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SACRIFICE AND REWARD.
BY E. LINtVOOD SMITH.
“Upon my word ! Just what might
have been expected ! Selfish ! Heartless !
Cruel r
The above ejaculations fell from the lips
Mts. Carpenter Wainwrighf, as she sat be
side a fire reading a letter.
A lengthy letter, too, closely written eo
four large pages of paper.
After she folded it, she said, sharply—
“ Well, thank goodness, her mother is
no relation of mine.”
Evidently the news, whatever it was,
about the woman who was no relation of
bers, touched Mrs. Wainwright deeply.
Her brow was clouded, and, as she rnus
ed angry flashes sprang more thao once
into her large, dark eyes.
Upon all sides of her were evidences of
comfort, and her own dress, though a 1
morning neyliyee, was costly and in exqui- '
site taste.
She was not young—past seventy —yet
she carried her tall figure erectly still, aud
her eyes were brilliant as those of youth.
While she ear in pround thought there
was a tap upoo the door, followed by the
entrance of a young girl, just touching
eighteen, with a fair sweet face, lighted j
by eyes as dark as Mrs. Wainwright’s own. j
“Aunt Cora,” she said, brightly, “shall
I read to you now?”
The old lady looked ioto the sweet face
with a keen glance, as if questioning her
self somewhat about the girl; then she
said abruptly—
“l have had a letter from Mrs.
this moaning.”
“With news from Mill V llage?” the
girl asked, a look of pleasure on her fact
“ You arc very load of Mill Village?”
“No. I like town much bet'er Still
there are some people in Mill Village I am
fond of.”
“Theoda West?”
The girl hesitated ; then lifting her
bright eyes she said, frankly
“I love Aunt Mary, but I don’t think I
am so fond of Theoda. She is very hand
some, very accomplished, and too food of
patronizing time.”
“Ah !”
“You see she has been a pupil teacher,
and learned all the extra branches to teach
again.”
“While you were making dress?”
“Yes. Aunt Mary let me cho ise, aod
I knew I could make a living at dtesstnak*
ing.”
“Your Aunt Mary was very kind to
you?”
“Very. She took me when pair mam
ma died, ten years ago. She could not
give me luxury and pleasure as you have
done in the last year, hut she never made
any difference between Theoda and my*
self.”
“Il’m ! yes. She is your mother’s sis
ter. lam your father’s. She gave you a
share in the house of care aod poverty. I
have taken you to this one, and will not
forget you in my will.”
The girl's face flushed under the sarcas
tic emphasis of the words.
“I never weighed one obligation against
the other, anut,” she said, quietly ; “you
have been very, very kind to me.”
“Your Aunt Mary is an invalid, too?”
“She is in consumption. We have
feared every winter would be the last ”
“Well, uiy news is that your loving
cousin, Theoda, has eloped with the Ger
man teacher who has taken a situation in
London.”
The fair face grew deathly pale and an
expression of positive horr.tr looted out
from the soft, dark eyes.
There was a pause of silence that was
painful. Tbeu Estell; Mason spoke io a
choked voice—
“l must go to Aunt Mary.”
“Goto her! Nonsense, child. What
claim has she ou you?”
“The claim of gratitude."
“But what can you do? You have no
money.”
“I can work.”
“Have I no claim?”
“Ooly second to her. You have been
very good to me ; bat you have so many
relatives who would be glad to come and
fill iny placo.
“You ore strong aod well, with money
.
for every comfort. She is feeble, sick aod
poor. Oh, how could Theoda desert her
—how could she?”
“Do you know who this German teach
er, James Kent, is?”
“No.”
“He is my husband’s nephew. Not
mine; but all my wealth came from my
husband, end James Kent, koowiog me t<>
be a just woman, expects a handsome leg
acy when l die. Probably, when he told
Theoda he would be a rioli man some day,
he did not tell the name of the aunt who
had nioDey to leave.”
“I never saw him,” was Estelle’s only
remark.
“lie displeased me. I do not keep
people near tne who displease me.”
Again thai cutting emphasis of tone.
Estelle did not aaswer, and Mrs. Wain
wright spoke again.
I “I expect, therefore, that you will aban
don this romantic scheme of returning to
Mill Village. There are asylums where
your aunt can be received.”
“Not while I can work for her,” Estelle
said very firmly
“Mrs. Pope writes that she will proba
bly sell her cottage, and live upon the
price in some place.”
“Poor Aunt Mary. You will let me go
! to her.”
