Connecticut western news., 1886-09-15
HER BROTHERS DEBT.

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 'Oh, Charley, Charley, how could you do such thing2"
 Lilias Wayland's rounl cheek was blanched to an unwonted whiteness as she stood before her brother in the close, cramped room which constituted her sole home.
 Charley Wayland, ahandsome dissipa- ted-looking youth of two or three and twenty, with bold, black eyes and merry mouth that seemed made only to smile, sat opposite her, looking half-repentant, half defiant, as she spoke.
 ''Lilly, I couldn't help it. I tell you was hard up. A fellow must have money; you women don't know anything about the temptations and necessities of the worldr'
 '.But, Charley" she faltered, edo you know how this same world, as you phrase 1t, looks at the deed you have just con- mitted2 Oh, Charley, and her voice grew low and tremulous, 'it is a forgeryr'
 Nonsense, Lilll It's only borrowing part of old Glencross' unused millions to aid my needs. Iwrote and asked him for cash, and he, the unmannerly lout, refused. We'll, what could he expect after this, but that I should help my self2''
 Lilias wrung her slender hands.
 ''How dare you, Charley! That a Wayland should come to thisr' she walled.
 .'Daredr' he echoed, recklessly; 'it was but the stroke of a pen, after all; and old Glencross would be paltrier miser than I take him to be if he makes fuss about matter of five hundred dollars"
 ''It is the right and the justice of the thing" cried Lilias. almost frantically. '1f we could pay him in any way; but I have sold everything that remains of our former wealth. See!" and she looked round the miserable apartment. "See how live! Last night sat up until midnight sewing to have little money to pay the rent. have not jewel left, nor a trinket."
 ''Oh, bother, Lill! If old Glencross cuts up rough, it is only taking a run across the water. I know lots of ship captains that would stow me away un- der their holds, almost any moonlight night"
 Lilias looked despairingly at him. Was it, then, impossible to make him comprehend the moral obliquity of the deed he had just committed7
 "But can't stay fooling here," ob- served the young man, with toss of his black curls. '.I must be off about my business. Good-by, Lill. Give us a kiss, my girl. Except that you're un- common fond of featuring fellow, you're not bad sister in the main."
 After he had gone, Lillias sat down to try and realize the new situation in which she and her brother were placed. All now depended upon the spirit in which Paulus Glencross should receive this new encroachment upon his purse and patience.
 Lily had never seen this distant rela- tion, yet she had formed an opinion of him in her inmost mind, as we are all apt to do of unseen persons whom we hear a great deal about; and whenever she thought of MT. Glencross the image of 6 hook-nosed old man, yellow-skinned and cadaverous, engaged in sorting over piles of mortgages or counting bags Of gold, suggested itself to her mental eye.
 'But he must be human, at least, ! thought Lily, in the agony of her dis tress. ''If go to him myself. and tel him just what poor Charley's necessities were, and how good hearted he is, ir spite of all his faults and thoughtlessness if I say frankly to him that have nc money nor jewels to reimburse him, but that will stay and work for him, as { servant girl might work in the kitchen, until have discharged the horrible debt, surely, oh, surely he cannot have the heart to refuse. I can do great many things. can sew and embroider, and can make good bread and biscuit, and poor mama always said I was good housekeeper, and if Mir. Glencross i: really so miserly as Charley thinks ht would look at the economy of the thing. At least, it is worth trying.
 So favorably did Lilias Wayland re- gard this idea, preached in her sore ex. tremity, that in two days from the even- ing in which she had bidden good-by tt her handsome, reckless brother, sh, stepped from the cars at the New Yorl depot, dressed in a sober brown suit tha made her look like a shrinking little mouse, with her carpet bag in her hand
 A little inquiry suficsd to bring he to tho street where Mir. Glencross re sided-a stately avenue, lined on eithe side with elegant palaces the like o : whlsh IiiJ shsA never seen in the blaine f10 ' aDn - 1loa hseA saA hesd