Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1875-04-22
The REWARD CT KINrNsss.

she had been reading. and looking
around the table at her blooming
daughters snl two tall. handsome
sons, said in doleful tone: xxx
'Your aunt Sabina is coming tc
London, and has invited herself here
without ceremony .t..:.;.-. E
"Vhen ?" asked Arabella, with an
information of intense disgust.
ssShe viii arrive here this aftern Don
Wilbun, you will have to meet her.
''sorry, ma, but | have promised te
drive Miss Caldwell to The park. Fred
can 60
! "Certainly, I will 60" gravely re-
piled Fred, though there was hot
flush on his forehead. 81 am very
fond of aunt" .aiH
"Nonsense said his mother "you
have not seen her for fourteen years ]
never went near that detestable old
farm after your father died"
Nevertheless, l have vivid recolle-
ton of Aunt Sabina's kindness when
we were there" .....r
'Dear me, Fred" drawled Lucilla,
sdont be sentimental | wish the old
thing would stay at home. ] can't
imagine what she is coming here for. :"
s'She is our fathers sister," said
Fred, "and / cannot lind anything
surprising in her looking for a welcome
amongst her brothers children"
Mrs. Gorham shrugged her shoulders.
If she had spoken her thoughts, it
would have been-''F Sired is 80 odd !!
Just like his father" But she only
said, 81 may depend upon you then, to
meet your aunt, Fred l will see about
her room. -t e.
1t was source of great satisfaction
to Mrs. Gorham, that her children
were ali like herself, "true Greers,
every one of them, except Fred" she
would say, congratulating herself that
the plebian blood Of "Gorham pere
was not transmitted in the features of
her elder son, Wilbur, or any of the
three girls.
That Greer pride meant intense
selfshness, that Greer disposition was
tyrannical and narrow-minded, did not
trouble Mrs Gorham. That the son
who was call Gorham" was proud to
the core with the true pride that knows
no false shame, that he was noble in
disposition, handsome in frank manly
type, generous and self-sacrifcing, she
could not appreciate. His hands and
feet were not so small as darling
Wiiburs; he had no fashionable affecta
tons, and no ,'asGreer" look. So his
mother thought him rough and coarse,
and bis sisters declared that Fred had
no style at all. But outside of the
home, where great show of wealth was
made by many private economies,
Fred was more appreciated. =. f
When he became a man, and knew
that his fathers estate, though sufficient
to give them every comfort, was not
large enough for the extravaganza his
mother INDUCED in, he fitted himself
for business, and took position in a
counting house thus becoming self
supporting, though his mother declared
that no Greer had ever been in trade
That the money she lived on was
made in, soapboiling, the fashionable
lady ignored entirely. Darling Wilbur
had studied law, but his first client had
not yet appeared, and Mrs. Gorham
supported him, trusting his destinations
would touch the heart ofsome moneyed
belle. Miss Caldwell 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 Corinne were enthusiastic in their
admiration of "Cornelia Caldwell's
queenly manner. ~
Nobody suspected that Fred, blunt,
straight forward Fred, hid one secret
in his heart, confessed to no living
being And that secret was love,
pure and true, for Cornelia CALDWELL
love that would shut itself closely
away from any suspicion Of fortune
hunting that only dropped and
mourned, thinking of the helress.
At four o'clock Fred was at the
station with a carriage, waiting fer
Aunt Sabina. What little, old
Toned figure she was, in her quaint
black silk bonnet and large-fyured
shawl But Fred knew her kindly old