Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1893-03-20

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mother?''
And I fell back in my chair, white
and cold, and I said, GA wandering
tramp left it here. Never your Rob,
my dear; never your Rob. He must
have been an imposter. I wouldn't
have turned away person really in
want! Oh! no, no; it's another pouch,
child; not that, or he stole it. A tall
fellow with blue eyes and yellow
brown hair; wounded, he said, and go
ing to his mother at Greenbank. Not
your Rob.
And Charlie stood staring at me
with clenched hands; and said he, at
was my Rob, it was my dear old Rob,
who saved my life, and you have
driven him out in such night as this,
mother. My mother to use Rob sol"
Course me, Charlie" said 7, course
me If you like; Pm afraid God viii.
Three times he came back, three times
asked only for a crust and place to
lie, and I drove him away. T, land
he lays on the road now. Oh! if /
had known; Oh? if I had known
And Charlie caught Up his hat. I'll
find him if he is alive,' said he sob
Rob! my dear friend"
And then-I never saw the girl in
such taking down went Drusilla on
her knees, as if she were saying her
prayers, and says she 'tThank God, [
dared to do It'll" And says she again
to me: ooh, aunt! I've been tremb-
ling with fright, not knowing what
you'd say to me. I took him in the
kitchen way. [ couldn't see him go
faint and hungry and wounded, and
put him in the spare chamber over
the parlor, and I've been SO frightened
all the while"
s'Lord bless you, Drusilla," says
Charlie, and "Amen," says 7.
And she, getting holder, went on:
"And took him up hot cakes and ap-
pie sauce and tea," says she, "and I
took him candle and hot brick for
his feet, and [ told him to eat and go
to bed in the best chamber, Aunt
Fairfax, with the Counterpart and all,
and I locked him in and put the key
in my pocket; and told him that he
should have one nights rest, and that
no one should turn him out unless
they walked over my dead body"
And Drusilla said it like an actress
in tradegy, and went off into hy-
sterics the moment the words were
out of her mouth. She had been ex-
pecting to be half murdered for doing
it, you know, and the girl was six
teen, and always before had minded
me as if I was her mother.
Never was any old sinner so happy
as I was that night, SO thankful to the
good Lord; and it would have done
your heart good il you had gone to
see the two meet in the morning
Charlie and his friend Rob. And
Charlie, who had got on SO well, who
helped Rob into business. And he
got over his wounds at last, and to-
day in a week is going to marry Dru-
silla.
cpd give you anything I have"
said I, land I won't refuse you even
Drusilla,'' when he asked me, telling
me that he had loved her ever since
she was so kind to him on the night |
have told you Of.
And Charlie is to stand up with him,
and I am to give Drusilla away, and
Rob's sister from Greenbank is to be
bridesmaid, and L have a guess that
some day Charlie will bring her home
to me in Drusilla's place.
don't drive beggars from the door
now as [ used to, and no doubt Pm
often imposed upon; but this is what
I say, "Better be imposed upon al
ways than be cruel to one who needs
your helpn And I've read my Bible
better of late, and I know who says,
Given as you have done it unto the
least of these, ye have done it unto
me-"
Talks cheap, but when it's backed up by a
ME dos of q hard cash f "A financial