The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-02-24

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Mabel Clarkson he was looked upon
as rising young man, one who
would ultimately succeed in that
best of all inheritances, competence
acquired by his own honest labor.
That was the fortune his friends
predicted for him-neither poverty
nor riches, but the comfortable
ability to provide for himself and
those dependent upon him.
| Race is a good fellow, said
one.
Straight as a die, answered an
other.
His word is as good as govern
ment bond.
Mabel Clarkson has done well to
marry him.
When a man marries his record
is looked up, and he stands before
the world on trial. This offsets the
social extinguishment which is the
conventional fate OF bridegroom.
Since his dress and appearance do
not count, his moral qualities serve
to make talk.
The young man who stands well
with his seniors is to be congratu-
lated.
There are so many decending
young men, that the rising young
man stands out in bold reliet on the
canvas of time
Horace Reame might have been
proud OF the good things said OF him
if his nature had not been dominated
by curious hallucination. He had
grounded his faith on a succession Of
modern myths. He worshipped a
fetiseh that would one day turn and
devour him.
No one suspected this, except the
young woman to whom he had just
given his name-he had conhded in
her. She looked upon his detection
as brief madness-a delusion to be
laughed at and blown away with a
breath, like thistledown. In this she
was mistaken.
Horace Reame was a mystic, and
lived under directions from another
world. AT least that is what he
believed. The most OF us find ii
enough to carry one world on our
shoulders; but Horace was fully
equal to two.
There is an old saying that fool:
rush in where angels fear to tread.
Horace had been married less
than a year, when one day he
informed his wife that he was going
to change his business to another
city.
1t was a cruel blow to Mabel
whose friends where all around her
helping to make her prosy life more
endurahle.
Race, she asked in rebuking
tone, have you consulted hel
again.
+ No, no-this is a new one Tn,
seventh dauther of a seventh daugh
l ter, born WITH caul. She told mt
wonderful things, Mabel. She say:
a fortune is a awaiting me in anothe
town. l know now what that offe
from Call & Company means-I shal
accept it.
Mabel had early learned that bes
mission of womanhood. usefulness
tenderness. charity, and made NJ
quarrel with her husband, but midi
> demonstrated with him. 1t did n,
good and she went to see the seventI
daughter herself.
The result of her visit is best toll
in an interview between herself an
her husband.
Mabel spoke with conviction.
s. The woman is fraud-an absolut
charlatan. She to claim to be clail
voyant when she could not even te
what went there to consult he
about, or who l was, or a sing
letter OF my name, until she ha
guessed it
You say she knew you wei
- married?
Oh, yes: took off my gloves an
u she saw my wedding ring. But 81
Jumped to the conclusion that l W;
there to inquire about lover, Ho
would you have liked it. Hora'
to have heard her tell me that the
was dark man ! loved, and wi
loved me?
Did she tell you that3 aske
Horace with perfunctory interest.