Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-03-30
copyrighted 1890, by the Author. ]

tied with ribbon. And she took that
pretty picture he sent me last Christmas
and hung it up on the wall oh, it does
look awful pretty And she's going to
have some hot coffee for US when we get
baok!''
"Good for her! There 8 papa! Whoop'
Col. SeYton acknowledged the shout and
lifted his own hat in response to Alan f,
who was swinging his sealskin cap in the
air.
''Hop in, Youngsters was the next
word.
Alan clambered in front by his father
and Sally sat on the back seat.
'Lct me drive, papa?' asked Alan.
"I'u do better, replied Col. Seaton
with n smile, ''you keep your eye on
me and the way drive, going, and when
we come back you may take the lines.
Look out for the corduroy patch after
we get to the woods, now!''
"The boys will like to show off a bit, l
daresay - thought the father. "Well =,
our young Northerner may find that we
know how TO do few things in the
swamp. A coneeited young rascal fear
from the letter. Favors his mother
most likely. Poor Tom
mentally rehearsed the letter which
H6 Hdu EGCSlNG Q lEOul Ills h1l6 > CUuSlll
and his own warm friend.
Nellie (Nellie was Mrs Raimund)
sis going to Europe, as usual. She will
spend the winter in the south of France q.
She wanted to take Cecil; bat | object
ed To tell you the truth, Dick, these
European trips are playing the mischief
with CHS. You know with what a gang
courier, maid, tutor, etc. Nellie always
travels, and the hotel people ready to
stand on their heads for her, and every
now and then lot of toadies from home
joining the court-so to speak. CHS is as
good q boy, naturally, as any man could
wish, but he is beginning to think too
much of luxury and money. He is get
ting suspicious and cynical, the young
beggar. But when l think of the doses
of abject flattery he is getting right and
left because he will one day inherit my
money, don t so much wonder.
Then it is not much better when he
comes back to Chicago. There are
plenty OF men who don t cafe rap for
our money or Nellie big balls-but they
stay away; but the idiots who are ready
to crawl on ali tours come and Cts sees
them.
Don't misunderstood me. Cts is a
good boy. He has no bad habits, he is
generous, unselfiSh to certain extent
and very fond of a few people; but he is
getting spoiled. He needs to be Ameri-
canized; needs to see a simple, natural
life, where he will have to stand on his
own feet; and if he gets a few sound
thrashings it may save him from worse,
that all! Now, Dick, L am going to
ask great favor of you, believe the
very best thing i'll the world for Cecil
would be TO spend the winter on your
plantation. It is a deal to ask, but if
Cousin Emily is the girl 1 used to know,
she will be willing to help my boy.
/ should like to have q business ar
rangement of it if 1 could and send you a
500 a month";
There was more about his own plans,
but this was The portion of the letter
which had been etched, as it were, on
the colonel's mind. He repeated scat
tered sentences to himself and said
aloud ''Poor Tomb
Then he was conscious that Ally was
talking.
''Did you save Cousin Tom Raimund g
life, papa?'' said Ally, 'Cobb said you
did. -