ! wrote
and asked him FOR ca,h, and he. the
unmannrrly lout, refused Well. " hat
could he expect after this, but that
should help myself:
LIias wrunE her sle',lcr hands
How dare YOU. Charley That ii
Wayland should come 10 thIs'" she
walled.
"Dlred," he echoed, rcA!rssly; 1T
Was but tie stroke OF pen. alter all ;
and old G.encross would b. pal,rier
miser than take him 10 be ii h.
makes iuss about matter Of five
hundred dollars
at Is the night and the justice Of
the thing, cried llIlas, almost fran.
tically. If W. could pay him in any
way; but have sold everything that
remains of our former wealth. See
and she looked round the miserable
apartment. ">ee how live. Last
night | sat up until midnight sewing
to have a inttie money to pay the rent.
/ | have not Jewel left. nor trinket.
"Oh. bother, Lii, If old Glen
cross cats up rough. il Is only taking
run across the water know lots
OF ship captains that would stow me
under their holds, almost any moon
light night.
| Lllias looked desp,lringly at him.
Was it, then impossible to make him
comprehend the moral obhquity of
the deed he had Just committed.
"But can't stay foollng here, OBJ.
served the young man, with "a toss OF
his black curls. Il must be off about
my business. Good by. Lii. Give Us
u kiss. my girl. Except that you're
uncommon fond Of lecturing fellow,
you re not BAD sister in the main"
After he bad gone, l.iIias sat down
to try and realize the new situation
in which she aud her brother were
placed. All now depended upon the
spirit in which Paulus Glencross
should receive this new encroachment
upon his purse and patience.
Lilly had never seen this distant re-
latlon, yet she bad formed an opinion
of him IN her inmost mind, as We are
all apt to do OF unseen persons whom
We hear great deal about and when
ever she t ought of Mr.. GIencross the
image If ii hook nosed old man, vel.
low SIX inned and cadaverous. engaged
in sorting over piles of mortgages or
counting bags of god, suggested itself
TO her mental eye.
"But he must be haman, at least, y
thought Lilly, in the agony of her dis
tress. "lf. | 90 to him myself, and tell
him just what poor Charleys necessi-
ties were, aud how good hearted he Is
in spite of all his faults and thought
lessness-if.I say frankly to him that
| have no money nor jewels to reim-
burse him, but that | will stay aud
work for HIM, as il servant girl might
work in the kitchen, until have dis
charged the horrible drbt, surely, oh,
surely he cannot have the heart to re.
fuse. ! can do great many things.
| can sew aud embroider, and | Can
make good bread and biscuit, and
poor mamma always said | was good
hou.ekeeper, and if Mr.. Glencross is
really so miserIy as Charley thinks he
would look at the economy of the
thing. At least, it is worth trying.
So favorably did Liiias Wayland re.
gard this idea, broached in her sore
extremity, that in two days from the
evening in which she had hidden
good-by to her handsome, reckless
brother, she stepped from the cars a,
the New York depot, dressed in so
ber brown suit that made her lool