Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-02-03
LOVING THE MONEY.
NOT THE MAN.

paper, pushed his spectacles up on his
forehead, and glared at his nephew.
Going to marry Lucia Frothing.
ham y he cried, after gasping awhile
In sheer dismay. "You idiot I"
''Thanks," was the cool reply. 81
know you do not like the lady, but
where there is strong mutual love
'Strong mutual fiddlesticks 70 inter
rupted Uncle Coleman, contemptuously,
You ray love her; she is pretty and
fascinating, but what she loves is youl
bank account, my boy. knew it would
be so when Aunt Jennie left you a COO
hundred Thousand. But boys, will be
boys. Only for goodness sake, wait q
year or two before you saddle yourself
with wife"
81 am twenty-one sir" with an i'm.
mense air of dignity.)
81 am sixty-four Now, Frank, dc
hear reason. Lucia rockingham is q
fascinating woman, touching the
thirties, if not already over the line-s
finished firt, and as mercenary as she
Is pretty. l know her, and 1 tell you
her affection is centered upon Aunt
Jennie's legacy, and the half million IN
prospective at my bankers"
"Uncle Coleman" cried his nephew,
hotly, 81 never thought of it, much less
spoke of it."
Il don't suppose you ever did.
Having always had an independent in
come, don't think you ever counted
on dead mans shoes. But Miss
rockingham was educated in the hard
school of genteel poverty, and a rich
husband is the prize for which she has
studied and toiled. for-well, say ten
years. She was in society before you
were done playing with tops and mar
bles."
"Uncle Coleman, you are speaking OF
my betrothed wife, remember"
"Hem %
years are of no consequence where
there is true love-"
"Hem -
'And l love Lucia as she loves me. u
''Not bit of it."
Tomorrow she goes to Saratoga,
and If you can spare me will go too. "
"And the business in Hartford ? /
should advise you to attend to all
matters belonging to your aunt's estate
as oOOu ds pOcsiDle, L fADk.
at may keep me in Hartford a
month, p" said Frank, disconsolately.
Coleman Burke looked with pitying
affection at his young relative, such a
boy yet IN many matters, though he had
reached "man's estate"
"a month that may settle your whole
fortune" he said. Remember men do
not fall heir to a hundred Thousand
dollars more than once in life-t time. &"
81 suppose 1 must CO."
at will be best. Besides" added
Uncle Coleman, Gryly, ''it will be a
good test of your lady loves constancy -
II am not afraid of her forgetting
me" said Frank, loftily.
"YCu are actually engaged ?"
Certainly! l bought a diamond
ring ats yesterday, and put it on
her taper finger last evening"
"Hem Well, the fool-killer hasn't
been here lately, that's certain. There,
be off and let me finish my paper in
peace. You will go to Hartford p
"Yes."
But after his nephew left him Cole
man Burke left his paper lie idle upon
his lap, while he fell into fit of musing,
often interrupted by impatient ejacula-
tlOns. He was man, as he had said,
past sixty and had been a childness
wido yer, for thirty years, while four
little graves beside that of his wife,
recorded the heart history of his life.
When he had lived lonely and a sim
cere mourner for many long years, his
brother and wife died. leaving Frank,
a curly-headed boy, to the care of bis
uncle Coleman. All the long seated
fountains of love in the desolated heart
opened to pour out their affection upon
the child. He was truely the very sun
light of the old mans existence, and
though his manner had been cynical,
his heart been sorely wrung by the an
of his engagement, but not
from any paltry jealously or any merce-
nary motive. Had Frank loved true,
tender woman, were she a beggar, his
uncle would have given her a fathers
love and welcome. But by the light of his
own brief married happiness he read
the misery in store for his nephew, if
he married Lucia Frothingham-a fiirt,
extravagant and selfish. How to save
him was costing the old man torturing
thought. Active opposition would only
what was now but boyish
and yet saved he must be.
a light broke over Coleman
Burke's face, and he rose from his chair
and went to long mirror In the room.
The reflection was not calculated to
waken vanity, yet the old man smiled
well pleased.
'If can only carry it out, it will be
proof positive" he thought.
Short, fat, nearly bald, with specta-
cles, and a cane, Coleman Burke was
certainly strong contrast to the tail,
handsome young fellow, who had won
Lucia for his promised bride, yet he
said aloud:
''I'll cut him out ?"
A week later all the fashionables at
the c. Hotel, at Saratoga, knew
that Coleman Burke intended to take a
wife. What bird first bore the news
upon the scented air no one could have
told you, but there was no lack of in
formation about the elderly bridegroom
in prospective. Everybody that was
knew that Coleman Burke
had retired from business years before,
worth half million of money, and had
made fortunate investments since. That
he was decked in fashions latest styles,
wore diamond studs and ring, carried
switch cane, drove a fine team and oc-
cupied expensive rooms at the hotel,
all could see for themselves,
Very soon after he came, another fact
was patent to all observers-that he was
very attentive to Miss Lucia Frothing-
ham, the belle of many seasons.
Mrs. Rockingham hoped in her heart
that Lucia would not be a fool, and
would remember how far MIR. Coleman
Burke's pocket-book outweighed his
nephew's also that an cid mans dar-
ling was far more apt to have every whim
gratitied than young mans slave.
Having delivered this material lecture,
the widow dilated upon the expenses of
the Saratoga trip, and was rather
in her emphasis upon speedy
subjugation of the elderly sdorer.