Ruby's Reward — page 2: what you’re looking at

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ge NE sc de goa a mies It was a good face; honest, tender, and true; # face to winthe heurt of a loving woman, the confidence of innocent children, and the fatth of strong men; and the eyes of the sick man Ungered fondly and wistlully upon tt, ag if surlying to impress its every lineament upoo bis heart ere lt Shonld fade trom hls sight lorever, ‘JT am strald you will tax yotlr strength too much, Unele Ralph, if you try to tuk,” the young mun sald, io tones as Bentle as & woman's. "No, I think not, Walter; but, if Jt should, I must tell you all the same,” Was the resolute reply. Then, afber & moment or bwo of Lhought, the sufferer con- Tinted “You have long known how [ came to take you, when you were a Uttle lad, to rear und educuts you." WY OR “Bunt youhave not known the story of a dozen years or more previous. You have not known that your qToother was the love of my early manhood.” oNo;* afid the young man looked up with a start, wile a vivid tush tnantled his brow at this intelligence, Yes,” eusaed hiscompanion, with along-drawn sigh, and © si{ght quiver of lis pale. thin Ups. ‘Sadie Walcot was a lovely girl, the belle of the village where we Lved, and T loved her 4s mun loves but once lo ils life. We were pledge vo each ober, and were to be marricd in a few months, when someone pojsoned her mind against me. She called me to account. I was lead- strong, passionate, Iresented her lack of ratthin me, aud wa purtedip auger. Llett the place tmmediately, and went West, where I launched recklessly Into specitia- tlon, My operations exceeded my most sanyulne ex pectations, and after three or four years [ resolved to come Hust agatn, flad my Sadie, beg her forgiveness lor having been sO unreasonable, and ask her to give her- self to me again, and Share my good fottune. But I Jearned that molstortune had overtuken her, and she had lert the place, but where she had gone I oould not ascer- tuln, although I spent nearly three months searching for her. 1 then returned to rie West, and, after a thine, married 4 wealthy and beautiful girl who did honor to the position I gave her as long as she ved,” Again a deep sigh Nenyved the sick man’s cheat, as tf the memory ofthis married fe had not been all that he could have desired. even though his proud, beautiful white had honored her position, and shone a brilliant Bbar In the clrde in which she had moved, Well,” he resumed, “you remember how one day I mst you in the eee city af New York, aud something in your poor, llitle pinched face attiacted me. You begged me for a nickel Lo buy your mother some bread. Tasked your name, but that told me nothing, though something Impelled me to go home with you fo see if your story of destitution was true; and—oh, my boy! I cfnnot think of 6 even nos withonbl a the of hy there T found my long-lost Sa ar vinganicaes