Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1895-01-10
CHAPTER VII.
Hopes Destroyed.
.nosnIie Rathbone," "PoOr Gene
vieve," &c.

reader that a mere hackney coaciliials
should have for nephew a learned doc
tor of medicine.
But Jonas Jarvis was proprietor OF
the carriage On which he rode, ana or
the horses which he drove, and was
moreover \ man of worldly substance.
In early life, a little property had
been left to him, and he had besides,
for .lany years, pursued a very proht-
able calling.
That calling, or profession, which we
need noe at present more particularly
explain, he had quilted only when he
had grown too old and too unwieldy
longer TO continue 1t.
Then. partly because he liked to be
earning money, but more because to
have sunk suddenly into still life
would soon have left him with no life
at all, he started, as be himself termed
il, In the hackney coach line.
The only sister OF Jonas Jarvis had
married a lieutenant in the navy; and
in less than three years became "A wild
ow, her husband having fallen in &C
ton.
To the home Of Jonas Jarvis Their
came his sister and her little son; but
the widowed mother did not long sur
yive her young husband.
She died, ~bequeathing little Edwin
Forester to her brothers care, who,
while accepting the trust, vowed that
saCredly it would be fulfilled; and very
faithfully kept his word.
Jonas, in his day, had been a smart
young man: and as, besides that ed
vantage, he possessed the still more
important n of being master OF a
considerable number of golden guineas,
1t is no wonder that more than one
pretty girl cast towards him longing
and ~insinuating glances.
But vain were all efforts to tempt
Jonas Jarvis into matrimony
boating on his little nephew, ne re-
solved for Edwin's sake, to remain Il
bachelor we find him now.
And not a our and grabbed, but n
genial, warm-hearted old bachelor was
Jonas Jarvis; all the love that would
have gone to wife and children WIS
with his nephew.
Next to Edwin his horses were the
objects to which Jonas was most deeply
attached.
But his was altogether a generous ma
ture, and his purse strings had never
been closed against those who came 10
him, and who really needed the little
aid it was within his power to offer.
Before, lavish with his means, Jonas,
SO soon rs he had adopted his young
nephew, became and continued n very
careful man.
He had determined that young Edwin
Forester should be reared like a gen
tleman, and so the boy, when old
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wards to Oxford, and of his own free
choice became Il member of the medi-
cal profession.
And Edwin Forester had succeeded
wen, was steadily winning his way to
fame and fortune.
He had been sent for to attend Mrs.
Lindsay, and after awhile had been
asked for his bill.
And then he said that his friendship
for Mrs. Redmond ana her daughter
had made it impossible that he could
accept money for his poor services,
and entreSted that the subject might
never again be mentioned between
them.
Edwin Forester had soon discovered
that Mrs. Lindsay was in somewhat
Strengthened circumstances, which alone
had been sufficient to touch his gener-
u heart, but more forcibly still was
that heart stirred by n love for EN-
incline Lindsay, which had found it's
way to 1t N the first occasion almost
that he had beheld her, so charming
and So unobtrusive in her beauty, and
which at every after interview was
increased by her graceful. winning
manner, her sweet and gentle disposi-
ton.
And Edwin Forester was not asham-
ed that his uncle would continue a
hackney coachman; cared nothing for
what the world might say or think
concerning either Of them.
Jonas had indeed limited that he
would retire, because his present call
Ing was rather hurtful to his nephew's
professional dignity: but Forester car
ed not for that. and entreated that his
uncle would still go On I'm his old way.
For Jonas Jarvis to suddenly fall
Into an inactive life would be to NOPE
and pine himself very speedily into his
grave, as was well understood by his
loving and grateful nephew.
And after all, Forrester's practice
was rather increased than otherwise
by old Iaryis's peculiar preIi!actions.
for people spoke OF DR.. Forester as
a very skilful young gentleman, who
had u very rich and very eccentric un-
Gle.
We last left Jonas on his way back
to B~arrington's house, to which he was
driving his nephew.
Jonas had not, however, proceeded
very far before he stopped his horses,
and called to his nephew:
There she goes, Ned-there she
goes and pointing with his whip to-
wards Emmellne, who was Aurrying
along on her way home.
Edwin Forester looked from the car
rage window, and distinctly beheld
and recognized the woman on whom he
had bestowed his heart.
Il suppose, Ned, / am now to return
to her house?"
mo, uncle. no." Forester tremulous-
ly replied; take me a little way to-
wards my Owl house, II you will be
SO good"
He felt that at that moment he could