Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-06-23

4 ~" "H HH aulN'tuE utitCltNt, buA
learned, 10 his modification, that her
lhsensibility 10 him was not due to a
husband or sweetheart; 80 he tried to
console himself by staring more often
siyely than ever at the shop-girls who
would return his glaAces. As for
susan, she continued TO go every
morning TO the box-factory, carrying
in one hand book and a small pack
/ age of luncheon.
A time finally came when a good
business offer took Eighman westward,
where he was so successful that lie be-
came partner. Ills old associates
heard Of his good fortune, and also
that he was still unmarried, several
fine young women having refused him
in spite of his satisfactory financial
standing. They were none the less
glad 10 see him, though, when he
srolled into the old place ten years
later, and, after chatting an hour or
two, lounged to his old place at the
window.
"lhe same sad dog, eh?" said one of
men, nudging Eighman's side; "and
the same handsome fellow
The visitor accepted both remarks as
complimentary, gazed through the
window with the air of a conqueror
at the scene of former triumphs, and
said, as the homcward- process
sion passed:
Different crowd. Same style as of
old, but different faces"
"Not all of them, Mr.. Eighman,"
said Jerry. now man and a sales
man. "Ips about time for-there she
is now-see ?-Susanl"
Eighman frowned, yet stared. Ger
iainly it was the same girl, looking a
little older, perhaps, but with no
change of expression. and apparently
with the same book in her hand as of
old.
Tho visitor left the store abruptly;
he seal ~ knew why, except that he
wanted ~ alone with his thoughts.
He was now a prosperous business
man. He had gone steadily upward
until Today there were bank presidents
and other prominent business men who
we're glad to know him. Meanwhile,
Susan had apparently been going
daily for years TO her common, poor
y paid work, and remained modest
aad unconscious, although stared at
oliensiyely by thousands of men, of
who'n he had been one of the earliest
-. most persistent
His pride was so hurt with refec-
tons that he tried to comfort it with
liquor; but the effort failed. He neg
lected the business which had brought
him TO the city, and gave himself up
to his conscience, which male a mis-
cradle week for him. He wanted to
confess to some one; he tried heaven;
yet something still seemed necessary.
Again he became an amateur detective
and succeeded finally in being intro
duced to Susan, who remembered his
face and inverted her own.
"Please don't" said Eighman.
''lvc sought you ont to make confess
sion and reparation. | saw you a
week ago, for the tlrst time in ten
years-saw You just where | used to.
| was u brute, but you have shown
me myself. am changed-entireIy
and forever-and | owe it all to you.
am rich; | want to give you all
have, and my life besides, You may
wait as long as You like before decid-
ing-wait until you are satisfied that
all have said is true. Pll be as pa
tient in waiting as you have been at
work-you noblest, grandest woman
l ever ssw!'
Naturally, he had to wait some
time, for Susau's astonishment was
too great to subsidc easily; but one
day the salcsmen at the "Glass of
Fashion" were almost paralyzed by
receiving wedding-eerds on which
Eighman had pencI ed, under the
brides name, the single word: "Su-
san."-[New York Stotiettes.