The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-03-27

Reject the savage's proposal. While
I have a shilling, You shall share it.
You took the check ?'' go go
"Of course I did," said Freddy
The second case produced only two
hundred My aunt entirely conceded
in the dukes opinion, and. thinking [
might require. a few new law-books
bearing on the duties of the woolsack,
such, perhaps, as the Lord Chancel-
lers Pocket Companion, the Judg-
ment Dictionary, Chancery in
a. Nutshell, &C., kindly enclosed
the amount / have named.
/ have been engaged to be married
to several young ladies of consider
able personal beauty, but limited
means. Something, however, invari-
ably interposed to prevent our union,
and, in each instance, my amt posi-
lively refused to take back the pres
ents she had made me.-The greatest
stroke / eyer made. sir. was this: /
invented an expedition TO the Span
ish Main, with the view of recovering
treasures Of great value, hidden, ages
ago, by the buccaneers. This required
capitah5 and my aunt had to sell out
stock to about amount of FIVE thousand
pounds. The ship foundered, and the
project with it. Altogether, | must
have made LET me see, Che took a
little book from his drawer, hem
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. three-yes
just sixteen thousand pounds!" s. /,
!" You don t mean to tell me, seri-
ously, that you have kept this
money!, NJ t.sa eoe,1 ~ .ds,el. as.
/" have kept it, and made good
deal by it. 4 said Freddy, laughing.
Then you ought to be heartily
ashamed of yourself, +" / said. Come.
Freddy, you are joking with me. as an
old friend may; but you would be
sorry to have me put faith In your as
sertion that you have actually OBJ
tanned this amount of money from
your kind old relative by false repre-
sentations?@a : t9fsn-ofss s-r
81 am not joking. I soish you to
believe every word, 8 replied Freddy,
with slightly heightened color.
am very sorry to hear it, said
/, + and to pre~e it, I shall wish you
good morning have not at all en-
joyed this conversation. I have known
your kind, confiding aunt since was
an urchin at school. : i know, almost
Nas we'll sas yourself, the condition of
her affairs, and that what / cannot
but eallthe misbesteval Of q Thousand
q year out Of fifteen hundred must be
severely felt in her liberal household.
am not q censor of any mans NOR
ais, but [ have my own opinions of
the fair and honorable, and what you
have revealed to me, Bullingham,
gives me pain that do not care to
conceal9''Cb aoifIif9ssb cl3Ys 10 aui~
Capitally delivered, my dear fell
Flow, said the incorrigible Fred. II
am sorry your audience was so small.
To be candid, it does appear rather a
roguish piece of business; still, neces-
sity has no law. and"
Law has no necessity said /, with
stern smile" which makes the mat
ter worse. Good morning. ON
20, come, if you take it that way"
said Fred, good morning Still, if
at any time few hundreds"
= What do you mean?'
Gentleman wishes to see you, sir, :"
said the clerk, putting his head in.
His name? 49, ss5. s.a
= " Mr.. Suckham Drye, sir. 7fI55
In q moment. Ge0rge, you must
wait and see this fellow. He's char
aacter He knows my Aunt, in whom
you take SC kind an interest," 81 s..
The last words changed my inten-
ton. l sat down. The visitor was
shown in --z.a.-..z.--------s--a-ss--
4 Mr.. Suckham Drye had a counte-
nance somewhat resembling that of a
bull terrier, at. ths moment that ami
NAL fastens on the, lip of BIZ, ponder
GUS foe, and is exerting all BIS ener-
gies to prevent being shaken into the
air. His teeth appeared to dose IN
ward, like those of shark, and he
had a habit of drawing his breath
through them, when closed, that sug-
gested the idea Of exhausting to the
last drop, something that afforded him
the keenest pleasure.
Ha, Suckham, glad to sec you,n
said my friend. Mr.. Hartwsll-Mr.
nsysssau Well seHeafbBssm' asysshiiPqs
Fifty things at least said Mr..
Drye. And he produced huge pack
az diiis Ss Rsp sss fsJSS gsar6as and RI
Stick to the first, my -bQy." said
Freddy. "Tihie's precfotfs. ! George,
Z want you to attend to this. My
friend Drye, though possessed Of suf-
fcient wealth for his own moderate
wants, is never weary of enriching
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