The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-04-06
HdrOld'S Scheme.
BY ELLA M. HESS.

bay windows, and broad verandas-
such as wealthy New Workers dwell
in for the few summer weeks when
Fifth avenue is a wilderness and the
other fashionable resorts in that To-
cality are deserted.
Mrs. Julian Raymond, in a ravish-
ing toilet of violet silk and old point
ace, sat out on the veranda, pouring
over a novel. Mr.. Harold Coverdale,
her brother, yawned, threw his weed
over the rail of the porcn and contem-
plated the tips of his we'll shod feet.
ats a deuce of bore, this summer
cottage business" he said, at last.
How can you be so ungrateful,
Harold" she demonstrated, when
we've taken the cottage and moved
out here solely for your advantage?"
"Come," said Mr.. Coverdale, laugh
ing, that's expecting a fellow to be-
lieve little too much"
well, what else was it for?"
"To be near Long Branch and the
fashionable world, to be sure"
Exactly; and in order that you
may make desirable match, Harold
for really you must do something
for yourself now. Mr.. Raymond de-
clares he won't lend you another cop
per-
"But you'll let me have fifty or so,
Alice-theres a darling!"
Il can't, Harold" persisted the sis
Ger, with an elevation of her eye
brows. Il haven't a cent to spare;
Mr.. Raymond keeps me so dreadfully
short"
"That's all you have gained by mar
yet you expect me to do the same"
"a man is different you know"
said the millionaire's wife. "If once
you marry an heiress you can do what
you please with your money"
"Do you refer to Mrs. Colby?"
81 refer to Mrs. Colby"
Mr.. Coverdale made a slight
grimace.
II hear she is an ugly old crow"
said he, with motion of the mouth
ID IL lC hdu DtCh oOlDS ulDd-
greeable medicine.
"Then you're very much mistaken" :"
said Mrs. Raymond, with something
like animation. "She's not twenty
FIVE yet, and quite handsome, and she
owns all the Colby estates in her own
right; and il you don't marry her,
after all the pains I've taken to in
vite her here, you'll be the most un-
grateful fellow I ever heard Of"
"But suppose she won't marry
me?"
"There is no danger of that" said
Mrs. Raymond, smiling and shrug-
eing her pretty shoulders as she
looked up at her tall, handsome
brother, who stood leaning his per-
feet head against the pillar of the
porch. "Not if you play your cards
well, Harold"
Mr.. Cloverdale laughed and made
u mock obeisance.
Much obliged to you, ma'am
And when, may l ask, do you expect
this moneybagged widow to condes-
cend to come to Long Branch cot
tage?"
'The day after tomorrow"
''By train or boat?"
"By boat. You'll have to go down
to the landing to meet her-and that
reminds me, Harold"
"Of something disagreeable, I am
sure!"
Well, no, it needn't be; only I
want you to go down to the East End
this afternoon, and bring up the new
housekeeper that I advertised for.
The intelligence Office people tele-
graphed that she would be up this
afternoon, and declare 1 hal nearly
forgotten it."
THANK you. T. don't particularly
care about driving up the Shore Drive
with fat, red-cheeked damsel at my
side and two or three bandboxes be-
hind"
What nonsense, Harold! She is
no common servant. She is a very
respectable woman who b as seen bet
ter days"
''It is a wonderful and unaccount-
able fact that they all have" sighed
Mr.. Coverdale. However, l am at
your service, Alice-what must be,
must be-and I'll borrow Halls wag-
onette for the occasion. One can stow
away the everlasting bandboxes to
the best advantage in that, you know.
I'll go down now ind stop at the
hotel and play game of billiards
with the boys before the train will
be in"
Dear, dear!" murmured Mrs.
Raymond to herself, as her eyes fol-
lowed the stately, well-built figure
down the windir G path that led to
the Shore Drive. "How l do wish
he was established in life! He's al
ways borrowing money and getting
into debt, and r. Mr.. Raymond should
ever hear of tr at forged check on the
bank"
But there was no plying pang in
her heart for her beautiful young
rckoolmate. whose life she was will
ing to sacrifice on the altar Of her
brothers. selfish and unprincipled