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GEORGE MUNRO’S SONS. Prorasrron: SNUB. 2 e
Vol. LI. | }SPYnORVANDEWatun Stn NEW YORK, MARCH 4, 1893. PRICE NFO COMES FOR 4 Noe 1323
IesveD WEEKLY.—ExTEntn AcconDING TO AGT oY CONGRESS IN THE TEAR 1999, BY Gronox MUNRO, 1¥ THE OFFICE OF THF Lioancaxt oF Coxontss, WasurxeTox, D, C.—Enrenxn at tue Post Orvice av New York at Secoxp Ciass Raves,
MY OWN NAME. _ He took the letter from him
arne. Tae “enn with a strange emile.
at “Twroto it myself Inst even-
ony fragrant has-time, ‘ Ing,” he said; and I looked at
him bewilder
My God? tt Was all true, To
{his moment Ido not know how
‘Ot my mage fro OLE DS, Lal L bore the shock, ruber
aya ihe pow ha tall hee ieee falling, into a hat, air "ore
ay land stapdiug
trent sumone dis stoma
Sind a world of grass astray ‘out fort
Ally cherished tow re neredying— effect upon son,
Eitle Rapley BI ough my Tey cd nat blteve ie
eco clasping bis bi
Gone were grief and vague slarms; Th
Fig afar cane ancious calling
My own natin, then mother's arms!
Many mem’ries cling around i ”
: ‘Thon ta of choot da appr, you ares a Pitre.
sweet
‘Voices friendly, long since silent,
Call my namé and kindly greet.
‘How I longed to have it graven
On Fane's stately edities.—
Maul strived to reach Life's haven
Up -ambition's recipies
Mother darling; you bed le ete me me
ned my
And view ‘your smile’s approval
missed your tender blame!
‘Was there
‘Then Love found me.
‘Peace ig sure though life be long.
ab, how, pew mine own name
When he spoke ft frst of al)!
Frow mg here with gininese Doeed-
sorting quick his loving callt
8 one Yaay it softly,
no had called me
Agy a mame be thought so street.
Tam old and sad and lonely; *
“Ail was over I
ty
Then thateld er Gale ee "
Broke feom hie im ay
Losi Low to win th
Waiting in yon city fair, s
her, mother, are you calling?
T of work and pl
AIL Life's Blowomne now are
pero my hands in death away.
forget forever,
carte Sor loss, and
row,
shane,
- shine,
Say it once—my own dear name!
CHA
“ Figur pounds year!”
ine that tale was bo gfeat fortune
nothing to
jor far oftener than I had oF
ing rich on eighty pounds
on grooves of life—
college for three
ning ee enly home. -My
me
Dot expected to
he
muble.
beantifal, see girl of eighteer
to mote,
robe of
Iripie {ato the great mod
spent mia
Sp
My reader can imag-
in kid gloves or cigars; indeed, to
speak plain, prosaic Engflah, | went without a good
me.
twas pass
My father, Cope Trevelyan, a Brave and de-
profession iO wrt, wheila letver came sum
ly
id reach home I found another source
Ny sister Clare, whom I had left a
ne doctors declared It to be a
which she eres hot likely to
I wonder if any of my
ent quite slo, frtendless, almost
situation; tf so, they will know how to
i pounds in advertisements;
A STRANGE Erp,
When you clasp me in God’s sun-
HE Supt eS
FROM THE LUXURIOUS DEPTHS OF A CRIMSON. VELVET FAUTEUII. ROSE A LOVELY WOMAN, WHO ADVANCED TO MEET ME.
‘of Coagress, Washingt
CORALIE..
BY CHARLOTTE M. BRAEME,
Author of “Dora Thorne,” “Wife in Name Only,” etc., etc.
(THIS STORY WILL NOT BE PUBLISHED IN BOOK FORM]
agency offices; T answered
i Tead—it seer 1 in vain,
I had little or
valued
Yet, withal, I| the tow Telends tay rather hi
a year.
a situation It is wh
one’s friends.”
ofa and indifferent, otters. too
ther own ata
ook hands,
iat is commo!
a child. My
“never. recovered
irs to
wish
ave up wy friends fel
wa
mother was ill, | my hands.
is a fortune!”
We had neither of us
sn, had been sil
far it would e
tn ingkonetibie fam.
‘ble apartments in fiol
Bel
ma
her se face, | think
use my heart ache.
r patience, her resig
joes homage to the virtue at
nd
one due me rning in Sept
first time to work. | The ofice
Tittle
e was my collexe edi
tense
‘aspirations, bad ended
with eighty ponds per annum
une of which I had dreamed.
an Rausted
med
wily, father's regiment was then in Todia, but I
of the officers who had no
reso
I found many, b
ed m1
al bey cont to bap me, and before
my existence.
ever had m
money; we mere quite Sgvorane of its value, how
It woul purchase, ete.
ing sweetness, ber constant cheerfulpess,
how all my drea
Entered according to Act of Congress, In the year 199, by George Munro's Sons, in the office of the Librarian
every advertisement
pnd
ree, T looked
there is one thing more areasy than looking for
nly ealled “hunting
vat some Were
much engrossed in
hhareang time to devote to mine,
well, promised to do
Thad passed
ir help in the hour of
39 a benutiful theory, but very seldom put Into
com!
