Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1894-04-07

for living, patiently and industri-
ously A very sunbeam OF a woman
she was, in spite OF her troubles. and
Sueie was amazed to find her sitting Oh
the i door steps sobbing like child
She rose to receive Mrs. Stacey's
message. aud promised to d, the
work, and then, in answer to Susie's
gentle, "Eou are in trouble, l am
afraid, her grief broke out in words
'I've no right to complain, miss,
she said, ''for the Lord y been very
good to us since poor Tim was
drownded, but indeed it's a chance
lost I'm frettinS for"
"A chance losts' said Susie, he.
voice still full of gentle sympathy.
: 'It's Nora, miss She's been deli
cate, miss, lyer since she was born,
and the air here is bad for her in
tirely. The docther saye her lungs is
wake, and it's bad cough she's got.
and we're too near the say here in
Rosedale. And me sister. who lives at
B., she's wrote she'll take Nora for
her own. an give her schooling and
not let her work till she's stronger,
She's not much Of her own, hasn
sister Mary; but she's no childer since
she put four in the church yard, and
she'll be good to Nora, an the child
Just diving here by inches, for she will
help me, an sloppin' in the washing 8
bad for her. She coughs that bad at
night, miss, and the doctor SAYS the
air in B. would be the maxim of her )"
"But, surely, you will send her. :"
said Susie.
"Ehere it is, miss, Mary, she can t
sind money out an out, and it costs
six dollars to go to B =. / was up
to Mrs. Stacey's, to AK the loan of it,
and work it out little at time on the
washin' but she told me she could not
spare it. An she rich! I'm thinkin'
miss, perhaps she'd be servin' the LORD
as well as savin' girls life, yoa may
say, instead of buyin' all this embroid
cred linen to show off at ST. Marks. ;
The words struck Susie like stab
Was it to serve the Lord or for hel
Il, ,$nI % Il
white cross to ST. Marks? Saving q
human life, The thought almost tool
! her breath.
"You can send Nora if you have tel
dollars?" she asked
"Yes, miss; but il might as we'll b.
& hundred. j can't get it.
Eyes, for | will give it to you on,
you can ask the Lord to bless m,
Easter Offering
And before the astonished woman
could reply, the shining gold piece la.
in her hand and Susie was speedin
| homewarl
"The Lord be good to her! Th
saints bless her bed - cried Mrs. Bvrnt
"An' she>t aching for her own brca
ana butter an trudging about in a
weatlefs to earn a dollar. -
.Yonc,eem surprised at something
N-S. Byrnes said quiet, .1eep voic
at her elbow, anu she looked up to Sc
,,ir Castleton standing beside her. :
came over 10 see i YOU could come II,
to the parsonage and help Mrs. Will
tomorrow. She has some extra worl
Or hand
YA SIR! I'll come, and be thank
ful to you. An | am surprised jus
,,azcd like" And out came the whol
story from the grateful woman S lips
ending with:
"And It's workin' she is as hard a
meself in her own way, while Mr.:
Stacey. that rollin IN money couldn
snare Jest the loan of it, for It's n
begging Id be.
Easter services were over, and Mr.
Stacey had invited Mr.. Castleton
dinner She had told No direct Ii
Int certainly had given the imp-essio
that the lovely embroidery upon Il
new linen WAS the work of Bessieis e.
gers. As they drove home, she asks
Mr Castleton sweetlv.
Don't think me inpersinent, b,
, vi.ich ot the offerings was Miss Ba