The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1890-10-29


prove to be the repayment of the nu-
merous depositors of the old Ridgefeld
Savings bank, the Incidental collapse OF
which was one of the most painful feat
ures of the disaster. We may easily
imagine the elation Of the humble class
of persons whose little all was swept
away on that occasion to find their hard
dollars restored to them. Many, no
doubt, will find themselves raised from
poverty and distress to comparative af
huence.
when we consider the great lapse Of
time, the absence of any legal response
bility on the part of the giver, and the
vastness of the sum, a step of this kind
cannot but arouse our warmest admira-
ton. No completed evil can ever be
wholly repaired, it is true; but rarely
can there have been so near an approach
to entire reparation as that we chronicle
today. The proceeding will no doubt
seem quixotic to that interesting class Of
our fellow citizens who have betaken
themselves just across the northern from
tier and bid fair by their numbers and
wealth to found there new aristocracy
based upon spoliation like that Of me-
aiRval barons, but we are free to confess
that, in Our view, no more generous &C
ton, and none more calculated to have
an invigorating effect upon too lax nc
tons of commercial morality, has been
performed in our times"
The day after this there arrived for
Walter, through his banker, note from
Amy, saying:
"Was it you, then? 1t seems too in
credible Will you not come, if only for
a moment, to let me thank. you for your
great kindness?'
Then finally Walter went to the Bella
| Vista flats, near the park The Bella
Vista had on small scale many Of the
external adornments Of more costly and
ambitious flats, with none of their con-
veniences It's rooms were small and
many of them dark, the Colebrooks were
high indeed i'll the air. and there was no
elevator. Their rooms, too, showed some
| disorder.
do not look at anything" protested
| Amy. eve are moving already. We
have danced, wept and prayed with JOY
and gratitude over our good fortune, and
are getting ready to reap the benefit Of
| it without an instant's further loss of
time"
| Don Walter met her mother, and her
| younger sisters and an older one also,
with all Of whom he was we'll pleased,
while they were inclined to look upon
him as if he were god but very thinly
disguised, instead Of a common mortal.
He met, too, her friend Emily Winches-
ter, the Dear Emily" Of the letters from
Mexico, and the one who had charged
herself with re-1nailing his letters when
he had pretended to be in New York
She also was rather pretty in her dark
type, forming a considerable contrast to
that Of Amy She went away very
shortly, leaving behind for Amy an ever
so-slightly meaning smile, at which the
latter blushed very deeply, though there
was no chance that Walter could have
seen it.
He found it little difficult to conceive
of Amy apart from the bloom, the fra
GRANGE, the stately terraces and FLASHING
fountains Of Las Delicias, with which
she seemed to be thoroughly identified;
still, there was q new charm Of domes-
ITCHY about her in these surroundings.
What delight it is to me to see you
again. he exclaimed, with unavoidable
enthusiasm, and taking her hand warm
ly. viii you let me tell you how beau
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