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THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

BY

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THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.
I

NEVER

heard
.

of but one

man who
could not
mak e
money go; I have heard of plenty
who could not make it stay. I
myself have experienced great
difficulties in this latter respect.
In vain have I changed my halfa-crown into two-and-six, in hope
that one of the three coins, at any
rate, would abide with me a little
longer; I found that for half-acrown's worth--or supposed halfa-crown's worth-the two-and-six
must go. If one went without
this and that, in the vain hope of
retaining the coin; this and that
would crop up without which it
was impossible to go, and away
flew the cash; so that, thinking
sorrowfully over this unsettled

and always-" on-the-go" character
of "cash," I have speculated as to
whether coin can have legs, or
wings, or high pressures of steam
with it somewhere, making it
rush restlessly about, when I have
always made it welcome to tarry
with me as long as it liked; and,
in fact, to make my pocket its
home.
No, not its home; for then I
might become like Nabal Legrip,
whose whole life had been a homemaking for money-for money in
bonds and shares; for money in
mortgages and bills; for money
in debentures, and on deposit;
for money here, and there, and
everywhere; so long as that it
was Legrip's, and could be only
Legrip's, and that from Legrip it
never could be taken. Great
trouble had the man taken to bind
it, little had he ever thought that

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the day would come when he

peasant,

would have to take far more

sous, and hoard them, as many a

trouble to lose it.

French peasant does; and she

At one time it was Nabal Le-

accustomed

to gather

had imbibed his spirit and in-

grip's great trouble that, he could
not take the money with him to

herited his little fortune.

the other world; but Nabal lived

against that father's will, for the

to see the day when the horror

man had no fortune; but he was

of taking his money there nearly
lived to see the day when his

willing to change his name and
take that of Legrip. He was
not proud, though the old French-

heart leapt and bounded at the

man was; and so the latter had

thought that, away far beyond

this much comfort when he went

the gold-barred setting sun, he

out of the world-that the name

and his should meet again--the

of Legrip, which was not a com-

gold (or what gold represented)
and himself-to be severed never

mon one, would still remain in it;
though, as it turned out, the world

more.

was not to be benefited or blessed

drove him mad; and yet, he also

She

married an Englishman sorely

But to know how all this came

by it--at any rate, for some time.

about, we must go far back--back

Grandmamma Legrip handed

to the time when Nabal Legrip

on the name to a son, who handed

sat on his grandmother's knee,

it in turn to another little Legrip,

and had instilled into him what

having himself died, and leaving

was to be the motto of his life,

the incipient Legrip as a legacy

" Get, and keep."

to his honoured mother.

It was

That old woman had a hard

in truth all he had to leave her,

head, a hard hand, and a hard

for he had spent all the money he

heart; her totality was hardhard as the nether millstone.

could lay hold on; the close

Her father bhad been a French

having a spendthrift child.

parent, as is so often the cases

THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

Grandmamma Legrip determined that the infant should be
an improvement on its father;
and so she started him in life with
an amazing reverence for money,
with " Get, and keep " as the one
sole aim and rule of life.
It was with great delight that,
the grandmother saw the child
begin to take kindly to her grandmotherly teaching. He began by
being taught to carefully put by
small lumps of sugar, and look
at them, without eating them, or
giving them a private suck, so as
in anywise to diminish his store.
Should human nature have proved
frail, and little Legrip been
tempted to yield to temptation,
his preceptor had privately put a
few drops of something colourless, indeed, but very nasty, on
every lump; so that, any private
inquiries into the merits of any
portion of the store would prove
very unsatisfactory indeed.
With heartfelt joy Mrs. Legrip
saw her grandson gradually
become a boy of property; in
fact, he rapidly became a capitalist

in what constitutes boyish wealth.
Starting life with one slate-pencil,
he was now possessed of one
hundred and twenty-five; his
capital of twenty marbles-an
investment which his grandmother had allowed him to make
at his earnest request---had been
turned over and over by short
loans to unlucky boys at fifty per
cent. per fortnight, until they
had reached a thousand; topspeg and slashing--cricket-balls
and stumps, swelled his wealth;
until, what with this traffic and a
small trade in lollipops and
peppermints, carried on on the
credit system, the boy was possessed of money and goods which
made him, if not loved, certainly
envied by his fellows.
Who can tell the delight with
which Grandmamma Legrip came
one day upon Nabal's accountbook ?--much to Nabal's disgust,
for he was given to secrecy, to
keeping his own council, not to
talking too much, especially not
to letting out anything, as is the
manner of money-loving, and

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money-getting

people.

