Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1927-09-16
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1@tlE aid nIace vas caIled corhin.a
L rollvI some enyions na,san had
-l,;,med II tthnt when aid Colonel Cor.
hin, ibuIl, N, townrdo the close NJ tho
q NIaxIcan3sv hr8 nnd ybroupht Mig bride
dfberp hlApd the mama stnrk 1udpe
CorbIn ma been horn IN The old house
ana 1nn nnw ~ elghtv ada WAS M
straight MS n ramrod. fresh of com
plexion and with. n keen., blue eve.
) JUDGE Corbin lived alone In the big
house with hfs servants. He hud ne.
o tired, FROM, III benrh moro tban tven. d
Nv years before when his wife died
, nnd lind been alone since his quarrel
with bIs only son. The occasion of
. the onnyrel was tho us,ml tbiny--.the
Z son- INSISTING 7,,non snickiny o o,t his
own wIfa instead OF marrying the girl
His fatbar lhod selectad for him The
son had died in South America wears
ngo To shake Off his lonesomeness
the Indigo bepan at the ape of eighty.
one 10 write an elaborate treatise ON
the Code Napoleon. Finding he need.
ed n secretary he advertised for one,
and as n result now EMPLOYED young
nan Of twentv-one. hearing the name
Of Lloyd Foster.
Not TO keen the reader in suspense
the young man who Travelled under
tho name Of Llovd Foster was. in re.
allty, the Judges grandson, Alvin
CorbIn. whose father the old man had
cast out
"IIoydp and the Judge got along
fairly well together. Remarkably
well in fact. considering that the
iudge was dIctatorIal and irascible
and Llovd was only twenty-one. In
such an isolated and lIttle-vislted
place as CorbIn's Folly-from which
the nudge allowed him TO be away but
seldom-It is next door TO a miracle
that "T1ovdn saw enough youthful
sneclmens Of the feminine gender to
fall in love with one. but he did.
Her name was Mary Cranston. She
was poyerness I'm a family living a
few miles AWAY from Corbln's Folly;
an ornhan without money. So was
TIovd" Mary ana "IIovd" went I'm.
m session as a committee OF WAYS
and mems Their living expenses
vora nil no,v Rut II they were mar.
Rod thew would. Of course hive TO set
nm seleenIng for themselves and II
would toke their combined salaries TO
spnnort them
Tbep "IIovd" had an idea. "What's
tho matter with NV asking the Judge
for a raise9n said no wrhat would
holm ont some"
"Don answered Mary. 81 am sure
vou .re worth n thousand times what
no is having vou-the old skinaint |"
"Marv. Mary. don't sneak that way
nbout the Judge. please. because-be-
cause We'll. there ia something I was
going to tell YOU before we were mar
rIed and might az well tell you
now" Ana no did-the whole story:
who no was and all about II. 81 don't
know wbv I took the position at Cor.
hIn,s Follv in the first MACE" he con.
rluded. "tbe homlng pI0eon instinct.
guess And now do Won know. /
h.ve reoIlv become fond Of the old
Iudga In snite Of bis cranky wavs.
IN, ~ ba bod INV spsnicion of who
bul II ne hau any SuSpiciVn VI "no
was ne "oulu show me the uoof ~
SNORT oruer. = "onuet "n"' nc WIN
say wheh tell MN "an' U get nar'
rleu.
Wheh' the next uaE Aioyu toiu
the Judge OF MS uesire' praisins injury
to the SKIES OF course ne was pre-
pared Tor an expioslon-Dut NOT ior
the calm' meditatlVe manner In "hlch
the Judge regarded MIN nnaiIy Dreak-