Ruby's Reward — page 72: what you’re looking at

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Renville and interest himself in his plans for business. ~ But Owen Ruggles did not trouble his -half-brother’s son for entertainment; he did not go out to Forestvale at all. The next morning, while Walter was busily engaged upon some fine finishing upon the inside of the building where he was working, Mr Wayland came to him and informed him that some one wantect Lo sec him below. He immediately went down to ascertain who it was, and his face lighted vith real pleasure as he recognised Owen Ruggles. He knew that he was rude and unculti- vated in manner, but that his heart was as kind and gentle as a woman’s | He had won Walter’s heart while he was a boy, when he went to spend a few weeks at the farm, by making a companion of hin, | interesting himeelf in ‘his boyish pleasures, and, more than all, by listening to his_ cherished reminiscences of his mother and discussing her virtues with him with as much feeling as if h> had been persyaally acquainted with and fond of her, “Oh, Mr Ruggles,” he cried, giving his old friend a hearty shake of the hand, ‘Show glad I am to see you. When did you come to the city, and why have you not been to see us before? [was so sorry you could not come when Uncle Ralph died,” he added, in a low grave tonedosts.com