There-

fore it was that, he had not taken

it was the means of the youth's
getting really into trade, and

his grandmother into his confidence. But the old woman,
seeing that Nabal spent much of

being put into the way of making

his time at an old desk, and cupboard, in an outhouse, thought
that, there must be something

Legrip, as she lay awake at night,

which it would be well for her to
know about; and there, as the
reader can well divine, was her

drive in his carriage.

the old woman, quickly correcting

heart made glad.

that; but he will make money

This

discovery

grandmother

of

Nabal's

proved a turning

money.
" This boy," said Grandmother
"will become a good money-maker.
He must go into business; he shall
No !" said

herself, " I hope he will never do
enough to keep a carriage if he
likes, which I hope he never will

point-not THE turning point in
the lad's life; not THE turning

do. Nabal has skipped his father,

point-oh, no ! not with our idea
of things, at least-that was to

another gender, he can do more

come after, and to be accompanied

Grandmother Legrip lay awake

with many pains and throes which

the best part of the night, think-

did not naturally belong to the

ing, and thinking, and thinking

present time.

what she should do to best set

Now, all was pleasant for Nabal

and is myself;

only, being of

than I have been able to do;' and

Nabal forth in life, and make him

True, he had at first a

her ideal of a man-that was,

turn-up with the old lady for

one possessed of plenty of money.

having pried into his private

IHad this happy discovery taken

concerns; but that was of short
duration, and was looked upon

place a year before, old Mrs. Le-

by Nabal afterwards, rather as an

much more for her grandson than

investment, than otherwise. For,

she could do now; but misfortune

Legrip.

grip might have been able to do

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had come on her, as it does on
other folk; and, to her misfor-

ences brought to bear on him in

tune in its worst form--she had
lost a good deal of money. A

his immediate relative, the grand-

bank in which she had deposited
a considerable portion of what

these

she had, had broken; and out of
the fragments which were left,

the whole current of Nabal's life,

there was very little for Mrs.
Legrip. But the thrifty woman

ence which, so long as it lasted,

his early childhood, only so far as
mother,

was concerned.
were

potent

And

enough-

enough for many a year to shape
But there was another influhad somewhat of power also;

had not kept all her eggs in one and this was, the presence in the
basket; she had a tidy sum still Legrip family, for a season, of a
left; and with this she deter- distant cousin of Nabal's.
mined to set forth Nabal in life,
in the full hope-yes, more than

When Nabal was ten years
old there came to the Legrip

that-assurance, that he would
retrieve all losses, make up her
money to her while she was yet

homestead a girl of about the

alive-if not, make it all up, and
more than all, when she was dead

made it necessary and politic that
Grandmamma Legrip should take

same

age-

younger.

perhaps

a

trifle

Family circumstances

it was a pleasant thought charge of her; and though she
that, even though she might lie knew it not, the little that Grandmouldering in her grave, still mamma spent on her poor relative
money-making by Nabal would was the best investment she ever
be going on; the great point was made. The child's name was
-for

the fact itself, whether she knew

of it, or not.
I have told you, good reader,
of the general surroundings of
Nabal Legrip, and of the influ-

Josephine; it had come to her
through the old French connection.
Josephine had nothing-still
Mrs. Legrip had reasons of her

THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

own why she should take charge
of her for a year-for a year

it

was apparently about four

years of age.

only; and at the end of that

The world owes more to dolls

time she must go--and at the

that it knows, and I believe in

end of that time she did go.

them as educators of the heart.

When Josephine was set down
at Mrs. Legrip's door, there was

How much of incipient motherhood do they gather up, and em-

set down with her one plain deal

body, and treasure, to the world's

box-an uncanny-looking

great good-the good of children

box,

which looked as if it had seen

yet

better days, and not made the

might be dissipated, scattered,

best of them; and so had come to

spilled, lost.

dishonoured old age.

It was, or

the proprieties, and morality, of

rather had been, covered with

even nursery life, how many a

leather, and looked as if it had

child has been learning the need

indulged in brandies and sodas

of the same for herself in the

to an unlimited extent in the

world's great life.

days of its prosperity.

the bran has been spilled from

unborn,

which otherwise
In teaching Dolly

Long after

The remainder of Josephine's

poor Dolly's body-altering her

worldly belongings she carried in

figure so that no one could recog-

a shawl-bundle, which she kept
nestled close to her in a motherly

nise her, who had only known

kind of way; as though it were

point of her nose has become

an infant of very tender years,

white

or indeed, of days.
And, in truth, it might be said

tremity-long

that, this was almost the case.
For herein lay the one care of

with only just one lock for some
unfeeling boy to swing, or hang

little Josephine's life-a doll--

her by--does the good she did in

only it was not an infant doll:

her day remain; she served her

her in her youth-long after the
and cracky at the exafter her curls

have departed, leaving her bald,

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generation ere she came to this
state, which may be considered

her skin fair, and fine, with a

the final interment of a doll. We
perhaps might wish it otherwise;

parent--a carmine colour which

but such seems to be the law of

gether

nature,

and

we cannot fight

against that.
The possession of such a doll
was out of keeping with the poor
clothes in the shabby and dissi-

colour which was almost transcame and went, and was altounlike

the permanent

burnt-umber of Nabal's cheeks.
Moreover the eyes were bright-very bright-and they were large
-very large-quite unlike Nabal's little twinklers, which had

pated looking trunk, and the

an ugly fashion of not looking at

poor sum which the letter in the

you straight in the face; and of

corner of it contained-a letter
of few words, saying that Jose-

winking confidentially and knowingly at themselves, when he had

phine would probably not be

thought of, or done, anything, in

with Mrs. Legrip more than a
year -if so much; and that, what

his small way, which could be

was sent would be sufficient for
that time.

It was impossible that, a being
like Josephine could come to

But the doll can be accounted

stay in a house for any length of

for on rational principles. Josephine's mother had saved, and

time, without having some effect
therein. And she soon began to

saved--a penny here, and two-

have some on Nabal.

pence there-until the aggregate
of her petty economies issued in
that doll.

