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Show ! r i New Loves for Old By H. IRVING KING (CopyrlKht.) tISS SELINA BHIGGS lived on Cape Cod. To be precise In Sandport. . The bouse she lived In was the real thing in early Colonial architecture It had a "lean-to." The family was small, consisting only of j herself and her orphaned niece, Henrietta. Hen-rietta. Miss Selira had squandered her savings In giving Etta an education, educa-tion, even sending her through Welles-ley. Welles-ley. And now Henrietta was twenty-two. proficient In all accomplishments but conversant with no calling that would bring In money. She laid a thousand plans for becoming a wage-earner, but her aunt "put her foot down" on every one of them. Etta fretted but what could she do? She would not forsake Selina, even if she could get employment employ-ment somewhere else which was extremely ex-tremely doubtful. "I wonder If I shall ever be married," mar-ried," thought Etta. That summer there returned to his boyhood home a Mr. Frank P. Ellsworth, Ells-worth, a millonaire from New York. Frank P. had not been seen In Sand-port Sand-port for forty years until he had suddenly sud-denly appeared there, bought the old Bijah Crandal place, and began the erection of a 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 remembered him as the tall, thin, scraggy young man, full of ambition and a hard worker, whose parents were among the town's poor and shiftless. But not one of them would have recognized in the large, portly, prosperous-looking, autocratic and reserved plutocrat, the Frank Ellsworth of long ago. Every man and woman In the place, it seemed, who was old enough to make out a colorful case, greeted Frank P. like a long-lost brother and Intimated that they had been his earliest friend and benefactor. But the gentleman from New York was not an easy person to "get next to." "I wonder If he will go and see Miss Selina?" the older people whispered whis-pered to each other. For between Frank Ellsworth, the poor, struggling and low-born youth, and Selina Brlggs, . the pretty daughter of one of the proudest of the "old families," there had heen, 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 Frank had suddenly left Sandport Be that It may, the golden, returned wanderer did not call upon Miss Selina Se-lina and Miss Selina appeared to be only languidly Interested In his return. re-turn. By the following summer the new house was completed and was occupied oc-cupied by the millionaire and his family. fam-ily. The only son, Egbert, was only twenty-five, Just the age his father had been at the time of his flitting from Sandport By the time fall was beginning to draw to Its end and the summer folks were departing, Egbert and Etta were fully aware that they loved each other and so was the rest of the community. It 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 Selina coming out with Etta, and for the first time for forty years lifted his hat and spoke to his boyhood "flame." Introductions Introduc-tions naturally followed and that's how Egbert and Etta became first acquainted. ac-quainted. As for Selina and Frank after that when they met they spoke, of course generally about the weather weath-er but that Is all they saw of each other. Not so Egbert and Etta they were together with an Increasing fre-, fre-, qnency from their first meeting on. Miss Selina watched the growing Intimacy between her niece and young Ellsworth approvingly. Frank watched It disapprovingly. Mrs. Ellsworth, being be-ing a model wife old style model-was, model-was, prepared to think Just as her husband hus-band thought Egbert saw matters drawing to a crisis, felt the coming storm and talked It over with Etta, who talked It over with her aunt who said : "If yon two want to be married why don't yon do so. You are both old enough to know your own minds ! If you are ever going to. But what shall T do when yon are gone?" "Oh, we sha'n't go away, auntie," replied Etta. "Egbert likes Sandport He wants to fix up the old house and i live here." 1 "AH right" said Miss Selina. 1 Egbert told his father In a most off- ' hand manner what had been decided upon. The old man had made his for- tune by his quick decisions. He looked at Egbert saw that square-set Jaw, and knew that In this he could j not move him. "Very well," said he. "Family not good enough for me once!" and then, grimly, "It will be a J bit of revenge for me, anyhow." For a full hour after Egbert had left him Frank sat there musing. j Possibly Selina mused, too. But If J they mused of what might have been neither Fran) nor Selina ever spoke, j What was lurking In their minds as they watched the happiness of Egbert J and Etta no one ever knew. |