The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1849-08-01

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4 must haze her wisen Ferret, In er-
nbrlaHi sFsslss, burst iaga lie Tnogi.
"Msll, ..r. alaas j., VOC s..iah BOA ii
4 viii al ss.5 =
Why, l lhinl, MI. feErs'.' replied I,
looking ~ serious as could. :. ll.sl yours
IS very sharp prar,ice; that The purpose
sou have put il 10 . an abnse Of The vii;
that HE aIrssi Is consequently illegal: ana
thai Judge woald. upon Elolion, quash
II with rosis."
.'l'a be sure lie would: who doubts
ihaii Let him. aud welcome, Ia the
meantime. clara Brandnn j. safe beyond
The reach Vi I'll The judges or elianeellors
that ever wore horselalr. and that ever
lasting simpleinn II malnE and his har-
ridan wife roaming the metropolis like
distracted creatures: and that | take 10
be the real essence oi the thing. whatever
the big Wigs max decide ato,.t he shells -
81 suppose llle plaintiff snon discharged
her debtor ont Of custody =
I Without loss Of time, Won may he
sum. Miss Brandon. l may tell you. is
with the Rev. Mr.. DcTweni At Brnm,on.
iuu know him: tie newly married cu-
rate Of ~. Marsare,'s thai WAS examined
IN that viii case. lie Is an intelligent.
high.principled man; aud have tao doubt
that, under his and Mrs. Derwen,'s care,
all trace Of Miss BFandon's mental iniirm-
ily will disappear long before she aiiains
her majority next June iwelyemonth;
whilst the liberal sum per month which
Lsdy Compton will advance, will be Of
great service 10 him.
"That appears all very good. But are
YOU sure YOU ean eileclually conceal the
place OF her retreat -
- have no fear; the twigs that viii
cniangle her precious guardians in the
labyIinihs OF false clue are already set
and lined. Before tomorrow night they
will have discovered, by means Of their
own wonderful penetralire sagaci,y, that
, Clara has been spirited over 10 France
and before three months are past, the
: same surprising intelligence viii rejoice
in the discovery That she exi ircd in 4
maison de sanft-line comfortable repose,
! in which fools paradise hope 10 have
The honor OF awakening them about next
> June twelyemonlb, and not as al present
advised before -
/ Everything, fortunately, turned out as
, Mr. Ferret anticipated; aud when few
months had glided by, Clam Brandon was
memory only, gave OF course to the few
. inlmstcd with the secret.
I The wirligig Of time continued as ever
70 speed on lis course and hIIng round In
due season lis destined revenges. The
: health, mental and bodily, Of Miss Bran
don rapidly improved under the kind and
/, judiclous treatment Of Mr.. and Mrs. Der
went; and long before the attainment Of
her majority, were pronounced by COM
petent authority 10 be thoroughly re.es-
: lablished. The day following that which
q completed her tweniy,trsi year, Mr.. Fer
, ret, armed with the necessary authority,
had the pleasure of announcing To the re-
lict of Major Brandon the had been dead
some months,) and To her brutal son. iha,
they must forthwith depart from the home
IN which They, 10 the very moment Of his
announcement, thought themselves secure;
and surrender every shilling OF the proper
~ they had 81 long dream, was their own.
3. They were Frustrated ny tie intelligence,
and proved rs mean and serviIc in the
, hour of adversely, as they had been inso-
/ lent aud cruel in the day Of lancied sue
ces and prosperity. The pension OF three
hundred pounds year for both their lives,
!. prollered by Miss Brandon, was eagerly
accepted; and they returned 10 the obscu-
= ri,v from which they had by accident
i emerged. About six months afterwards,
;. | had the pleasure of drawing up the mar
), rage settlements between Clara Brandon
aud Herbert Bedford and Of twelyemonth
), after, that of standing sponsor TO one of
:, the lusllest brats ever sPriukled at font:
"a none Of which delightful results, if we arc
TO believe Mr.. Ferret, would have ever
! been arrived at had not he, al very criti-
i Il moment, refused to take counsel's opir-
ION upon the virtues, capabilities, and
powers contained in the great writ of ha-
q beas corpus al snJiciatdum.