The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1836-1851, 1849-08-01
screamed The lady, as Clara, nothing loalh,
enrinn into tho rahinla


our establishment, responded the impertur-
bable official, as he shut and fastened the
door. Here is my card, SIR he added, ad-
dressing the attorney, who now come up
You see where to find the lady, if her
friends wish to give bail 10 The sheriff, or
what rs always more satisfactory, pay the
The debt and costs He then jumped on the
box, his followers got up behind, and away
drove the coach, leaving the discom6ted
major and his better half in a state Of blank
est bewidermenll
Why, what is the meaning of this 2 at
length gasped Mrs. Brandon, addressing the
attorney, as ifhe were a particeps crinlinus
in the affair.
The meaning. my dear ma'am. is, that
Miss Clara Brandon is arrested for debt, and
carried offto sponging- house; and that un-
less you pay the money, or file bail, she will
Tomorrow be lodged in Jail, replied the un-
moved maa of law.
Bail money How are we to do either
in London, away from home 2 demanded
the major with, f hun, much emotion.
did not wait 10 hear more, but, almost
suffocated with laughter at the success Of
Ferrel's audacious ruye, FASTENED over 10 The
Temple. / was just haVing chambers for
the nigh,--abput ten o'clock l think it must
have been, when Ferret in exuberent spirits
burst into The room.
We'll, sir, what do you think now of a
writ td sa6.
'Why,I think, Mr.. Ferret replied /,
looking as serious as could, that yours is
very sharp practice sthat The purpose you
iave put il 10 is an abuse Of the writ; that the
arrest is consequently illegal; and that
Judge would, upon motion, quash i. with
COST
To be Sure you would; who doubts lllat7
Let him and welcome In the meantime,
Clara Brandon is safe beyond the reach Of
all The Judges and chancellors that ever wore
horschair, and that everlasting simple,nn of
major and his harridan wife roaming the
metropolis like distracted creatures; and that
] take 10 be the real essence of the thing
whatever. the big wigs may decide abou,
the shells
'Isuppose the plaintiff soon discharged her
debtor out of custodyP
Without loss OF time, you may be sure.
Miss Brandon, ] may tell you, is with the
Rev. Mr.. Derwent, at Brandon. You know
him: the newly married curate of st. Mar
garet's that was examined in that will case.
He is an intelligent, high principled man; and
] have no doubt that, unier his and Miss
Brandon's mental in6rmity will disappear
long before she attains her majority next
June twelve.mon,hs; whilst the liberal sum
per. month which Lady Compton will ad
vance will be of great service to him.
That all appears very good. But are
you sure you can effectualy conceal the
place of her retreata'
Ihave no Iear! the l~igs that will ehtan-
glcd her precious guardians in the labyrin,hs
Of false clue are already set and lined.
Before tomorrow night they will have dis
covered, by means of their own wonderfully
penetrative sagacty, that Clara has been spi.
rted over to France and before three months
are past, the same surprising intelligence will
rejoice in The discovery that she expired in a
matson de sante-fne comfortable tepose, in
which FOOLS paradise I hope to have the honor
of awakening them about next June twelve.
month, and not, as at present advised, before
Everything fortunately turned out as Mr.. Fer.
ret anticipated; and when few months had
gllded by, Clara Brandon was memory only,
save of course to the few entrusted with the
| secret.
The whirligig of time continued as ever to
speed Oh its course and bring round n due time
its destined revenges. The health, mental and
bodily. of Miss Brandon rapidly improved TN.
der the kind and judictous treatment of MIR. and
Mrs. Derweht long before The attainment OF
her majority, were pronounced by competent
authority TO be thoroughly re.established. The
day following that which completed her twenty
| first year, Mr.. Ferret, armed with the necessa.
ry authority, had the pleasure ofannouncng to
the relct OF Major Brandon (he had been dead
some months,) and to her brutal son, that they
must forthwith depart from the home in which
they, to the very moment of his announcement
thought thcmsevs secure and surrender every
shilling Of the property they had so long dremt
was their own. They were Frustrated by ihe
intelligence, and proved as mean and sersile in
the hour of adversely, as they had been nsolent
and cruel in the day of fancied success and pros
pcrity. The pension Of three hundred pounds
a year for both their lives. profered by Miss
Brandon, was eagerly accepted; and they re.
turned to the obscurity from which they had by
accident engaged.
About six months afterwards, had the pleas
ure Of drawing up the marriage settlements
between Clara Brandon and Herbert Burford {;
and twevemonlhs after, that of standing sPon.
sor to one ofihe lustest brats ever sprinkled at
a font; none Of which delightful results, if we
are to believe Mr.. Ferret would have ever
been arrived at bad not he, at very critical
moment, refused to take counse's opinion upon
the virtues, capabilities, and prowers cont lined
in the great writ of ha5sas corpus ad suljicien
dun.