Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1894-02-23
VOL. 40.
ana now knew that she was really pure.

ana now knew that she was really pure.
innocent, stainless.
s'Ah!' I murmured. ''Of what use is
the money to me! To receive it thus
from your hands is the hardest of pun
ishments. Twill not have it! To receive
it from you who refused me so coldly,
from you who despise me with such hui
initiating gentleness! should consider
myself disgraced for life!''
What do you say? Disgraced be,
cause I return to you what belongs to
you? Because refuse to profit by the
unreasonable whiln Of an INVALID"
She retreated a few steps, and her ad
mirable beauty filled my heart with
alteration. ''Ah! why would you not
accept my love?" I cried. ''Why would
you let me have no part in your lifer'
81 was poor girl, treated with kind
ness and trusted I should have be-
trayed that kindness and trust in listen
ing to you"
would you have listened to me then
if you had been rich?'' I exclaimed.
She cast down her eyes and remained
a minute undecided. Then lifting her
lOlg GfGldSEltS SIG oct1o
Il think so::''
Ny excitement increased, words failed
me, and could only stammer:
But now-you cam
She motioned me to be silent. After a
few minutes of deep thought she said:
'.Today l think that have the right
to listen to you. My refusal or accept
ance depends now only upon my own in
clination."
approached and implored her:
'sAccept my life or refuse it!'
II will not refuse" she answered gen.
tly. And suddenly smiling sweetly she
said. with subtle feminine irony:
81 would never have refused it, for if
you fell quickly in love with me I, too,
was not slow in loving you
I caught Laure's hands and kissed
them humbly, but she gently drew them
away and begged me to remember the
presence of the dead, which, to tell the
truth, I had almost forgotten.
Thus / captured my INTERCHANGEABLE
nance.
Thought They Were Worth It.
Billings was a travelling man, carry
ing line Of handkerchiefs and neck
wear. Ee met rather attractive young
woman on one of his trips, and before
he realized how i'll it conported with
his duties he had married her.
Nature had never intended him for a
married man, and he was seldom at
home. even when his duties would have
permitted him. Finally he became ir-
regular in the matter of remittances,
and his wife, needing some pin money,
took down his route book and found
letter would reach him at Peru, Ind. So
she wrote him there, asking for $40. He
was in the Bearss House billiard room
when he read the letter. He had no $40
To spare. He needed all his money for
his own follies.
But the request annoyed him. He got
up, walked about the room for mo-
ment. and his eyes at length rested on a
deck Of cards, lying where some man
had completed a game of solitaire. The
top card on each pile was nine spot.
Billings looked at them a moment,
then picked up the four cards, inclosed
them in an envelope and sent it to his
wife. At Charlottesville he received an
other letter from her.. demanding in lin
dgnant terms what he meant by sending
her four mines. He sat down in the writ
ing room of the Robbins House and
wrote the following reply:
''You wanted $40. I sent you four
mines. Four mines are worth $40 any
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