The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1897-08-14
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MIN on ACCOUNT OF DIS OuPHc manner
and inferior education Mary Dunn was
sincerely attached &c her good little hus-
band, and succeeded in making the few
years she was spared to him years of ra-
diant bliss for Peter. As for him, he
simply w~orshiped the ground Oh which
his wife walked. Mary had q younger
sister, Of whom she was Unfortunately
proud, who was a g%overness in a gentle
mans family. She was, according to
Mary. quite the lady" and would, SO
Mary thought, consider it o degrada-
ton to visit SO humble 4 home as the
Dunps', which showed that rcor Mrs.
DGnn's Standards Of good breeding were
as errCnecus as her standards Of other
things. Therefore, though Mary sonlo-
times went to see the beloved Amy,
Amy never was allowed to come to
Cheriton or to he brought into contact
with that excellent man, her brother
in-law. Probably had she come Amy
would have despised Peter as much as
Mary did, for not to every one is it
given to see the deeper meanings and
to hear the hidden music in the com
mon things of life-least of all to such
frivolous little souls as those of the sis
tiers Mills.
After Mary had been dead for some
years a general feeling spread through
Cheriton that the man that married
Mary was becoming a miser. He made
a very good income, and as there were
no children had only himself to support
now that Mary was gone. and yet he
saved and screwed at every point, which
brought him into disrepute at Cheritcn.
The charwoman who cleaned his house
told thrilling tales Of a tin box. secure
" locked, which had its abode under
Peters chest Of drawers, and into this
box the imagination of Cheriton trans
ferred all the savings which Peter 80
carefully boarded.
One day the rector's eldest son, Jack,
now at Oxford, rushed into his fathers
study, crying:
II say. dad, what do you think? The
man that married Mary has been rob-
bed of all his savings"
The rector pushed up his spectacles
and gaZed benignly at Jack from under
them.
Dear me, dear me, what a sad
thing!o he murmured. "How much
money has been stolen?"
Nobody knows, but the tin box out
OF his bedroom has gone, and the poor
man is demented."
"NO WONDER" said the kind old
rector.
1.-The thief evidently climbed through
the window while Dunn was out, as the
door was locked"
"Did he take anything besides the
tin box?" asked the rector.
NO" answered Jack, 'sfor the very
good reason that there was nothing else
inside the house worth the carriage.
There must be a pretty pot of money in
that box, dad, for never a pipe in the
whole village bursts without the man
that married Mary being we'll paid for
mending it, and he is remunerated for
his pew opening duties, too, and yet he
hardly has enough to eat, I hear, and
there is nothing in his house worth a
half crown piece. The savings in that
old tin box must tot up to a pretty
sum-"
Dear me, dear mel 1t is very sad,
Jack, my boy, when the love Of money
thus takes hold Of a man-very sad in
deed"
well, the old boy is punished for it
now, anyway" said Jack, with the I'M
tempered justice of the very young and
inexperienced, land I am glad of it."
"I'm not" sighed the rector. "Isup-
pose punishments do good, but I am al
ways sorry when there is a necessity for
them. If poor Mary had lived, Dunn
would never have got into these mean
ways, she was such a bright, pretty,
superior girl"
Which remark showed that the dis
pensations Of Providence are wiser after
all than the reasoning of the most char
liable old rectors.
Later on in the day Jack Levett
caught sight of a dark object lying in a
ditch. He pulled it out and found it to
be a tin box, with the lock pried open.
In it there was nothing but a packet of
letters in Mary Dunn's pretty, old fash
writing and some faded roses,
brown and crisp with age. The former
ne was too much Of a gentleman to
read. but he concluded they were love
letters, as they were addressed tt Peter
Dunn, but as there was no money in the
box he conjectured that the thief had
taken what was valuable and thrown
the rubbish away. So he took it straight
to Dunn, with many condolences.
! have found this box Of yours in a
ditch, Dunn" he said, "brt I fear all
the valuables have been taken out of it.