Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1888-11-23
sHFPHERDsTOWN W. VA, FRIDAY NOVEMBER %, 1888.

III try my very best; indeed | will, "
she faltered. "For-I don't mind tell
ing you now-I haven't got a single
subscription, and | was so discour-
agedr'
And so Miss Amy Archdale walked
off with a red-tape-tied parcel of pa
per under her shawl.
If she does them well and prompt
ly," said Mr.. Perkins, in a sort of men
tai soliloquy, there's no reason why
| can't let her have some work. II
she doesn't, it won't be the first case
of female swindling in New York But
! she has a pretty, innocent little face,
too. Hang it, I've half mind TO go
around to her address on the sly and
see if she is really a deserving object
of-charity, | was going to say. But
/ it isn't. She wants work, not aims.
| There's always somebody wanting in
this great chattel'ing bedlam of city
of ours" added Mr. Perkins, irately,
as he drove off two match boys, an
apple girl. and vender of pins aud
shoestrings from his doorstep.
| Mr.. Perkins followed us his crotchet
and walked up to 6 Meassey Street
| about dusk that self-same evening,
needless of snow and sleet.
Does lady named Archdale live
here?' he asked in the grocery which
occupied the first floor.
"Yes, sir, she does" the grocer's
wife interrupted, pushing herself be-
fore her husband. and a nice, hard
working young lady she is as ever
! breathed the breath of life, and pays
her rent regular every Saturday night
if she has to live on a cup of cold wa
ter and crust. And if she's got any
rich relations
You mistake my purpose, said Mr..
Perkins, coldly. II am no rich rela-
tion-to any one"
Yet the woman's testimony, coarse
and rudely given as it was, uncon-
sciously Influenced him in Amy Arch
! dale's favor.
She brought the folios next day.
neat, legible, and without blot or
erasure-and Mr. Perkins gave her
some more work.
You needn't bring it. said he. Il
I have business that way, and I'll
call for it myself"
We haven't seen your Uncle Elisha
lately, dear, said Mrs. Molyneux Mar
tin TO her eldest daughter Kate
must work "a pen wiper for him and
you must embroider him a pair of
slippers. 1t won't do to let him lose
| sight of his nearest relatives.
Ma, said Miss Katharine, Its
pity you discouraged Miss Archdales so
suddenly. because she was so handy at
fancy work"
And besides" added Edith Rosa
belle, lit really and truly wasn't her
| fault because Walter chose TO make
eyes at her.
Don use such vulgar expressions,
nv dear said the mamma. 'She
was pert, bold-faced thing, and she
would have eloped with your dear
! brother if she had remained in the
house another week. And | told her
so, pretty plainly, too. What's that?
The postman? Give me the letters at
once, Edith Rosabelle!'
Somebody has sent us wedding
cards. cried the youngest hope Of the
family of Molyneux Martin. open
it, mamma, quick, and let us see who
they are from"
Mrs. MolyneuX Martin hastily tore
open the envelope. and giving one
glance at its contents fell backward
with hysterical scream
Elisha Perkins, she shrieked
'Girls. it's your uncle! Alas, my poor,
disinherited pets
For Mrs. MolyneuX Martin had edu
Gated her daughters in the full belief
| that each and every one Of them was
to be an he1ress in the right of Uncle
Elisha Perkins money
But, mamma, who's the bride
Who has he married? You don't tell
us the name persisted Katharine,
who was endowed with goOdly spice
of Mother Ewes bequest.
II don't know! don tcare screamed
Mrs Molyneux Martin. tapping the
soles of her slippered feet on the car
pet in a way that threatened yet
more violent attack of Mysteries.
Pick up the cards, Kathie, and
look, urged Edith Rosabele.
"Amy Archdale," she read out loud.
Why, ma, its the governess you dis
charged. It's our Miss Archdale."
''The old foolr' shrieked Mrs Molly
neux Martin. ITO go and marry a girl
young enough to be his grand-daugh
ter. Well, that caps the climax
You forget, ma" said Edith Rosa
belle, Uncle Elisha's only two years
older than you are. I've heard you
| say so lots Of times"
Hold your tongue, you ungrateful
and undutiful daughter" calculated
Mrs. Molyneux Martin. TN never
speak to him again.
But she did. Sober second thought
convinced her that it was better to
submit to the inevitable, and she was
one of the first 10 call on Mr. and Mrs.
Elisha Perkins in the elegant brown
stone house that the lawyer had