The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1875-02-17
The Reward Of Kindness.

in q dolefnl tone: NOE T ftah
"Your Aunt Sabina is coming TO
London and has invited herself here
without ceremony" si.li 34 ehN.
"Whenfp ~ asked Arabella, with an
intonation Of intense disgust.
"She will reach hers this afternoon.
Wilbur, you will have TO meet her."
"Sorry, ma, but / have promised to
drive Miss Caldwell toethe park. Fred
can CO." ~ i7ruh'i .''t g.t'' 2,
Certainly, viii Co." said Fred
gravely, though there was o hot flush
on his forehead 81 am very fond of
aunt" ..,.'
"Nonsense said his mother, ''you
have not seen her for about fourteen
years. 9s
Nevertheless have vivid recol-
lection of Aunt Sabina's kindness
when we we're there. .,s
"Dear me, Fred" drawled LuciIla,
"don't be sentimental i wish the old
thing would stay at home. / can't
imagine what she is coming here tor?"
"She is our fathers sister," said
Fred, "and cannot find anything sur.
prisng in her looking for Il welcome
amongst her brothers children"
Mrs. Gorhsm shrugged her should
ers. If she had spoken her thoughts,
1t would have BEEN" Fred is so odd !?
Just like bis father" But she only
said--"I may depend upon you then,
to meet your aunt Fred? | will see
about her room"
1t was source of great satifaction
to Mrs. Gorham that her children we're
all like herself; ''true Greer, every
one of them, except Fred,9 she would
say, congratulatipg herself that the
plebeian blood Of "Gorham pere" was
not transmitted in the features of her
elder son Wilbur, or any of the three
girls. ~ ~ y
That Greer beauty was of cold,
hard type, that Greer disposition was
tyrannical aud harrow minded, did
not trouble Mrs. Gorham. That the
son, who was "all Gorham," was proud
to the core with the true pride that
knows no false shame that he was no.
BILE in disposition, handsome in frank,
manly type generous and selfsacrifc-
ing, che could not appreciate. His
hands and feet were not so small as
darling Wilbur's, he had no fashiona-
BILE affectations, and "Greer" look. So
his mother considered him coarse,
, and his sister 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. m 1ai
When he became a man, and knew
that his fathers estate, though suffi-
J cient to give them every comfort, was
: not large enough for the extravaganza
! ! his mother INDUCED in, he fitted him,
self for business, and took position
D in counting-house, thus becoming
D selfsupporting, though his mother de
: clared no Greer had ever been il
trade. That the money she lived on
was made in soap 5oiling the fashion
! able lady ignored entirely. Darling
Wilbur had studied law, but his frs
! client had not yet appeared, and Mrs
Gorham supported him, trusting hi'
: destinations would tough the heart o
some moneyed belle. Miss Caldwell
was the present hope. She was hel
own mistress, an orphan heiress, and
very handsome. That she was prouG
and rather cold in manner was only
! an additional charm to Mrs. Gorhan
0 and Luc:lla, Arabella, and Corinn,
0 were enthusiastic in their admiration
of "Cornelia Caldyell's queenly man.
3 ner"
Nobody suspected that Fred, blunt
! straightforward Fred, hid one secret il
8 his heart, confessed to no living being
= And that secret was a love, pure anC
: true, for Cornelia Caldwell-a low
8 that would shut itself closely away
3 from any suspicion of fortune-huntins
that only drooped and mourned
thinking of the heiress.
At four o'clock, Fred was at tn
station with a carriage, waiting fo
o Aunt Sabina. What little, old fash
8 ioned figure she was, in her quain
q black silk bonnet and large figured
0 shawl But Fred knew her kindl,
old face at once, though he had no
b seen it since he was twelve years old
"You are aunt" going quickly t.
meet her.
She looked at the handsome face
and caught quick gasping breath.
"You must be one Of Johns boys,
: she said. "How like you are TO you
fatherl"
81 am Fred" he answered.
"Dear hearth How you have grown
If Is your mother here?"