Beadle's Dime Novels No. 126: Old Jupe — page 51: what you’re looking at

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THE WEARY LOT. 53 up an excitement and punish somebody for evil-doing. Yet nothing at all to. exculpate Mrs. Bryant had, as yet, arisen, | The first of January was drawing near, and it became neces- sary for Mrs. Miller to decide upon some course of action. If able, Mary would then have to set forth on her journey to the state’s prison, in Jefferson city. Mrs. Miller resolved to sell her little place, and take up her residence in the capital, where she not only could visit her daughter, but also take charge of the infant. : It seemed as if every trial which could wring a woman’s heart must be meted out to Mary. She was not even to be permitted to nourish and care for that child she so passion- ately loved. Even if she could have cared properly for it, in prison, she would not injure it by confinement to the close and damp air. Feeble as she was, and obliged to perform the journey by Stage, yet the change was beneficial to the prisoner. What one so sensitive and modest suffered, only her own poor heart knew; but when the time came, she found herself enrolled in the band of inmates in the penitentiary, doing her daily tasks With brutal women. Here, as every where, her beautiful, sad face won her many indulgences; she was allowed a bed and Cell to herself, some little comforts of furniture, and to receive, once a day, a visit from her child, carried in Clare’s faithful arms. | If Clare’s loving energies had been put to the test hitherto, they were now doubly taxed. Mrs. Bryant had little means, as, of course, she had lost all of the five hundred dollars which Was counterfeit, and much of what remained had been already spent. The sale of Mrs, Miller’s homestead brought a little | sum; but this Clare insisted should be placed in bank to draw interest, and to be taken from only in case of necessity. As Soon as the little family was settled in the humble place which they had rented, she set herself to earning a living for it, by taking in washing and ironing. She did this,»work beautifully, and soon had a run of customers; but she never Was so busy but that she had time to cook gome delicate article of food, to dress little Luke “within an inch of his aa and take him to spend an hour at the “nooning” with iis Nother, comliclookxs.com