Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1875-11-26
Ehert Misrellany.
THE REWARD OF KINDNESS.

III a doletTH ZONE
"Your Amt Sabina is coming to
London and has invited herself hero
without ceremony"
"When:" asked Arabella, with AM
intonation of intense disgust.
"She viii reach here this afternoon,
Wilbur, yoa will have to meet her.
''Sorry, ma, but | have promised g
drive Hiss, Caldwell to the park: !
caN 90.
Certainly, l will 60" Fred said
gravely, though there was hot flush
on his forehead. Il am very fond of
Aunt
"Nonesense" said his mother. .you
have not seen her for fourteen years.
| never went near the detestable old
farm after Your father died"
Nevertheless. | have a vivid recol-
lection of Aunt Sabina's kindness
when We were there.
Dear me. Fred" drawled Lucilla,
don't be sentimental: wish the old
thing would stay home. | can't i'm
agine what she is coming here for
"She is oUr fathers sister. said
Fred. "and I cannot find anything
surprising in her looking for well
come amongst her brothers children.
Mrs Gorham shrugged her shoul-
ders. ifshe had spoken her thoughts.
it would have been-"Fred is SO Old,
Just like his father. Bat she only
said-..I NAV depend upon YOU then,
To meet Your aunt, Fred | will see
about her room"
II was a source of satisfaction to
Mrs Gorham that her children were
all like herself .'truc Greers. every one
Of them except Fred. she would say,
congratulating herself that the plebe-
ian blood Of "Gorham psre' WIS not
transmitted in the features of her yl-
der son Wilbur. or any Of the three
girls.
That Greer pride meant intense sell
fishness. that Greer beauty WAS Of cold.
hard type. that Greer disposition was
tyrIuHicai and narrow minded, did
NOT trouble Mrs. Gorham. Tha, the
son. who was s'a.l GorhaEn. " was proud
to the core with the true pride that
knows no false shame: that he was
noble ia disposition. handsome in q
frank. manly type, generous aud self
sacrificing. she could not appreciate.
HIS haads and feet were not So small
as darling Wiibur's. hc bad uo fash
ionab.c a.,rctatious. and "Grgrr" lrrh.
- his mother though. him rough and
coarse. aal his sisters declared iha,
h- haI Uo -,y.r az all. Bur outside
Of the home, where great show #
wealth ~-s made ly many private
economies. fred Was more apprec!a;-
ci.
When hv became man. and knew
tha; his fathers estate though suth-
cIcnt Ia give them every comfort, WIS
not large enough for the extravaganza
his mother iudulgai in. he fitted him
self for business, and took position
in u counting house, thus becoming
self-supportiug, though his mother
declared no Greer had ever been in
trade. That the money she lived
on WAS made in soap boiling. the fash
iouabIc lady ignored entirely. Darl-
ing Wilbur had studied law, bat his
first client had not vet appeared, and
Mrs. Gorham supported him, trusting
his destinations would touch the heart
Of some moueycd belle. Miss tald-
well was the present hope. She was
her own mistress, an orphan heiress.
and very handsome. That she was
proud and rather cold in manner. was
only an additional charm To Mrs.
Gorham, and Lucilla, Arabella, and
Corinue were enthusiastic in their ad-
miration Of "Cornelia Caldwell'squren-
" manner.
Nobody suspected that Fred, blunt,
straightforward Fred, hid one secret
i'll his heart, confessed to 10 living be-
ing. And that secret was a love, pure
and true. for Cornelia Caldwell-a
love that would shut itself closely a.
way from any suspicion Of fortune
hunting-that only dropped and
mourned. thinking of the heiress.
At four o'clock, Fred was at the
station with a carriage, waiting for
Aunt Sabina. What a little. old
fashioned figure she was, in her quaint
black bonnet and large-fgured shawl.
But Fred knew her kindly old face at
once. though he had not seen it since
he was twelve years old.
"You are Aunt he said, going
quickly to meet her.
She looked at the handsome face,
and caught quick gasping breath.
You must be one Of Johns boys,
she said. GLOW like you are to your
father
Il am Fred" he answered.
Dear heart. How you've grown =
Is your ma here p
"She is waiting for You at home" "
The good old country woman had
never had the least doubt Of Il warm
welcome at her brothers house and
Fred certainly confirmed her cxpecta-
tions. lie found the old black lcath-
er trunk, the bag, the band-boX, the
great bulging cotton umbrella, and
put them all in the carriage without
one smile of ridicule. He made his
Aunt 90 to the restaurant and refresh
herself before starting on the long
drive home. He listened with respect
full interest to all the mishaps of the
long journey, and sympathized, with
the elimination of every mortal stitch
Eve got on, dear, in the dust and
smoke"
And he chatted pleasantly of his
childish recollections of the tiny house
and wide farm where Sabina lived.
"You see," she told him, 81 made
up my mind this year | would come
! to | nndnn nncn hafnrn | died Eve