It was her last gift to

her child before she died.
The child now deposited with
Mrs. Legrip was tall for her age;
her features were well cut, and

called " cute."

That little clod took stock of
her,

just as his grandmother

did; and came to his own conclusions.
"Yes,
enough,"

the

money will

be

said Mrs. Legrip, as

she counted over the sum in the

THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

letter; " and I shan't have her

him,

he paid her the respect

left on my hands.

This is pay

which to her superiority was due.

for a year, but she'll never live

The burnt-umber, too, in a juve-

for a year; six months are the nile way admired the carmine;
most I give her-if she spins out

and Nabal's little twinklers dared

eight it will be a miracle; and

not wink when he ventured, as

eight from twelve leaves four;

indeed he seldom did, to look full

and four is one-third of twelve;

into Josephine's large, lustrous

so one-third of this money will

eyes.

be mine, and I will make some-

wonderful,

thing out of her after all.

But,

though he could not look at them

bah ! she's a beggar, and always
must be. 'Tis quite right that

long without blinking, he felt

There are too

ing, noon, and night; and that,

many beggars in the world as it

somehow, they did him good.

she should die.

But he thought them very
for

all that;

and

that he could peer at them morn-

How, he did not exactly know.
For Mrs. Legrip's purposes, it

He felt that they did him more

was indeed best that, little Jose-

good than even the two-a-penny

phine should not live; for she

peppermint-balls,

soon began to exercise upon her
grandchild an influence of which

" warranted to warm a man all
over at the very first suck, and

she did not approve.

to do his health good in more

The fact was, Nabal perceived
in their little visitor--if such she

ways than could be

was to be called- a being altogether different from themselves
-from

his grandmother, from

which

were

described

within the paltry limits of this
advertisement."
The same respect, only in a
lesser degree, Nabal was willing

contact with before; and as she

to show to what seemed Josephine's second self-her doll.

did not in any way clash with

And it was well for Nabal Lo-

anyone he had ever come into

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We often have

grip's after-life that he observed

going to be here.

how that doll was being cared for

pains here-I often have one in

Often he heard

my side; but mother said there'll

Josephine telling it how it ought

be no pains where good people

to behave itself, repeating the

go to, and they'll never cry any

lessons which she had learned

more.

from her dear mother.

Nabal

when I think of mother, and how

learned many lessons of order,

I shall see her here no more;

and neatness, and good behaviour

but she said before she went,

generally, from what he thus

'When we meet again, my Jose-

heard; but he picked up some

phine and I will be together for

He heard

Josephine telling the doll in the

ever, and ever, and ever;' and
how long that will be, Dolly, I

evening twilight, after she had

cannot tell.

put it to bed, some other-world

are here, Dolly, we must do all

thoughts, such as a child of that

the good we can.

Mother said to

age was able to understand-

me, 'Josephine,

my child, be

and brought up.

other notions also.

" There, Dolly; and when you

I often cry now, Dolly,

But now, while we

sure you remember that; ' and I
I gave

grow up and become a tall woman,

did good to-day, Dolly.

you are to do good--all the good

the last penny I had left out of

Mother did all the

the shilling I brought here, to the

good she could, and I should like

blind man with the tame rats.

to do all the good I can.

And

Mother told me God liked our

you know I am your mother, and

doing those kinds of things; and

you are my dear little daughter;

she said that, when she was in

and the daughter must try and be

heaven, she would always like

like the mother, when the mother

what God liked

too.

Mother

is good; and I mean to try and

used often to say, 'It

is more

be good, and do good. You
know, Dolly, we're not always

blessed to give than to receive.'

y ou can.

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And

was in the Bible-the big old

and anyone else you can.

Bible that came with your clothes
and mine in the box; and such a

now,

lot of names in the beginning of
it, of people who were born, and

last kiss for the night.
Josephine did not know that

married, and died.. Your name

there were ears which were listen-

isn't there, Dolly, for I suppose

ing,

there's a goody, go fast

asleep."

And Dolly received her

indeed.

The

child was

were born; but if

sitting with her back to the door,

ever you're married, or die, I'll

and a little slit was open-at that

You and I, Dolly,

slit stood Nabal Legrip; but he

haven't much money-we have

was off, before she turned round.

none; but mother used to say

Mrs. Legrip's calculations, in

that riches could not make a per-

which she ran the child's life at

son happy; and I love you, though
you have nothing , and you love

so much a week against the small

me, though I have nothing. I
don't know what mother meant

box had

by it; but she used often to say
that gold could eat people like

attainment of a good character in

fire, and that there was something dreadful in the Bible about

going to turn out even still better

you never
write it in.

sum which the dissipated little
safely brought-thus

scoring something towards the
its

dilapidated

old age-were

than she expected.

