Mower County transcript., 1892-05-25

all that she could sparean except Just
enough to pay for y poor place to live in
and poorer fare. She never knew where
be spent the long nights; she only saw
him creep back to his garret in the early
morning destitute and half alive.
But promised you to talk as short
as ! could. ] must tell you how I found
them, The poor gentle folks that / take
care Of generally know something Of
ornamental work that they learned to do
for play when they were better off. i
set them at doing what they can do best
and sell it for them. There is always
some one among my family can draw.
1T was by going to q print shop with
drawings to sell that l found my dear
lass. She had painted me and sold the
picture to the dealer for bread. I
wouldn't have noticed the picture except
for the dwarf in it, and now I wouldn't
be finished man for the world. Yes,
there ! was, Dwarf George, picking
daisies on the edge of coal pit; there
was, just as used to look, with the coal
dust ground into me, trying to make
friends with the fresh, innocent daisies
in the sunshine.
'By that picture I found them just in
time. When l got to their garret Ellen
was lying sick, i'll in body and tired and
sorrowed out. Their money was all
gone, for Gentleman Hugh had been
robbed Of his last the night before. l
brought my dear child and her father
here. What had was theirs.
"As soon as her father was safe with
me, his old friend, she got we'll. AS soon
as his daughter was out of the way of
harm and want, and the old gentleman
had nothing to be crazy about and moth
ing to run away from, he stopped dead.
He fell into a palsy.
"There he is now up stairs. Ellen
chose the upper room, where they could
look over the housetops and of clear
days see the Surrey hills. I've got some
skill in my fingers for mending broken
men, but Hugh Clitheroe can't be
mended. It's as we'll for him that he
can't. He's been off track too long ever
to run steady in this world. But he has
come to himself and sees things clearer
at last He lies there contented and
patient, waiting for his end. He sees
his daughter, who has gone with him
through thick and thin, by his side, and
knows she will love him closer every
day. And he knows that his old mate
Dwarf George, is down here in the base
ment, strong enough to keep all up and
all together"
"Let me be the one, Mr.. Padiham,"
said l, ito ask the honor of shaking
hands with you. think better of the
world for your sake"
Young man." said he with his clear,
frank voice, "a noble woman like my
Ellen betters every true man. There
strikes nine. A pleasant church clock
that! I gave it to 'em. Now you're we'll
tired of my talk, I dare say. Come,
Ellen will have all she has missed when
she sees you and your friend. Many
times she has told me of that ride Of
yours Many times she has cried, as a
woman only cries for one loss, when she
told me bow day after day she waited to
hear from you and had never heard"
''She wrote?' -.,...:. --.-.s4- -- 81. :
Repeatedly"
1--WE never heard,
"Her father took her letters from her
to post"
"And kept them or destroyed them fo,
some crazy suspicion" 3
"She dreaded you might have been
chased and cut off by the Mormons.
She would not believe that you had for
gotten her."
''Forgotten! Come, I'll follow YOU"