Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-04-29
Rightod at Last.

H. was gone then! Ihera was lie
hope! HIS ht,Ie cap, ant shoes, and
jacket, found on the bank where he had
Iaid them when he went into bathe -
silly chlii - had not been enough a.
convince the mother that her missing
boy WIS lost. Yet 1t was close to wher,
the liver IL INTO the sea, aul where
the tide wns strupg-h how, then, conl,i
she hope? Bat This latter news. the
finding Of tins half dccayrl body Of t,
little boy, which the tiuuItr had been
obi, td to bury ut ohce --this was too
plain to tie de MED. She must give hlu.
up
Mr.. Il "nlOrt closed her doors and
sat Gown III her spIeudid mansion t.
mourn. Her servants cnnle and went
arouni hri, bat she would see no one
else. Ii own kinditd were too fa,
away, across the ocean in the new
world, t" come 10 her; andIshe ha
kno"u til St of her u>band's people
onl, during the year hat lie had been
master o! Beaufort Manner.
lie had been separated from his
friends. II hdustless wundrrer, and they
had cared nothing for hun, till old Mr..
Beaufo,t, the bachelor luri OF the man
or, lying, had, to their astOnishment
and Indlg uaIlon, left the great furtune
which they had conf teutly expected
would be uIvlued between two families
near"-t OF KIN, to scapeRrace. wander.
Ing Is rnnrd beaufort. 1t was for this.
then, hat they had ti.ttered aud pett. d
the ecceutric, cross old mai 1t was for
= IL. = "A 4 I
and vowel that they expected nothing
from hi;n, aud wanted no hing, ana
came to ste only him, M. the manor
They had borne his sardonic grlDs,
when lis listened 10 tLei, falsebood
only that BERNARD Beaufort, whom they
hardly ackDoa lodged for n relation, and
his American wife, whom they had
never acku Sledged at all, and their
boy, should inherit Beaufort Manor
and all tn Old mans property, exrep,
the Ei0O apie CO which be had mocking-
ly b. qutA'hed his consi.s aud their
twelve children, all told.
1t was unbearable! Add all because
Bernard had the art to name his DO,
Pbl'ip, after tho old man. Had rot
each "f his cousins u Ph,lip--her cid
est? Il 1t he sad Philip had given him
no Lotice of the naming, as they haG !;
had asked no christening present; ana
that he, the old man, had heard the
child sname only by accident There
fore, it nust have been named from
some rec olectioa.
When the new heir and his wife came
home, the relations pocketed their
wrath SO far At to visit them. 1t was
not worth while to shun themselves ont
Of the place because it was not to be
theirs.
Mrs. Beaufort as;onished her new
relatives. They expected to find II
common person; they found lady
more highly bred and educated than
the mselvrs. An elegant form, habited
with exquisite taste; u classical face.
purely pale; rich, dark hair; 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 month when u
lawyers missive reached her; and she
awOke Ia the fact that it was not only
her son was lost, but the heir of Beau
fort Manor. The relatives and heirs
had allowed her to stay SO long ont of
regard to her feelings, and because they
wo1ld rather she had proposed to go,
them to remind her that, by the late
Philip Beaufort's will. the property
was to go to the son Of Bernard, and in
case he died childless, to be divided be-
tween two cousins, the elder having the
manor for life, the eldest son of the
younger to inherit it ut his death.
The childless widow rose up and went
out of the sorrowful home that had
been hers but u year and a half. No
sympathy no kindness were offered her
now. They paid her the moderate
provision that had been assured her,
ant said good bye with no invita-
tion to remuIu or visit them. She was
no longer necessary to them. and they
cOn'd resent her past GOODNESS.
Even when her husband died, six
months after their coming to the prop
erty, she did not much seek their com
partnership, though they then redoubled
their attention, as their hopes in
creased.
Bernard had been an alfectionate but
a diesIpated husband; and if his wife
grIe, ed for him it was not as one with
cut hope Little Philip. her idol. now
two years old, was left her, and she
turred to him with all her heart.
Aud now he WAS gone! Three years
Ole and tn Ienturesome! How had he
elnded servants and mother and play
nnte-? He had done 30, in spite of
10, "a
their park had enticed him, and he was
gone. Every effort had been made,
search, advertisements, rewards offered
but i'll vain; and the finding of that lit
tie hoJy with the golden hair in cnrls
about The face had satisfied her. A
curl had been given the mother, and