The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1892-04-08

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NI\NW NT1T&r the street with the
NCNNNn EjJNIh strangest feeling he
CSSSS$Yll MZIJLH had ever had in his
ts$-SSSaltE3<z ~ life. He wondered
US&Z1 NFyS~ il men with large
eI>52IyHRS VA sums of money IN
GICIIIjEaN IVA their pockets felt 10
(//J(DIsA Nv VA he did
(VINNvl1N A sharp electric
'C)N0S light flashed upon "a
jewelers. d Up n y.
With a sort Of glow, Roper felt that he
might 20 into that shop and buy any
one Of the differing things he pleased.
Then he laughed. Imagine missus with
that diamond star on her calico breast !
Yet it. need not be u cll'cp breast.
But no. he decided, mi,suS would do
without diamonds and II silk dress. For
how could he tell her about the money!
A hot feeling surgcd up into his face.
But wasn't the money hisI
lie could reason ns well as any walk
ing delegate he had ever heard, and his
reasoning told him tho thousand dol
lars in his pocket belonged to him.
IIa Int he worked faithfully for Boyd 81
Co. for twenty years? and hadn't old
Boyd said ten years back that Roper
should be remembered in his will to the
tune Of "A thousand dollarsl For why2
Well, young Tom had come down to the
wharf the day old Boyd said that, and
fallen overheard and sunk twice.
"A thousand to the man who saves
him. cried old Boyd, like Il ghost.
But l;upCI was already in the water,
diving under boat, and had the boy on
terra tirma IN tive minutes, miraculously
escaping the craft that threatened to
suck both of them under. old Boyd
luu"hrd then, ana SAID the duckin :
served Tom right, and would teach him
To behave himself next time, and-Oh
ch'-thc reward! Well, he would re
member Rnpcr to the amount in his will
and now everybody get to work.
Roper huL always counted on the
thousand dollars, and il made mssus
proud, and Mclia and Mary Edith sort of
heircsscs. Old Boyd died II month ago,
and mlssus aud the girls and May
funeral cortc4c quite aS though they
were relations, and Roper had got de-
cent suit of black from Isaac Blum,
round the corner, and trcmblcd every
day when he went down to the ware
house
1rcmhlcd for nothing, for when old
B"yd's will Was opened it was found that
everything went I" charity, even Tom
en-, Cul oil with II few dollars.
II VA, Narl on Roicr, lm Mother
Jones, ~ thr lower IA, nal 1t ON mls5Ils
nnd tan&iri 81 the stairs about people
VIII" rNp"rt" money and did not get IT.
M's.u, and Mcim and Mary l. lith were
rather cool too; aGd missus tuI him in
prlNnl" now muCh III debit they were, and
told IT with n sort ol satisfaction.
Roper could not forgive old Boyd. 1t
was not that he wanted to be paid for
saving the lite of rom-pcrish the
thought: Bat the promise had been
gwen, aud hc had believed his old en-
ploycr.
And worse had come; for only last
week Badger, representing CO., had in
formed him tha, sixteen dollars II week
for porter was prrpostcrous, and
that hereafter it would be twelve, and
the place for ten.
Roper hrnrdcd over it; could not eat
,"uid n"t sleep. AMI now here he had
the thousand dollars in his poc\ct. .,
coul>" II VA, hi~ il old Boyd hal madr
! h'N VIII That unH ten year, ago there wa>
/ mol the sEaIoN ul doubt but that ,
! Thousand dollars would have been he
! pu"1lh"d 1" the mnn vino at the peril n
! ms "Wn lilc nal saved that of Tom
! lfat the will had not been made ten
IcnH ago was 10 fault Of Ropci'S, it was
o'u B"yds fault. No. il was Tom's
'ault Tom, the scarc. Grace, VINO ha,l
nearly ruined his father. and whose i'll
DONG hat sourci the old man against
i'c w"f!i But, any way YOU could fix
IT, II WAS no iault ol Ropvr'S. What was
u public cirriry Dii hr not need il
a. much IL a church fund \ church
'und II would - toward building "A
na.rlIlCcnt temple into winch tn" poor
ani lost would never iarc To look, Slil
Roper. Queer that handsomely dressed
ll"h people >h"uli go 80 Il beautiful room
"r"" week, aud hcer about lost slccp
an6 sort of thing, ori feel good ard
sat" II was No c''trity to .ravr money
i"r such things, and even the walking
delegate couldn't huvr seen that quicker
than he did. There was rom HrvA cut
oil with dollar or two. Where wa.
the charity III that To,u wculd 90 t.
III" old boy faster ihnn ever now,
and all the time his fathers
money would go towards keeping
up u handsome church. Ton rai looked
very rocky to-day when he came down Ia
the wharf. Tom would only be clerk
There till the cnl Of the month, then he
would 20 West, and Badger would be
clad to shake him. Tom had looked
queer when he spoke To Roper thi> even
"r@, aud kept him till all the rest ha
cone, and CDmmiscratCd him ON having
his wage, cut down.
'And yon weren't even icn".nborr.
IN the will, laughed Ton. II wl>."
Roper broke from th" ynu" !cM,. IT
nc door, and made for mom". when
il" reached tho corner, he pulio l,in.,cl;
Together; he hal done something hc I'M /
not done IN many ycars-hc had LEI, tn"
rpusc to be locke | up by som" on" else.