The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1932-08-04
New Loves
By H. IRVING KING
&c by Mcclure Newspaper syndicate.)
(WNIJ SerYicel

ANA Cape Cod. To be precise in
Sandport. The house she lived in was
the real thing in early Colonial archi.
tecture-it had q "lean-to." The fam
lily was small, consisting only Of her.
self and her orphaned niece, Henriet-
ia. Miss Selma had squandered her
savings in giving Eta an education,
even sending her through wellesley.
And now Henrietta was twenty-five,
proficient in all accomplishments but
conversant with no calling that would
bring in money. She laid thousand
plans for becoming q wa9e-earner, but
her aunt put her foot down" on every
one of them. Eta fretted-but what
could she do? She would not forsake
Selma, even If she could get employ
ment somewhere else-which was ex-
tremely doubtful.
II wonder if shall ever be mar
ried," thought Eta.
That summer there returned to his
boyhoOd home Frank P. Ellsworth, a
millionaire from New York. Frank
P. had not been seen In Sandport for,
forty years until he had suddenly
appeared there, bought the old Bijah
Crandal place, and began the erec-,
ton of great stone mansion. He
had been twenty-five when he had
gone away and, by consequence, was
SiXty-five now.
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
ognized in the large, portly, prosper
OuS-looking, autocratic and reserved
plutocrat, the Frank Ellsworth of
long ago.
Every man and women in the place,
1t seemed, who was old enough to
make out colorful case, greeted
Frank P. like long lost brother and
1ntimated that they had been his
earliest friend and benefactor. But
the gentleman from New York was
not an easy person to "get next to-"
81 wonder If he will go and see
Miss Selina?' the older people whis-
pered to each other. For between
Frank Ellsworth, the poor, struggling
and low-born youth, and Selma
Briggs, the pretty daughter of one Of
the proudest of the "old families"
there had been, it was rumored at the
time, a little love affair-which, Of
course, came to nothing ON account Of
the vast difference in the social status
of the lovers. Some said that was
why Frand had suddenly left Sand
port.
Be that as 1t may, the golden, re-
turned wanderer did not call upon
Miss Selma and Miss Selma appeared
to be only languidly interested In his
return. BY the following summer the
new house was completed and was
occupied by the millionaire and his
family. The only son, Egbert, was
only twenty-five, just the age his IA
Their had been at the time Of his fit
ting from Sandport. By the time fall
was beginning to draw to its end and
the summer folks were departing, Eg-
bert and Eta were fully aware that
they loved each other-and so was
the rest Of the community.
1t was the second Sunday after he
had taken possession Of his new house
that Frank Ellsworth, coming out Of
church with his wife and son, ran
plump into Miss Selma coming out
with Eta, and for the first time for
forty years lifted his hat and spoke to
his bOyhood flame" Introductlons
naturally followed-and that's how
Egbert and Eta became first acquaint-
ed. AS for Selma and Frank after
that when they met they spoke Of
CONSEQUENTLY about the weather.
but that Is all they saw Of each 9TH
err Not so Egbert and Etta-they
were together with an increasing fire.
yquency from their first meeting on.
Miss Selma watched the growing In
timacy between her niece and young
Ellsworth approvingly. Frank watched
1t disapprovingly. Mrs. Ellsworth, be-
ing a model wife-old style model
was prepared to think just as her hus-
band thought. Egbert saw matters
drawing to a crisis, felt the coming
storm and talked 1t over with Eta,
who talked 1t over with her aunt who
said: "If you two want to be mar
ried why don't you do so? You are
both old enough to know your own
minds If you are ever going to. But
what shall do when you are gomez"
"Oh, we shan't go away, auntie,"
replied Eta. "Egbert likes Sandport.
He wants to Ak up the old house and
live here"
'"All right" said Miss Selma.
Egbert told his father in most off
hand manner what had been decided
upon. The old man made his fortune
by his quick decisions. He looked at
Egbert, saw that square-set jaw, and
knew that in this he could not move
him. every WELL" said he. Family
not good enough for me Once!" and
then, grimly, ut will be bit Of re-
,venge for me, anyhow" For full
hour after Egbert had left him Frank
sat there musing.
Possibly Selma unused too. But if
they unused of what might have been
neither Frank nor Selma ever spoke.
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