The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-09-20
AYERS
THE ONLY GOLD MEDAL
WSARSARARILLA
MAKES THE WEAK STRONG

L Win OH fashioned courtesy. nut IN
little domestic trouble must be my IN
cuse. Those fellows have pumped lea
/ into me till I've been trihe thrus
OFT my balance. Thanks! If yo
would assist me ON To the floor agai
and bring the corner Of that 10
under my head. :"
He rested a minute to collect hi
thoughts, and then went ON a fresh.
Now, Mr.. I've forgotten you
name circumstances compel me Ia asl
you an intense favor. I've had goo,
comrades, and I've had stanch friends
but some were shot in the war, AM
some have died since, and the rest ar
scattered | know not where Their
ISM soul within riding distance
except Tar Heeiers, and I'd almost "A
soon trust my little girl to a nigge
as one of them.
Your daughter is it that your
speaking about?"
That's so. | haven't mentioned
her before don't let her have am
truck with the lot down here, anC
didn't intend to until the place wa
ready to receive her rs she should b,
received as my mother was received
WIN Hilt tdiut upon tIlt ESTATE rs
sir, that's what I've been toiling anC
shaving for all these years, barely
spending 81 in cash except few cents
an acre for taxes; holding ON to tho
land with miscr's grip, while the
forest stamped the snake fences out OF
sight brewing a vile spirit for the
mountainous around. No, sir, I've
not sold moonlight whiskey because
| liked it, or Rugged my balance at
the bank merely to put myself back on
the ancestral dunghill. I've done my
growing. But, sir, when my little girl
was born in Richmond, during the
seige, my wife made me promise before
she died that, come what might, I'd
see the child mistress of the house
we'd been driven from here. My wife
was IA very proud woman, sir. Her
family claimed descent from Pocahon-
tas. -
But, objected the listener, Il
don't see how this could be. Since
slavery has been abolished'--
lone can't get the lazy brutes of
negroes to work? Quite so. But I'd
a scheme, sir, to remedy that. 1t
would have been frightful gall to the
idbhttEf bhl II NptlNI nave paul iltIt
all the same. should have imported
Chinese labor and with that and a
strong hand things would have been
much the same as they were in the old
days. But that scheme must be aban
doncd now. \ man without previous
experience, such as yourself, would
never know how to handle such cattle.
Would you kindly reach me that bottle
out Of the locker? I'm getting very
faint. Thanks. | seldom patronize
my own brew: but, whatever its de
merits, it has strength. However, |
haven't got much time left, and |
must come to the point America was
no place for southern girl after the
war. With the niggers stirred up AS
they were, there was no telling what
might happen to her, So sent the
child to IA convent in Paris, and there
she's remained ever since. But she's
finished her education, and she's
coming home right now--coming home
10 her inheritance. Yes sir, the es
ate will be hers in an hour or sos
line, and with it matter of $50, 600
hat has come out of moonlight whis-
Key. Now, sir, will you give a dying
nan hand?"
VIII 90 anything that hes within
ny power"
Then find out my daughter, " came
he astonishing reply, land marry
Ter.
Horror struck, the Englishman start
ii to his feet. Did not this man
ealize that he was "A murderer, still
ed handed?
My God, " said old man Swanlee,
You are not going to refuse me?' He !
tretched out bony hand and caught |
I the other galter. heavens, man, |
hink what you are saying Think |
hat this means to ne"
The other turned away his head III
espalr
1T IS not much | am asking. She's
had her photograph sent
ne only the other day. She's highly |
what more can young man want IN
,lieE, :.
: But, broke III the EnglIshman
csperately, | am not free met a
ri IN Paris awhi lie back and crossed
nth her here IN the boat from Harve.
'efore we landed In New York she had
foullsed 10 become my WIG. never
ould marry any one else. l-er-in
hort, l love her y
The old mans knotted hands
rested with one another TREMENDOUSLY.
see, y he said at last, with heavy
Ugh, II should have liked it to have
cen, but what you say is final. Still,
r. you must do something else for
10, If you will. y
Anything that lies within my
over, exclaimed the other eagerly
believe me, anything.
Then lind out my daughter and act
her guardian. Give her my dying
to obey you in everything,
ld she VIII do 1t. See that she has