Stter years. My mother, t Beheving ie my dreams, | Just as 1 was growing dull and dispirited, a friend
contrived to send me to ‘we both consider. | upon which I had not called, a aid 1 bad
ed a college education ‘Go Sriy preliminary to a | mot solieted, wrote to m situa
golden futures How she managed it out of her | tion as clerk In'bie offee, with a salary of cigmty
Stender means, I can not tel, ut she kept me at | pounds per annum, to be afterward inere
ree year ‘as just trying to decide | send to every weatied heart the comfort this news
are with the letter in
+ Eighty pounds a year, darling!” I cried; “ there
It
bad ache, conn.
m for m
lows
buster, and two smaller rooms Tor myseit,. When 1
pation, her unvary-
, my heart
goodness of women,
ember I went. for, the
of Lawson Broth
abe eider brathe eeldoun
e
was ther
He gave moa rey ‘ied meicore, eald he hoped
0b fi
iresome, shored ne
ae no cain iho wot 1 could, the sole | was in Lincoln's te
protector of my Invalid sister, ‘The first step was if ever appeat
fo sell oor ttle home, & retty cot! lamp
stead, then to take lodgings nearer the ety after I should n¢ work ti
that M set vigorously to work to look for what] had to do, oon ‘altogether, set me at 1m:
T sighed many times that morning to find of bow
tucati
nto me now, ad
hind a clerk's desk,
m in lieu of the fort:
After a few dass I became tsed to the novelty,
and did my best to discharge 2, duties well.
.
lundreds of in London lead lives
similar £9) nine y little variety; the only
way in which I iffered from them was that I 2 had
ny sister Clary to provide for, Ales! bo at
found ont what, @ ermall cum eighty
a me bad aid
Toots, et ashe a emall sum for clothes and ‘somal
Eun for food, there was nothing. et ‘whose
ppelite was daiaty fd delist, iaered. greatly,
ienprovide ‘even a re ot
grapes for ets thet ‘rifiog coppers | spent in on
ers, that cheered Pere ses else ever did, w
“in 7 ongea home a ripe
yw I longed someti ake hom
a vi book! But
ihe spent alone in toe itary
m case to we one day: 1
ised again, and after some time suc-
din getting copying t0 do, for whicl I was
not overmell pa
ned & Enioiyinae whole golden sov-
Great for words,
een, and auch» mailed of wants? Do not
mi tell you what T did do
ait ong abd ansious debate with myself. 1 pal aid
ex's Bl abe at Mudfe’s, so that m
aro gomething to wlle vay
‘dreary foarsof a ig day. With the few
gs left J bought Hera bouioot wine and some
bat tears
os
Thal ye}
when T itonber ® her renty y toy, how graiehuy se
that inked oes, Tow dellous he found the wine
she tbo ed tho Books
one inher Snother, and could hardly Deliore that
every day she would ‘have the aang hap)
th 2 three, beautil new books! Tne welll
As oue grows old “sete pleasures do not
give the same great joy.
Fras some time befo arned another. It
ist as welcont erecta me
ras ju me, & greé
Tonder'asto wheter 1 should speud the whole of
why life in this hard work with so small a Fecom-
“Surely” I said to myself, T ghall rise in times
i Tam aigegt and attentive at the ofice, I must
mat a were very small, and the
gierist inlaree were ety increased by five pounds
time. uld be so long before
tadned trorhundred @ year, and at the seure sto
should be an old man'before I reached three hun-
were morning—it was the first of May—a bright
warm, say day the Loden pugects more hors
py! tan aiked along I w vondered
md the perfume of the
Hime od the flac in the spre time, Teaw a git]
rocuses and
selling violets and dato
spring fowers. T am no! ‘harmed Ito ony that tears
Taine imo my epee flowers and fnshite and a
things sweet seemed 60 far from me Dow.
I reached the office, and there, to my intense sur-
rise, found a letter awaiting me-
is @ letter for you, Mr. Trevelyan,” said
the bead clerk, carelessly.
me, large, blue oficial envelope. It
ne bad but i ‘what {t contained!
