The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1881-12-25


Please do, Mrs. Lishman; you can't think
how very curious feel"
sand what the better will you be Miss
Clavering, ma'am, for hearing great deal
Of disagreeable ms and outs when you
need know nothing Of them2 am sure
you might have lived to be quite an old,
Old woman--or lady l ought to say, for
that's what you would have been--and
you would never have heard word on
this subject from me-"
ION what subject IL there suljectl
Oh. if there is, be quick, Mrs. Lishman,
and tell me all about it, like dear, sweet,
kind creature NJ you are"
swell, sit your ways down, then, and
I'll begin; but mind, if what tell You
vexes you, Miss Clavering, il is your own
bringing on, for, as l said before, you
might have gone on living until you were
quite an old -"
"0h, now, Mrs. Lishman, please, that is
not fair. Please do not begin all that
again. Let me hear your story at once"
"Well. then. this young Mr.. Richmond
who paints pictures, his real name is Mr.
Hugh Kenrick Richmond, and he is our
Mr.. Kenricks own nephew"
Ais nephew" Lucy drew long breath
OF dismay: "Then that explains every
thing" cried she. "rhat is why they do
not like me. lie and his mother are the
people who ought to have had everything
that Mr.. Kenrick left to me-"
swell, in one sense they ought, miss;
but then, in another, they ought not
Mrs Richmond was Mr. Kenrick's only
sister. She married very much against
my masters wishes, a rich young Man
chester merchant. He was very unsteady
and for that and other reasons master
never could abear him. No more could
I, though my feelings were not expected
TO show themselves. She had been brought
up expensive at home before she married,
and when she went to her new home she
found plenty Of expense going on there,
and had no mind TO do anything to lessen
it; so after year or two the natural end
failed, and none too creditably either. My
master, he set them on their legs again,
but he advised them to be prudenter
than they had been; but they liked his
help better than his advice; that's the
way of many. Well, they failed again,
and he helped them again, and harder
words passed between them. She's q ieal
younger than master was. She ought to
have listened humber to him, but there
was no getting it out Of her head that she
was to have all she fancied, whether she
could afford ii or not; not but what she
was a very good, upright woman in all but
that. AT last they quarrelled outright,
she and master, and she went her way
and he his, and for the last twenty years
they never saw each other; indeed, he
died without seeing her. They were quite
friendly on paper. Four times every year
they wrote TO each other kind and tender
like, and asked each other all particulars
how they had been going on in the mean
time, but that was all. They never once
met. daresay my master often sent her
good sum to help her after she lost her
husband, and was poorly left; and then
she had called her boy after master, Hugh
Kenrick Richmond. and she Was always
mighty careful when she wrote TO say
how particularly steady and dutiful he
was, and how well he was turning out ;
and so, seeing as how my master he never
married, and was 80 rich and old, and had
no one 10 leave what he had to but her
and her son, make no doubt she counted
on getting it all when he died; and you
see Miss Clavering, maam, you can hard
ly wonder if she did. for he could not take
his wealth away with him, and she was
the only one he had to look to-
"Oh, dearl oh dear! what harm I have
donel" thought Lucy.