For Jose-

Now go to sleep, there's a
good girl. But stop, Dolly, one

phine's well-cut features soon

Now listen to this:

carmine in her cheeks became

if I should ever get ill, and die,

deeper, and the fires in her eyes

and go away to mother, you
promise me-for, you know, you

became brighter and brighter.

will stay behind-that you will
tell all you remember of every-

ened towards the fading child,

thing I have told you to Nabal,

and weaker

it.

moment.

began to get sharper, and the

Most hearts would have softfor she waxed thinner and thinner,
and weaker;

and

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when the delusive carmine gave

for her doll, much less than was

place, as from time to time it did,

actually provided would, in Mrs.

to a deadly white, there could be

Legrip's judgment, have sufficed;

no doubt that the end could not

and all these were bad examples

be far off.

for Nabal.

All Mrs. Legrip felt

was that, her " going " would be
more welcome than her " coming"

Nor, in truth, could anyone
have told how far Nabal Legrip's

some respects she did not

character, even from early boy-

-in

like her as a companion for her hood, might have been influenced
She had "notions " which,

and improved, had the little Jose-

if Nabal picked them up, might

phine lived to be his example and

not be helpful to him in life. For

instructress ; but Josephine was

she had observed that Josephine's
ideas were not on hoarding, and

not for this world-and so she

scraping, and getting; "a feather

more and mote beautiful as the

shows how the wind blows," and
the child had been far too liberal

time for her departure came; and

in sharing her milk with the cat,

hereafter was to be useful to him

which animal would not have
been allowed any means of sub-

as memory, but was now simply

sistence at all, except what it
procured by its own industry and

wonder. Ilow could he fit Josephine and his grandmother toge-

talents, but that when at times
mice became slack, and could at

ther ?

son.

best be looked

"relish,"

on only as a

it was necessary to

passed away from it; growing

imprinting on Nabal's mind what

a kind of vague admiration, and

How could he fit what

Josephine had told him from time
to time, with what his grandmother dinned into him every
For Josephine had told

supplement them as a means of

day?

livelihood.
Moreover, in the make-believe

Nabal in her own small way many
of the precepts which she had

meals which Josephine prepared

learned from her mother-how

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that we must not only be willing,

'
thought Nabal, " God will make

but glad, to share with others-

it a present to

how that God gave people money

heaven.

to do good with-and how that

her dear doll."

all we gave on earth God kept

Josephine in

It will be better than

Then Nabal Logrip ventured
to take Josephine's hand in his.

for us in heaven.
When Nabal Legrip looked at

It was cold-very cold.

But,

Nabal appeared

to like

the little face, so beautiful in

somehow,

death, he remembered all these

holding it; it seemed to do him

things.

Nabal thought he should

good.

It seemed to make every-

be dreadfully afraid to look at

thing around seem very small.

anyone dead; but now, he could

That was strange, very strange;

away from the

but stranger still was its making

humble bed on which the dead

far-off things very great, and its

scarcely

keep

Josephine lay.

Nabal sat by it,

and wondered

much.

bringing them very near.

The

Where

touch of Josephine's hand seemed

was Josephine now ? what was
she doing? She used to talk

to put the double spell of death

about the beautiful things which

Nabal's mind, "Was

God had in the other world; had

keep'

she any of them ?

of life ? "

abal knew

on all; and the heresy rose in
'get and

indeed the supreme way
It had not been Jose-

that, she had often saved a bit of

phine's way;

her dinner for the blind man's

had she been-happy when she

dog; would God give her any-

had no right to be so.

thing for that ? and would He re-

her own mother dead? and had not

member to her her carrying about

his grandmother often been hard

the child with the scalded foot,

and unkind to her ? But Jose-

when she herself was scarce able

phine had found her happiness

to stand, she was so weak ? That

not in what she could draw into

baby was now dead. "Perhaps,"

herself, but in what she could

and how happy
Was not

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pour out from herself; and though
Nabal could not put this to himself in so many words, he could,
in the sentiment and truth of the
fact; and he knew all about it,
though he could not have told
anyone of it.
Nabal Legrip felt half-inclined
to kneel down and pray that, he
may live and die like Josephine,
and had he done so, who knows
what might have been the result ?
but the Sower of tares was hard
by; and he let go the dead child's
hand, and thrust his own two
hands deep down into his pockets
-down, where there was no inspiration for good--down, whence
in after-life he drew many an
inspiration for evil.
Down in these pockets Nabal
Legrip found the disenchanting
of the spell of the dead child's
hand; of the presence of death
itself; of the power, whatever it
was, which revealed, in true
colours, size, and shape, the
things of the other life, and this.
He knew not why; but he did
not care to touch the marble

fingers again. He knew not why;
but he felt that he could not stay
in the death-room any longer.
He knew not why; but he felt a
kind of presentiment that he was
to be very rich; perhaps, he might
have to give up the riches and be
poor, if he were to be like Josephine; and, like the young man
in the Gospel, he went sorrowfully away. Yes, "sorrowful;" for
golden light of another world had
shone about him, while he sat
beside Josephine's humble bed,
with her marble hand in his, and
he would fain have basked in it
always; but had not he to make
his way in the world, and were
not there plenty of good things
there too ? and when these good
things were done with, then the
others could come on.

In turn-

ing point No. 1 of Nabal Legrip's
life, he took the turning that was
wrong, though nobody knew it-no, not he himself, until, years
after, he found it out.
The funeral of little Josephine
was a very simple affair indeed.
Mrs. Legrip spent little on the

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coffin, and thought it pre-eminently a matter on which money

cession without a bark, without

But the

knew that he had lost a friend.

child had an affecting little fol-

That dog may have had its own

lowing, which was better than

muddled thoughts that there was

anything that money could have

something wrong-who can tell ?

bought.

