Semi-weekly Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1851-1852, 1851-05-02

/ hi. resolve. The will was drawn in accordance
with his peremptorily iterated Instructions, and
duly signed sealed, and attestcd. Not very
long afterwards, Mr.. Linden disposed OF his
business n Mincing Lane, and retired to Holm
ford, but with nothing like the money fortune
he had once calculated upon, the losses alluded
to by Mr.. Flint, and followed by others, hav-
ing considerably diminished his wealth.
We ultimately obtained a respectable and
remunerative situation for Thomas LindeT in a
mercantile house at Belfast with which we
were professionally acquainted, and after Sc
curing berths in the Erin steamer, he, with his
wife and mother in-law, came, with a kind Of
hopeful sadness in their looks and voices, to
bid us farewell--for u long time they and we
also feared.
| For an eternity. il seemed, on reading the
account of the loss of the Erin. few days al
forwards, with every soul OIL board! Their
names were published with those of the other
passengers who had embarked, and we had Of
course concluded that they had perished, when
letter reached us from Belfast, stating that
through some delay ON the part Of Mrs. Arnold,
they had happily lost their passage in the Erin,
| and embarked in the next steamer for Belfast,
where they arrived in perfect safety. We for
warded this intelligence to Holmford, but it
elected no reply.
We heard nothing Of Mr.. Linden for about
two months, except by occasional notices in
the Hereford Tines which he regularly for
warted to the office, relative to the improve
ments on the Holmford estate, either actually
begun or contemplated by its new proprietor.
He very suddenly reappeared. | vas cooling
my heels in the waiting-room of the chambers
of the Barons Of the Exchequer, Chancery
Lane, awaiting my turn for admission, when
one of our clerks came in half brcathless with
haste. "You are wanted, sir, Immediately: :
Mr.. Flint is out, and Mr.. Linden is at the office
raving like madman." Instantly transferred
the business was in attendance at chambers
upon to the clerk, and with the help of cab
soon reached home.
Mr.. Linden was not raring when arrived.
The violence of the paIoxysm of rage and ter
ror BY which he was possessed had passed
away, and he looked, as | entered, the image
of pale, rigid, iron, dumb despair. He held a
letter and strip of parchment in his hand,
these he presented, and with white, stammer-
ing lips, bade me read. The letter was from
di vi tuC VI Sd"oItNSc, ShIS
notice of an action Of ejectment, to roust him
from the possession of the Holmford estate, the
property, according to Mr.. Sawhridge, Of one
Edwin Marjoribanks, and the strip of parch-
m"nt was the writ by which the letter had been
quickly followed. | was astounded; and my
scared looks questioned Mr.. Linden for further
information.
81 do not quite undo. stand it," he said in a
hoarse, palpitating voice. mo possession or
title in the venders niece not of age-ex-
rcutors no power to sell--faiscr discovered
it, robbed me, absconded, and |, oh God am
miserable begggar!'
The last words were uttered with convul-
sive scream, aud after few frightfu struggles
he fell down in fit. had him conveyed to
bed, and us soon rs he was some what recover
ed, fastened Of to ascertain from Sawbridge,
whom knew very intimately, the nature of the
claim intended to be set up for the plaintiff,
Edwin Maioribanks.
met Sawbridge just as he was leaving his
office, and as he was in too great hurry to
turn back, walked along with him, aud he
rapidly detailed the chief facts about to be en-
bodied in the plaintiffs declaration. Archibald
! Dursley, once London merchant and who
died bachelor, had bequeathed his estate real
and personal, to his brother Charles, and a
niece, his sisters chid-two thirds to the niece
and one-third to the brother. The Holmford
property, the will directed, should be sold by
public auction when the niece came of age,
unless she, by marriage or otherwise, was eu-
abled, within six months after attaining her ma
jority, to pay over tosCharles Dursley his third
in money, according to valuation made for
the purpose by competent assessors. The
brother, Charles Dursley, had urged upon the
executors 10 anticipate the time directed by the
will for the sale of the property, and having
persuaded the niece to give written authori-
zation for the immediate sale, the executors,
chiefly, Sawbridge supposed, prompted by
their own necessities, sold the estate according
ly. But the niece not being of age, when she
signed the authority to sell her consent was of
no legal value; and she having since died in
testate, Edwin Majorbanks, her cousin and un-
doubted heir.at,law--for the property could
not have passed from her even by marriage
now claimed the estate. Charles Dursley, the
brother, was dead "and," continued Mr.. Saw.
bridge, ,"'the worst of it is, Linden will never
get farthing Of his purchase money from the
venders, for they are bankrupt, nor from Pallis-
ter, who has made permanent arrangements
for continuing abroad, out of harms reach. 1t
is as Just | tell you," he added, rs we shook