The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1889-09-13

Diiford kept making excuses for not /.
sending money remittance from !
London was delayed, or something /
ike that l didn't suspect any thing, !
OF course. but supposed it would all |
come at once; he did finally pay up all |
nv salary, but didn't send money for
expenses after the second week. IL
went on this way for n month. when I
one day / got a letter from my class |
mate, Lilley Heynum m-she Was a
teacher then saying that her eacie, 1
the postmaster. had found Qua that
uy agent 'SEs.s crooked. and warning
me 10 get ost of his clutches IS soon
as possible l showed the setter to
larson, api he said that the girl wHs
a fool aIsd her uncle fraaSd- so :
didn' I answer the letter.
"a tey- days later l wenJ 10 the spic-
mic of MIR Graynor's SRRday-sch0oi,
and VIXEN / was there Jsrson's ; little
boy tUnbled out of bosis in The mid
die of the river, and Eshed hiIE out
just n time to save the little shaver
Oh larson was awfullF thankful, and
swtre that he'd never cease 80 love
me, and be grateful 40 me: lie got
,cICr that,
"a fow days aiterEard ne came To
Enc and said he was N a desperate fix;
= note OF his wa5 dae that = cry day
and he couldn't meet it owing to the
fact that some money he expected
from New York hadn't oeomo, and,
while he would have pieety of cash in
a few days, he was Absolutely broke
Just then. so he wanted to borrow
some money OF me TO- a week /
asked how much he neeEe ed. and he
said all l could spare ,vsd.dn't be too
much l had ali my salary on de-
post at the bank, and / gave him u
check for all | EEad, ab5;r one hundred
dollars. and tosak his upte for the sake
OF the Formally. A~uouple of days
aftcrward found hctiiad skipped the
town o-tcnsiely 10 go 10 Philadelphia
/ tcIegraphcs to Djitord asking for
my back pay only To hear that he had
gone TO Bostsa the day before and was
on a steamer for Queenstown ut that
time, WsIL thereI was-not a cent
in the w9r.d thirty-fve dollars
worth OF deb1s-no E=gy TO get home
j couldn't write a. my father for
money t. gez ont az the difficulty, be-
cause | ran AWAY ;gIS had never let
him know where ITwas-there / was
stumped-
We'll, told Mr- Graynor. God
bless him, sl1zi he isrd ms enough to
get home, and sale EhSt he trusted ne
for what 1 was indebted to him; in
fact he acted the good Samaritan To
me. and 1 respect Ais Christianity
more than any one eIse's in the world,
Il left PenGeId prstty sad boy and.
being ashamed to go home To my folks
| started for my grandfather intend
ing TO borrow some. money to pay my
debts, and ten my father that / got
cheated out OF my harry and not say
any thing abou1. the rest of the affair
When got to Springfield who do
you guess met in the depot?'
Your grandfather Z ventured.
'-Lilley Heynuml She said she was
q delegate TO q teacher convention
being held there. and ask I'd mo where
/ was going ] told her that / was on
business trip bun got tangled up in my
remarks, and she saw tLat | was in
trouble as quick as winki She
begged me TO tell aer all5ly troubles;
she said she was sLy friend and might
ie able TO DO something for me.
vas so discouraged that 1 told her
every thing. and even thai 1 was go
ing to my grandfatLsr's &c get some
money
After sympathizirg with me and
trying TO cheer me up little, she said
that she had some extra money which
she would like 10 be relieved of be-
fore she lost il, and offered ITO leud it
to me with or without Interest for any
lengsl Of time; she promised TO keep
the matter quiet, and said that her offer
would save ne the encbarrassTnent OF
asking my relatives foy money a;,d tell
ing my dismal story.
.eOf course / refused 10 take money
from ha-, but she was persistent and
AT last1 gave her my note. N ninety
days and ten per cent, for forty
dollars | paid my debts at Peufeld
ays.d went nome My father received
NE like the prodigal son. forgave me
fO- running away and gave pe a
cley<shiP iu his store at teE dollars
week. insteGd Of twenty and expeBse5i
Well as soon as 1 got settled, i
went TO see Alice Cassel. She re-
ceived me very coldly. saying that she
wished to have nothing to do with
one who had deserted his home and
treated his father 50 disgrasefully;
that her father had forbidden my com
ing TO the house. and that she had
another gentleman who was .nore
congenial To her She returned my
letters and tokens and said that she
wished to have the acquaintance dis
continued Well. that was my first
love affair, and ! am glad it ended
just "a il did. Don't ever commit
suicide because a girl rejects you-it
i always better for you in the end
though il is hard TO bear at the time;
you can always find a woman just as
good or better than the one who re-
ieeted you
Well. / felt heartbroken for little
while; but as was working very hard
1 soon forgot all about Alice,
and declared that l would have moth
ing more 10 do with the fairer sex
every one who gets jilted SAYS that
self-same thing and forgets il in less
than year afterward-isn't it so?"
nodded my conviction that he vas
correct. and he resumed.
..At the end of three months l repaid
Lilley Heynum and called several
times to show my gratitude for her
kindness, but after all cause for cali
ing was removed still continued to
call once a month, or oftener, until at
last had regular Tuesday night en-
gagement, and before long found my
self in love more deeply than ever. but
L was too poor TO pop the question and
had TO adore III silence =,
..Wheu i was twenty-one years ola