The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1885-04-18
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at the house, said the groom who LEI
out his little gray nag.
II can't stay this morning" sait
Houghton. "I am in q hurry"
"But it is some very particular bust
ness,' said the man, running down tn,
pavement after him.
Oh, hang business' said Houghton
and OF be rode.
Mona was in the garden, with bas
bet, gathering more rose-leaves. Sh,
thought the potspoqrri question prom
ised favorably,
Olarice was painting desperately away
at old India ginger-jars, up stairs.
Fenella was writing an advertisement
rBoarders Wanted ;" for the paper.
THE house is as big as a hotel, said
she, "Why shouldn't we make some
use of it2"
Mona Greyton listened with smiles
and tears to Ferdinand Houghtons We.
hement proposal.
"But what could we live upon?n said
she.
"Why, could paint pictures" said
this sanguine young woner, Sim sure
to sell them at a tearing big price, as
soon as my name becomes a little better
known; and I'll have your mother and
all the girls to live with u.s."
"Oh, FerdinnndP' said Mona, halt
laughing, half.cryipg
And then the young artist knew that
be had not pleaded in vain.
"And it's all owing to the pot-pour.
ri" said she, "the sweet, poetica! pot
pourril"
hEvery bit of it, said Ferdinand.
But his uncle listened gravely to the
tale, when the young man came home
late in the moonlight, with his heart full
of his love affairs.
hHumphl" said Uncle Barlow. "How
many pictures did yOp sell during The
past Year,"
''Two, sir!"
"At how much?"
"SeventY-iive dollars eacb!' reluctant
ly admitted Ferdinand.
FHumph!" again grqnted this relent-
less old Rhadamanthus. "And you ex-
pect TO maintain wife and her mother
and four sisters, on hundred and fifty
dollars a yeary'
u shall manage to maintain them in
some way, SIR said the unabashed
nephew, There's always the far West
you know"
Uncle Barlow laughed.
IL think l eau manage to do better
than that for you, you young scamp"
said he. "lf you had turned back this
morning when sent for you, instead OF
putting off to the manor house, as If il
was question of life or death, you would
haye learned that old FramiDgham had
been oVerhauled in London, en- route for
Van Dieman's Land, gorgei with plund-
er. like an old lecchp
"What, SIR shouted Ferdinand. PThe
Greyton's defaulting lawYeiF
Himself, and none other said Uncle
Barlow. 1--WE had cable telegraph at
eleven O'Clock. Mrs. Greyton's money
Is all safe in the hands Of our London
agenti"
but, SIR" gasped Ferdinand, show
do yop come to know this"
cold porrauOe qreyton did me favor
once, when ] was a struggling man,
said Mr.. Barlow. ut was not my in
tentioa to stand By and see his widow
defrauded without some slight effort in
her behalf. 1t seems that was Just in
time"
So there was an end TO the Greyton
troubles. They kept the ola manor
house. Ferdinand Houghton set up his
studio there IN one of the great north
lighted rooms, and Mrs. HougbtcG
makes pot'pouFrls every year, of rose
leaves,
And as fast as the other girls marry
ot-which is by no means slow bust
ness tor they are every oue of them
handsone-she gives them each we'd
ding present ofasweet conserve of scent
ed leaves, !n an Oriental jar.
"For pOt-pourris are lucky" she says,
with the gisest of nc Is.