The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1873-01-04
'Please. sir, Miss Cora is engaged

| IL oH'J ohc Suu iouieiueu STue 10 nlul,
he believed that he could have breasted
the cold waves of all other fate but
| aO,c--
Is Well, stch was the way of the world
He must make up his mind to take the
bitter with the sweet, as it came. e.r7
But the sweet had been houey.sweet,
and the bitter was as gall;
'Uncle, can I speak to you for min
ute p '"'
Mr.. Sesrist, setting away the fles of
dusty papers in his law library, started
ut the sound of the soft, Hike voice.
My child, l thought you aud Cora
had gone to the ball
Cora has gone, uncle but / thought
L would rather remain qniet at home.
Uncle
And here she paused and hesiated.
We'll, child, what is it p
you are my guardian and trustee,
UNCLE she went on, as if forcing herself
to speak. will you tell me how much
money Cora and l have each got?'
'Abont ten thousand dollars, Lisa
but what makes you ask 2
And can do as / please with it2'
That depends OH circumstances.-
Probably yes
Well, uncle, want to lend it 10 Mr..
kirkwood, to help him get into business
again.
Child, what forY
Because he has no friends left, uncle;
because feel so sorry for him. said
Lisa Scgrist, with deepening color and
dowucast eyes. 'And uncle, he must
not know who lets him have It,
why not, you little net work of rid
dies and mystery 2
oh, because | couldn't bear to have
him know. 1t could be managed,
couldn't it?'
Yes, I suppose. Bot are you really
in earnest, Lisa p
Yes, uncle
and the interest Of the money, which
has always supplied you with pins and
ana riooons ahu tapo, ada Is HefSS1 ASst 81
generally 2
Il can do without that, uncle Lisa
resolutely answered. But you mustn' t
tell Cora She would think it silly and
romantic
Well, we'll, child, said Uncle Scyrist
smiling shough he was ia reality deeply
moved F.: you shall have your own way
The next week Mr.. Kirkwoods lawyer
informed him that ten thousand dollars
lay at his banking house, subject to his
draft or order any time.
'Teu thousand dollars r cried poor
Guy, quite overwhelmed at the magni-
tude Of the sum who would lend me
ten thousand dollars p
THAT is what | am not at liberty to
tell you, said MIR. Sessup, stifiy
And it was in vain that Guy Kirk.
wood, marshalllng in his memory all
his probable and improbable friends
tried to fix the benefit upon one or the
other Of thcmi
No, he could not place it anywhere,
this mysterious benefaction; he must
accept 1t in the spirit in whick it had
been given.
And l will try to prove to my un.
known friends, he said, with chok ing
voice, that tho favor has not been
bestowed in vain. Upon thi, founda-
ton, Heaven helping me, will build
up the beginning of a new fortune, with
"A more prosperous career
Mr.. Kirkwoods words proved almost
prophetic.
Five years from that time, lie had not
only regained his former position in the
commercial world, but had shot beyond
it and Cora Segrist, who i'll the msan-
time had INDUCED in several futile airta-
tions and broken off two engag ments,
began seriously to consider the propriety
of once more spreading her net for the
bird she had let fly 80 long ago.
Because / really am getting quite
middle aged 7 said Cora, demurely 'and
MIR. kirkwood certainly is moro charm.
ing than ever
Guy Kirkwood came often to Mr..
Segrists mansion; but Cora, disposed
though she was to take the most favor
able view Of matters, could not but mis-
trust that it was more on her sisters
account that her own.