Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1932-07-01
NO.s42.
New Lo,,v,,,es
'esy Mcclure M..swspaper syndi6alc.)
By H. IRVING KING

RE- tWNU servicel
Miss SELMA RRIccs l,vaa an
AVA Cane Cod To ha nrac,so an
Sandp0ft The house sha l,va6 A. ,vae
the real thing in early Colonial archi.
tecture--it had a alean.ton me- Gam.
lily was small. consisting univ ~ mar.
self and her ornhaned niece Hanrlat.
ia. Mss Selma had sonandered her
savlnga In giving Etta nm edncat,ort.
even sending her through wellesley.
And now Henrietta was TWENTY-FIVE.
prohdent in ali accomplishments but
conysfsant with no calling that would
Drlhf IN money She laid a thousand
plaw for becoming waRe-earner hut
. .ha 0Ae phi. her foot down. on every,
one OF them. Eta fretted-but what
could she do? She would not forsake
Selma, even II she could get employ
ment somewhere else-whIch was ex-
tremely doubtful.
u wonder II l shall ever be mar
rled," thought Eta.
That summer there returned to his
bOyhood home Frank P. Ellsworth, a
millionaire from New York. Frank
r had not been seen in Sandport for
forty years until he had suddenly
appeared there, bought the old Bijah
Crahdal place, and began the cree
ton OF great stone mansion. he
mad been twenty-five when he had
gone away and, by consequence, was
slxty-fiye now. h
There were plenty Of people who re.
membered him as the tall, thin, scrag-
gy young man, full Of ambition and a
hard worker, whose parents were
among the towns poor and shiftless.
But not one of them would have rec
ognlzed in the large, portly, prosper
ous-looking, autocratlc and reserved
plutOcrat, the Frank Ellsworth Of
long ago.
Every man and women In the place,
It seemed, who was old enough to
make out colorful case, greeted
Frank P. like long lost brother and
intmated that they had been his
earliest friend and benefactor. But
the gentleman from New York was
not nm easy person TO "get next TO-"
az wonder 10 be will 90 md goo
Miss Sellno9 tha older neonla wh,s.
nered To each other For between
Franz Ellsworth the noor strroo,lno
and Hawthorn vouth ana Sel,na
Briggs the pretty daughter OF one Of
the proudest of the "old families"
there Ind been II was rumored at the
fine n little love affaIr-wbicb Of
course came IN nothing on account 90
the vast difference in the social stains
Of fine lovers. Some said that was
vhv Frand had suddenlv left sand
mort
| r. tl,ot as n NAV tha ooIdan no.
| ,r,nod ,rondaror dId NOT cau rnon
,uss co,,no and Miss sonro onnoarod
- 1. onI, ions,Idlv ,nterostad n Me
so,n,0 ~, the goIiow,no sum1nor tha
now honso wes cornnIetod and mas
aoono,od no ,ho mIIlioro,ro ana HE
ra,nilr TSo only son Eohart was
ami, twenty-five inst the age bis IA.
tbar had been at the time of his fit
tIno from Sandport. Nv the time fall
,,os hegInnIno m draw n its end ana
nho summar folks were denartinp Ee.
har, and Eta we're rullv aware that
,hav Iovad each other--and so was
tbe rost Of the community
| :. os no sooond srndov ostor he
- nossossion 20 NE no,, honso
"'a, rsan,, EIIsu,ortb com,no ont ~
-, ,,,h h,s ,y,so ana son san
.nur." to- ,t,ss Soll,o co,n,ne mi
,.~ r4to and Tor Tho srst fine Tor
W." n I,,tod ~, hat and snoLo 10
~ ,arhood .seoma" IntroductIons
w, ,,,."I,r ,o,lowed~.snd that's how
,'..".t ana I,,ta becamo f,rst acouaInt.
"a As for Selma and Frank after
,Sot when they met they spoke of
generally about the weather
| =, ,tot ia all thew saw of each 9th.
yot go Egbert and Etta--they
.ora together with an increasing fire..
ononcv from their first meeting on.
Ma, sellno watched the growing in.
,a'no o" bstween her niece and younR
,,ii],ror,b onnrovIn0ly. Frank watched
S,sonnroyIpgIy. Mrs. Ellsworth, be.
model wife--old style model
~ a,enored 10 think inst as her hus.
| M bought. Egbert saw matters
| ,,,av,lng TO A crisis felt the coming
| ,olled n over with Eta
|