The Dillon tribune., 1885-06-20

VOL Yours sincerely, Frank Carruthers"
.Who il Frank Carruthers" asked Beatrice.
ssSome relation to rs, II be notr'
.:His mother was my fathers half-sister."
"What relation does that make him to meg''
Herbert stroked his beard and grappled
With the problem. HE must b. your half
drxt cousin once removed, he said at last.
Exactly 50, said Horace.
This point being settled, Miss Clauson re-
auested further Information about Mr.. Car
,uthers. Thereupon Horace went into family
history, which II win perhaps be better for US
- look up on our own account. On such
occasions Horace was apt to become rather
nrosy.
Old Taberts half-sister, who was some
years younger than himself, married, just
before the successful coup came of, q man
named Carruthars. It was no great match,
and il Mr.. Carruthers found domestic bliss
t. was we'll that he made his matrimonial ar.
rangsments before the ''boom" in oil, tobacco,
sorn or wh.ssver It VA, sent 1r. Tslbsrt ts
na:iewood House and county society. Had
be deferred it till then the chance; arc taai
M. Talbert would have insisted oa Ii; s::stel
doing better; for Caz1uthers had OILY q
moderate hxed income - manager Of some
works in the north.
Somehow after her marriage his half -sistel
clipped away from Mr.. Talbert's Life. Al
whole sisters and brothers 20 often do the
same this fact Il not astonishing. Mrs.
Carruthers had several children-but ont
after another they died Oh. She wrote *
her half-brothsr announcing tho birth OF
the death Of each. He answered her letter.
in conS-atulatory or consolatory way a
the occasion required. This was about al
the correspondence which passed between
them. When Horace and Herbert wert
la1i7 boys in Eton jackets and round collar.
Frank Ca-ruthers was born, and actually
lived long enough to give pron:s, OF growing
up. Indeed, his father before he died saw
his only surviving child a strapping youa.
fellow Of seventeen.
Mr.. CarTuthers left his widow an annuity
for life and q few hundreds in ready money
She lived well within her income and ex.
pended her capital in finishing her sons edu
cation. She may have had some of old Tai
bert's views Of things in general, althourt
lacking his means Of carrying them out
Anyway she sent her boy to Oxford
There, for three or four terms, he behaved
disgracefully.
He got into scrapes, difficulties and debt.
90 far, indeed, into the last that his mother
for the first and only time in her Life applied
to Mr. Talbert for assistance. This was giver
readily, and the young man was once mort
set of straight
Then suddenly Mrs. Carruthers died, Out
OF her annuity she had saved enough each
year to pay q premium Of assurance, and
Frank, when just twenty one, found that hel
foresight and love put him in possession OF
some seventeen hundred pounds.
Whatever his faults might have been he
was passionately attached to his mother.
Her death seemed to make q changed man Of
him. He immediately paid back Mr.. Tai.
bert's loan-better still, he went to work like
hoise-an intellectual horse, of course. The
consequence was that he became one of the
most aiming lights Of his year, and was in
duo time rewarded by Fellowship.
This was lucky; for after having repaid Mr..
Talbert he bad only enough money left to
carry him to tho end Of his Oxford course.
Eveotually he settled down to try and
maks ha. living, or augment tho emolumen.s
OF ms Fellowship, as an Oxford sscoach." At
tnas particular time the supply Of coaches
was beyond the demand, so for some years. in
cPaee OF nus oriEiant reputation, PASSENGER
OF puPus-were few. But he stuck to the busi-
neks' ana Iotteriy bad been given a. much.
even more, than he eould manage, Hcnce
tho overwork Ao'
All this Uncle Horace tola Beatrice in HI.
own fashion-all except the wildcat episod,
That was past and gone; Frank was how a
successful man, 80 his youthful sins nioht be
forgotten. '' 70
Beatrice until now knew nothing about her
fractional cousin. An intermittent and Ian.
gushing correspondence had existed between
her mother and Mrs. Carruthers, but upou
the death OF his first wife Sir Maingay had
not the least interest in keeping up any form
OF relationship with Mrs. Carruthers. Il is
doubtful whether he even knew Of her exist
ence. The Talberts, who were far too proud
to disown any Of her kin, had met the Young
man several times and had liked what they
eaa seen OF him. They had asked him to
oakbury, and after excusing himself once or
twlee ne was now coming there
NV lis no clergyman asked Beatrice.
"He must be, suppose"
NO." said Herbert. HE never took
orders. The fellowship he holds did not
make that indispensable"
iney ought all to be like that.n said
Beatrice. Men oughtn't to be- forces 1',o~ ~
nrined to enter the church. Besides" con-
tlnued she, ''they ought not to make . mo-,
gave up his Fellowship when he marries Just
a. he wants more money they take it from
him. He must either give up his wife or hi. his
income" "'A0 " nS
MISS Clausoa was growing quite a philo.
sopher ON the subject of msrriaus Sho
spoke about it as if it were an imnoss;h;,;.',
that she herself would ever be interastod y
the matter. '0' 'S'e'" IN
~ iay,. ny aear;' said uncle Horace, gallantly.