“I do not pretend to coutrol your move
ments,” was (he reply, in a cold voice.
| “When 1 took you from a life of poverty
. and toil, to take your place here as my
.niece and heiress, I expected to have a
loving grateful companion. Since I have
been mistaken, you can leave me whenever
you desire it. Only I wish it understood
that you choose between your Aunt Mary,
finally.”
Estelle's eyes were full of tears, but she
controlled her vuice, by a strong effort to
say
“I am not ungrateful, aunt, though I
never considered myself your heiress. 1
thank you iroin my hear, and if you were
poor and sick, you would uot find me un
! grateful. But my duty seems so clear to
me that I cannot hesitate Even at thp
price of your displeasure, I must go.
But,” she added, timidly, “I hope you will
! forgive me."
“Oh, l shall not quarrel with you, child.
You may go certainly. Only do uot flatter
yourselt with the idea that you can return
here when you are tired of your sentimen
tal duties.”
, “There, go to your own room, and give
roe your decision at dinner. Not a word
now ”
So dismissed, Estelle went slowly to the
room, where every adorumeot spoke of her
aunt’s care fir her.
!
She was youog and had endured pover
ty for many years, so it was not without
some bitter fears for herself that she faced
the situation.
She fully appreciated the difference be
; tween Mrs. Wainwright’s heiress aod a
dressmaker toiling for the support of two
women ; between the putted child of this
home of luxury, with servants to obey ev
; every wish, and the drudge of a little cot
tage with an alrnott helpless invalid to care
lor. Yet she never faltered.
Aod when Mrs. Wainwright saw the
pale resolute face at dinner, she knew that
site must lose one who was very dear to her
Now for the first time, site regretted her
own residence abroad for fourteen years,
witeo site might have been winning Es
telle’* love, as this invalid aunt had done.
“I see,” she said, when the silent, al
most uutasted meal was over, “jou still
oltng to your idea ot duty. Go then, 'lake
with you whatever I have given you, lor
I want no reminders of your ungrateful
desertion I had rather spare myself the
pain ot any parttug scene. John shall
drive you to the station in the tnoruing,
; and tins will help you until you obtain
work.”
She placed a note in the girl's hand as
she spoke, and turned coldly from her.
! But the girl, now sobbing convulsively,
caught Iter hand, and kissed it warmly.
“Dj not think me uugruteful,” said she,
her tears falliog fast ; “it breaks my heart
;to offend you. Please kiss me, aud give
me a loving word before I go.”
“There, child, never make a scene.
Good-bye,” and she kissed the pleading,
upturned lace.
| “May I write to you?”
“Just as yon please. 1 shall not expect
it.”
Aod keeping her cold impassive face,
Mrs. Wainwright went to her own room,
bolted the door, and canto out no more
until Estelle had taken her departuro the
next day for Mill Village.
It wa* a room most unlike that in which
Mrs. Wainwright had taken leavo of Es
telle, that the young girl entered late in
the afternoon of the following day.
The little cottage where Mrs. West wept
for her unnatural child's desertion had but
four rooms all counted, and these were
iuruished very simply.
In one of these, stooping over a sewing
machine, stopping often to cough, au el
derly lady, in plain mourniug garments,
was seated, when Estelle came in.
Every trace of agitation was curcfully
driven from her face, as, with a tender
smile, sho said—
“ Aunt Mary, will you say welcome home
to me?”
“Estelle!”
That was all, but the joy of the tone
was too warm to be ItidJcn.
“You are glad to see me?” Estelle said,
brightly.
“Glad, child, glad! My own loving lit
tie girl I have missed you sorely, Estelle
But,” she said, suddenly, “you have not
quarrelled with your Aunt Cora?”
“We heard you were alooc,” Estelle
said, evasively, “so I got permission to
make you a long visit. Aunt Cora gave
me one hundred dollars for housekeeping.”
“Alone,” the poor mother said, piteous
ly. “Theoda has gone, Estelle. My child,
whom l never denied any pleasure in my
power to grant. Oh, Estelle, it will kill
me.”
And looking into the deep, sunken eyes,
the hollow checks, Estelle km-w her aunt
spoke truly.
The little remnant of life in the con
sumptive frame was surely to be shortened
by the cauelty of her own child
But, by every living device the self
sacrificing gir! strove to keep the feeble
flattie of life still burning
She let it be known in the place that she
was anxious to obtain work as a dressmak
er, and soon found employment.
Some curiosity was expressed at this
sudden return from the rich aunt who had
taken her away a year before, but Estelle
only told the sitnpls troth, that one aunt
needed her while the other did not.
