pedstead. Bring it down here," and then he added, speaking to the
clerk who had not yet left the room: "Vat does te trayman sharge."

"One dollar and a half," was the reply.

Taking up the forty dollars which had been previously brought to him,
Mr. Swartz counted out thirty-eight and a half dollars, and handed
them to Mrs. Wentworth.

"De von tollar and a half out ish to pay for te trayage," he remarked
as she received the money.

She made no reply, but left the room followed by the clerk, when, with
the drayman, they soon arrived at her room. The bedstead was soon
taken down and removed to Mr. Swartz's store.

"Sharge one huntred tollars for dat pedstead," he remarked to his
clerk as soon as it had arrived.

While he was rejoicing at the good speculation he had made, the
soldier's wife sat on a box in her room feeding her half famished
children. The room was now utterly destitute of furniture, but the
heart of the mother rejoiced at the knowledge that for a couple of
weeks longer her children would have food.




CHAPTER FOURTEENTH.