Daily American telegraph. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1851-1852, 1852-09-14
AMERICAN TELEGRAPH.
RACE FOR AN HEIREss.
/ ICoNTINuED.

make a fellow wild to read every day about the
abundance of capital the bank gorged with bull
lion, money never so plentiful, &c.; and then to
get letter from your governor, or your mother,
to say that they can't send you halfpenny at
present, for money is so scarce p
~ don't believe word about the glut of
gold,'" replied his friend 'for, hang me if /
know man in the whole range of my acquaint-
ance with ten sovereigns in his pocket at this mo.
ment."
"Very true" sighed the eresponse. "But what's
to be done? There must be some way of making
money, Dick"
"Of course. Opening n betting-otfice, for ex-
ample, and boiling on the Derby day; starting
hell in Jermyn street; inventng new pill to
cure everything; keeping gin-shop; giving n
pictorial, musical facetious, serious descriptive,
personally adventurous entertainment on the
capital of unhounded cheek grand-piano,
picture or two; lecturing against Popery and
Cardinal Wseman. All these things, my dear
fellow, are highly profitable"
"Yes--but they wouldn't suit a fellow like
me-"
'Perhaps not you're too honest for some of
tbem-too modest for others-too lazy for others
and not quite sharp enough (don't be offended)
for the rest of them
"Then," said Frank, 'it's useless to talk about
those means. Are there no others %
"Yes" replied Dick, 'there are What say
you to New Mining Company"
''Surely, there are too many of them already
They can't all pay"
'"rhe subscriJsTs--no. The pronoters--yes.
"Then doubt their honesty"
"Qte uoalez poss?" said Dick, with shrug
g The maxim of the present day, practically car
ried out, if not actually uttered, is Every man
for himself; and the promoters Of mining COM
panies are about as honest as tradesmen in gen
| eral."
Tradesmen-humph growled his FRIEND,
| as though he loved them not
"Precisey so, my dear fellow-tradesmen
| Now, you have an aristocratic dislike to trades
men and their doings, therefore have nothing to
do with business But what say you to marry
ing an heiress, by way of raising the wind :"
1t would suit my book exactly" replied
Frank, looking in the glass, and settling stray
curl ut the same moment; but heiresses are
not to be found, or if they are, they re tyumps"
81 can recommend you to who s ex-
tremely handsome, young, and heiress to twelve
thousand u year." answered Dick, quietly.
| "The deuce you can who is she where is
she :"
"She is Jessie Tuition, and she is in Lower
Brook street" was the reply.
"Jessie Tufton! What, daughter of Sir Her.
cules? Hang it, I've been plagued by my mo-
ther eternally to go and call on them, for we
know something Of them, though ! have never
seen Jesse since she was a baby; for hate the
country, and she has never been in town. But
is she really pretty?"
| "Go and see her-go and win her." replied
Dick
Frank Phillimore looked serious and rehec-
tive. After q minute or two, he said,
"Dick, what makes you so very generous in
these matters? Pray, why don't you think of
winning her Yourself"
because my dear boy have two great i'm
pediments. In the first place, don't know who
my grandfather was--in the second place, [ be-
lieve I'm married already"
"M Married already! yom!'
"Don't look so dreadfully astonished. Yes;
it's fact, though really never thought it worth
while to mention it before. When went over to
the West Indies, two years ago, | married
Spanish Creoe-devlsh handsome and poor.
"And where is she? what became of her 2"
"She ran away three months later with
Yankee skipper; but believe she alive"
"Why don't you get divorce ~
"Too expensive luxury! Besides" said
Dick, smiling, &" rather like being married; it
keeps me from doing it again"
That same afternoon Frank Phillimore called
on the Tuftons.
Frank was the younger son Of q country gen
tleman, with no very large estate but most
unexceptionable pedigree. His elder brother
was delicate young man, whose life would
hardly have been accepted by any insurance of
fee in the kingdom, so that some people fancied
that Frank, though only the second son, was
pretty sure of inheriting the family estates.
Without exactly hoping the same thing, which
involved his brothers death, Frank was apt to
feel something like certainty about it and, there
fore, instead of pursuing his studies in town,
whittier he was sent to keep terms for the bar
he spent oil the money he could get and lived
the life of RdReRr about town. The governor
growed as governors always do in such cases
but the mamma made excuses, and helped mas
ter Frank ont Of the many scrapes he was weekly
getting into She entertained the hope that
Frank who was so handsome and so clever, lin
her estimation and his own,) would make good
marriage, and then settle into q respectable fam
lily man.
If ever Frank felt disposed to realize his
mothers hopes, it was decidedly on seeing Jessie
Tuition, with whom and with whose future fortune
he fell very violently in love. Whether he produced
n corresponding effect on the ladys heart, will
appear in the sequel.
He wrote home to his mother to tell her he had
seen the Tuftons that Jessie was an angel, and
that really he thought n fellow might do worse
than marry her. BY return Of post his mother
sent him twenty pound note, and Frank dined
the same day at the Star and Garter with his
friend Dick.
In olden times, we believe that daughters did
rs they were bidden in matrimonial matters; and
young lady would have considered it not only
wickedly disobedient, but highly immodest also,
to act in opposition to the wishes of her parents,
or to have any wishes of her own on the subject
of the husband che was to accept But noas drong
chance tout celia in these days, and young misses
have far higher opinion of their own taste and
Judgment in selecting partner for life than OF
their parents And 80 it came to pass that Jessie
Tufton determined to dislike Walter Perctya,
esd. because she guessed that her mamma had
fxed on that gentleman for her spouse.
Mrs Tuition was puzzled to know what Jessie
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