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CHAPTER W..
"Who hath drusged my boys c1ps'
Who hath mixed my boys bread

CHAPTER W. 31|
"Who hath drngged my boy's c1ps s
Who hath mixed my boys bread
Returning shome Sidney feE3[
work OH the farm, but he was sQf
and preoccupied that dear An1<<
was all the time insisting that 1A
be SICK, and therefore needed
cine. ~
"Go over to see Glad rs. &
been talking to her about YOU
said. 3
So Sidney betook himself to tl18
who had solved many hard pa
for him before, who almost as 5iia
Aunt Lou had been, q mother
In thousand little ways, e36z
smoothed and glorified life,s pal
for the orphan boy. She WassoS
80 unseltish that the pretty
Sweet Gladys which the b0yaeH5
ing love had bestowed upon Her
not only appropriate but deserved
He found her III the East
rocking baby Frank to sleep.
himself Oh a fOotstool be told 4
all. He was not tired ofthe3 e.
work {; he cOul d not bear fer 3
slant that Gladys should sbeIe
wished to shirk labor, but he
an education so that he could 90
into the great wide world and ~
out for himself a name; a ehaI15
hammer from the angel metal az
life, a shining future. And Gla
Sweet Gladys, with her clear v3
and spiritual intuition, saw and
riated the bov's craving after
ideal, higher life, his yearning
and do something for himself and
fellowman, and she talked toB
hopefully and encouragingly rs
The Agricultural and Meci14yf
College this magnificent dream
two great men and one grand Wo
would he practical beneficent, res
before long. A way would OPEN u
"My dear" said Gladys, strokl1
hoy's bowed head, "yo have AL
good education, now, ifyou havef f}5
ed it up chiefly from neWspa
and magazines, but it must
stop here" z:5:s q
Sidney raised his bowed head
said with a smile, "Thank You a
you know Mr.. Bagley claims tobe a
eminently a self-educated man ahsi
told you your yard was polluted M
beautiful flowers" and he says
Beeks voice earritates his years.
They both laughed merrily
Gladys continued, II want YOU
stay for tea, and meet cousin R4
cia Darby, she is on the staff %
city daily"
Consin Patricia Darby, who alMA
s gned her name Pat Darby was
young woman with head that "a
tanned an opinion of its own. SheSA
not talked with the boy half an no!
when she said to Gladys, aside.
is far too clever to waste his sweets
on the desert air. to live and die ftlzf
scurity.n Then Gladys told herof4
boys almost hopeless aspfratiQ!
Miss Pat put her hands behind 4
aid began to pace the floor slol
while Shakespeare, the big yellow q
purred along at her side.
"My chief sent me up here to Wx
up the public institutions OF 4
county, and in getting up the neces!
ry information, I have come across
the Probate's office, the will OF sthel
DR.. De La Tour, the beneficent folff
er of Sans Souci. 1 learn that i
institution was run for half a ceistg
as an industrial school; but thatnbe
fifteen years ago, it was closed by \
wiseacres who controlled 1t, on 4
grounds that the industrial g
wouldn't work Tor the Child
wouldn't work, / don't know Whie
In short, that it was utterly imprae
cal. s n,
That is what's the matter ~
the South to-day, and Miss PatstaA
ell her foot imperiously. She WoJ'
number two----"We are too hfia
tin. What's the reason we don't ns
an Orphan Asylum such rs this was
Jones County? Where would Her
Stanley have been to day, if it had9
been fOrjust such an institution. w
every parish in England has q
founded and supported by the beqn
of some dead philanthropist. Atl
zen told me that the Jones Countys;
phans were either bound out or 81
died Off on the Roosevelt OrphaHs
at Linton, in the adjoining county
Then her magnificent eyes kind
with a sudden inspiration. II sH
the will myself. 1t says plainly
plicitly, beyond the shadow Of adon
that this fund is bequeathed for edo
ting, lodging, clothing and feed
twelve poor boys and twelve poorg
whose parents or who themselves hs
resided in Jones county not less:t u
six years and actually continue to-
side thercin---but orphan children
have the preference. Another &c
pause, "I do believe that boy CO.
have a lawyer serve mandamus,
whatever they call it, anyhow mol
on the trustees compelling them
show cause why this fund is "seA
fountain" to those for whom it {,
intended. The property amounts
thirty thousand dollars, the inter
on which is, or ought to be, three th
sand dollars annually. This we
allow each of the twenty-four bene1
aries, 10th boys and girls, one b,
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