Frostburg mining journal. [volume] (Frostburg, Md.) 1871-1913, 1892-10-22


Enwirk means well and it kind o seems
that Providence must ha' done it, III
chore round. and Myra is SO good we'll
make no trouble The sky had cleared
and bright moonlight WAS nov snin-
ing into the room. There was an
anxious, pleading look ON the old
man $ face. Suddenly he stretched out
his arms. "Oh, John, he cried.
"look at me as you used to do whei,
You was a lectle boy, when you put
your arms round my neck and kissed
me You was the purticst boy them
davs' He smiled at so.:e happy re-
memhrance. Myra stopped and kissed
him and again he smiled. "Ill do it,
she said to herself ''Brother John is :.
brute"
The next morning when her father
woke Myra was at his bedside
"Father" said Myra, I'm going hacI,
to Scranton to-day to find work. john
will not think so hard of us if We take
care of ourselves
The old man tried to demonstrate,
but she quieted his fears. "Soon itS /
get place l will send for you to come,
and we will live together
Her father smiled through hi, tears
"God bless you, my daughter, he
murmured, as she nestled her head on
his shoulders.
John gave vent to his approval OF the
proposition by hitching up the team
Immediately after breakfast to take her
to town. She found work in store,
and although the salary was barely
enough to support one comfortably,
she sent for her father a week later.
meet, and they lived happily together
in their humble apartments, At night
Mvla would read aloud until the Old
man grew sleepy, and then she would as
sist him to his bed, for he was more
feeble now than when lie took the long
walk to his sons house. John came to
see them at long interval, but his
father was made none the Happier by
these visits, for somehow, John always
managed. to suggest that ii was "fool-
ishness'' that lost the old place, and the
old man would pitifully answer: GLOW
was one to know, John-how was one
to know ?"
As rule, the people of Scranton
ro;d EttIa attention 70 Nvro and her
father Their poverty forced them to
live quiet, retired life. Myra had a
sIi%ht acquaintance with the son of her
c,nnloyer vouno Clarence Wilbur, .Jr.
He WAS ,bout to bo admitted into part.
ncrsbin with his father and people re-
n,r.Ioj him ne ono of fine comino men
OF Scranton, He belonged TO family
that boastnd a line of ancestors trace
able back into the misty past Clar-
ence. however, made little of it, and his
nIcbim assoriotions sometimes aroused
the romonstruDce of his aristocratic pa
rents. His answers were always based
ON his pl,ilosophic notion that "a mans
a man for ~ flat
ono ,lo,.ont Sunday afternoon while
cpio,inp stroll he PASSED the house
vHprr Nv,a and her father resided.
The window was omen to admit the re-
fr4,liuo, air Nyrn was rcoliu~ aloud
TO her fathrr one of those matcLIcss ro-
mo,,crs of Hovtbo,ne and tho cIoar. ex-
prossiye intonatiou of the words pene-
tratcd the outer world and caught
Clarcncc's attention. lie stopped and
listened
II swear" he said to himself after
she had finished, ..that girl is a fine
rr,I.r" He resolved TO learn some
thino of bcr circumstances. and so
called one dav TO see her father, osten
sihlv ON businoss but reallv to catch a
pHmpse Of the interior of their little
home Mvro was away but he found
the old man cheerful and Glad to talk.
The room was pIainly furnished but
very neat and ORDERLY arranged, A lit
tle book lease filled with choice reading,
a few simple pictures on the wall. here
and there a piece of bric-a-brac artistic
aIlv arranged, and a boouet of wild
flowers in the window, were about ALL
but if seemed homelike, and Clarence
was not avcrse to calling again .'when
Mvra wouId he at home" as the old
man expressed if in his earnest invita-
ton.
"Mvra said tbe old man. is a-poin'
to be a school-tcachcr, She is a power
fnI scholar alreodv and Won will always
find her studvin' when the works done.
She uses too much of the nicht for it
sometimes. it seems to me, but she has
sot her mind ont Mvry is only nv
adopted daupbtcr-J s'pose YOU didn't
know thatq"
Clarence looked a negative.