The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1896-06-05
CHAPTER VIII.
,laethinr Like n Broth,

sssS CHAPTER VIII.
U0nething Like a Brother.
s = young mamie was not more than
sHw0 or three and twenty-was alone
ma seated at his bench within a
grather small workshop, was laboring
SsGlllllgently, singing Notwithstanding
would be perhaps the better ternl-and
5tainking all the while that he was one
s9r the luckiest and happiest fellows
IN the world.
0 SO, all things considered, 1t will be
! acknowledged that our hero-for so
Will prove the honest workman whom
now, for the first time in our story, we
encounter-was very sufficiently EN-
nloyed at the moment that we venture
to intrude upon his privacy.
And, after all, Tony Drummond
was neither more nor less than Il conf
mon mechanic-an engraver, in short.
who earned his living by the skill of
his hands and the sweat of his brow.
But for all that. Tony Drummond
was now, and always had been a
& Tony Consoles His Brother.
why not? What is there in the prac-
Z sSSS VI uOACSI lo Nv ullSckuDAC
about, provided always that 4 man be
sufficiently remuRerated for his labor?
And joys are joys indeed to men
who have to earn them. The slightest
shadow of pleasure is then graspel
mt, and, by an easily-contented mind,
80 turned and twisted round and
about, that it becomes ere long per-
feet reality of happiness.
S<N 1,nE o1x with
Drummond; but it was no longer re-
shadow into the substance. since, for
some time, as was it now, real, solid
Happiness had been with him.
In the first place. Tony was in love,
and successful in his wooing: but. be-
Ing prudent young man. had resolved
mot to marry until d certain something
had been saved, with which properly
to commence his welded life.
And in the next, taking high rank
ms IN engraver, and being very
steady fellow. he had already saved a
gcCdly proportion of that certain sum.
himself, since the girl. With whom he
4 N':ls to wed, was very charming crea-
tslle, but had no money.
49, w 1SA SuSll SlulliAS VlOSpV%ftS lO1 Sllc
fntnre-with youth, robust health. and
high spirits in the prcsent-how corid
TCny be otherwise than happy?
And without any of these matters.
which We're all personal to himself,
tune into which. as he believed, his
brother had fallen. to say nothing Of
that greater good fortune which was
I'm for him ooanrf1Sno TO sNn,nOsc
firm conviction.
Sydney had written home from WeX-
faid-that, as matter of course, to
his grandmother. Sydney had been
silent concerning his love for Frances
O'Mcara; had, indeed. merely men,
toned that he was staying ut the house
of Il gentleman with whom chance
Lad made him acquainted. and to
whose mansion he had been gladly
welcomed.
Eft to his brother-for between
them Il secret had never vet existed
lie had written every particular of
what he was pleased to term his "in-
sane passion for the lovely Frances.
And when he had read of his brothers
Gespondcncy-of Sydney's bcwailings
o.er his hopeless love-Tony laughed.
Hopeless! Why, handsome, noble
hearted, Sydney would be a prize for
real duchess to jump att
would be odd, then, if he might not
aspire to baronet's niece.
And Tony had soon arranged the
matter. in his own mind, to his entire
satisfaction.
Sir Loghlen O'AIeara was, of course,
Very fond of his niece. Well. some
Io hOf tl,n a.
declare to her uncle how impossible it
was that she could live any longer I'M
less she were permitted to become
Sydney's wife; and if she were not to
be allowed to give herself to the man
her heart had chosen, she would con-
slider it her duty TO make her way, as
fast as possible to the baronet's fish
pond, and cast herself therein, reso-
lutely to remain under water until she
: was drowned beyond all hope of re-
coyery.
II the baronet should be without q
fish pond on his estate, which Tony
did not consider ut all probable, the
lady had only to substitute the near
i est river, and the end would be the
same.
For, on hearing the terrible threat,
uOW COulu IL Ue OluefWlSe, Unless SlT
Ioghlen were made of iron, and not of
human clay? The baronet would
yield, would embrace his niece, and
would say to her: go, my dear child,
and marry the young man, as fast as
possiblev'
4 And then Sir Loghlen would pur-
chase for Sydney q share in the new
bank in which the young gentleman
was now only a clerk, and-yes, and
the young couple would live happily
ever after.
And with this "fancy sketch" Tony
was delighted; for he had perfect
( faith that all would come to pass ex.
actly as he had imagined it.
What lnattered about difference of
Z what mattered money or nc
money where his brother Sydney was
concerned?
But then, he thought again-and
yes. money was an absolute necessity
ut least, on one side. and there 1t was
Oh the baronet's side: so that there
was nothing in the world to prevent
$ydney's marriage with the lovely and
accomplished Frances O'Marn.
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