The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1878-10-18
Seisrf Story.
LOANING A LOVER.

Strange enough, for we had alway.
been terribly poor down at Lowbridge
my widowed mother bringing up her
four daughters with the greatest diff
Gully; but when brought up were
worth looking at, believe. Healthy
habits and frugal living are apt to make
good conditions, and Bess and Amy
and Patricia and were as bright and
handsome girls as are often seen.
Bess and Amy were twins, with
eyes as blue as the sea, near which
they were born, rosy cheeks, and
long light-brown curls; Patricia was
a sparkling brunette, while was a
perfect blonde, with crinkled hair like
molten gold. Great had been our ex-
citement, when Aunt Betty wrote from
Fairhaven.
DEAR SISTER IN-LAw; am going
to do myself the pleasure of visiting
you this summer. L 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
100000 if she was worth a cent.
Well, in due time she came. She
put up at the hotel for our cottage al
Lowbridge wasn't big enough to hold
her, with her maid, coachman, and
carriage, bot fortunately, that was
close by, and she spent tie charger hall
of thee days with us.
We thought Bess would be her
choice, for father had named beI
Elizabeth fol, Aunt Betty. though she
had always been "Bess" with US. But
it was neither OF the twines, and it was
not i. 1t was Patricia.
Where did that girl get her black
hairqn Aunt Betty asked as soon as
she saw her.
II think she looks like my brother
Luke, don't you9 asked my mother,
with wistful look.
"The very immage of him, answer
ed Aunt Betty, turning pale.
OWNED then, as learned after
ward, that Uncle Luke had been G
lover of Aunt Betty.s when both were
young, before their marriage, and the
fact seemed to have a power over her
She looked at Patricia until the CIR
blushed rosy red, and would have slip
ped out of the room, when she called
to her, and drawing her down upor
her knees on her footstoOl before her
she put a withered hand on each O.
the young cheeks and said warmly;
my dear, you shall be my heiress I
So it was Patricia she chose to leav,
her money to: but we we're not cut il
the cold, for she sent to the twines VIII;
were only sixteen, with Patricia to th'
Hermitage.
1t was her home a stately old man
sion of gray stone, ,gloomily looking OF
the outside, but luxuriously comforta
BILE within, without being the leas
modern. We had each a maid, ant
the free use of the horse and carriage
After making this provision for ou
comfort, Aunt Betty excused hersel
from making company for Us, and W
were as free as air to enjoy ourselves a
we chose, provided we did not inte
fere with her nap. We chose to max
a great many pleasant acquaintances
guided consciously by Aunt Betty
wisdom, and the result was that l re
turned to Lowbridge, in the summe
engaged to Clyde SherriDgton. He wa
wealthy. handsome. agreeable, vel
connected. Everybody, said "Gu.
trude has done well for herself"
That autum Aunt Betty died. Pa
tricia was to come in possession of he
|, fortune in a year. when she is twent.
one-full and undisputed possession
|; of 100000.
q 1t was arranged that we were all t
: come to the Hermitage to live. w
did SO, and lived there quietly as wa
|. becoming for nearly year, when Pa
: tricia made the acquaintance of Gag
D Redmond.
She met him at funeral-of al
!. places!-the occasion caused by tn
death of our next neigbor, General d
4 Lacy, Gage Redmond being a neigh
bor of his. He was well connecte
but poor as q church mouse. peopl