Work, none too well paid, came to the
little cottage, and the household duties
were shared while Mrs. West could keep
about.
It was in November that Estelle came to
her, and before Fobt uary she was uoable
to leave her bed.
The duties then of nursing, and still
keeping up with her engagements lor
dressmaking, pressed very hardly upon
Estelle, but she never faltered.
Day after day the invalid was tenderly
comforted, and yet the busy click of the
sewing machine was heard fur into the
night.
There was kindtess shown by the neigh
bors who helped in this labor of love.
Some came to sit up at night when the
invalid required such watching.
Many a dainty dish, sent to tempt Mrs.
West's appetite, proved a sufficient meal
for both, and there was oever wanting a
kindly word of sympathy.
So the dreary winter wore away; and, to
the surprise of all, Mrs. West lived through
the bitter March weather.
llow tenderly she was guarded and
nursed in that trying month none knew
hut herself; hut as the warm spring days
came she brightened visibly.
Theoda wrote occasionally, seemingly
glad that Estelle had come to take the post
she had so heartlessly abandoned.
In one of her letters she wrote—
“.My husband bids me tell Estelle it is
as well, perhaps that she did not build any
strong hope upon Mrs. Wainright’s capri
cious adoption of her, as he will certainly
inherit his uncle’s money.”
Estelle made no comment upon the mas
sage, l.ut in her heart wondcrod if the
money could evet be put to any good use
io hands so selfish as Theoda’s or her hus
band’s.
It seemed a bad precedent for any noble
action, this desertion of a dyiug parcut.
NO. 34.
Summer stole away, every day lessening
the invalid’s strength, and winter loomed
up threateningly in the future.
All of Mrs. NVaiowright’s gift was gone,
and poorly paid, often interrupted sewing
was hut a slender provision for cold aud
sickness.
Yet the wasted face, growing paler cv
cry day, pleaded sileutly for many comforts;
and Estelle, spurred by the sight, wrote to
her aunt Cora.
\ It was one of many long letters, but the
first that asked for aid.
Estelle wrote—
“ The doctor tells me Aunt Mary cannot
live many weeks longer, and she requires
almost incessant care. I find I ounnot
supply tho comforts sho needs; so I turn
to you, not to beg, but to borrow. Will
you lend me one hundred dollars, and I
will fuitbfully work till it is paid when Aunt
Maiy no longer needs my time?”
Thcro was the usual curt reply to this
letter, but the loan was sent, with a brief
intimation that the promised payment was
expected.
Early in November the end came, gen
tly aud painlessly, the dying breath spent
in blessings for the faithful nurse.
Never once had Mis. West suspected that
her neice was forbidden to return to the
luxurious home she had quitted for her
sake, so she had made no disposition of
the little property in her power to will
away, the cottage and garden aronod it.
It bad semed to Estelle, young and ig
norant of business, only a matter of course
that she should continue to live and work
in the cottage where she had nursed her
aunt's last moments.
Hut, Tlieoda, who came to tho funeral,
informed her she should put tho place into
a lawyer’s hands for sale, and she must
look for a lodging elsowhere.
Bewildered, weary with watching, sor
rowing sincerely for the dead, Estelle turns
ed from (be words, issued almost insulting
ly, with a sick fa'tering of her true heart.
•‘A letter, Miss Estelle,” said the post
man.
Only two Hue.?
“Curne and work out your debt to me
here. “Cora Wainwrioht.”
It was a temporay home, at least, and
the desolate girl promptly obeyed.
In the November twilight, as they had
parted, these two met again.
The stern, cold woman, who had so
harshly put the choice of duties before tho
warm hearted girl, was waiting when she
catered timidly.
“So you liuvo como back,” she said,
looking at the pale face and drooping
eyes.
“To pay my debt,” was the gentle reply.
“Pay it here!”
And Estelle found herself enfuiJcd in
an embrace so warm that the tears sprang
to her eyes.
“Here on my heart.” suid Mrs. Wain
wrigbt, “craving such a love as you givo
tender, self sacrificing little Estelle !
“I tried you sorely, child, only to find
you true! We will not part again, Estelle,
till the grave closes over another old aunt.”
And when that hour came, comforted
by Estelle’s love, Mrs. Wainwright’s will
was fouud to leave all her property to her
•‘beloved oiece, Estelle Mason.”
And thus the sacrifice Estelle had so
nobly made met with its reward.
The mysterious origin of man has been
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izen, who found au infant in a tin-pail at
the top of a tree. It is to be remembered
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your cough or cold.
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“llow is that?”
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