Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-05-26

ously and raised his eyebrows in as
constituent at sight of the parcel
bring them home yourselfs"
AN"
.'By Jove!"
There was a pause. From curios-
ity Cameron passed into uneasiness,
Was 1t sunstroke? Temple, finuing
his brothers eyes fixed inquiringly
upon him, spoke in a less affected
tone than usual.
1--WE often hear that there are two
sides to a story, don't weP"
"Well9"
"Well, ] never took that in till to-
day"
What story is itP"
sour story"
Slowly, interspersing the narrative
with his own comments, Temple re-
peated the account he had heard that
morning of his grandfather's obliga-
tions to the Hutchinsons. To his
surprise, instead of receiving 1T with
a passionate outburst, Cameron lis
tened gravely and attentively, and
said when his brother had ended:
There's something in it, TEN. To
tell you the truth it's been in my
held all night-nearly as much as to-
days dinner. We have been waiting
for dead mems shoes-all Of us. And
it's beastly trade! YIN ashamed Of
it. Aren t you?
But the reason was simple enough.
They had been accustomed from their
earliest childhood to look upon their
grandfather's money as their right,
and the impatience of their parents TO
inherit it Lad fl, m habit seemed per-
fectly natural and unblameworthy.
Now, in a moment, the bluntly spOk-
en- opinion of an uneducated stranger
cleared their sight. The Tory Fem
pie and the Radical Cameron both be-
gan to perceive that their grand
father, whose money had come to
him, not by inheritance, but by dis
tinguished career at the bar, had
some right to voice in the disposal
of his own property.
"And if the two old women really
did do so much for him" went on
Cameron, "they deserved their half
of the property at least as much as
we do ours"
II shall write and tell the COVER
nor what we think about it," wound
up Temple decidedly.
But the new feeling of camaraderie
which had sprung up among the
brothers since they had been cast to-
gether upon their own resources was
already so strong that the elders re-
solved to consult the other two be-
fore connecting the important letter.
With Harry their task was easy. The
course proposed pleased his boyish
sense of romantic honor. With Hill
dred they had little moro trouble.
| The fact that he was himself intended
for the bar, his grandfather's profess
sion, seemed TO him a good enough
reason why he should benefit hand
somely by his grandfather's money.
Hildred mildly pointed out that it
was they who were inconsistent, not
| he, and there was q hot discussion
before he gave in.
Then Temple was left alone TO con-
coct an epistle which should over
whelm his parents by its eloquencc,
its logic, and its determination, which
should prove TO them in fact, that
1.-The boys" were no longer children
or puppets, but reasoning Men, en-
titled to have a voice in the affairs OF
the family.
The conference, and the little al
tercation it involved. had taken up so
much time that Colonel Frere's bell
rang for luncheon before the slight
est preparation had been made for
that meal. Temple heard Wild sour
rying to and fro, Gathering of pans,
banging of doors, voices terrible with
excitement Then he heard Cameron
himself go out and there was peace
for a little while. but presently that
distinguished chef came back like q
whirlwind, and the Gathering and the
scurrying were more frantic than
ever.
1t was about an hour after this that
Cameron, purple, exhausted, with
temperature atnormally high and
spirits abnormally low, ran out into
| Jle garden 10 bInell Jne Ifcsn, sail
sea, and TO wish that he lay peaceful
ly beneath its waves. Fate was kind
to him. There was "a veranda on the
ground floor next door, and sitting in
it, her fingers busy with some needle
work of the severely useful kind, was
his pretty neighbor, If she had been
pretty in yesterdays half-light, what
word could describe her in the full
glare of the sun? Cameron felt that
the sight of her gave him the first
sensation of pleasant GOODNESS he had
had that day. Her white dress, made
of some stuff as soft and fine as an
angels robe in a picture, her fair
hair, her sweet, calm face, shaded by
big white sunhat, formed a vision
SO refreshing that the poor, worried
head-cook stood quietly for some mo-
ments in the shelter of the arbor
drinking in aesthetic delights, toe
downcast to add to this pleasure that
OF hearing her speak to him.
But presently one of the loose
boards ratified under his feet, and the
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