New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1883-06-06


Will come up from echoing valley, that my ears
have heard before,
When I stood behind the windmill, on that
busy threshing floor.
A. j. Krider, in Chicago Check.
COUSIN FRANK"
81 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 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 a day or two.
1t was now 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
were approaching the door, when our
heroine began, for the first time, to
query with herself as to whether she
had 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 go in and
say to the lady:
81 am {; cousin of your husband NV
name is Agatha Ogden, and l am a
daughter Of Ralph Ogden, of Rochester,
N. W
How different an awkward transaction
looks, when we get fairly into it, from
what it does when thought of or seen at
distance!
Il am much pleased to see you Miss
Ogden!' was the form in which the
young lady was received by Mrs
Brown. '.Please let me take your hat
and wraps. NV 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, and
will be home to lunch. know very lit
tie of my husbands relatives. and do
not believe Frank knows much about
them, he having left home when no
more than 10 years old.
II do wish / was back at the hotel"
Agatha said to herself the first moment
she was alone. s'These ladies seem very
kind; but how extremely awkward l
| shall feel if the gentleman should not
be relative of mine after all! They will
think, and SO shall /, that have made
a very great fool of myself. And even
if 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 until the elder brother comes home.
1 do wonder if other people ever act as
foolishly as do sometimes? How father
and mother would scold me!'
Frank Brown, the cousin who would
be home to lunch, was an earnest young
fellow, % years old, overhowing with
life, and had seen just enough of the
world to make him somewhat bold and
self-reliant.
To make 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 with:
"She is really very pretty girl, Frank.
We are just delighted with her,
Frank Brown had never heard of any
cousin of that name, but that only made
the discovery more interesting.
Having put himself through the hands
of his barber and boot embellisher, and
given each part of his wardrobe few
extra touches he ordered cab TO set him
down at his door. Then, after giving
himself few more touches and scrutin-
ling chances on entering the hall, the
young man marched boldly in, and hav-
ing been duly announced, said:
81 am delighted to meet you, cous-
in
At the same-for the whole story may
as well be told-he took her fondly and
fectionately by the hand, and placing
his left arm gently around her, waited
q second or two until he saw her fair
blue eyes looking firmly, afectionately,
as he thought, inyitingly, right into his
own, and then gave her cousinly kiss,
not roughly or hastily, but in very be-
coming and orderly way. He said,
again:
Il am delighted to meet you, Cousin
Agatha
To which the young lady responded
'.And l am pleased to meet you, Cous-
in Frank. =
The young man remained at home
that day an hour longer than usual-in
fact, did not return to the store until
one of the clerks came for him, and
then remained only long enough to am
swer a question or two. A little bus
mess at the hotel required his attention.
! Cousin Agatha's trunk, the check for
which he had received from her, must