The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1901-09-27
By J. L. Harbour.

duties. Her pantry shelves needed
clean papers on them. Martha re-
moved the things from the shelves,
and took several papers from a bundle
Mrs. Marston had given her. She was
cutting a strip from a newspaper,
when her eye fell on this paragraph:
'AIr. Justin d. eye, who has within
the past five years realized a fortune
of fully q million dollars from his In
vestments in Western mines and real
estate, proposes to erect a magnificent
house on Gaynor HILL"
Martha looked at the title Of the
paper and read, the Louisborough Ga
zette.
"Its the town where father lived
before he and mother were married.
l am sure that Justin d. wye and the
man who signed his name to that note
are the same. And he is worth
million dollarsw
She took her scissors, and cut out
the lines she had read Then she got
an old atlas and looked up the city
OF LOulSUOIOuSu'
at must be a long distance from
here" she said, with a sigh. IF it
were only nearer, do believe I'd go
and remind Mr.. eye of his promise
to pay and ask him if he thought it
had been 'outrawed' in the sight OF
God"
All day she pondered over what she
had read. Toward evening she haG
to go down to one of the village stores
She was passing the railroad station
when an idea suggested itself to her
"I'll go in and ask the agent If ht
: can tell me how far it is to Louis
: borough, and how much it would cos
/ to go there"
The information she received wa
> discouraging. 1t would cost at leas
] twenty-five dollars.
e 'And that is every dollar we hav
in the world" said Martha. "Pll hay
t to give it up"
), But the more she thought about
/, the less willing she felt to give
n up. On the morning Of the third da
y she said to her sister:
d "Ann, do you think that you and til
a little boys could get along without n
b for two or three days and nights If
got Jane Lewis, the seamstress,
S, come in and stay nights with you2"
% "rd rather have her than any OF
le else, but where are you going, Ma
ut tha?'
d, "I'm going to a place called LOU
I'd borough ON a matter Of business" sa
Martha, with q sense of Importance
&c She would have liked to keep b
r. going a secret, but this was impossit
he in little town like Osborne. BY t
ee. time she was ready to start, the ent
~ village knew where she was going a
ye. with what purpose. The gene
lbs opinion was that it was "a foe
ICE Grand" but Martha was not to
moved.
he 1t took her a day and a night to
to Louisborough. She had never b.
I've in such n large city, and the hui
ed and hustle confused her. Some in
to borne had told her to ask policen
90 how to find Mr.. eyes house, and WI
ing she saw blue-coated officer at
| 1 end of the station platform, she W
is up to him and said:
nd Can you tell me where Mr.. Jul
D. eye livesY
the 'He lives three or four miles fl
ote. here, miss, but his place of BUSH
rot isn't more than five minutes walk
tote i don't think that l want to g
her his house. 1 want to see him on
business"
out "Then you'd better so to his OF
ne" Co right up this street until you c
to x street. Half a block down
, be you'll come to o big marble f
building. Take the elevator and
" it elevator boy will show you just W
The it is.p
said Martha's timid, forlorn appear
appealed to this big guardian Of
she law. and moved him to be thus
-4s-fA - $500. --af for Martha fha