The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-05-26
"COUSIN FRANK. I"
MRs. z. H. HouaH.

II must now bid you goed.morning,
Miss Ogden; my train is about starting
1 am sorry you are obliged to remain
here until to morrow, in consequence Of
the break in the road; but you will find
everything pleasant here at the Sherman
House. have entered your name on
the books, and have also given the name
and address of your father, which will
be all the guarantee you will require for
the best treatment they can give you"
That is all right, Mr.. Werden, and I
am greatly obliged for your Kindness
was the pleasant response.
The lady whose attendant had thus
bowed himself out and away was happy
young girl of eighteen. who had been
spending the holidays with some rela.
tives in st. Louis, aud was now on her
way to her home in Rochester. She had
been accustomed to travel, both in com.
pany and alone, ana did not regard it as
very serious calamity when she learned
from the gentleman in whose charge she
had been placed, and who had accom-
panied her as far as Chicago. that she
would be obliged to remain there a day
or two.
II was now eight o'clock in the morn
ing, 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 chanced to remem
Der having heard her father say that he
had nephew residing there by the
name of Charles Brown, q dealer in
hardware.
The city directory having been sent
for, gave her the address of "Charles
Brown, Hardware" and within the ne II
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 cousining business 10 the most prud-
ent 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 them1 She
must now 60 in and say to the lady:
lam . cousin of your husband. My
name is Agatha Ogden. and I am a
daughter of Ralph Ogden, of Rochester
New York"
How different an awkward transaction
looks, when We get fairly into it, from
what it does when thought Of or seen al
distancei
Il am much pleased to see you. Miss
ogdenr was the form in which the yours
lady was received by Mrs. Brown
'Please let me take your hat and wraps
n sister. Miss Williams. she added, at
lhs lady thus introduced entered the
ioDm. My husband is out of the city,
but will return tomorrow. His brother
FIR INK. is at the store, and will be hcnG
10 lunch. know very little in regard tc
my husbands relatives, aud uo not he
lieve Frank knows much about them. | 4
b wing left home when not more than ten
years old"
~ do wish was back at the Sherman
House!" Agatha said to herself, the first
moment she was alone. "These ladies
seem very kind; but how extremely Awk
ward / shall feel il the gentleman shouts
not be relative OF mine, after ALI They
will think. and so shall /. that have
made very great fool of myself And
even if they are my cousins, they will nc
doubt suppose that came here TO save
my hotel bill. But am hero now, and
they ara making me welcome; of course,
l cannot do otherwise than remain until
the elder brother comes home. dc
wonder il other people ever act as fool
ishly as do sometimes2 How father and
moth sr would seold mel
Frank Brown, the cousin who would
be home TO lunch, was an earnest youne
fsl ow, twenty-five years old. oveThowinl
" b life, and had seen just enough ol