The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-18
MRS. BEAUFORIsS, SON.
HY L. M.

BY L. NJ,
He was gone thenli There was, no
hope. His little cap, and shoes, and
Jacket, found on the bank where he had
laid, them when he went in to bathe-
silly childl-had, not been enough to
convince the mother that her missing
boy, was lost|to her. Yet itswasHclose to
where the river. fell into the sea, and
where the tide was strong-how, then,
could she hopef But this latter news,
the finding of this half,decayed body of
a little boy, which, the finder had been
obliged to bury at once-this, was too
plaimto be,denied. She musttgiye him
up.
Mrs. Beaufort closed her doors and sat
down in her splendid mansion to mourn.
Her servants came and went about her,
but she would see no one else. Her.own
kindred were too far awayj across, the
ocean in the New World to,come to her;
and she had known these of her hus,
bands people only during the year that
he had been master,of Beaufort Manor!
! He had been separated fromhis friends,
a houseess wanderer, and they had cared
nothing for him, till old Mr.. Beaufort,
the bachelor lord of the manor, dying,
had to their astonishmentr and indigna-
tion, left the great fortune which they
had confidently expected would be d.
vided between two families. nearest of
kin, to scapegrace,, wandering Bernard
Beaufort. It,was for this, then, that they
had fattered and petted the eccentric,
cross old man! 1t was for this they had
lied to him over and over, and vowed
that they expected nothing from him,
and wanted nothing, aud came to see
only him, not the manor. They had born
his sardonic grin, when he listened to
their falsehood, only that Bernard Beau.
fort, whom they hardly acknowledged
for relation, and his American wife,
whom they had never acknowledged at
all, and their hoy should inherit Beaufort
Manor and all the old mans property,
except the hundred pounds api ce which
he had mockingly bequeathed his two
cousins and their twelve children, all
4 told:
ii tt was unbearablel And all because
I Bernard had had the art to npme his boy
Philip after the old mani Had not each
of these cousins Philip, her eldest? But
he said that Bernard had given him no
notice of the naming, as they had, had
asked no christening present, and that
he, theold man, had heard ther child's
name. only by accident. Therefore it
must have been named from some recol
|lectiOn.
| When the news heir and wife came
home, the. eiatienspocketed their wrath
80 far, tovisit Them Itiwas notworth
d while to shut ithemselves out Of the place
y because it wasrnot to be theirs.
Mrs. Beaufort astonished her new REX
!. atives They expected to find common
person; they found a lady. more highly
|bred and educated than themselves. An
elegant FORM, habited with. exquisite
taste, aclassical face, purely pale, rich
dark, hair, bright dark eyes, and admira-
bly self-possessed; such was the newlady
4 whom they went to criticise and patron
ize.
| Even when her husband died, six
u months after 'their coming to the proper,
:. tv, she did not much SEEK their COM
Il panionship, though they then redoubled
their attention, asstheir homes increased.
Il Bernard had been an aAectionate, but
4 IA dissipated husbands; and if! his wife
y. grieved fer him; itwas,not as ones with
4 out hope. Little Philip, her idol, now
1.-Two wears DID, was left her! She turned
: ito him with all her heart.
And now, he was gonel' Three years
old, and so venturesomeYj How had he
eludedi servants and mother, and play
mates7 He: had. done so, in spite aoi
81 every care.. The eriverrunDing past theil
n park had enticed him, and he, was gone
Every effort had been made, search, ad
vertisements, rewards offered, but In
vain; and the finding of that little body
with the golden hair in curls. about the
. face had satisfied her. A curl had beer
given the mother; and putting it side by
side with. one she had cut from Philip
> head only a. month before, they coult
not be told apart.
Scarcely bad the bereayed mothe
mournedsfor her son month, when {
{ LAWYERS missive reached her; and sht
3 woke to- the fact that il wasnet only hel
3 son who was lost, but1thee heir of Beau
, fort Manor. The relatiyesand heirs hac
eI allowed her to stay o'long out of regarc
to her feelings, and because they woult
rather ske had proposed:togo, and they
were sorry thattshe9had obliged them tt
remind her, that. by the late PhiliI
81 Beaufort's will. the property, wasl'to e
to the son of. Bernard, and, ins case ht
: died childiest to be divided d-between' twt
. cousins, the elder having the manor fol
E life, the eldest son of the yonngerto in
herit itat his death.
II The childless widow rose up and wen
but, of the sorrowful home that had beer
!, hers bnt a, year and@half. No, sym
" pathy nor kindness'were offered her now
They paid her, the modsrates provision
n that had been. assured her, and. SAID
y. "Good-by," with n6invitation to remain
Il pr to visit. them. She was no. longe
necessary to them, and they could resen
r. her past GOODNESS.
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