Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1889-06-13
Family ~ in Politics Devoted Literature and General News
Nechansown Frederick County, Maryland Thursday June l3 1885,

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strolled off to his hotel, his solitary din
ner and bachelor apartments.
'Odd,' he thought, how much that
boy reminds me of some one, can't
think who it is. Some one who had just
such big blue eyes, at once shy and
frank, dropping most Of the time, but
candid and truthful when they did
meet your own. HIM; it is very vague
but somebody l once knew had Just
such eyes. Poor little chap! I'll give
him decent suit Of clothes, and pay
him enough to live on until his mother
gets we'll. 1t won't ruin me!
And considering that the speaker
counted his money by hundred Of thou
sands, it seemed likely it would not.
The little. eager lad who walked into
the rich lawyers Office the next day was
an improved edition Of the boot.black
Of the night before. He had on his
best suit, we'll worn, but whole, and
his linen was white, his hair nicely
brushed, and his boots shining.
Mother better?' asked Mr.. Mere
dith.
No, sir was the sal, quiet answer
she couldn't get oyer to the dispensary
this morning to have her arm dressed
She was so dizzy she had to lie down.
That's bad Suppose you tell me
where you live ?
NO. II Merriam Court, sir, back OF
-- street.
HIN! Well, I'll give you your first
errand.'
He wrote note directed it to CDR
James Turner added the address, and
gave it to the boy.
Am to wait for an answer, sir ?
No! Leave it, if the doctor is not at
home
Now, be thought, 4 shall know il
he is an imposter, at any rate. BY Jove.
he exclaimed aloud, its Agnes Well
den =
Then clients and friends came in, and
the business of the day commenced.--
But the boy was not forgotten. Errands
that were not too far away to tax his
strength were provided, hearty dinner
at restaurant was given him. and he
went home with steady engagement
at FIVE dollars a week promised him.
In that home a sad.eyed woman, in "A
shahby widows dress, her face lined
with pain and sorrow, but yet sweet,
tender face, had been all the weary day
living her life again. She saw herself a
child in her fathers pleasant home,
where there was never great wealth, but
every comfort and an atmosphere of
love around them all. She saw her.
self a young, pretty girl, with many
friends, and some lovers. One of these
was man older by fifteen years than
herself; grave and tender, but who
seemed in her girlish eyes too old and
solemn to think Of love. When her ia.
ther told her that George Meredith had
asked her to be his wife, she was
frightened. It seemed as if it would
destroy her youth, take all joyousness
from her life, to marry this stately, re.
served man. alread; a lawyer of stand
ing.
She refused him, meyer appreciating
the value of the heart that had been
taken captive by her brightness and
sweet eirlishness. How could she know
that 1t would have made the happiness
of the grave, lonely mans life to sur
round her with all that could keep
her as joyous and free as butterfly :
He left his old home after his love
dream faded, but he left pleasant mem
ories. Even after William Scott wooed
and won the woman he had lost, she
could not quite forget the grave man
who had loved her.
Sunny days Of welded happiness fol,
loved her happy girlhood. Children
came to bless her, and when her parents
died, her husband, sons and daughters
consoled her. She was past thirty yrs.
old when troubles came, thick, fast,
overwhelming. Two children died on
tho same day of a prevailing fever, and
before the month was over her husband
followed them to the grave. He had
been a clerk, on a moderate salary, and
the nest egg in bank was very small,
vet the widow looked at the little ones
left her and strove to face her future
bravely. 1t was the pltiful story to be
heard every day-irregular work, poor
pay, sickness, death! The removal
from country home to a crowded city,
in the hope of better work and wages,
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