Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1890-06-21

you, cause you've got to look after Brer
Nicholas"
The old negro stood watching her rs
she went along the lane. "Dat chile
alnt gwan live out half her days." he
muttered, with sorrowful shaking Of
his old head.
When Missy returned presently with
the promised supper, he declared that he
could not eat.
"Well, but you better" Missy insisted.
"You got to go up to town tomorrow.
know Aunt Evira Is goin' to send you"
"Dat cawfee do smell pow'ful encour-
agin', tubbe sho," he admitted, with a
slow smile, and soon found his appetite.
He had Just ended his meal, when Miss
Elvira stood in the cabin door, and the
old man rose stifIly to make his awkward
obeisance
"Sit down, Gilbert, you must be tired"
said Miss Elvira, graciously. "Winifrcd,
my dear, run on back TO the house; 1t is
too late for you to be out"
"What's the useT said Missy, with an
impatient shrug. III know all about II.
Daddy Gilbert had been TO look for Brer
Nicholas and Brer Nicholas amt there"
"Nicholas Is at Mrs. Herry's," said
Miss Elvira. wearily.
$50 Missy been tellin' me. Hukkom
you know, Missle.vireyY'
"Mrs. Herry was here today" she an
swered, flushing. "You must 60 up TO
town tomorrow, Gilbert. You need not
start SO very early, and I'll see you again
in the morning."
But the next morning old Gilbert was
ailing, and for several days thereafter
he was unable to leave his bed. Tom
Quash, who went cup TO town" three
times week for the mail, reported to
Glory-Ann that Mawse Nick was
"mighty SICK" then that he was little
better, and finally that he was pro-
nounced out of danger. A fortnight
later Miss Elvira added another hundred
to the sum she had already given old
Gilbert, and dispatched him on an en-
bassy to her nephew.
''rs s'prised at Missle-virey," unused
old Gilbert, ms he logged on his way,
with Nicholas trunk in tho OK cart.
"Iiit amt no mo- use n nothin' t all ter
gen dishyer money. Mawse Nick amt
gwan TEX hit. But l amt gwan say
nothin'; when Mawse Nick done refuse
hit, | gwan put hit way; come o. use
bom-bye."
II came to pass as Gilbert had fore
seen: Nicholas would none of his aunt's
! gift, and indeed the faithful old slave
had some difficulty in persuading him to
receive the trunk. Miss Elvira, how
ever, made no inquiry about the money;
! she had not expected thanks, nor any
kind of acknowledgment, and she pre-
ferred TO say nothing about it.
EN- hit amt fur me ter 60 ter her
'dout is axed," old Gilbert decided; and
very early tho next morning he buried
Miss Elvira's gold where mis- own savings
were hidden.
Some days later came the news that
| Nicholas had left Tallahassee, or rather
1t was understood that job Furnival had
taken his daughter and his son-in-law
away. 1t was old Gilbert who brought
this news; he had learned it through the
negroes belonging to the improvident
and despised Furnivals down the road
whose society he now cultivated, as one
means of keeping track OF Mawse
Nick
"Hit'sa fur way, very fur way fun
here, Missle-virey,' said he, sorrowfully.
Hits clean ter Tampa, yuther side o
Madison, de tells me-"
1t seemed quite as far to Miss Elvira
as it did to old Gilbert, and she wepi
abundantly when she heard of hel
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