The Baltimore County union., 1881-04-16
RIGHT AT LAST.

He was gone them There was no
hope His little cap, the shoes, and
Jacket, found on the bank where he had
laid them when he went into bathe-
silly child had not been enough to
convince the mother that her missing
boy was lost to her. Yet it was close to
where the river fell into the sea, and
where the tide was strong-how, then,
could she hope? But this latter news,
the finding Of the half-decayed body Of
a little boy, which the finder had been
obliged to bury at once-this was too
plain to be denied. She must give
him up.
Mrs. Beaufort closed her doors and
sat down in her splendid mansion to
mourn. Her servants came and went
around her, but she would see no one
else. Her own kindred were too far
away, across the ocean in the new world
to come to her and she had known
! tissc Of her husbands people only dur.
ing the year that he had been master Of
Beaufort Manor.
He had been separated from his
friends, 4 homeless wanderer, and they
had cared nothing for him, till old Mr..
Beaufort the bachelor lord Of the manor,
dying, had to their astonishment and
indignation left the great fortune which
they had confidently expected would be
divided between two families nearest Of
kin, to scapegrace, wandering Bernard
Beaufort. II was for this, that they had
flattered and petted the eccentric, cross
old man II was for this they had lied
to him over and over, and vowed that
they had expected nothing from him,
and wanted nothing, and came to see
only him, not the manor. They had
borne his sardonic grins, when he lis
tend to their falsehood, only that Ber-
nard Beaufort, whom they hardly ac-
knowledge for relation, and his Amer
ican wife, whom they had never ac-
knowledged at all, and their boy, should
inherit Beaufort Manor and all the old
mans property, except the roo apiece
which he had mockingly bequcathed his
two cousins and their twelve children,
all told.
1t was unbearable And all because
Bernard had had the art to name his boy
Philip, after the old man. Had not each
Of his cousins a Philip-her eldest ? But
said Philip had given him no notice OF
the naming, as they had; asked nc
christening present and that he, the
old man had heard the child's name
only by accident. Therefore, it must
have been named from some recollec-
ton.
When the new heir and his wife
came home, the relations pockcted their
wrath so far as to visit them. II was
not worth while to shut themselves on,
Of the place because it was not to be
theirs.
Mrs. Beaufort astonished her new
relatives. They expected to see com
-spcn person; they found lady more
highly bred and educated than them.
selves. An elegant form, habited with
exquisite taste 4 classical face, purely
pale rich, dark eyes, and admirably
self-possessed-such was the new lady
whom they went to criticise and
patronize.
Scarcely had the bereaved mother
mourned for her son a month when Q
lawyers missive reached her and she
awoke to the fact that it was not only
her son who was lost, but the heir ol
Beaufort Manor. The relatives and
heir had allowed her to stay so long OH,
Of regard to her feelings, and because
they would rather she had proposed tC
60, and they were sorryshc had obliged
them to remind her, that, by the late
Philip Beanfort's will, the property wa.
to 20 to the son ofBernard, and in case
he died childless, to bedivided between
two cousins, the elder having the manol
for life, the eldest son Of the younger tc
inherit il at his death.
The childlcss widow rose up and wenl
out Of the sorrowful room that had beer
hers but year and half. No sym
pafhy or kindness were offered her now
They paid her the moderate provision
that had been assured her, and said
goodbye" with no invitation e
l'remain or visit them. She was nc
longcr necessary to them, and the,
could resent her past coldness.
Even after the husband died, 81,
months after their coming to ths