Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1900-05-02
.WEAL THY.
By NJ. ATWOOD STUART.

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I, The train rolled out OF more than
Egyptian darkness and stopped sud-
denly.
The fare of many lights, the rum
BILE and roar of traffic, and the throngs
of people in the streets, proclaimed
the station to be city, and great
one.
The passengers whose changing
place OF destination is was, poured
out, pushing aud iostling against a
stream of people coming in, for the
train was through one and the time
limited.
Among the last to reach the plat
form was q young girl, clad in mourn
ing. evidently stranger. She looked
about her wonderingly, as though
with the commoiion and noise and
confusion she could hardly think.
Presently, by the insercession of the
station master, she secured q carriage
and rode away.
By-and-by she reached her destina-
tion, and because she so desired, in the
cour Q. e.of.aYents she found herself in
the presence of the master of the
house. In his hand he held the letter
brought HIM his careful henchman,
who stated that the bearer waited be-
low. Having perused the letter, the
edict had returned that she appear
before him.
"Have you come straight from
home?n
eyes"
...How long has it taken you?"
She told him.
rand what is your name?"
wealthy"
'Humph! Don't ft your present
fortune"
A pause.
How old are you?.
"Sixteen my next birthday"
''Umph!''
Another pause.
'Well, Dorothy, I suppose we shall
have to let her stay
Let her stay! and the pale orphan
girl, mere child, without father or
mother, was his own brothers daugh-
ter, stranger in a strange land al
most homeless and penn;less; and
the Dunnings could have housed
regiment, and were fairly. rolling in
wealth. 7 So
Attending with the strangeness
OF the reception, scarcely comprehend
ing the right and the wrong Of the
whole matter, and already homesick,
timid little Wealthy stood with down
cast eyes briraming over with tears,
while they SO positively decided her
fate.
Mrs. Dorothy Dunning put down
her work.
tCome with me, "she said. Wealthy
followed to an apartment containing
two beds Hore she was told she
might Sleep. '..This bed will be
yours" indicating the bed containing
one child, ''and you can have the care
of these three children" pointing to
the other, in which were two, three
boys:in all, sleeping soundly.
"You can dress them in the morn
ing, hear their prayers, and open the
room to air. Then come to me and I
will tell you what next to do"
Wealthy silently acquiesced by an
Meditation of the head.
Left alone, she gave up, heartbroken,
to real, genuine grief.
"Oh, papa, papay" she sobbed, as
she crept to bed at last, weeping.
Poor little Wealthy!
son the whole, it is quite as well, I"
said Mrs. Dunning, 57hen she went
back to the drawing-rocn. "We will
discharge the present nurse for
Arthur, Rob and Joe, and she can
serve instead. She told you she was
nearly 16, and she looks capable"
"Hers name will do very we'll for
servant, remarked Lou, the oldest
daughter, and young lady of the family,
looking over the top Of her music
sheet. ,.I
"Ahem!Ehardly servant You
mustremember she. is your cousin,
you know" said Doctor Dunning.
avincing q slight twinge of con.
science. - aH 90
''She needn't try CONSUMING me,'
muttersd Lou, turning away to her
own affairs; snd at the, end 0f week
Mrs. dorothy Dunning had decided
the same, and mentally vowed that
the handy Wealthy should forget the
relationship, and keep her place with
the children and mind the housework,
which she could perform with such
dexterity.
SoWealthy found herself one of
the uurses, who were employed to
take care of the six Dunning chill
dren, her charge being the three
Oldest except Lou.
She, being 18 and out in society,
was considered beyond q nurses care,
and never turned hand over to
brighten anybody's life.
But there were CLEANS of bright
ness in Wealtby's life, after all.
Pleasant days she took the children
to the, park, and, while she sewed and
minded them, she could also feast her
eyes on the beautif trees and green
sward and the blue skies; 30 blue,
Wealthy Thought; skies anywhere else
we've never so blue as those. Little
BY little she learned that the best Of
us all, in one way Or another, work
more or less, and she argued thats per-
haps, hers was not snch hard lot as
it might have been, in spite of the
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