American Lancaster gazette. [volume] (Lancaster, Ohio) 1855-1860, 1855-12-27

saddled. We never saw him again.
The Squire took 70 bis bed and lay there
nigh a wsek, scarce eating anything. J.
tended on him myself, i couId,hear him
groan as | passed his door; but when /
came in be looked Just as usual, pale and
hard and grim. You could never tell Shat
he meant by bis face. 4
Some said be frelted for bis son; others
said it was for the money. Master Rupert
had burned, and tie Joss Of the gray colt,
the best he'd bred. Anyhow, he said no
word, but got up at tie end Of The week.
moiling and striving. and serewing and
grinding, worse than ever. think my
self, he loved Master Rupert, for all bis
hard lines to him; for once-when his son
had been gone six monihs-I found him
in the old lawyers stuly standing look
ing at two pictures-one Of himself
taken when be was about ten years old, and
another of Rupert, when be was seven or
eight, drawn for his grandfather by some
foreign artist. l heard him mutter 70 him
self, so changed and half fancied there
was tear in lis eye. But turning him
self sbor, round on me. lie said grimlike.
Gould any one believe that pretty child
conll have turned out such a villain, 10
rob his poor, old father? WHAT he cried
TO me, as multered something the
boy was my frori.e-'do You defend him?'
'Mas'ef Rupert was not a villain says
/, If twas tie FIST word l had to speak
And with that threw down the sample OF
wheat / had brought, wen. out, and never
went near him all that day. ButIe could
not do without me- So the next time 1
had TO 90 to him, lie took no more notice.
When we r5tn1e to settle with tie niiFler,
who took par; ofour corn au1sen us meal,
we found that he had paid Master Rupert
cash for brood mare that used to b. call
ed his. Before that time the Squire had
taken care OF the money, as he said, for
them, of any calves or lambs sold belong
ing to Ire Children.
Two years after wards, son of he bead
p'ouglman, tha, had goneto sea, wrote to
his mother saying he had met Master Ru-
pert in Calcutta, dressed in cavalry uni
form; that lie knew him in a Minute, al
though he was very much altered But
that Master Rupert denied his name. and
refused TO ow1 to ever seeing Bob Golfer
before. But Bob was qnite clear that it
was die young Squire. | went aa1 told
my master, who said nothing at the time.
but it seems went to work with his London
friends 10 buy Master Rupert out did
not know this at the time. Long Alter
wards, when the Squire fell sick Of the i'll
ness he died of, found the letters under
his pillow. First, thereWas letter from
some one in India, saying that they had
seen the soldier. Thomas Rupertson, OF ,he
fftieth K O. Light Cavalry, and thai he
had any parents living, or that lie had any
pretensions TO. be a gentleman; and fur
ther said be should enter some other regl-
ment Immediately if bought out. There
was another letter, saying that, since the
first was written, private Thomas Rupert
son had died of a wound received III a
fighi with soma, mounted robbers, and the
chaplain enclosed lock of his hair, and
a portrait, M de on something like glass,
only tough, by au Indian. Poor ladl il
was The very moral Of him; though the
thick, da-k moIIs,aches, and The fierce look
was very different to when he used to 9,
shdpherding with me on his rough pony
4 II tster Ruperes going was only the be
J ginning Of our troubles.
} Every year the Squire seemed to grow
richer. He coulJ not helpii;- for, 'thougl
the home farm was nniserably managed, h
spent nothing to speak of, and was Savin.
up his rent, and Iaying them out every
year oninierest People came to bin
from All parts'to borrow money; aud he ss
up all night besides the day, " hen he wa
not busy on tie farm, looking over parch
ments, and counting up money, and pack
ing it up to take to the Blexborough Bank
4 The young ladies were growing up; bu
/. he only seemed 10 notice them by fits an'
/ starts. They were afraid Of him, alway
!, skuIking out of the way, and donlyi spoke il
whispers, oriust Ay and Nay, before him
thou III they could laugh loud enough be
hind his back.-- Joking with the lads, VIII
Il made an excuse 10 cath when they kne'
, the Squire was at marketeor bank. Oh
f but they were b2nny lasses. with colo
: like resesl but strange and wild in thei
way as saug young ,jllies, and no one-t
:. look after them, -7scamperng about tn
3 park on their ponies, with lheS hair ayin
=, about their ears, rnl just an old shawl {
+, horse-rug round their feet, instead of
/ habit; or playing hiie-and seek round d
t old bail. They were at the age when so
row and sad thoughts soon pass. So POI
Rupert was forgotten, except on wint
;. evening round lhe fle, .,.,. .-. y
I. Well, one day they were both missing
+ they had gone: off and married two vii
S fellows, lawyers clerks--not bad -lookin
chaps, though-who got acquainted wit
: them in the-park while coming backward
V and forwards to raise money on wrilin!
K for, their .mastcr, lawyer Johns, -Jesu
J, Johns they called him. Itwas q sad bus
d ness FIRST, the husbands sued the Squi
IS for their wives share Of their mother
\. fortune; then, when'they got it, and four
not to be 50 much as they expected, thu
" ilfused the poor things, Lahgston,, III
l. married Miss ds6f6y, gave up The law al
opened public house, where all che "a
Ii ing aud Sporting fellows, from the IIiI
a M6or. training grounds, used to goss
N poor Miss Gsofgy, who always had a sPi
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