The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-09-03
KENosHA, WISCONSIN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER g. 1874


"How would you like me now?" asked
Wilfred half jokingly.
You would be worth five thousand year
to us, sir" said tie greyest of tie clerks.
Wilfred went back to Johns sick bed with
new light in his eyes. He was very gem.
tie with his suffering brother now, and John
would look to him with piteous depend
ence for help and comfort
"You are very good to me, WILL" he said
one day, when returning reason made him
anxious "but you can't do everything; the
office must be wanting me-"
-"See Edwards and ask him, said Wilfred,"
in would-be Indifferent tone
Edwards, the whitesheaded clerk, was
called in, and in few words laid such satis~
factory accounts of the Office before Mr.. John.
t1at tie doctor, who was very suspicious of
business interviews for his patient, was
compelled to confess that this ooe had done
him good.
TITS ali Wilfred's doing" said John, who,
to do him justice. was ready to acknowledge
worth when he saw 1t. "He's far cleverer
fellow than ever was, and DOW he's thrown
up his own profession to help me. I don't
know how can thank him. I've been but
a stupid fool towards you, Will, my boy"
But Wilfred would not let him say
this.
you've been good fellow always,
John. I'm sure" he said "but we didn't
understand each other. Now Us all
right, and for the boys sake and Mays
| am glad we can work together. 'Un-
ION is strength, you know, the proverb
says, and mean to row in the same boat
with you"
John soon picked up strength after
this conversation, but as change of scene
was insisted on by the doctor, it was
arranged that he and little May, with the
old nurse should spend the next few
months in Jamaica, doing the work
his father meant to have done, while
Wilfred remained IN charge at home. So
the large house was let for six months,
and Wilfred went into lodgings near the
office, prepared to do his very best.
He got laughing letters from his broth
FER officers. 1t seemed Ikea joke to them
that the gay young subalterr should set
tie down into steady business man, but
they did not know the reserve of strength
and good sense that lay behind young
WillougEby's pleasant caress manner.
"Let those laugh that will" wrote
Wilfred IN return. II am working for my
bread, which is an occupation find. very
interesting for change
When John came home in The early
summer business had taken good turn,
and there seemed no reason why the
family should not return to their pleasant
home in the country. Many things had
been put on lower footing in the office,
and though there must be ups and downs
in their line of life, the Willoughbys'
hoped never again to pass through such
a crisis IS their fathers death had
brought upon them.
John and Wilfred worked hand-in-
hand now, the boys looked upon them
and respected them, and little May,
grown stronger and brighter, was the
shunshine of the house.
Union was not only strength, but peace
and happiness to all. That illness of
Johns had done much for the two broth
ers. Each now saw the hidden good in
each others character, Wilfred was con-
scious of the tenderness and care for his
belongings which was concealed beneath
his elder brothers hard exterior. while
John owned that there was real work to
be got out of Wilfred's apparently
careless nature.
They say love is blind, but in this
case 1t had opened the eyes of both
brothers.
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