Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-05-10

was aroused. One day l said to Nellie,
"You have seen the last of your hun
dred dollars, and we have all seen the
last of Hugh"
What do you mean?" she cried.
Nothing" L answered, only, that
Hugh steered the cleverest kind of a
'bunco game and most likely had it in
mind from the very first"
"Why, brother Johnl How can you
be so cruelP Hugh Everington is as
honest as daylight"
perhaps he is" L replied, only it
does not look so. Surely hope may
be proved mistaken
My theory was that the advertise
mept was a fiction, and that his excite
nlent upon its perusal, as manifested.
was fraudulent and intended to de-
ceive. Nothing more was said about
1t, yet 1 believed that Ruth thought as
/ did.
About that time, sister Jennie's hus
band met a frightfnl death, being
crushed under the ponderous wheels of
a locomotive that ne was repairing in
the shops at ID.
So Jennie was in due time back to
the Anchorage with her two bright
boys to live. "Come to live off you,
brother john" said she, the day she
came home.
"Not that, Jenniel" replied, 'but
back to your own again as before. and
thrice welcome, you, and your little
ones"
The second year of Everiugton's alb
sence was we'll along, even into its last
half, when Nellie fell i'll. All we
could do, and the help Of every
physician we could summon,
was ofno avail to check the advance Of
her disorder. She, herself, said that
her illness was mortal, and she had
penned message to Hugh, when he
should come to receive it, saying how
much and constantly we had thought
of him and wished for his return.
About the middle of one of her
worst afternoons, hack from the de-
po: brought Hugh up to our door.
His first inquiry was for Mrs. Sutton.
Informed of her dangerous illness he
Immediately sought her bedside, and
when apprised OF the fact that thre g
physicians had pronounced her case
hopeless, he pooh-pooh'd their deci-
sion, made disgnosis of her case, and
installing himself as physician and head
nurse. with May Sutton as assistant, he
started in to cure. And cure her he
did, to the establishment of the three
inefficient practitioners, who had pre-
ceded him. In less than two weeks she
was out in the broad front room again,
and in a month she was perfectly re-
stored.
"What school do you practice?"
ventured one day TO inquire.
81 cannot say" was his reply; 81 am
not regular. 1 exercise commo n
sense, have read medicine, know some
thing of the nature and origin of dis
eases; and when think l can accom-
plish a given thing, push the obstacles
ont of my way and go ahead"
Hugh was surprised when told that
Mrs. Sutton had received no money
! from him; he having sent her fifty
pounds Immediately upon his arrival in
England. His absence was protracted
by the death of an uncle, and his own
inheritance thereby of a rich barony.
Upon a more elevated site-not far from
the dear old house, which is still pre-
served, stands the newer Anchorage;
not palatial, but massive and substsn-
tial. And centrally located in the lit
tie valley, is as handsome a chapel as
any country district can boast of. 1t
is called "Everington Chapel" Hugh's
gift to the religious people of our sec
ton.
May sutton, NellIe's charming
daughter, is not with us; her graceful
ness charms the English circle in
which she moves-American wife of
a noble-hearted EnglIshmau. At least,
he was nobly self sacrificing enough to
shield fellow student from the con-
sequence of his crime, himself bearing
the imputation of it for years. My
three sisters, and myself, comfort each
other about the ruddy coal fires of our
new abode during the cold stormy
days of the winters, and in the sum-
mers We creep out to oversee the cul-
tiyation aud care of our berries.
Berryvale Anchorage Is a quiet har.
Dor; here we have lived and here we
shall die. Occasionally Hugh writes,
dear Hughl Of whom L was once so
foolishly suspicious
"Take good care of the Anchorage;
feed the poor that cone to it's doors
for me; aud when old age comes on,
there too, may l cast my honrcs in its
quiet placid waters"