The morning call., 1892-01-15

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girl had disappeared. gone to some cOuntr.
/ cousins for her vac III ~. ana Bessie wa
| compe led to take her place. Now If tia
| ism, real graf tufe. real generosity, Ia llkt
| to know What C is 2"
! Those people are trumps! We must 20
| and fnd item anj-and Tom, you ought 10
/ try aud show them some courtesy; take
item eff On your yacht for instance" sale
/ Fred
Yes, but the other girl. the one in The
! country must De hunted up; she must &,
too Mrs. Perry. why cannot vOu and yOuT
| vCuny ladies g with uS2 We viii make
/ you Just rs comfortable as possible VIII we
! n f, Frcd?"
You be;! was Fred's emphatic answer
/ Il am sure those-what did l say thelT
/ names are? Pm sure they are charming
people, and we'll all have 4 good time To-
! gether."
Tom, in answer to his cousins question as
! to the name of BesSic'S entertainers, had
| been opening his letter and glanclGg over
! the closely written pages.
! Bessie says their name isis" Tom
/ said slowly Then, dropping the letter, he
gaZed at Helen and exclaimed by J0Ve =
Helen bIushed, but said nothing.
Fred laughed and remarked:
Queer name for q minister. But why
do You stare so at Miss Eyeleth?"
"Ihere sits tie culprit. Bessie says it
was Miss Helen EVeeth who made the sac
ri6ce and went 10 stay with an aunt down
in Maine When | first skinned over the
letter l did not take in the name. Miss
Eveleth, you must make up q yachting
party at once"
80 Bessie is your cousin! The world is
very small isn't it?' said Helen. but
you make TOO much Of what papa is trying
TO do for Bessie You forget that we owe
- 70 a 20 +
ting care of your aunt and uncle, who were
perfect strangers TO us. Even little Bessie
spent her young energies in gathering fresh
flowers for papa, taking mamma out 10
walk, bringing cool water, doing Just as
my sister or I would have done for him had
we been near"
yes" piped up Lucy, land Cousin Sc
rena and Helen had been saving their pen
MES for ever so Long"
Flush, hush, LucyW cried Helen.
But a child Of 10 Is not easily silenced;
she continued
Serena teaches music and Helen has
been teaching primary school this year
for you know minis erS never have much
m0Eey-and instead of going to concerts
and riding IN tie horse-cars they saved all
their pennies"
Mrs. Perry saw the look Of distress on
Helen's face, so she Silenced Lucy by re-
marking
IF you talk so much Mr. Tom Will not
let you go on his yacht"
few days later and the Randclphs were
gone, bat not forgotten. Helen cOUh1ed TO
her aunt that Fred, before he left, had
gained her permission 10 ask her father If
be would accept him for a sOn-in-law.
" ! give my consent most heartily, Helen,
was Mrs. Perry remark. No man could
b. with NE as much as Fred Randolph has
been these three weeks without my becOm-
ing tOieT3b.y wei. acquainted with him, and
l must confess that the more | have seen Of
the young man the more l have liked and
esteemed him. Tom Is nice fellow in his
way, but he has not the good sound sense
nor the real manliuess Fred has. There IS
but one objection TO him."
What is that?" Helen asked 10 sur
prise; she thought him simply perfecta
His lack Of money. What pity that it
is Tom. not Fred, who is so rich! l fear his
artistic ability will not make millionaire
Of him."
"Perhaps not; but be has good income,
I believe. The rich uncle who adopted him
and Tom when they were boys left him
something"
Yes; Tom gave me a hint. week ago,
that his cousin had enough TO keep wife
10 comfort. That their uncle left his prop
erty so very unequally divided was a sur
prise to beth, Tom owned il speaks well
for them. ! think, that the fact Of Tom
being a millionaire and Fred merely COM
fOTtably Of has not caused any GOODNESS. l
told Tom that his cousin had one conf 1rt:
no girl could be suspected Of marrying him
Tor his wealth alone, and lie answered, In
that dry way Of his, No, and You NAV rest
assured I'll never be married Tor mine,
either; 1 believe l was born an old bach
elOr So maybe bis money Will console him
for lack Of wife and child"
But Helen was too much in love to care
whether Fred was a paurer or not; her
only anxiety just now was What her parents
would think Of him.
This anxiety was short-lived, however,
for there soon came long letters from every
member OF the Evelpth family, best0Wing
blessings on the projected marriage. But
the letter which excited most surprise was
one from Bessie; she wrote;
u am SO glad, dear Helen, that your
goodness IN giving up your outing TO me
has been the means Of getting Tor nus
band one Of the best men who ever lived.
Aud l am glad for your sake, too, that it is
dear old QUlnniX who got the lions share Of
his uncle's money; did they tell You why
be left It 10 Fred, instead Of dividing ii
equally between him and Tom? II was be-
cause Tom was deiuded into promising SOL
EMMY to div de with his stepsisters. law,
selfish girls, every dollar his uncle should
leave him. HIS uncle found il out before lie
died, and he knew that a promise is a sa-
cred thing to those Randolph bOyS, so he
beQuetth,d Tom mere pittance. OF course
Fred does not let him want money. BY the
way, l wonder now If those boys told you
the truth about their circumstances? 1t
would be just like Fred to put himself IN
the background, so that if he ever married
it might be for himself alone"
Bessie had told the plain, unvarnished
truth; and when, early the next summer,
the projected yachting party was a verify,
it was Fred's yacht on which they sailed,
and Il was Helen, then Mrs. Fred, who did
the hOnUrS as hostess OF the trip.
Little Lucy caused considerable merri-
ment when she remarked calmly, the day
after they had sailed:
Cousin Helen, don't you think this is
great deal nicer way to travel than To 20 in
the dusty cars, as Cousin Serena did last
summer? Amt you real glad You let Cous-
in Bessie 90 in your place? For if yOu
hadn't been at Blackberry Beach with US
the time Ida lost her oar. maybe you'd
never have married Cousin Fred and have