Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1859-02-25
A SLIGHT, MISTAKE.
A GAME AT FORfUNk-HCNIlNG.
BY sYLvANCs COB, JR.

ney West has come home. She seemed
to be deeply moved, and various were the
shades that chased each other over her
fair face. ~
And has Frank. come with him m?-I
asked Nellie, with an eager look and
tone. sss
L don't know anything about Frank,
returned Lydia, with a toss Of the head
that had some contempt in it. Only
the names of those who have brought
home money with them are printed
You can look for yourself
Nellie took the paper, and saw that
Sidney T. West had brought home eigh-
ty thousand dollars. Below this she
saw list of passengers, and in it she
found the name of Frank West; bot
there was no mention made Of his hav-
ing brought home any money.
Frank has come, she cried, in glad
tones.
well, suppose he has OF course
you do not mean to renew the old init
macy
i should like to see him, at all
events replied Nellie, and then she
went on reading the paper.
lydia and Nellie Collins were sisters;
the former being twenty-eight years Of
age, and the latter six years younger
Their father, who had been at one time
quite -four, hing merchant, had been
dead a number of years, and the sisters
had lived with their mother, in fine
house, and in a fashionable part Of the
city. Mrs. Collins was naturally good
woman hut Fashion had turned her
head somewhat, and she thought more
Of having her daughters move in select
circles than she did Of surrounding them
with healthful influences. Bnt there
was vast difference between the dispo-
sitons Of those two daughters. Nellie
had been her fathers pet, and had drawn
from him fund Of sound sense and rea-
son which her sister had failed to obtain,
and which did not leave her when her
father was taken away. There was a
deep current of humanity-of natural.
grateful love-und-rlyi ing her whole ma
ture, and oven her scheming, fashionable
sister respected her for II, though she
probably had no real conception of why
this respect was called forth.
1t was generally supposed that Mrs
Collins was wealthy. She owned the
house in which she lived, and it wa.
known that her husband had left heI
considerable money.
Sidney and Frank West were cousins
and had once beer clerks in the employ
of Mr.. Collins. Three years previou
to the opening of our story, they wen
TO California to seek their fortunes,
and had now returned, as we have seen
One evening. as Mrs. Collins and he
two daughters we're alone, Sidney an'
Frank were announced. They wer
cheerfully admitted, and warmly wei
coined. Sidney was tall, dashing look
ing fellow, ive-and-thirty years Of age
dressed i'll the height of fashion, an
flashing with costly jewelry. His cou
sin was some years younger, and dress
ell very plainly. Frank was by far tn
most intelligent and handsome, thoug
he lacked STYLE In fact he was ratt
er commonplace in his manners and cor
versation, depending more upon the sui
stance of what be did and said, than W
on the show he couId make. But Sic
ney bazed and flashed away like py
rotechnic battery, and he was not long
enrapturing Lydia and her MOTHER
Frank and Nellie finally drew togetht
upon one of the tete-a-teteS. and there Ell
joypd a conversation by themselves.
must secure that man ! said Lydi
after the visitors had gone.
What returned her sister, with SON
surprise, do you mean Sidney West I?
Indeed do
'You cannot do such thing, Lydi
Are you not engaged to Charles Adam.
'No-indeed am not
'Blt you have given him every e
enlargement
may have done so while he W
the best match that offered return,
Lydia, with toss of the head. But
have been very guarded in my conve
satiJa with him. l have made him
promises
But pursued Nellie, with troubl,
look, you have given him every e
couraeement, and know that be Low
you, and thinks you mean to be |
wife
And do you think l would give r