The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-12-25
"Partneral I had no right to como into this

1ArtueTs' ! nAQ no r1gnt 70 como nto enub
business. It was never meant for me. My
mother never meant 1t should be mine. Imean
his mother meant it should be his-if I mean
anything-or if I am anybody"
"Come, come" urged his partner, after q
moments pause, and taking possession Of him
with that calm confidence which inspires o
strong nature when it honestly desires to aid q
weak one. "Whatever has gone wrong
has gone wrong through no fault Of
yours, I am very sure. I was not in this
contingencies with you under the old regime,
for three years, to doubt you, Wildins.
We were not younger men than we are, to-
gether, for that. Let me begin our partnership
by being q serviceable partner, and setting right
whatever is wrong. Has that letter anything to
do with it9"
"Hah," said Wlding, with his hand to his
temple. "Thers again. My head. I was for
getting the coincidence. The Swiss postmark."
cat 9 second glance I see that the letter is
unopened, so it is not very likely to have much
TO do with the matter" said yendale, with
comforting composure. "Is it for you, or for
us2"
GO4 o5s oo2o LoiAS
"Supposs I open it and read it aloud, to get it.
out of our wayf"
"Thank you, thank you"
"The letter is only from our champagne
making friends, the house Of Neuchatel. Dear
sir: We are in receipt Of yours of the 2Sth ult.,
informing Us that you have taken your MIR. VEN
dale into partnership, whereupon We beg you to
receive the assurance Of our fluctuations. Per-
NIT Us to embrace the occasion Of specially COM
mending to you n. Jules Obenreizer,' Impos-
sible.n
wildins looked up in quick apprehension, and
cried, "Eh~ IL
Impossible sort Of name," returned his
partner, slightly. "Obensnreizer. -ofs specially
commencing to you n. Jules obanreizer, Of
Soho Square, London (north side), henceforth
fully accredited as our agent, and who has al
tance Of your Mr.. Vendale, in his (said N. Oben-
~reizer's) native country, Switzerland'-to be
sure, pooh, pooh; what have I been thinking
Off I remember now-'when travelling with his
niece
"With his-r vendale had 30 slurred the
last word, that widing had not heard it.
when travelling with his niece. Obenreizer's
niece" said Vendale, in o somewhat superAu-
ously lucid manner. "Niece Of Cbenreizer. Il
met them in my first Swiss tour, travelled
q little with them. and lost them for two years ;
met them again, my Swiss tour before
Last. and have lost them ever since.)
Obenroizer. Niece Of Obenreizer. To be sure !
Possible sort Of name, after ALL M. Oben-
reizer is in possession Of our absolute conf
dence, and we do not doubt you VIII esteem his
inertia Duly signed by the house, 'Defresnier
enreizer presently, and clear him out OF the way.
ThsS clears the Swiss postmark out Of the way.
30 now, my dear Wilding, tell me what I can
clear out Of your way, sndTl find . way to clear
It,"
More than ready and grateful to be thus taken
charge Of, the honest WINE merchant wrung his
partners hand, and, beginning his tale by pa
thetically declaring himself an impostor, told it.
set wss on this matter, no doubt, that you
were sending for Bintrey when ] came in ~ said
his partner, after rejecting.
eft was"
she has experience and o shrewd head (; I
shall be anxious to know his opinion. It is bold
and hazardous in me to give you mine before I
know his, but I am not good at holding back.
Plainly, then, I do not see these circumstance
ss you see them. I do not see your position IS
you see it. AS to your being an impostor, my
dear Wilding, that is simply absurd. because no
man can be that without being aconsenting party |
imposition. Clearly you never were 30.
As to yonr enrichment by the lady who believed
you 70 be her son, and whom you were
forced to believe, on her own showing, to be
mother. consider whether that did not arise
out of the personal relations between you. You
gradually became much attached to her; she
gradually became much attached to you. 1t was
on you, personally on you, as I see the case, that
she conferred these worldly advantages; it was
from her, personally her, that you took them.
"she supposed me-" objected Wilding, shak-
ing his head, Ito have Q natural claim upon
her, which l had not"
"Imust admit that, replied his partner, "to
be true. But If she had made the discovery
that you have made, six months before she died,