The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1850-12-28
OsMAN. OTTAWA, III. sAlU tDAY. DECEMBER 2s, 1850.

1t was so settled. l then led him out into the
street, impel!ed Ia tell him the news, yet dread.
ing the effect not daring to make the revelation
in my office, fer fear Of a scene.
lbegan he,itatingly, Ny Fitz Roy, am hap
py to say that find ypu entitled = ten
thousand pounds .......
Ten thousand poundsw he echoed "Ten
thousand pounds p he yelled, seizing my arm vi
alenty You are a brick Here cab cab -
Several drove up-the shout might have been
heard mile off He jumped irtu the first
Where to r said the driver
"lo tailors, you rascal"
Ten thousand pounds ha, ha, la !" ha repeat
cd hysterically. when in tic cab, and every mo-
ment grasping my arm. Presently he sub>ided
looked me straight N the face, and mutterred with
agonizug feryor- ...... ....
what Jolly bricl, you are,"
The tailor, the hesier, the bootmaker, tie hair
dresser were in turn visited by this poor pagan
Of externals As by degrees, under their hands,
he emerged from the beggar to the gentleman
his spirit rose, his eyes frightened, he walked e.
rect but always rervou-ly, grasping my arm,
fearing apparently, 10 lose .i.,t % me for a mo-
ment The impatient pride with which he gave
his order TO the astoni.hed tradcman tor the finest
and best of everything, and the amazed air Of
the fashionable hair-dresscr when he presented
he mpte8 locks and stubhlo chin to be "cut and
slmved" may he acted--It cannot he described.
By tli, time the external Transformation was
complete, ard | sat down IN a cye IN the Hay
market opposite hagg4rd, but handsome, thor
ough bred looking man, whose air, With the ex-
cep,on Of the wild ewes and deeply b.owned face
dad not dlfer from tn. sterro,, ped men abou,
town sitting around ia. Mr. Molinos Fitz Roy
had nearly forgotten the past. He bullicd the
waiter and criticized the wine as If he had done
nothing else but dine and drink, and scod there
all The days Of his LIE.
Once he wished to drink my health, and would
have proclaimed hi, whole story to the coffee.
room assembly in a ravlny style. When left
he almost wept in terror at the idea OF loosin-,
sight OF ne. But, allowing for those ehullitions
the natural result of such d whir of events
h, was wonder ally calm aud -vlfpb,se..ed.
The next day his first care was to distribute fif
ty pounds among his friends the cndgers, at a
house Of call in Westminster, and formally to
dissolve his conneXion with them--thosa prrser,
undertaking for the fraternity that for the fu
ture he should never be noticed by them in public
or private.
. cannot follow hi. career much further. Ad
vcr,ity had taught linn nolling He was soon a
gain surrounded by tie wcllbred vampires who
HAu iOSultcH MN Wlen ptIINliess, buI lify al
unused him, and that Was enough. The ten thou
sand pounds were rapidly melting when hc inyi
ted me- To Il grand dinner Il, R,hu ord which in
clu led dozen OF the most agreeable good-looli
my, well-dressed dandIes OF London in er persed
with display Of pretty Luttefy bonne.. We
dined drllciou>ly, ana drank II, men 'io Of iced
wines IN the dog days--Iookms down from Rich
mond Hill.
one of the pink bounets crowned Fz Roy
with Il wreath ot flowers, he lo"keI-les IN, III.
tellect-as handsome a. AlchIhladrs. Intensely
excited and flushed, he rO,', with 4 champagne
glass in his hand to propose nv health.
The oratorlcal powers of his father had not de
secluded on h!m. Jerking out sentences by spnsnis
AZ length he said; 81 was Il beg5ar-l am u gen
tlcman--thanks TO this
Here he leaned on my shoulder heavily mo
ment, and then fell back We raised him, loo.en
ed his neckc!oth--
Painted" said the lldios.
"Drunk y said ile gentlemen.
! He was dead