The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1883-06-16
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Guy Kirkwood went slowly ana
sadly away without answering slh.
gle word. If only she had remained
true to him, he believed that ne could
have breasted the cold waves OF all
other fate; but now
Well, such was the way OF the
world. He must make up his nina
to take the bitter with the sweet, as
it came. But the sweet had peen
honey-sweet, and the bitter was as
gall!
"UncIe. can L speak to you for a
minute?"
Mr.. Segrist, setting away the piles
of dusty papers in his law library,
startled at the sound of the soft, bell
like voice. !
MY child. | thought you'anut'osa
had gone to the ball."
"Cora has gone, uncle; but | thought
L would rather remain quietly at
home. "Uncle-" And here she
paused and hesitated.
"Well, child, what is it?"
"You are my guardian and trustee,
uncle," she went on, as if forcing her.
self to speak. "Will you tell me how
much money Cora and l have each
got ?"
about ten thousand dollars. Lisa.
But what makes you ask ?'
"And can l do as L please with
it?"
"That depends on circumstances.
Probably, yes"
"WelI, uncle, L want to lend it to
Mr.. Kirkwood, to help him get into
business again"
"Child, what for ?"
because he has no friends left,
uncle; because l feel sorry for him."
said Lisa Segrist, with deepening
color and downcast eyes. "And un-
Gle, he must not know who let him
have it,"
"Why not, you little network of
riddles and mystery?"
"Oh, because [ couldn't bear to
have him know. 1t could be man
aged, couldn't it?"
Eyes, 1 suppose. But are you real
ly in earnest, Lisa ?"
''Yes, uncle"
"And the interest of the money,
which has always supplied you with
pins and ribbons and tape, and gim-
crackery in general ?'
81 can do without that, uncle,''
Lisa resolutely answered. "But you
mustn't tell Cora. She would think
it silly and romantic"
"Well, well, child" said Uncle Sc
grist, smiling, though he was in real
ity deeply moved. "Ycu shall have
your own way"
The next week Mr.. KirdWood's
lawyer informed him that ten thous.
and dollars lay at his banking house,
subject to his draft or order at any
time.
"Ten thousand dollars !" cried poor
Guy, quite overwhelmed at the mag
nltude of the sum "who would lend
me ten thousand dollars ?"
"That is what [ am not at liberty
to inform you," said Mr.. Jessup,
stiffly.
And it was in vain that Guy Kirk
wood, marshaling in his memory all
his probable and improbable friends,
tried to fix the benefit upon one or
other of them. No, he could not place
it anywhere, this mysterious bene.
faction; he must just accept it in the
spirit in which it had been given.
"And 1 will try to prove to my un-
known FRIEND" he said, in choking
voice, "that the favor has not been
bestowed in vain. Upon this foun-
dation, Heaven helping me, [ will
build up the beginning of new for
fune, a more prosperous career"
Mr.. Kirkwood's words proved al
most prophetic. Five years from that
time he had not only regained bis
former position in the commercial
world, but had shot beyond it and
Cora Segrist, who in the meantime
had INDUCED in several futile flirta-
tions, and broken two engagements,
began seriously to consider the pro-
priety of once more spreading her
net for the bird she had lei fly so long
ago.
because 1 am really getting quite
middle aged ~ said Cora demurely /;
"and Mr.. Kirkwood certainly is more
charming than ever"
Guy Kirkwood came often to Mr..
Segrist's mansion but Cora, disposed
though she was to take the most
favorable view of matters, could not
but mistrust that it was more on her
sisters account than her own.
docs he really care for her. /
wOnder?" thought Cora "or is it
only to revenge himself upon me for
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