The Holbrook news., 1911-03-03
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liam? Or MT. Sherrod?"
 Who told you I was in Kinston,
 Kitty?" was his reply.
 Aunt Elizabeth. Here is what she
 wrote me: Willie Sherrod is here
 She read from a sheet of paper she drew from her gown. He doesn't seem
 to have any more sense than he had
 as a youth. but he Is disgracefully
 handsome. His mother wants him tc stay here and settle down like req
 sonable human being. Anna thinks
 she could buy him church and con gregation just as she used to buy him a box of books or polo pony. But
 John says he has kicked over the traces and Is going out to the Yukon. Anna always was rather managey and 1 cant much blame him. Though, for that matter, she has had to put up with enough from him, heaven knows They say she has turned Episcopalian on his account. I wonder her old father does not turn over in his grave. q, You know. my dear, what my opinion of Willie Sherrod has always been. was afraid at one time you would turn idiot and marry him, but I am glad you have inherited some of the With nell sense as well as money. Though, goodness knows. I hope you won't marry a pauper, like most foolish women with little cash. That is one thing, the boy is spending his money like prince. I suppose he wants to see how fast he can get rid of what his poor father delved for. And so he is building tenement houses-tenement houses in Kinstoni isn't 1t ridiculous! and renting them for almost nothing to the poor in town. who prey on him | like so many vultures. It won't be long before his money is all gone and for my part think 1t just as bad to | dissfpate another. mans money in one foolish way as another. His father worked hard for that money. They say that he has written some kind of a treatise that is considered wonder. ful. but I don't see anything wonder. ful in him. My idea of a man of God does not coincide with my impressions of Willie Sherrod. He was pretty wild at college. they say. and besides he's too good looking and if he Is anything great he is the first lion Kinston has : had in many day that amounted to anything. But you know how these Kinston people are. They lose their heads over nothing and they are going crazy over his preaching. For my part, hope 1 shall never be so lost to all sense of propriety as to go to an Epis- copal church and let Willie Sherrod harangue me about my souls saliva i ton.
 When are you coming home? And are you really going to throw yourself away on an impecunious nobleman 1 saw your picture in a New York pa per this morning and it looked as | much like you as it did like me- And 1 they said you were going to marry the duke of Trevere in the fall. If you are hope he-i is not as poor as a church mouse. Don't throw yourself and your tmoney away You know what it is to be poor and now that you have had your cakes and ale don't barter them for a mess of pottage"
 She folded the letter and looked at him, smiling
 Can't you see Aunt Elizabeth wrI- ting that letter? She has never for given you for having money when we had none. And now that I have in herited the Withnell money she thinks few men good enough for me"
 Few men are good enough for you" he said.
 sOh. what an obvious compliment 1 did not mean to force your hand. Oh, l I beg your pardon, Billy. I can't re- member"
 f"'No broken down English peer is good enough for you certainly
 "Why broken down? He Is very | well set up assure you. He is com, ing over in a fortnight and you shall meet my real live nobleman and if he isn't disgracefully handsome he is very | nice looking and man. every inch of him. And he is not impecunious. His family is not only one of the oldest in England. but one of the richest as well. Billy, I believe you will like him; he is just your kind of a man. He is strong and athletic and most pre- sentable."
 T shall be glad to meet him." Rev MT. Sherrod said the words as gra- ciously as a fiercely raging heart would permit and rose stifiy. "Good-by," he said. T hope-oh. do hope you will be happy, Kitty. I hope you love the man you are going to marYy-that he loves you goes without saying"
 'I do love the man I am going to marry with all my heart, Billy; he Is the dearest man in all the world"
 Her face was a little pale and he hesitated for a minute. Then Rev MT Sherrod bent and touched his lips to the dark masses of hair.
 "Good-by. Kitty. May God bless you am leaving tomorrow morning and won't be here to see your English man, but I know he Is every inch man or you wouldn't love him so.'' Leaving tomorrow? What, leaving Kinston? Why, Billy-just as I have come home? Can't you wait? Where