The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-10-14
~. ST CLOUD, MINNESOTA THURSDAY OCTOBER ID 1862

cunning aud tact than his sister, IN
without an d absolute belief ia 1 his lmrotl
[ers plans, was always willing to gis
them" tie advantage Of trial whe
they promised anything to himself:
'tHave her fs.e1'' repeated hi
morher, slowly. ""I confess I can't x
the policy Of such a plan, 5 While sb
is out with tho Feuleys, with wuhor
your uncle never was on good term,
she'll be. out Of the way, and :-='' =
"Andt you're a very, short-sighte
woman in spite Of your WISDOM" re
turned her son, rising and breaking u
the conference. "Esther Grover il hi
graud-niece and an orphan beauty
three points Of interest to attract hin
to the Fenleys, and make him forge
old sores, as we'll as lessen our influence
Have her here, as I said, and he'll
never think Of them at all: Of cours
bell be interested in her, but his inter
est in her will extend to us, her protec
tors. l can't see how we are to max,
out sole proprietorship in this Cubar
uncle, though I've tried, but I cat
readily understand that combining
with Essie We can keep him between
u.s." p"
Thus delivering the law, Mr.. Frank
Lode', who was valued by society on
his reputation Of being $50 han dsome
and thoroughly eentleman-l,ke," polite.
ly bade his mother aud sister good.
morning, feeling that his wishes would
be sacred in their eyes.
Caroline Loder, if her own tastes
were consulted, had rather not have
gone to the Fenleys, her distant cou.
sins, to beg Esther to come and make
them long visit. Perhaps no two
people in the wide world could have
been more opposite in everything than
these two: Caroline was a year older
than Esther. and being tall, slender,
soft~spoken, dark eyed and indolent-
was called gentle beauty, with more
judgment and maturer mind than tho
tair' buoyant, impulsive, thigh-spirited
Esther-who at nineteen had womauly
figure, tho mind Of a genius, and the
heart Of child.
There was one sad feature in her
case, she was very poor, almost depend
ent; the little her poor father had
left her, brought an income barely
sufficient to pay for the fine clothes she
was obliged to wear as ono of society.
So her high spirit chafed itself against
the bars of circumstance that Gagged her
With her cold, matter-of-fact cousins
tho Fenleys. Carrie found her bending
over seme tri8ing pretence tor work,
dull and dispirited in the extreme. -
The fact is she had been devotiag the
morning to glance into that most H.
lusive Of perspectives, the future-and
seeing nothing very charming had come
back to the idle, aimless present, and
weighing her position as one of a prim,
unsym2ath;s;os household in which
che saw no chance of usefulness or
active good, pronounced it Very empty
and burst into tears.
She had just wiped her eyes when
Carrie entered, aud she rose to meet
her smiling pleasantly, with . strong
effort to hide her past feeling.
Carries abilities as diplomat were
so perfectly known to her brother, that
be charged his mother to trust as little
as possible to her verbal persuasion.
Mrs. Loder therefore, in pursuance of
her sons advice, had written a note
which Carrie, as she fell into admira-
tion over a bit Of her cousins embroid-
cry, at once delivered:
"Here's note from ma, Esther"
she said, "and We are 80 anxious to
have you come to our house, that I've
come to beg you'll not refuse-and do
bring the pattern Of this sweet thing,
aud show me how you do it. I want
something that won't bother me count
ing stitches"
Esther read the note. it might
have been called a letter, as it was writ
ten on four aides 10 close, neat hand.
Mrs. Loder knew the nature she ad-
dressed pretty we'll, and had secured. I.
compliance OF her wishes in one sen.
tence. After many kind compliment
tary phrases she said {: $50 I venture
to promise myself t:,at We shall have
you this summer, when I confess that
Carries music has been totally neglect
ed, and no one but you can do any,
thiozEwitb her. Those few lessons you
gave her when We were at Saratoga to-
gether did more for her than a years
regular tuition." irw..s:~ ill., I'D
Il. Tosbe Of use, to be needed, was q
new pleasure to Esther, aud brighten
ed her up directly. yI...
'"lt is YER kind, I'm sore;" she said.
Il think I shall! enjoy: it greatly; and
as for The embroidery. you can have
this, for I get fearfully tired Of 1.-THE
stitch is nothing, you learn in looking
at It, So ''o''' - '"
So, the Fenleys consenting, Esther
Grover went over to her new protectors
for awhile, and every one was pleased
with the arran0nmcnf ~ caant ;fs :v;rt;u