The Penn's Grove record., 1884-07-12
~oyERsHooTING THE MARX.

81 really don't see what is to be
done" said Mrs. Sutton, as she medi-
tatlvely folded a letter stamped with a
foreign post-mark.
The letter was from Charlie, who was
spending his last college vacation in
Europe, and who now wrote to an
nounce his speedy return, accompanied
by his friend, Mr.. Philip Warrington.
Charlie Sutton was evidently very
proud to call Mr.. Warrington his
friend. He had met him in the course
of his travels, and always wrote of him
as a splendid fellow, clever, handsome
and" with a view to the special con-
slderation of his mother and sister
erich, and of one of the first families
of B.
And now, in accordance with his
mothers instructions, he had invited
his friend to spend a week with him,
before going on to his more southern
home, and she must expect them in a
few days.
There was one drawback to Mrs.
S%utton's satisfaction in this arrange
ment; and it was to this that her re-
marks on closing the letter, referred.
"This will be a capital chance for
you, Isabel" she said, addressing her
daughter; ''in fact, the best probably
that you will ever have. But it re-
quires more tact than you have yet
shown; and besides, there is Alice, who
may interfere and spoil all. as she did
in the affair of Colonel Sawyer. l
really don't see what is to be done as
regards Alice"
Alice was Mr.. Sutton's niece whom
he had taken to his home, on the death
of her parents. She was at that time
fifteen, and as her cousin Isabel a
Just made her entree into society, she
was found to be somewhat in the way,
and was sent to a boarding-school.
Here she had remained until the
past winter, when, being nineteen, 1t
was found positively necessary that she
should come home and be introduced
into society.
But unfortunately, as Mrs. Sutton
considered, Alice's sweet face and
graceful winning manner had proven
with some persons a greater charm than
the bold beauty of the rather ''fast''
Isabel Sutton-Colonel Sawyer in spec
ial, to entrap whom the anxious mother
and daughter had employed the whole
amount of their talent and energies.
He had, upon seeing Alice, trans
ferred his attentions from Isabel to her.
self, and had actually proposed to MI.
Sutton for the hand of his niece, IN
stead of that of his daughter.
1t made no difference that Alice de-
clined the honor. Isabel had lost her
best chance; and though, of course, her
cousin could not be properly blamed in
the matter, yet she was dangerous"
And now that another yet better chance
was about to offer, in the person of Mr..
Warrington, Alice must, in some way
or other, be gotten rid of for the time.
That evening, at tea, Mrs. Sutton,
after adroitly leading the conversation
in the proper direction, remarked to
her husband:
"By-the-by, my dear, when did you
last hear from your aunt Curtis2 L
fear that We have of late rather neg
lected the old lady,"
$50 1 have often told you," returned
her husband, who was an enterprising
business man, not so worldly minded as
his wife. "Aupt Curtis was very kind
to me when l was a boy, and certainly
deserves more attention than l have
had time to bestow. She is old and IN
firm, too, and yet in four years not n
of my family have been to see her."
why, 1t is such a lonely, out Of-the-
way country-place," returned his wife,
''that really to go there seems quite an
undertaking. Yet Idon't wish to neglect
the old lady. She wrote last year that
she would like to see the girls, o that
they are grown, and Alice's mother,
you know, was her favorite niece. l
am sure she would be gratifed by a
visit from us. Indeed now that we
speak of it, 1 and the girls may as well
run up to Copley Farm for a day or
two. What do you say, girlsP"
"Let us go, by all meansl" was