Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-06-12

some enough then, but what DO
vou thiuk-when mis- will was open
he had left me twenty thousand
dollars. 1t couldn't be paid to me
Just then, and l wassO afraid there
might be some slip about it that |
never wrote home a word OF my
good luck. but just said | was
coming back. Ten days ago they
paid me the money, clean stuff,
YOU know-Ffe got three drafts
for it in my pOcket-and then l
thought I'll just wait and surprise
heI; and so my wife don't know a
thing about 1t, and won't till l tell
her today. But good heavens!
he exclaimed, wiping the sweat
from his face, 1T has seemed as
though we'd never get there! Pve
been afraid the cars would run of
the track and kill me, but then |
says, We'll, if | think I'm not go
ing 10 get through safe, that's u
sure sign l will, and so here l am.
l got a letter from her IN Chicago,
aud teIegraphed her to meet me-
sAnd is she well p qneried the
lady.
oh, yes; but good Lord! you
don't krOw what she's been
through. She's been darning
clothes and scTimping herself TO
send the little girl to school, aud
king IN washing to get along.
Even the mo ney | sent her she has
boarded for fear Of sickness. |
know how it il! She'll come down
to the depot shiyerlng IN clothes
made last summer. but not think
ing about that-ODly thanking
God that I'm back at last. | tell
YOU what it is, boys he continued,
there's nothing on earth like a
faithful wlfer and some of the
passengers turned away their
heads, while their lips lrembled.
And the tram sped on! Newark
was left behind, and then amid
Changing bells the train entered
tue depot at Jersey City. The
stranger was sitting at the window,
silent aud rigid. He was looking
for the familiar face, but the train
was too, far down the track to
recognize people IN The waiting
crowd, and he grasped his bags
bundles and was at The door when
the car stopped. Th5 passenger
who had heard his story followed
him with eager eys. They saw him
go stalking up the platform look
ing right aud lett. Away up at
the head of the train, as if pushed
and shouldered back by the we'll
dressed thIong, was a little wo-
IN an, thirty.fve or thereaboutS, 10
well worn black sack. and a dres
faded ana poor, but neat fitting
and well. l.bruShed. She had look
almost painful in its intensity, filled
with both hope and fear, aud the
eagurness of suppressed excite.
ment.
She vas looking half bewildered
at the approaching thrOng OF pass
engeIs. but did not recognize the
broadshouldered man who elbowed
his way toward her. Nor did he
see her until a foot away, aud
then be Just dropped portmanteaui
valise, bundle aud every thing, and
make a rush for her. The little
woman gave utterance to sup
pressed Oh! as she saw him, and
put her thin hand nervOusly to her
face, and that was all; they slmp y
stood holding each other, while the
passengers went by. The gentle
man and his wife who had talked
to him tarried at the ferry en-
trance until the couple came up
radiant and happy.
'Wel, my friend, you found bel
didn't youl' they said, smiling.
Yes. found her, thank Heaven
aud there's going to be a rejoicing
So ch as she never dreamed of. YOr
see, I've got something to tell YOU
my DEAR he said pressing bel
hand. Something to tell yOO!' anC
they passed on With the grea'
tbiong, out of JOur sight and ou
of mine, but into that respite from
tlIbulatiOn, that season of JOY, tha
comes now and then, thank God
t. even the humblest of His Great
ures.
An Enghshman' Modesty.
An English general, Is revle"lnI
a corps of cavalry. suddenly stop