‘Some minutes passed before I had time to open
it; then I read as follows:
“To, gm Enos
, Tae
rm you that by the death
ot sie pate ee and his son, Mr. Miles
Trevelyan, who both fied of the © epidemic in Flor.
ence, you, as nex! will s are not
aware that the ine ait "Barnard bad elon
Cro whe residence ot the late
you cut! favor us wi
YoSou tho eiforent ways in which, the late bar-
onot’s large fortune is soveated. We have manaxed
tue Crown Anstey, property for some yearn, a
hare the honor of coatinsing ct basinces
retin with you. sin, Yor ee
a
‘My heart almost cease
breath something like a sob.
hey should not la ugh at me; they should not
read hat w my Di
Tipat the loter: satay ood de siiberately in my
pocket, and opened my ledger. I fancied they look-
Pavdieappointed. “Ab! it was Dut a Seat; 1 would
not think of it.
Tworked bard until the dinner hour, avd then
asked permission to absent myself for a time, Dia:
per wan got in my thougate, but L went quel
Gould walk ws ehe ofice of Moreland ee Fale
ot: PANE was not
up the sseaire, ‘trembling
ee
ir Moreland fark bis
Dg,
abused for upidityin taking the wt
ful of
notice
Shauth a ister -
Mr. soreland Jooked mp when jerk an-
nounesd my name—looked ny bowed, aud oes ositive-
Jy rose froun his se the letter from my
‘1 received this this morning, but believing tt to
bea jest played upon me, I have not mentioned it.
Tnave called to aek you if you know anything
aw Wes]
aud my
course. %
Nemorroy.” Yor
thei, and to ofictate as head mournes.
yyself Will both be there, as a matter of
plied, “ you ir
Felyan, master of Crowa Anstey
-. abd a rent-roil of ten thousaud
8 year.”
t ashamed to confess
that when heard that, I bowed
¥ head of d erled
Tike g etd.
You have borne bad fortune
dotter than in said Mr, Moro-
Tand; and then'T remember tell-
tng him in Incoherent words how
‘we had beet bow
nourishment and good support L
was ctterly unable to find for
“Alter a timo I became calmer,
and listened while bacokl me of
mara
ploture-gallery at Crown Anstoy.
‘They ey together to Flor
‘fearful epidemic
‘tH uscon-
days sooth Tay
hed tow od was Miles,
this eldest and favorite gon, 116
told me twenty-se
again, "jad he never been war,
He answered, no; that, of
ise, if he had been married,
and bad cbitdren, 1 should not
be,the beir to Crown
a love aflair,” said Mr.
«“T do not know the
ne more of it."
“What am I to do next?” [
saked him, “nervously.
You onght to, go orn, at
once to
Gro
Boxtesof the two genitehen a
be brought home (or interment,
Nad on the 18th; this si
They d
cnt taree ease Jn trying to fad ont our
it Crown Anstey, I shoald
you should be receive
‘Sirs Paine
then I must sak Mr. Lawson’s permission,” I
aid, doubttul
Mr. Meta laughed.
Fie will soon give you
that. You will find the
src ersonage.”
Tsaid, with a erimeop
ave but five shillings
nstey &
“J can advance you whatever you like, thon—
re."
five hundred po
The very mention
ened me. Mr. ¥
“ft will be sot
a We
make wnat arrangements
funeral.”
nt array
grow accustom:
mome fed by the a
val of another client. 1 rose to take my leave, with
ree bundred pounds in my hand
will go down to Crown Anstey to-night???
said Mn ‘Moreland as
1 be there
uinds of mo!
of such a tively fright-
foreland looked very much sin
Mime.” he anid, «before you
© ten thoneand a Fea
he shook bands with me,
to-morrow morning. You will
seom best to you over the
the most bewildered man in
the office I felt ashamed
Lond tered
otmy: nasplcione over my felow-clerks.. "They were
ail busy, while I—
vrson evidently thonght I bad
Mr.
ing when I went, white a
and besitating,
roly at me.
a hat do you want, )
‘Oh, God! could it be true?
been drink-
stammering, confused
‘nto bis room, Ho looked very
‘Mr. Trevelyan? I.am very
Look ont the letter again and Jatd It betore him
“wil you
a read that
“Te
at, sit?
make you puderstand more quickly thao Lean. 1
am so confu:
sed.”
fe read it, then beld ont bis band to me.
father the last
bis rich cousin.
bard had two fine, stroDg,
'y fat
myeele.
Crown Anstey
tailed ty.
0
ic!
ight wines rapes,
lemrevery thing that’ thought
vister—and then
“Your
Minne Tver tow ve bith spoke to me of
He never expected this. Sir Bar-
healthy sons of bis own
ther could not have expected it less than.
@ bardly ever heard the name of
‘and did not know that it was one
T shall have to ask you to let me
n, sir.”
wiling. I yes only at the
med to bave spread.
nt mon ike to pia
rove ve
resol
that Lwonld not tell my ood | fortane to Claro al
t once, leat there should be
tnforeston by any one.
entered,
phen |
flows
s astonished
Sue looked FD
of frait and
the room, my arms full