The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-03-17
WON HIS HEART.
How a Little Child Fulfilled It's
Mission Of Love.
nrat III, said Inrrs

BogSS was u WltnereG-up, little, Ola
Yankee, who had made his fortune and
was living in little house ON little
SIDE street in little village in New
I,pgIend. Boggs was something of a
reeuse almost hermit. His house,
keeper was crusty old woman of un-
certain age, who furnished him his
only companionship. He sought no
other For old 3oggs had soured on
the world, to use q somewhat slangy
phrase.
70 30 back a matter of five years or
50: The time had been when the old
man had less of acerbity in his nature
when he was not 50 much of a re-
ciuse as he now was.
His wife was living then-hfs daugh.
Ter, too, was. at home. And Boggs
thought much of the one. but more of
the other. His heart was bound up in
the girl, with her laughing blue eyes
golden hair and sunny face. He had
planned great future for her, for the
old man cared more, if possible, for his
daughter than he did for his dollars,
and he determined that regardless of
all expense his girl should become,
lady, dress like d lady and marry like
a lady should. Boggs, of humble par
cntage himself himself hard toiling
man all his Undetermined that his
daughter should become an aristocrat
And so he did not hesitate To pay over
large sums to Nine. Emile, of New
York, TO whose fashionable boarding
school Miss Lucy was sent to acquire a
'fust-class edication,' as the old man
proudly referred to it,
SO that it can readily be seen that
when Miss Lucy returned from the
:. school with diploma which duly set
f9Ith all her requirements, 1t was a
sore blow to the old man that she
should immediately fall in love with a
pcnniless young artist, who had strayed
oyer from Gotham to sketch some of
The glorious scenery about Dudleyboro-
But she did. And what is more to the
point she married him, too. in spite of
her fathers stern demands and her
mothers fearful protests. 1T was se-
crct marriage, and when the young
couple appeared before the old man it
was with the full expectation of his
re,enting and bestowing upon them his
full forgiveness. But no such thing
occurred.
"You have disobeyed my commands"
he said;. ''now shift for yourself, girl.
never want 10 see or hear from You
again. Begone!" And there. was some
thing like curse on his lip, as he
turned from the young bride and her
husband.
1t was very. dreadful, of course. Lucy
:, hal read of such things before in
stories, which seemed very improbable,
but il never occurred to her that her
father would treat her, Lucy Boggs-
or. rather, now Mrs. Lucy Boggs Chan
ler-in any such manner, But right
There she was mistaken. tadf
And 50 Mr. and Mrs. CHAMBER re
turned to Gotham and art and rather
precarious existence. Her letters to
her father were unanswered; after
awhile they were returned TO her. ne
The old man evidently meant
what he said. The death Of Mrs.
Boggs a year or so later didn't tend to
soften his heart; if possible, it became
flintier than before.
This was the situation that frosty
December evening when Boggs ejacu-
lated: "Drat it,
Read that he said, as he tossed a
letter over to the old housekeeper The
Old mans tones were a trifie softer
than usual, for all he tried to appear
stern and hard-hearted about it. The
news was q terrible blow, but the old
man determined not to betray the fact.
MISSY on us!n CALCULATED the old
woman Lucy and her husband both
dead. and their two-year-old child an
: orphing? And we've got to take IT or
tn be sent to the asylum. Well, we'll.
Yes" said old Boggs, 'and sup
pose well have to take the young 'un,.
although how we can take care of II in
this house is more than l know"
Night get nuss-gal?" suggested
the old woman,
We'll, don't know about that, re-
turned old Boggs .sMebbe so, mebbe
so;we'll see He was wondering wheth-
ef this two-year-old baby looked any
z thing like Lucy did when she was
hat age
The child came, apretty, fair-haired
thing, for all the world small pock-
ct edition of its mother, and with the
little one young girl, who had been
sent along to take care of the diminus
tive traveller on the journey from New
York This young woman seemed
bursting with, some secret, which
could, it. appeared be repressed only
BY the most prodigious effort. Bnt In
The main she proved satisfactory, and
her valuable services were retained for
The stipend OF one dollar aweck and
found which was source of some
jealousy on tho part of the old mouse
keeper, whose income was but trifie
more
twas a very speedy conquest that
Of the baby over old Roggs. At first
he affected not to notice it. but he
soon got over that Gradually the
child crept into his old heart until af.