Ruby's Reward — page 373: what you’re looking at

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Mr, and Mrs, Ruggles were frequent Visitors in that delightful home, where they were always most cor- dially received, and which they declared was the most charming spot this side of heaven; and when they were finall gathered to their rest—Mrs. Rug- gles first and her husband but a few months. later— all their great wealth came into Ruby’s possession, bequeathed to her by her friend, with his ‘best love and gratitude for all her kindness to a rough old man.” She could not help feeling that shé had reaped a wonderful reward—that it was all the outgrowth of that one simple act of courtesy and good will on that evening, when this uncultured stranger had entered, an unbidden guest, her brother’s house, to ofter homage to the poet who had sounded the depths of his really noble nature by the might of his gifted pen. (THE END.) if comichooks.con