The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1883-05-30
COUSIN FRANK

~ must now bid you good morning,
Miss Ogden; my train is about starting;
am sorry you are obliged to remain
here until tomorrow, in consequence of
the break in the road; but you will find
everything pleasant here AT the hotel
/ have entered your name on the books
and have also given the name and adj
dress Of your father, which will be all
the guarantee you will require for the
best treatment they can give you
The lady whose attendant had thus
bowed himself out and away, was a
happy young girl of IS, who had been
spending the holidays with some rela-
tives in st. Louis, and.was now on her
way TO her home in Rochester. She had
been accustomed to travel, both in COM
pany and alone, and did not regard it
as n very serious calamity when she
learned from the gentleman in whose
charge she had been placed, and who
had accompanied her as far as Chicago
that she would be obliged to remain
there day or two.
1t was now 8 O'Clock in the morning,
and, having breakfasted in her room,
and while thinking how pleasant it
would be to find some one in that great
city whom she knew, she CHANGED to re-
member having heard her father say
that he had nephew residing there by
the name of Charles Brown, dealer in
hardware.
The city directory gave her the adj
dress of Charles Brown, hardware
and within the next twenty minutes a
cab placed the young lady with her
satchel in her hand, at the door OF his
residence.
The bell had been rung, and steps
We're approaching the door, when our
heroine began, for the first time, to
query with herself as TO whether she
bad gone into the CONSUMING business in
the most prudent way. Would it not
have been much better to have sent her
card and informed those cousins that
she was at the hotel and would be glad
to see them? She must now 20 in and
say to the lady:
~ am cousin Of your husband Nv
namc'is Agatha Ogden and | am
daughter Of Ralph Ogden, of Rochester,
n. "
How different an awkward transaction
looks, when we get fairly into it, from
what il does when thought of or seen at
a dsiancel
II am much pleased to see you Miss
Ogden was the form in which the
Young lady was receyed by Mrs.
Brown. please let me take your hat
and wraps. Ny sister, Miss Williams"
she added, as the lady thus introduced
entered the room. "My husband is out
OF the city, but will return tomorrow.
His brother Frank is at the store, aud
will be home to lunch. know very liz
tie OF my husbands relatives. - do
not believe Frank knows much about
them, he having left home when no
more than 10 years old
II do wish was back ut the ho,cln'
Agatha said TO herself the first moment
she was alone. These ladies seem very
kind; buthow extremely awkward |
shall feel II the gentleman should not
be II relative OF mine after all! They will
think, and so shall |, tina, have made
avery great fool Of myself, And even
u they are my cousins, they will no
doubt suppose that came here to save
my hotel bill. But am here now,
and they are making me welcome; Of
course cannot do otherwise than re,
main untirthe elder broihorcomes home.
DO wonder Il other people ever act rs
foolishly as ! do sometimesp How father
and mother would scold met"
,g Frank Brown. the cousin who would
DC home 70 lunch, was an earnest young
fellow, ~ years old ovorilowing with
life, and had seen Just enough Of tho
world 70 make him somewhat bold and
.self-leliant.
Tomake sure Of Franks company TO
lunch, Miss Williams went down to the
store soon after the visitor came In. and
told him the whole story, ending wi,hi
''She Is really very pretty girl, Frank.
We are just delighted with her,"