But the master had thoughts

ought not to be wasted.

The woman whose baby Jose-

a wag of his tail, as though he

which were clear enough.

For

phine had carried was there; and

that man's eyes were open to the

as she walked along after the

other world, however closed they

little body, she kept wondering

might have been to this.

whether the little nurse and the
child were together now. If her

all the while that the vacant

to take

ness, there were eyes wherewith

care of it in heaven, who should

that man saw, and beheld too.

she so like to have it as Jose-

The many morsels which his dog

phine?

The angels, she knew,

had received from the dead child,

were very kind; but they might
have too much to do; or be too
grand to attend to a little baby;

and the many words of childish

or, maybe, they didn't understand

ing-away-away-in some far-

about babies. She should like
Josephine to have the child.

off place, being restored to her a

baby

wanted

anyone

And

balls seemed gazing into nothing-

encouragement which he himself
had heard-he was seeing--hear-

thousandfold.,

And oh I she was

And the blind man was there.

a happy Josephine-and a rich

lie put in an appearance in virtue

Josephine; and one and another

of himself; andlikewise, and espe-

said to her, "Well done !" and

That dog

the King Himself said it, and

cially, of his dog.

in little;" and

seemed to have caught the tone

said, "Faithful

of the company he was with, for

the

he went with the humble pro-

"Why don't they ring out all

old man said to himself,

THIE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

the bells, and not toll that melan-

dozen shovelsful of earth on it.

choly one ? there are better than

Away went the sexton to peck

bells ringing above, and we are

his little bit, a bit of sound bacon

And one

and still sounder cabbage-and

or two of the neighbours thought

now was the poor mother's time.

it very odd-was old sightless

With the sexton's long rake (for

Bobby gone mad ?-for there was

it was Bob Atkins's boast that he

a smile actually upon his face.

always left his people comfortable

only tolling below."

But Nabal and his grandmother

from the top of the coffin-at

followed, and saw-naught.
The simple funeral over, all
left the grave.

The blind man

and the dead infant's mother only
remained for a little behind the
rest.

and tidy) she moved the earth

The blind man asked the

least, enough to uncover a space
about the size of a shovel's
breadth; then carefully drawing
from her bosom a little packet,
she dropped it deftly on the spot,

sexton to bring him as near the

and raked

edge of the grave as he could that,

again.

he might look in-for the blind

tained a little silver spoon-the
only one in the family; one that

'
always talk of " looking," and
" seeing," as other folk. Then,

the earth over it
The brown paper con-

having taken a long "look," he too

had been handed down from an
old grandfather; and it was the

went away. The infant's mother
now alone was left; and as she

one with which the dead infant
had always been fed. When she

gave no signs of going,

old

was closely questioned about the

Atkins, the sexton, said, " Well,
Missus, I'll go home, and peck a

spoon some time after-for the

bit, and then come back and

the only silver spoon in his house

clean up."

was filling up the grave; for the

without missing it, and inquiring
about it-the poor woman con-

coffin had little more

fessed all, and said she "had

The " cleaning up "
than a

father of a family does not lose

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been ' dazed-like ' since the death

Ah ! she was many times that

of the child, and she was sure she

much the poorer; but mankind

didn't know for certain, but she

do many things which they think
will turn to gold, which have no

thought it might be useful to
Miss Josephine with the baby in

heaven."

gold in them; and which are too
base for transmutation, or for

Mrs. Legrip was very busy

being done good with, in any

when she came home after the

way, at all.
Mrs. Legrip was very much
surprised that her grandson did

She

funeral.

described

her

up

after

that

this

doings as "clearing
And

Josephine."

might be thoroughly carried out,
the child's small effects had to be
disposed of.
many.

They were

not

There was, of course, the

not compliment her on her bargain.
So far from doing so,
Nabal remained glumly silent;
but he was observant and attentive,

for all that.

doll, and there was the old Bible
-rather
a large book, with

where the

strong, brass-bound corners, and

Somehow,

things

He knew
were,

and

determined to get them back.
he

thought

that

Mrs. Legrip knew

they might do him good; any-

where she could make merchandise of these without much trouble.

how he might get what he gave
for them, or near it, if he wished

Did not Nathan Berger, in plain

to sell them again; and Nabal

language

determined to indulge himself in
their possession.

a brass clasp.

the

" rag-and-bone

man," but more grandly, "the
general dealer," buy and sell anything ? He would give something

Nabal was, happily, not known
to Mrs. Nathan Berger, who

down three shillings; and Mrs.

waited on him; and for five
shillings he became master of the

Legrip returned home, as she

Bible and the doll.

thought, that much the richer.

was

for them; and he did.

He paid

Six-and-six

asked, but Mrs. Berger's

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0G.

secret intention was five shillings,

before she died.

and this being realised, Nabal

her grandson in business, and he

took home "the goods;"

but

had

Nabal did not stop here.

He

ginning with the humble occupation of rinsing out dirty bottles

bought half a yard of flannel, in

prospered

She had settled
therein.

