Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1882-03-03
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The Reward of Kindness

Mrs. Gorham put down letter she
had been reading, and looking around
the table at her blooming daughter
and two tall handsome sons, she said
in doleful tone
Your Aunt Sabina is coming, aud
has invited herself here without cere-
mony."
"When:" asked Arabella, with an
intonation Of disgust.
.SShe will reach here this afternoon.
Wilbur, you will have to meet her.
Sorry, ma. but promised TO drive
Miss Caldwell to the park. Fred can
60"
Certainly, will Co." Fred said
gravelv, though there was hot flush
on his forehead. Il am very fond Of
Aunt
Nonsense" said his mother. You
have not seen her for fourteen years.
/ sever went 20 the aSi y -
farm after your father died.
Nevertheless. have vNd recol-
lection OF Aunt Sabinas kindness
while We were there"
Dear me, Fred" drawled Lncilla,
don't be sentimental. | wish the
old thing would stay at home lcau't
Imagine what she is coming here for.
"She is our fathers sister SAID
Fred. "and | cannot find anything
surprising in her looking for a well
come among her brothers children. "
Mrs. Gorham shrugged her should
ers. II she had spoken her thoughts.
it would have been-"Fred is so odd :.
Just like his father But she only
sad
Il may depend upon YOU, then, to
meet your aunt. Fred: | will see
about her ROOM
1t was a source OF great satisfaction
to Mrs. Gorham that all her children
were like herself. Every one "Greers"
except Fred" she would say, con
graduating herself that the blood of
"Gorham pere" was not transmitted
in the features OF her elder son, VIII
bur. or any of the three girls.
The Greer pride meant intense sci,
lishness; that Greer beauty was "A cold
hard type; that Greer disposition was
tyrannical and narrow minded-did
not trouble Mrs. Gorham. That the
son, W ho was "all Gorham," was proud
to the core with the pride that knows
no false shame; that he was noble in
disposition, handsome in IA frank,
manly type, generous and self-sacrltic-
ing-she could not appreciate. His
hands and feet were not so small as
darling Wilbur's he had no fashiona-
BILE atiectations and no 'Greer" look.
So his mother thought him rough and
coarse, and, his sisters delared
that he had no style at all. But out
side the home, here Il great show
of wealth was made by many private
economies, Fred was more appreciated.
When he became man, and knew
that his fathers estate, though suifi
cient to give every comfort, was not
large enough for the extravaganza his
mother INDUCED in, lie fitted himself
for business, and took position i'll a
counting house, thus becoming self
supporting. Darling Wilbur had
studied law, but his first client had
not yet appeared, and Mrs. Gorham
supported him, trusting his fascina-
ton would touch the heart of some
moneyed belle. Miss Caldwell was
the present hope. She WAS her own
mistress, an orphan heiress, and very
handsome. That she was proud and
cold in manner was only an additional
charm to Mrs. Gorhan: and Lucilla
Arabella and Corinne were enthusi,
aslic in their admiration of "Corneliu
Caldwell's queenly manner"
Nobody suspected that Erred, blunt
straightforward Fred, hid one secre,
in his heart, confessed to no living be.
ing. And that secret was a love, pure
and true, for Cornelia CALDWELL
love that would shut itself closely
away from any suspicion of fortune
hunting-that only dropped and
mourn.d thinking of the heiress.
BY four o'clock Fred was at the
station, waiting for Aunt Sabina
What little, old fashioned figure sh'