The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-09-27

upuxnsx ural but material. There was a
h1vy thump ON the hearth and the wood
Unhes Hew ont into the room. Some heavy
object had fallen down the chimney, an
etruck amongst the smouldering embers
Tha naxt instant q light blaze broke out,
burnt aptively for q minute or SO, and
than died down
ssLano sakes Il Jest makes me sick.
Must be q brick out of the chimney,
e,posA Hut what was that burned up So
4 didn't sound like brick, neither.
Ns,, Piossd S up thin tSin stisk and pofes
money-a w4cIe lot OF II she presently
snclaimed. "It was done up in paper,
and that's what burnt"
ssMoney, childs You're crazy. Whatever
would money be doin' In our old chin
aI3ut II is money" {" persisted Nellie; and
with that she raked out couple of ten
dollar gold pieces "oh, do see-what a
lot Of EN-" She continued raking out
gold and silver coins, and brushing away
the asheA There were scores of them
hundrsds OF them. "We're rich now,
vim, tomorrow and make him go away, T"
said the child, looking up smiling with
excitement and pleasure.
Nancy, her simple soul rent between
fear, curiosity, and half-incredulous joy,
got down on her knees on the hearth
"
pieces between her thumb and finger.
sits real true gold jest as sure's you're
olive." che murmured: sam the same
kind Of coin poor Matt used to like to
have about him. "Gold eagles don't fly
away n easy a other kinds" was what
he USE d to say. Well, il don't seem like
q c0uld be real, does 1t? 'Tis, though, all
the same. But don't know-msy be the
money ain't jestly ours, a'ter all. We
don't know where 1t come from, an ef
We was to use 1t, an then som 'un was to
sso%s sS along and say it was theirs, what
"Why, Nanny, who would keep mon
~ mp our chimney, II it wansn't ours?"
said Nellie, with better sense than gram
mar. She kept on raking treasure out OF
the emberB with untroubled enjoyment.
"Uncle Matt must have put 'em there,
and made 'em fall down just when we
wanted them
"Hark' cried Nancy.
A whispers sigh-s voice, filling their
ears, coming from they knew not where,
slowly uttering speech, and dying away
into silence.
"For you, Nance--fo you and her
6 Matt sends itSpsy the debt, and free
the land, and give me peace"
CHAPTER Ill
II was an October evening nine years
later; the woods had glowed in their red
and yellow splendor all day long, the sun
had set IN rivalry of glory, and now 1t
WAS getting 80 cool that few logs were
piled on the wide hearth, and a fire kim
died. The pitch-pine sticks began TO
cracikle and to ooze at the ends, the blue
smoke whirled upward In the huge
4raught OF the chimney, and Nancy and
Nellie, having cleared away the supper
things, were seated in q small and in q
big chair, side by side, face to the blaze.
Nellie's head leaned against Nancy's
substantial knee; her silky hair, which
ehowed some of the colors of the golden
Name at which she was gazing, or OF the
maple leaves which she had gathered a
great bunch of that afternoon, shone in
the fiickeriDg light with lovely radiance.
Nancy eat back in her chair with his
stout arms folded across her ample waet.
Never was there an ola maid who looked
the conventional type less than She She
was rosy, dimpled. plump and CHEEKY;
yet she was not only spinster of near
misfortune ell her life. IL is a marvel
what some folks car thrive oni
But Nancy had in her bosom the inno-
cent and kindly chlld's heart which
was born with her., she was as much a
child as ths little girl beside her. Trou-
Dies could draw tears from her readily
enough; but nothing could make her bit
ter or sullen. Her nature was of the sum-
mer quality sometimes reverting TO April.
but never contracting into winter. i'ru-
IL, she was not armed TO contend with
the srtiul and selfish world; yet the
world could not hurt her. Her vital spots
were beyond the worlds reach.
Being OF such make, she and Nellie
were fuil companions for each other.
Iney were pair OF children. Things
wnien 10 Others would have been foolish
and trivial, interested them, and made
the subject OF their confidential talks.
Each loved the sound OF the others voice
snd wst secure In the others sympathy.
AZ IA wonderful what q mutual compre-
pension love gives; the reason is perhaps
bscsuse II so simplifies and ffiuminstes the
ordinary confusion and obscurity of ideas.
Ne are ourselves the srtificers OF most OF
the riddles that perplex us.
"Nellie, you wouldn't have cared for
ne TO marry that old Lawyer Coryln.
would you, iovey7''
"Ughi,' said Nellie. prolonging q gut.
have 10. do you2n