Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-07-01

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Hers is a'tetter."
hrn it, aud ha' DONE" said Sailo
Natr IT'S from some land shark
Bad the litter"
I sm,6), or msyhsp 20 years of age
Sly, mist abe. Yes; sure and certain
o. Yet fever letter in all my days be
foe"
Now, which is very singular, not the
! least suspicion was in our minds as to the
writer of ne letter.
rs it, 1 asked, from cousin or q
brOther?'
"Cousi?" he repeated, with the shadow
Of a smil across his stiff lips. why,
never mai a father or a mother, to say
nothing { a brother or cousin. When !
first remember anything was running in
the street with other boys. We stole our
breakfast We stole our dinner, and we
stole our upper. Where are they all now,
thnse lite rOgues and piGkpcckets, my
companies? Hanged, doubt not. What
bu4 hanging can have come to them? But
rs for me, by the blessing OF the Lord, /
wSS enliStd in the Fourteenth Line, and
after few hundreds taken mostly by three
dozen dOss, which now are neither here
nor there ud are the making OF lad,
wss aOggti into coed colder, and 80 rose
as was du to merit. A hearty three dozen,
now and ten, laid on with will in the
cool OF thenorniug, works misacles. Not
such a regiment IN the service AZ the Four
tenth. AID WHY? BsCa1Sa, the 2ale"Nl
| knew q au5y anaetd 10 without fear or
favor md the men were properly trOunced.
Good onrades all, and brave boys. And
vbsr are they? Dead, take IL; beggATs,
some fallen in action, some; broke, some;
! IN comfortable beIthS, like me, some. II
all we're living, Who wOuld there be to
sandIne a letter, rseing there wasn't y man
in al the regimen who could writer
8 -ange that nH one OF us even then
guessed the truth.
was q great lettr, thick and carefully
sealed, addressed to >Fugleman Furlong,
az LA room in the Csstle OF Warkworth,
Northumberland, En,laud" 1t came
| from fesGign parts, suqhe paper was not
only stunned, but had SPURIOUS fragrance
/ broke the seal and re open the COW
ering OF the letter. Win was another
:! racket. %, heavens! ! was addressed
70 "Drusilia HetheringtN, care OF the
I furlemaa, 20 be forwarded;ithout delay.
Hsste-post haste"
And then l knew withOt waiting to
open the letter that Il woulo1e from none
other than Ralph. 1t must btrom Ralph.
After all these yeats, we wereD hear once
more from Ralph. stood palNnd tremb-
ling, nor Gould for some mohnts even
speak. 1t last | said;
"Fuglenau-Nan-this letter address.
ed to mo. IL Is, verify belle, from
} Ralph Empletou. Wait httle,Shile
read it.. :,
"Rsad tread it! cried the old,an.
Could I-ah! merciful heaven-uld
ever forget the rapture, the satisfied earn
ing, the blissiul content, the graluie,
with which read that sweet and pr,ous
letter? They waited patiently; eyelthe
rnta and coarso old woman RETAINED IN
r srsech while | read psge after page. ley
said nothing though they saw the teal Vi
! happiness
i After seven long years my Ralph "
talking t. me as he used to talk. l Knit
Q his voice recognized his old imperio
/ way, l SAW that he had not changed.
o it he wou,deyer change!
If When hi finished and dried my tea
D. they begged ne to read bis letter to ther
'. "MY rSNg, pEAR GIRL told the
n that cOi.d not, indeed, read all, but tn
Id | would Isad them what l could; and th
lg was the beautiful BEGINNING, in order tn
9f | should SuOr at tie outset, so Thought
I'd he was, snd In fear OF my being auxio
ry on the point, that h loved me still, ii
IN had never Cgotteu M. my dear, dc
as girl--It J. nov six yeas since l babe "
he farewell ,, Jour garden gate and stsrtt
90 upon my journey 10 LOnion. Your faith
lat has doub dea told ycu low i present,
ed myself abb With what kiltness he receiy,
1T, me. | an ys-; sure that yau have not fC
he gotten me AMI hope that ron will rejOi
ly, to hear Of nv God fortune.' Hope, i
mt deed! OOUld ne not be sure II have
doubt, q 50, lat he hah informed you
The the strauge god forum which befell u
nat after he kft N st the Est India company
ew house, Of who / told liza by letter 81
md special messenger, to whm / gave, to i
les sure speedy an safe dehvry, one shilling
nit. But it soU appear thu this mssssng
ere broke b w, and tok The shilling, b,
uld did not hc ia onilon theft, wi
ded deserve &c I ranged, k,many suoth,
SIS no NOR ..cks than hmslE. Oa! VIII
she punishment to great Il his breach
r of trust, small asst seemed Zee, now VIII
ID a . world OF trOu,le was easel by that Ii
tie theft Twas trulyNy pecial prov
and denee that, vile Mr.. SvGtop tslkG
my with me, The seat captain Who won tt
ian, Battle Of Pas, should ", overheal
uu- Whist passed. When was ldlen 20 N
she ways for . fOOlih boy (beeaSe / did n
had wish to be mter) and wssshs time 1
longer, WIS nuch cast doHhor now
did began to ftar tat must, hteSa most
be- mankind, take That was asSsnl Ito me I
the providence rathr than what snId ik
,self And l could plainly see that ne remsi
J for eel only one ehces for me; nsheh l mu
.rror return to the he'd rule of myeoin wi
self. would keep me 8 a ploWboy 81 10 as
he could, or ! mus betake me to lhesk
and sweeping out sld serving sloR Ar
till vet, what shop But who wouh SlC
|, bis ms? Therefore hung my head ,nd ot
irresOlute withe1t the eompanyt As
hing Now presently Se gentleman WHOM \
his seen within cam forth with anotheiof
ason brave IN sesrit. He saw me san
TX nj sadly beside tA posts, and inspied
nsn that noble gensosity which has d.