The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1877-06-13
OVERSHOOTING THE MARK.
BY SUSAN ARCHER WEISS.

u0 AGbbIl was AiOiH OuaAliCg VIM
was spending his college vacation in
Europe, and who now wrote to an
nounce his speedy return, accompani-
cd by his friend, Mr.. Philip Warring-
ton.
Charlie Sutton was evidently very
proud 70 call Mr.. Warrington his
friend. He had met him in the course
of his travels, and always wrote of
him as "a splendid fellow, clever, hand
some, and'-with view to the spec
ial consideration of his mother and
sister-"rich, and of one of the first
families of B"
And now, in accordance with bis
m ,ther's instructions, he had invited
his friend to spend week with them,
before going on to his more Southern
home, and she might expect them i'll
few days.
There was one drawback to Mrs.
Sutton's satisfaction in this arrange
nlent and it was to thi9 that her re-
marks, on closing the letter, referi ed.
'"This will be capital chance for
you, Isabel" she said, addressing her
daughter; Gin fact, the best probably
that you will ever have. But it re.
quires more tact than you have ever
shown and besides, there is Alice,
who may interfere and spoil all, as
she did in the affair with Col. Sawyer.
l really don't see what is to be done as
regards Alice"
Alice was Mr.. Sutton's niece, whom
he had brought to his home on the
death of her parents. She was at that
time fifteen, and rs her cousin Isabel
had just made her entree into society,
she was found to be somewhat in the
way, and was sent to o boarding
school.
Here she had remained until the
past winter, when, being nineteen, it
was found positively necessary that
she should come home and be intro.
duced into society.
But unfortunately, as Mrs. Sutton
considered, Alice's sweet face and
graceful, winning manners had prov
Ell with some persons greater charm
than the bold beauty of the rather
"fast" Isabel Sutton--Col. Sawyer, es-
pecially, to entrap whom the anxious
mother and daughter had employed
the whole of their talent and energies.
lie had, upon seeing Alice, trans
ferred his attentions from Isabel to her.
self, and had actually proposed to Mr.
Sutton FIR the hand of his niece, in.
stead of that of his daughter.
1t made no difference that Alice de-
clined the honor. Isabel had lost her
best chance and although, Of course,
her cousin could not be properly blam-
ed in the matter, yet she was danger
ous." And now that another still bet.
ter chance was about to offer, in the
person of Mr.. Warrington, Alice must,
in some way, be got rid of for the
time.
That evening at tea, Mrs. Sutton,
rather adroitiy leading the converse
tion in the proper direction, remarked
to her husband:
"By-the-by, my dear, when did you
last hear from your Aunt Curtis =? l
fear that We have of late rather neg
lected the old lady"
$50 l have often told YOU" replied
her husband, who was an euterprising
business man, and not so worldly
minded as his wife. "Aunt Curtis was
very kind to me when | was a boy,
and certainly deserves more attention
than we have had time to bestow. She
is old, and infirm, too, and yet in four
years not one ofmy family has been to
see her."
"Well, it is such lonely, out-ofthe-
way country place" returned his wife,
"that really TO go there seems quite an
undertaking. Yet don't wish to neg
lect the old lady. She wrote last year
that she would like to see the girls,
now that they are grown and Alice's
mother, you know, was her favorite
niece. lam sure that she would be
gratified at a visit from us. Indeed
now that We speak of it, the girls and
l may as well run up to Copeley
Farm for a day or two. What do you
say to it, girls ?"
LET US go, aunt, by all means,
was Alice's quick reply. ~ should
like to sec my mothers aunt ; aud you
know it is lovely in the country at this
season."
Isabel shrugged her fair shoulders
but prudently said nothing; and the
following day the three ladies were al
the quiet, old.fashioned little farm
house, some twenty miles from the
city.
1t must necessarily be brief visit
for Charlie was expected home-Mrs
Sutton had not said a word TO any onG
except her daughter about expecting
Mr.. Warrington and 80, after a day