South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1888-12-07

~Den TIC world was barren and Com
monplace. One must have recreation
Of some kind. you know. Everybody
requires little romance, little DO.
etry. 10 favor everyday thinking and
doing. I'm afraid you'll think me q
silly old maid, Mrs. Clement.
No. The heart never grows old.
The skin shrivels, tho color Departs Q.
the eyes fade. the features grow pinch.
cd; but the soul il heir OF eierna
youths as beautiful at four score a.
at 'swaet twenty Time make, a.
mends for the rsvages of the body by
developing the spirit. You didn't
tell me your lovers name. Perhaps
yon'd rather not
His name was Stephen Langdon.
Sometimes Captain Seymour runs
against him 10 Melbourne, and brinRs
me word bow he looks and what be
10 doing; though ! never ask. and
Stephen never asks for me that l
can hear'
! Dslia's summer boarders were not
q success. If they took no money
out OF her pockets, they pu, none in.
She was obliged TO exc out her sup
port with copying for Lawyer Du-
moro and smbroidering for Mrs.
Judge Dorr. One by one her board
ers dropped away, like tho autumn
leaves, all but old Mrs. Clement.
i believe I'll stay on she said.
I'm getting too old to move often.
Perhaps You take winter boarders st
reduced rates Eh p
DO you think my terms high?'
BY no mears. But when ones
purse is low
Yes. l know. Do stay, at your
own pr'cs. | can't spare you
E-sb, had grown 10 have such +, nlness for
tie old lazy that 10 refuse h, Z at her,terms
would have seemed like tuIning her. cwn
mother out, of DOORS. besides one month
more would not signify Bot she fond il
hard to make both ends meet. and often went
hungry TO bed that her mother, and Mrs
lement might enjoy enough, withoutith,r-
appearing to be just q pattern A. Christ
mas however, came.s ray Of; sunshine for
ID; liza, in the shape of thuDdr.d dollars
tromran unknown friend.
TT can't be meant for me- she cried
It's dtrostsd TO Della Rogsrson,' said her
m I'her. 'and there's nobody else of that
nsm>, new your aunt Delis's dead
fTe'It:ooi sure she's dead objected Della.
Horrors! Don'Gyou know whethee your
owa aunts dead or alive? asked Nrs .Cltm.
ent, in a shocked tone
| III isn't our fault. She IS rich and .H.es
abroad. IVES named for her | used to
look IN the glass and trysto believe I'd in
herited her beauty with the name, though
she was only our great uncle's wife,
She ought 10 be. doing something: for
How. can the, III she's .aeada' Anyway,
pleasure. Uncle John made Il himeelf and
| gave IL to her,
Buff she should come back TO you, bav
Ing run through with it, you'd divide your
last crust with herr III be bound
| I suppose should said. Dclis..
The winter wore away. as winters will.
and the miracles offspring began in fields
and wsyside; and Delia's boarders returned
the falling leaves, and: tstill ssMrs Clement
stayed on AID on just now SIZE had ..beeu
for some weeks IN ars with her reduced
board. Ne money had been forthcoming
| for some time, and she was growing more
feeble daily, and needed the Injuries of an
invalid aud the attention Of a nurse, both OF
which Della bestowed upon, her without IA.
|
Il must hear from my msn Of business to-
morrow. Della. I'm knee deepiin debt TO
! you she began one night.
Don't N, ntiou itl' cried = Della. I'D
rather not see O cent Of it Than have you
take il to heart. You're welcome TO stay
and share rot luck with ,us, you're such
company for mother and me.
Thank you. my dear. I've grown as
fosd Of YOU as IL you were my own flesh and
\ ttru he lick
the uitain, dear, aud put another stick on
the fte, please. IL grows chilly, doesn't III
You might kiss FINE just once, II You
wouldn't mind. It's hundred years or 20
since any ole kissed me-
| And the uext morning when Della carried
up Mrs. Clements breakfast, her boardsr lay
cold and stiff upon the pillow.
The first shock over, Della wrote directly
10 the lawyer OF whom she bad heard Mrs.
Clement speak as having charge Of her az.
sirs begging him to notify that lady's rel.
siiyes,if she bad any. - In reply Willis
wrote:
THE late. Mrs. Clement.appesrs TO have
no near relatives. Some distant cousins,
WHO, bayin9. an' abundance OF this world's
goods, yet served her sbabbily when she tes-
| ted their generosity, as she has tried yours.
are all that remain % the family 10 the
mesnums. I enclose you a copy OF her last
/ will and testament, 10 p'ruse at your leis-
/ ure.'
what interest does.be think Il take in
Mrs. Clements uili7 thought Della, bat read
nevertheless:
Being Of sound mind, this l6sh dsy OF
Juue, 15-, ], Della Rogerson Clement, do
hereby leave one hundred dollars 20 each OF
my cousins; aud btqueath the residue Of my
| property, viz: Thirty thousand dollars IN
vested 10 the Ingot Mining Company, City
! thousand In United States bonds, twenty
I thousand in Fortunate FlaDuel Mills, and
4 Jewels, 10 the beloved niece Of my frst hus-
! hand, John Rogerson, Della Rogerson, of
| Croftsborough, Ne. fFor was stranger,
/ and ye took me 10; hungry, and ye fed me,
\ sick, and ye ministered unto me-
! Goodness alivel cried the neighbors when
/ the facts reached their ears. What asproHt.
\ able thing IL is TO take boRTdersi OF courss
\ Steve Laugdon will come home and marry
I her II she we're forty old maids. You may
stick pin tberel
! Della did not open her house To boarders
/ the mex season. She found enough to do
| IN looking after her money and spending IL;
! In replying TO letters from ndigsnt people,
/ who seemed TO increase alarmingly; ia re-
\ ceiving old friends, who suddenly found
/ time 10 remember her existenoe. And, sure
enough, among The rest appeared Steve
/ Langdon, end al the village said, 4 told
! you SOL
les not my fault that you aud are sin.
! gle yet, Della, be said.
We ate too old 70 think OF change ow
Steve.
Nonsen,ei It's never too late 10 mend
I'm not rich, Della, but I've enough Tor two
II sbontdnsi be eont.oted nat IA d.;,. -