Be-

how, it seemed to him to have

in a grocer's shop-this being
understood to be merely the lowest

life in it-anyhow, he shrank

round of the ladder, the top of

from the idea of its being kept

which was too high for Nabal to

in an out-house (where he must

see-the youth went on, and on,

which he rolled that doll; some-

from one step to another, until at
not to come across it some day), in last he became foreman of the
keep it, if his grandmother were

frost, and snow, and wet, and

business.

wind; and he invested, moreover,
in two-pennyworth of brown

business it was, for its owner had

paper, and in that he carefully

shop of the kind, which had been

did up the old Bible, and put the
box, which he securely locked,

started in the place; and he had
had practically in his own and
sole hands the business of the

and put away in a loft where his

country round for a considerable

two in safe keeping in an old

contrived

Nabal

to ruin every other

distance.

Legrip had a vague idea-indeed,

And a very excellent

"Own

grandmother never went.

and Sole," had been
a kind of surety-that there was the motto of the grocer for many
in the contents of this box some

a long day, his battle-cry through

good thing; and out of his pos-

life.

session he

pendium of all philosophy, dispensing with the need of books,

particularly wished

that they should not go.

It was in his mind a com-

other than the various account
Mamma Legrip had in one
direction the desire of her heart

books belonging to the business.
The words nearly rhymed too-

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st

at least the o's sounded very

ship, he also followed Mrs. Legrip;

strong together; so they answered

and left the whole field clear for

for poetry; and they were an

Nabal, and the full display and

easy way of keeping him in mind

development of his abilities.

of his duty to himself. His "duty

Business is very absorbing,

to his neighbour " he considered

very blunting; and in proportion

to belong to the catechism; and,

as one allows oneself to be ab-

like a diamond in its setting,

sorbed in it, so will all higher

should not be removed thence.

and nobler feelings be absorbed

It summed up to him in one

too. And to become very sharp in

pithy sentence, what he conceived

matters of the till, is generally to

to be "the whole duty of man"
..- at least to himself-and what

become very blunt in matters of
the soul; hence, Nabal Legrip

would life be but perfectly in- allowed the little power which
tolerable, if it were to be spent in Josephine had exercised upon him
looking after others !

to die away; and gave himself

When Mrs. Legrip departed
this life, having got and kept all

up body, soul, and spirit, to the

she could in it, thus consistently
carrying out her principles, but

man gives himself up to money,

ending thus her power to keep

trade lie in pence, pence will

any longer; she left what she

take

could not take to her grandson
Nabal. And with this the young

pences, and shillings, or three-

man purchased a share in the
grocery business ; and Mr.

representatives of so many people's

acquisition of money.

When a

money will take him; if the

penny

him; if
pieces

it

lie in six-

(those degraded

charity, subjected to degradation

Pickles was not sorry to let him but not willingly), then silver
have it, for he too felt himself will take him; or if he has to do
going down the hill; and after a with gold, or paper more valuable
short period of sleeping partner-

than gold, these two will take

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him; and, as vicars of the devil,

truth, square, and grim, and solid,

will bind him for this world and

looked as though it could well

the next.

take care of itself; his face had

So did Nabal Legrip become

become hard and rugged, and

bound, and for years the once
precious parcels lay uncared for,

was the face of one keen to get,

smiled at now and again, but

traced no hallowed lines upon that

forgotten.

practically

finally,

and close to keep.
face, but had

Age had

scrawled

"this

these

world"' over it, here, and there,

things belonged to him only in

and everywhere; as though it had

his childish state; but now that

marked him as its own for ever.

he had become a man, he had

Nabal Legrip was closing upon

Nabal

that

considered

put away childish things.

Still

seventy, but his

heart was a

the thought of parting with them

thousand and seventy-yes, ever

never entered his mind; and if

so much older; it was a fossil,

anyone had proposed to buy them,

dead as stone.

I make little doubt that, no offer

the

would have been accepted, even
though it were so high as to be

But, somewhere in it, there must
have been left at least a solitary

absurd.

drop of blood.

country

At least so all
round

believed.

And that one drop half-froze
in the

with terror on the fifteenth day

world was Mr. Nabal Legrip.
He was now old, old, old; and his

of December, one thousand eight

heart was older still.

was

Alone,

alone,

alone

The few

hundred and forty-nine.
an

awful

night.

That
The

hairs which protruded from under

wind whistled, shouted, screamed;

his skull-cap, were white; two

it seemed as if a myriad of devils

teeth-teeth

were let loose, and were awful

which

looked as

though they still could bite--

powers of the air.

Chimneys fell

that night, and church steeples
stood sentry over a chin that, in J

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too; and

ships

were

driven

23

the bang of some engine against

ashore, and foundered at sea, and
children cried in bed, and it

the shutter.

almost seemed as though the end of
the world had come. That night

though the great bar across the

Nabal Legrip had all made safe
and sound, and at ten o'clock

forced in, it could not prevent a

was in the private room on the
ground floor, with several account
books, preparing

his balance-

sheet for the end of the year.
IHe had just finished his work;
and bonds, and bills, and securities of various kinds had been

The sweat rolled

off the face of Nabal Legrip; for
shutter had kept it from being
hole being made-a

splintered

hole, the size of a man's arm and
more, through which, indeed, an
arm passed-a long, skinny, bony
arm, with long,

skinny bony

fingers, from which dropped a
paper, carefully tied, and sealed,
and directed to " Nabal Legrip."

overhauled, and two large bags

IIow long the terrified man

of gold been counted, when knock,
knock, knock came at the window.

would have continued gazing at
the paper I cannot tell, had not

For a long time Nabal Legrip

the blast which poured in through

shook dreadfully; for what could

the hole in the shutter called for
quick action of some kind, for

it be ?

