The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1886-06-17

There lived quarter OF mlle uoWn the
road from the Beeches wealthy bachelor
named Godmore-a man OF fifty years or
thereabout tall pompous, and imposing TO
look at-a man OF great solemnity, who never
laughed except In responsible sort OF way,
and who kept his coat well buttoned round
his ample frame typifying, II might be, the
reserve with which no wrapped his person
alty from view. lie was the sort OF man
who, IN q picture boolI, would look the very
image OF n respectable Great Briton There
W an air Of steady solvency about hlm-a
bankers air-which was very
tcuing, The most tmid shopkecper would
have given Goldmore credit for thousand
pounds before even hearing his name, His
men would have carried him, With his
majesty, the higncss OF his frame, his vast
bony features and the sober color Of his
attire, he looked rather like an elephant who
had cast his trunk, and was going round the
world on n tour Of solemn survey IN coat
and trousers,
Archibald Goldmore, Rsq, had nephew
his htir-who used 20 como and see him
often, and who, being ON the lookout for u
wife, was struck with the beauty Of Sibyl
Temple This Harry Goldmoro wOsa lively
young follow, but no great favoritc with his
uncle He was heir, because there was none
other forthcoming. but nephew and uncle
never quito hit Il of, The young man was
one Of those fortunate, or unfortunate, people
very much either they are sure 20 bo-who
without being exactly selfish, have yet an
inordnnte idcn Of their own claims upon life
and their fellow creatures with u proper.
tonnto disregard OF other peoples feelings,
Young Goldmore weuld always help himself
~ the best, oven before his uncloS eyes and
would never say, "Unclo, won't you try thsP
or "Lct me recommend so and so'-triAing
attentions, hut by such little acts young men
sometimes make thoir fortunes, The nephew,
too, well knowing that his uncle employed an
unsurpnNhhle cook and prlded himself upon
his table, would yet In the most flippant style
find fault with dishes, and declare that In his
club IN London the cooking was fifty times
bottcr,
Outrageous @uoe this" he exclaimed ono
evening Os ho tasted his boiled mutton,
"unough 10 put one OF ones iccd,'
at your age remarked his uncle sol.
emnly, ~ got very little sauce at all ~
"Gdpo enough, ! darcsayW rotortod the
witty young man, with great roaring
laugh, after which hc finished his mutton and
asked for another help administering the
condemned sauce plentimlly,
From these few hints every reader Of ob
soryation can I'LL up sketch of this young
follows character, aud II need only bo said
that ho was tolorobly good looking by no
means vicious and with very passoblc man.
ncrs, becoming almost agreeable on tho rare
occasions whom, standing ln0wc Of somebody,
ho had the sonso 10 curb his fioliCsomo dispo-
htion
He saw sibyl Temple Used IA he was 10
believe the finest horses bred for him, the
finest vlntages grown for him, the richest
lShes cooked for him, he hearing and seeing
chat Sibyl was the handsomost girl In Kettle
well, casly concluded that she had bocn
reared for him, So hc began making eyes NJ
her, and having perceived that she noticed
bis attentions which she could not fail 10
lo-hc treated the conquest ~ made and told
his uncle ON Sunday NJ lunch that he loved
Miss Sibyl Tcmpo, and that he had little
louht that she rociptocntod the passion,
Beneath some Of our big, middo.nged
waistooate there Ito strange secrets This
pondorous Archibald Godmorc, elevated,
pompous, aud remote from sentiment as h0
appeared, had buried sorrow Of his own,
Years agohis only brother Harry Godmoros
{ thor, died, The two brothers had over
ben fondly attached, Lifc's carly struggle
they had faced side by side aud nm affection
n,or 10 bo destroyed had, during those
carly years, laced thor hearts together
The brother died In dying he put hla thin
whito band out from under the bed clothes,
and, catching Archibulds wrist, begged him
not 20 forget his little son, soon 10 bo nm or
phan. Archibald promised, and that prom.
lso, never brokcn, and rc.ontorcod year after
year by memories Of the dead man, made tho
uncle 'ncrclful 10 the rudenc@ and the folly
Of this rash and uncongenlal youth, When
tho young man spoke OF marriage, IN somo
lnoxplicablc way romInlsconcc Of long ago
stole into the unclc's heart, and made him sud
and gentle