Weekly Trinity journal. [volume] (Weaverville, Calif.) 1857-1972, 1878-09-28
L0ANING A LOVER.


terribly poor down at Lowbridge, my
widowed mother brir rging up her four
daughters with the greatest difficulty !;
but when brought up wa were worth
looking at, believe. Healthy habits
and frugal living are apt To make good
conditions, and Bess and Amy and Pa
tricia and l we're as bright and handsome
as are often seen.
Bess and Amy we're twins, with eyes rs
blue as the sea near which they we're born,
rosy cheeks, and long, light brown curls;
Patricia was sparkling brunette, while
| was perfect blonde, with crink led
hair like molten gold. Great had been
our excitement when Aunt Betty wrote
from Fairhaven
DEAR SISTER IN LAW am geing
to do myself the pleasure of visiting you
this Summer. | hear that brother Abel
left four girls, and | want to see them.
am getting on in years, and | will make
one of them my heiress."
Aunt Betty of Fairhaven was worth
a hundred thousand dollars, if she was
worth n cent.
Well in due time she came. Sine put
up at the hotel, for our cottage at Low
bride wasn't big enough to hold her, with
her maid, coachman aud carriage but,
fortunately, that was close bv, and she
spent the larger half of three days with
us.
We ali thought that Boss would be her
choice, for father had named her Eliza
beth for Aunt Betty, though she had al-
ways been "Bess" with us But it wns
not either Of the twins and 1t was not |.
1t was Pntricla.
"Where did that girl get her black
hair ?" Aunt Betty asked, as soon M
she saw her,
II think that she looks like my brother
Luke, don't ynu 2" asked my msther
with wistlul look.
"The very image cf him." answered
Aunt Betty, turning pale.
ivioed then, rs learned alterward,
that Uncle Luke bad baen lover of
Aunt Betty's when both were young he,
fore her marriage, and ths fact sosmed to
have II power over her.
She lacked at Patricia until the girl
b'ushed rosy red, and would have slipped
out of the room, when she called 10 her,
and drawing her down upon her knees on
foot stool before her, she put withcred
hand each side Of the young cheek and
said warmly:
my dear. you shall be my heiross !"
her money to f; but we were no. left out
in the cold for she sent .he twins, who
were only sixteen, To school for two years
aud Invited me-, with Patricia, to tho
Hermitage.
1t WAS her home stately Old msnsion
Of grny stone, gloomy lo"Eing on the
outside luxuriously comfortable within,
without being in the least modern. We
had each maid and free use OF the horse
aud ear iHge. After making this provs
vision for our comfort, Aunt Betty ex-
US, aud we were Tree as air to nuioy our
selves ms we chose, provided we did not
interfere with her maps. We chose To
make II great many pleasant acquaiat-
ances, guided consciously by Aunt Bet
tvs isdom. and the result wns that |
returned to Lowbrde in the Sunni mer en-
gagged to Mr.. Clydo Sherrington. He
was wealthy. hand.ome, agreeable, well
connected. Everybody said Gertrude
! had done well for herself"
That Autumn Aunt Betty died. Pa
tricia was to come in possession Of her
fortune in year, when she was twenty
one-fuI and unditpu'c cd possession Of
500, 900.
1t was arranged that we we're all IN
come TO the Hermitage to live. We did
30, and lived there quietly ns was becoa
ing for nearly n year, when Patricia mnd"
the acquaintance OF Mr.. Gage Redmond.
Sho met him first at funsral-of all
| places tho occasion caused by the death
of our next neigbbor. Genera Do Lacy.
/ Gage Redmond being n neRhbO OF his.
/ lie was well connected. but poor ss
church mouse, people said $50, OF
course, he was after Pstrieia's fortune"
mamma declared.
Patricia is rich and beautiful. Pray
don't let her marry fortune hunter,
mamma" said looking up from let
ter | WAS writing to NJ. Sherington.
II would not il could hep IL, but
what authority have /, Gertrude p sad
my mother. I'm lew months Patricia
will be- in undivided possession Of her
fortune. We are here only by cOurtesy.
The Hermitage il her home. | have no
right to control her Whatever"
"But your influence. mamma ?"
"Will have very little effect il she sets
her heart on this Gage Redmond. Pfay
stop staring vacanlly out Of the window,
Gertrude, and attend 10 what l say;
want assistance in this matter"
"Rlease excuse me / am thinking of
my own affairs just now, mamma. They
may b. Of no consequence to you, but
my letter is matter Of some importance
to mo-"
did not mean to be saucy, only pet
tlh but mamma, having had long ex-
perience with four head strong girls, bore
it with me patiently.
"Wel, finish your letter, Gertrude, and
/ then advise me-"
But my train of though: was broken,
and after n few moments put my sseet
in the writing desk.
"What cant be accomplished openly
must be done by straiagem, mamma. II
| l:ob. III that ihi. Cara Radwand Ia