A sudden and a frightful

thought shot through his mind-

precious papers were being blown

he had sold himself to the Evil

perilously near the fire; but he

One for money; and he was

had soon to stir himself, which he

coming for him to-night! The
more sudden-the more unex-

did, plugging up the hole with a

pected-the

out of his

moment; and finally, nailing a

ordinary line of thinking, the
more terrible it was. Then came

good piece of stout board over it.

a crash, and the window glass
was smashed; and there came

sioned by the immediate necessity

more

cloth which lay handy for the

But when the excitement occafor action had subsided, Kabal

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24

Legrip

felt utterly prostrated.

It was undoubtedly an arm, anyhow like a human being's, that

pondered as to what this could
mean. At last, the thought
occurred to him that, this must be

had been thrust through the hole

some message to him from the

which was made, after that terrible

other world.

blow against the glass and shutter.

Kabal did not know much of
the Epistles; and probably, if
the texts on the paper had been

There were fearful

stories, he

knew, of the Evil One's coming
for people.

Could that be any

message for him ?
Long, long time

did Nabal

drawn from them only, he would
have continued in a state of
bewilderment.

But seeing Mat-

any light on what had occurred;

thew down, he determined to go
to the Bible, and see what it all
meant. But there was no Bible

but he feared to touch it. At last,

at hand. That book Nabal Legrip

keeping as far from it as possible,

did not consider

he laid hold of it with the tongs,

business; and so he had never
troubled himself about it, and its

Legrip remain gazing at that
packet, which alone could throw

and put it on the table before
him.

essential to

contents.

dread generally diminishes our

Nabal thought a few
moments; then, as if a new light
had suddenly burst upon him, he

fear of it; and so, as the night

seized the candle and proceeded

Familiarity with any object of

wore on, Nabal gathered courage; to an attic, in which had lain an
until, at last, the packet was old chest, dust-covered, and for
opened, and its contents spread many a day-aye, many a year-before him.
They were few and

neglected, still carefully locked.
simple

From that chest he drew forth the

enough--just a list of texts of

old brass-bound Bible, which in

Scripture-nothing more.

years gone by had belonged to

For a long time Nabal Legrip

Josephine.

THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

There he soon found what he

and hammered, and flattened his

was in search of--and there he
read his doom. Hard for him to

fellow-creatures,

enter into the Kingdom of Heaven;

metal on which man and beast

and if not to enter there-then

went painfully-and great ones

Gold and silver can-

like a grindstone, which wore

kered; and their rust eating one's

them down like the nether mill-

flesh like fire ! all the savings

stone on which they were crushed ?

where ?

and done hard

things-little ones like the road-

"Real gold-take it all."--page 27.

and scrapings of a lifetime, good

And now, a message had come to

for nothing, to be left behind!

him-come from the other world.

and he-he who had saved and

What skinny arm and bony hand

scraped-to

and

was that which had thrust itself

naked, and bare, into another

on this awful night into his very

life.

Was it for that he had

living-room, and brought before

toiled, and moiled-risen early

him in one picture all these Scrip-

and gone late to bed. screwed,

ture voices about such as he ? and

go penniless,

THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

the cold sweat gathered on Nabal's

ing after the fearful storm of the

brow, and his hands trembled,

night before; and Nabal went

and his knees shook.

In that

into the lane along which he

same night was Nabal Legrip

knew some of the children went to

broken up.

school.

A handwriting, as

And down it he soon saw

plain as that upon the wall of old,

coming a rosy little maid. " Here,

had been seen by him-what

child, here-here's a big handful

could he do ?

of gold pieces for you."

" Get rid of gold- get rid of

And

Nabal held out a handful of
ran

what's pressing me down to hell,
that's what I must do," said

sovereigns-but the child

Nabal; for in that night he had
lived many days and nights; and
undergone agonies, which had

unluckily

indeed almost unhinged his mind

foreclose

-perhaps we shall not be far out
if we say that, they had for the
present unhinged it altogether.

Martin's forge and cottage-and

"Get rid of gold-get rid of
gold- anyhow of some; then

almost at the prospect, the old

there will be the less to sink me; "

mined to try and wake up his

and forth went Nabal Legrip with
a canvas bag full of sovereigns--

creditor's conscience, or, it may
be, perhaps have vengeance on

what matter

him.

that

they were

away from him, screaming; for,
for the unfortunate

man, this was old Martin's grandchild; and Legrip was about to
a

mortgage

on old

his name was a terror in that
little household

-

and

frantic

man had the night before deter-

It was the

blacksmith's

savings-what matter that they

sledge that had shattered Nabal's

were precious-had not the paper
said, " What shall it profit a man

window, and it was his half-a.

if he gain the whole world, and
lose his own soul ? "

reading man he knew, to gather

It was a bright, beautiful morn-

crown that had paid a Scripturetogether for him some of what
the Bible said about "money."

THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

and Nabal Legrip ran after it.

" didst never hear of traps with
bait in them ? It may be money,

"'
Gold-gold !"he cried, shouted,

and it may be jail too; 'tis none

screamed, until the very chords

of ours.

of his throat would vibrate no

and honest;" and muttering this,

more; and his heartstrings seemed

the old man led the child away.

The child ran-ran for its life,

Poor and honest

poor

as though they would crack; and

When they were gone, Nabal

the veins on his forehead swelled

Legrip took up the gold, and

as though they would burst"real gold-take it all;" and he

waited a long, miserable day until

flung it after the child, but the

a neighbouring town; and, under

little one sprang like a gazelle

pretence of buying, dropped his

over a stile, and was gone.

bag of money in a poor widow's

Nabal Legrip gathered up his
money, and went off to the high

humble shop, and left it there;

road, and waited to see who would
come along. An old man and a

from the

child were soon seen coming in
the distance. Nabal put the
money on the milestone.

There

it must be seen.
And so it was.

The child ran

plenty.

Oh!

grandfather -

yes,

Then he went to

but he had not gone ten steps
door before the old

woman was after him, and forced
it into his hand. Miserable man I
even the parson would not take
his gold, much as the village
charities

to it; and Nabal watched, and
listened, behind the fence.
"Money,

evening came.

needed it; for Nabal

Legrip told him that he gave it
to escape from hell at any rate,
and, it may be, also to get to
heaven.

" These

cannot

be

we shall be rich

bought, nor sold," said the parson,

now for ever, and we'll wander
no more, and I'll-"

and Nabal went with his money

"Nay, nay, my child," said
the old man, shaking his head;

That night Nabal Legrip, moved

sorrowfully away.
by some strange impulse, went

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up again to the old chest and
unlocked it; and brought down
a parcel, which he carefully
opened. It was the well-known
doll which had belonged to

would have given one-half his
wealth if that doll would speak
to him, and tell him any of the
thousand things it had heard
from its little mother's lips.

"Money, grandfather-yes, plenty."-page 27.

Josephine, he laid it down
gently and tenderly, as he remembered having seen her do, and
standing by the table side looked
down at it. He stood and looked,
and wearied not. Nabal Legrip

Nabal's body was rigid without,
but his spirit was melted within.
He put his hands together and
muttered something. It was a
prayer. Perhaps he prayed that,
the doll might speak. That it

THE GOLb TtA1T WOULDN't GO.

did not do; but as he gazed at it,
a thought seemed to float into his

come in as a " casual' the day
before-at least, she had been

mind from the other world-that

brought in by the policeman, who
found her in a fainting condition

gold held in it a mystery of blessing, as well as curse-true wealth,
as well as true poverty-that it
could be one of opposites, and of
immense and fullest power in
each; that there was gold that
belonged to heaven, as well as
gold that belonged to hell.

in the street.

The workhouse

officials believed that she was a
lady; but they never had any
opportunity of finding out anything about her, for she died
quietly in the night.
But she left the child behind;
and that child, to the great

Then, as he looked at the doll,
he remembered how it had been
loved ; and he thought if he could

astonishment of his brother Guardians, and indeed of the whole

love somebody, or even something, he would be the better for

neighbourhood, when it became
known, Nabal Legrip took home

it.

But who would love him-

with him. He made it his own;
who (even if he knew how to and, with the help of an old
love) would let him near them to nurse, he brought it up. It was
love them ? Could life be put not to-day, nor to-morrow, nor
into that doll, could it ,be made the next day, nor for many days,
a child, that would

do.

And

Nabal thought, and thought, and
thought.
*

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that Nabal Legrip found himself
the better, or that the chance had
come to him of understanding
the spell of the curse of gold--

There died in the MIicklethorp
Union that very day a woman,

shaking from himself its rust,
which was eating him like fire.

with fair-cut features, and smooth
hands, leaving behind her an

At last the day came. And
thus it came to pass that Nabal

infant six months old.

Legrip became

She had

free,

In

the

THE COLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

agony of his soul he thou.ght one
day that he would try the child
with gold. So he picked out a
bright new sovereign, and held it
up to it; but the child made no
offer to take it. Then he chirped

Nabal had felt an impulse
of love, of communion with
humanity-and was free !
He could--he could part with
gold, Heaven would allow him to
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toit, and smiled at it-he-Nabal feet outcast; the condemnation
was not finished; he might yet
Legrip, chirped! he--Nabal Legrip, smiled! and the child smiled be saved. It seemed to him that,
at him again, and put out its little Heaven had accepted an earnest
from him , when the child took that
hand, and took the gold,

THE GOLD THAT WOULDN'T GO.

gold; for, after it had clenched
its little hand on it, had it not
put out its arms to him; and had
he not taken it, and by some constraining power pressed it to his
heart ?
Heaven must have helped him,
for Nabal L gap could never have
done that by himself. Never,
for what was left to him of life,
could he have believed (and spent,
as though he believed) that it

was more blessed to give than to
receive; never could he have
shaken from his soul that which
had scorched and scathed and
eaten into it like fire--the rust of
gold-aye, never could he have
believed that in this wide world
-and in the other and wider
world still, there was such an
awful thing as-

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