Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1871-11-03
THE HAMILTON BROTHERS.
= LOVE STORY.

We Eat and talked in the freight, my bro
ther Frank and l. Just as we had sat and
talked a hundred times before in the busy.
backward years which We two brothers had
spent together.
suddenly looking up Frank met my eyes
fixed upon his moody face, and running his
fingers lazily through his curly hair, he laugh
ed but his laugh had not It's own warm,
careless ring.
How well Bent seems TO be getting on at
Melbourne. Max said he. His letter to
You is filed with his own prosperity
1T seems 20 me merely written to see if
we could send him out an assistant ans
wcred speaking lightly.
'Of course You do not know Of any assist
ants 10 send out to Bent, Frank said. The
poorest young surgeons Of your acquaintance
are ourselves, the Hamilton Brothers, and
thank Heaven. we have not fallen so low as
10 exile ourselves voluntarily as druggists TO
Bent would not change quarters with him
for any consideration, but fear | envy him
his success. You must own, Max, that It Is
hard fighting here.
80 it is anywhere. in any profession, Just
at first answered quietly. There is but
one thing we can do. However small our in
come, we can live it down and work hard to
increase it. That, take it, is the secret Of
success. Frank. We canvasscd our prospects,
and then Frank told me how anxious he was
to succeed. that he might win Lettice for his
wife 1t was Lettices birthday and We were
going to pay our respects to her on this
eventful occasion. Frank told me how great
trial it was to him. waiting and struggling
for success that he might marry, and ! ask
cd
Frank, do you feel that the waiting is a
trial, too, for-her?'
i know what y0u mean he answered,
slightly pausing. YES, Max, think So.
DO v6u know it? | questioned, in a
low voice. whose sadness touched my own
heart. And he answered with on pause at
all:
yes. Max. know it,
We had Just finished dressing, when |
started Frank by saying very quietly:
Il have madeup my mind to 20 out to
Beat.'
Io-what?'
simply what said-to goout to Bent
want a change, and change holding out
some prospect Of success. Why should | not
seize this opportunity?'
But YOU take me 70 fearfully by sur
Prise stammered Frank. Why, you are
"a far cleyerer surgeon than Bent you go and
be his servant.
We stood under the old lime tree. which
in summer shaded the doorway. and my hand
was on the bell when Frank stayed it and
spoke few words in unu- ual earnestness.
Tel me one thing, Max, before we 90 in.
You do not beside TO leave here for my sake
because ! have so often complained that
our practice Is not sufficient for two and be-
cause you know ! want to marry, and can
not DO so as We are? You would not leave
your home and your friends, and me, ane go
out 10 drudgery for that reason, Max | shall
not be comfortable unless you tell me that
you do it for your own sake
Knowing that my going would spare me
one great pain, which in my cowardice
shrank from, | answered him with quick
'Ies.'
We had very pleasant evening with Let
tice. / did not feel very happy aud my de-
iected appearance was referred to more than
once in the evening. Frank made some re-
mark, when | in reply said;
The fact is, Lettuce, Frank cannot under
stand my last new whim, which is to 90 out
to Melbourne to JOIN an old friend of ours.
And this was how told her +; on her birth
day night. who had worked and hoped,
and waited, for the fulfliment of that one
bright dream which now lay shattered into
fragments in the pretty, cheerful room.
What do you think, Lettice of this new