Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1876-05-25
THE REWARD OF KINDNESS.

she had been reading. and, looking
around the table at her blooming
daughters and two tall handsome
sons, she said, in q doleful tone:
''Your Aunt Sabina is coming to
London, and has invited herself here
without ceremony
"When?" asked Arabeila, with an
intonation of intense disgust.
"She will reach here this afternoon.
WILDER, you will have to meet her." !"
"Sorry, ma; hut l promised to
drive Miss Caldwell to the park.
Fred can CO."
Certainly, will CO." Fred said,
gravely, though there was n hot flush
on his forehead. Il am very fond OF
Aunt"
'1Nonsenser' said his mother.
sYou have not seen her in fourteen
years. I never went near the de
testable old farm after your father
died"
Nevertheless, I have q VIVID rec
while we were there.
"Dear me, Fred" drawled Lucilla,
'don't be sentimental; ] wish the
old thing would stay home. l can't
imagine what she is coming here
for"
aShe's our fathers sister," said
Fred, land cannot find anything
surprising in her looking for wei
come amongst her brothers chill
dren.''
Mrs. Gorham shrugged her shoul-
ders. If she had spoken her
thoughts, it would have been: "Fred
is so odd, Just like his father"
But she only said: 81 may depend
upon you, then, to meet your aunt,
Fred? will see about her room.
1t was a source of great satisfac(
tion to Mrs Gorham that her chd-
dren were all like herself. "'Greefs,
everyone, except Fred" she you'd
say, congratulating herself tbf the
plebian blood of .'Gorham pfe was
not transmitted in the featpes OF her
elder son, WILDER, or any o the three
girls. .r
That Greer pride reant intense
selfishness, that Greerbeauty was of
cold, hard type, tbat Greer dispo-
sition was tyranpal and narrow
minded, did not trouble Mrs. Cor
ham. That tbt son, who was "all
Gorham" was proud to the core with
the pride thst knows no false shame
that he vas noble in disposition,
handsome in frank, manly type,
generous and self-sacrificing-she
could not appreciate. His hands and
feet were not SO small as darling
Wilber's, he had no fashionable affec-
tations, and no "Greer'' look. SO
his mother thought him rough and
coarse, and his sisters declared that
he had no style at all. But outside
the home, where great show of
wealth was made by many private
economies, Fred was more apprecia
| ted.
When he became a man, and knew
that his fathers estate, though sufii-
cient to give every comfort. was not q
-. e..,-,IL.,. VIC eXJravagance his
mother indulged in, he fitted himself
for business and took a position in a
counting house, thus becoming self
supporting, though his mother de
clared that no Greer had ever been in
trade. That the money she lived on
was made in boiling, the fashionable
lady ignored entirely. Darling Will
ber had studied law, but his first
client had not yet appeared, and Mrs.
Gerham supported him, trusting his
destinations would touch the heart
of some moneyed belle. Miss Cald-
well was the present hope. She was
her own mistress, an orphan -heiress,
and very handsome. That she was
cold and proud in manner was only
an additional charm to Mrs. Cor
ham; and Lucilla, Arabella and Cor
inne were enthusiastic in their adj
miration of "Cornelia Caldwell 8
queenly manner
| Nobody suspected that Fred,
blunt, straightforward Fred, hid
one secret in his heart, con-
fessed to no living being. And
that secret was a love, pure and
true, for Cornelia Caldwell-a love
THAT would shut itself closely away
from any suspicion of fortune hunt,
| ing-that only dropped and mourned
thinking of the heiress.
By four o'clock Fred was at the
station waiting for Aunt Sabina
4 What little, old-fashioned figure
she was, in her quaint black bonnet
and large-fgure shawl, But Fred