The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1869-05-27
OUT WEST,
BY AUGUSTA LARSED.

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bands and dropped it on the dining
table, with motion of despairiug
helplessness.
Mrs. Buel arose aud left the room.
She was not strong enough to offer
consolation to her bowed aud stricken
husband.
Ellen got up too, in sore distress,
and went over to the table. aud
touched her fathers arm with her
slight, girlish fingers, on one of which
sparkled diamond ring.
"Don't griove so, dear father. It
cannot be quite as bad as you think -
ats a thousand times worse, child
than you imagine. Every ent of
my property has been sunk in oil
speculations, a month ago | thought
myself rich man but to. day / am a
beggar, Do you know what that
means p
al only knew how you suffer, dear
father" said Ellen, tcarfully, getting
down on her knees beside him "and
| pity you from the bottom of my
heart
PITY yourself and your poor moth
er."
81 must think Of you now, because
you feel this blow moro keen!y than
we can. Is there nothing to hope
for in the future ?"
"What can hope for?' repeated
Mr.. Bucl, almost querulously. "As
an honorable man, l must abandon
every cent am worth to my credit.
ors. Nothing remains but your Tn
Gle Lathrop's offer of a Western
agency. lie has a farm out in Egypt,
which he would allow us to occupy
rent flee as lsng as we cared TO stay
there. 1t is dcsolate, out Of the.
way place, ten miles or more from any
town or railway station. | haven't
the heart to propose such a change to
your poor mother. Her nerves are
terribly shattered already
ut would be thousand times bet.
ter to go out there and live indepeud.
entity" said Ellen, catching at the
plan, ethan to starve genteelly here
in New York, or to live on any of
our relations. The boys are growing
up, and few years of genuine coun-
try life will not ipjure them. Fortu~
nately, l have just finished school, and
am blessed with excellent health
Mother is the only one to be cousid.
cred aud | think | can win her over
to the plan"
"You little know, child, what you
are consenting to, said Mr.. Buel, in
sortened tone, as he touched Elleu's
forehead pittvingly. "You will be cut
off from every social advantage, and
doomed to hard work aud all manner
of privatious.
II would gladly work for you,
father,' cried Ellen, impulsively.-
"Hou have screened aud sheltered
me ever since | was born, aud stud-
led in every way to make me happy.
1t Is high time that | begin to pay
you back so let us think about go.
ing West, as soon as we can sell the
house and wind up matters here"
"Hou are good girl, Ellen, and /
lean on you, in this hour of trouble.
more than anybody else. Perhaps
never should have found out what
brave, strong heart you carry in your
bosom, it we had lived Gu prosper
ously and happy
Ellen Buel had heretofore scarce
ly shown herself different from other
New York girls of her class. Boru
and brought up in the City, with lux
urious surroundings, and no care for
the morrow, her girhsh tastes had
bloomed in kindly air. There were
thousand pleasures, thousand
agreeable excitcments at hand. Each
season brought the dress maker and
an inundation of new goads, and El
len was measured and fitted for be-
coming and pretty dresses, of which
she felt no scorn. For each summer
vacation trip was planned to Cape
May, Saratoga, or the White Noun
tains. Life was like a fairy book
She was fond of school, and came
forth with bran new parchment di.
ploma, q smattering of tho sciences
aud of one or two modern languages,
but no available knowledge of any
branch of learning. Ellen had never
bothered her head about great aims
nd aspirations. She expected to ap.
pear in society like other girls, and
by and by to marry, and settle down
in home of her own.
Such was Ellen Buel when ruin
overwhelmed her father. Being the
eldest of the family, she had always
lived like boarder at home-not
even busting her own pretty room,
with its pictures and nick,nacks.-
There were four sons below her.
Three Of them were away at boarding
school, and the youngest, a c1rly-pa
ted darling, was scarcely out Of froeks
For the first time now Ellen took
her natural place in the family, aud
decided, with Tromptness and ener-
gy no one had dreamed of her pos.
sessing, that the removal out West
should be accomplished soon as pos
sible. Mrs. Bue's nerves would not
allow her to think or act. She re-
tired to her bed. bad the room dark
eued, and every breath of fresh air
vigorously excluded. Mr.. Buel was
stunned by the blow, aud Ellen was
obliged to be head aud hands for
everybody. Before the day of the
auction sale came around, she had
disposed of her watch aud diamond
ring, both of them birthday presents,
and friend bid in for her few Of
the articles her mother most highly
priced,
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