The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-12-19
..I suppose she,d as soon see the devil

~ suppose she'd as soon see the devil
as see me, said Hugh.
"If you speak in that way, Mr.. Hugh,
I will not listen to you"
"And yet did everything could to
please her; and l don't think any boy
ever loved an old woman better than
did her."
"That was while she used to send you
cakes, AID ham, and jam to school, Mr.
Hugh" .-..-...,. .---..-..
"Of course it was, and while she sent
me flannel waistcoats to Oxford But
when didn't care any longer for cakes
or flannel then she got tired of me. 1t
is much better as it is, if SMELL only be
good to Dorothy"
"She never was bad TO anybody, MI.
Hugh. But don't think an old Iaay
like her ever takes to yonng woLna n
as she does to a Young man, II oniy ne II
let her have q little more OF her Own
way than you would. It's my Deliei
that Won might have had it all for your
own some day, if you'd done as you
sTsats nonsense, Martha. She means
70 Leave il all to the BGrgesses. Eve
w 1CdNO ~
heard her say so.D
O .isav 90; YES. People don't always do
~ hat they say Ifyou'd managed right
ly YOU might nave IL aiI;-ahu so you
might now" :.
S"I'll tell you what, old girl; l shan't
Try. Live for the next twenty years I'M
der her apron strings that l may have
the chance, at the end of ii, of cutting
some poor devil out of his money! Do
you know the meaning of making a
score off your own bat, Martha i"'
"No, i don't, and if it's anything
you're like to do, don't think should
be the better for learning,-by all &C
counts. And now, if you please, I'll go
in"
"Good night, Martha. Ny love to
them both, and say I'll be there to-mor-
row exactly at half past nine. You'd
better take it. 1t won't turn to slate
stone. 1t hasn't come from the old gen.
tlemau."
II don't want anything of that kind.
Mr.. Hugb;-indeed l don't"
Nonsense. If you don't take it you'll
offend me. believe you think I'm not
much better than a school-boy STILL"
~ don't think you're half so good,
Mr.. Hugh" said the old servant, stick
ing the sovereign which Hugh had Civ
en- her in under her glove as she spoke.
On the next morning that other visit
was made at the brick house, and
Miss Stanbury was again in a
fuss. On this occasion, however,
she was in a much better humor
than before, aud was full of little
Jokes as TO the nature of the visitati on.
OF course, she was not TO see her ne
phew herself, and no message was to be
delivered from her, and none was to be
given to her from him. But an accurate
report was to be made to her as to his
appearance, and Dorothy was to be en-
abled to answer a variety of questions
respecting him after he was gone. ''Ot
course, don't want to know anything
about his money! Miss Stanbury said,
"only l should like to know how much
these people can afford to pay for their
penny trash" On this occasion she had
left the room and gone up stairs before
the knock came at the door, but she
managed, by peeping over the balcony,
to catch glimpse of the "hipperty- flop
perty" hat which her nephew certainly
had with him on this occasion.
Hugh Stanbury had great news for
his sister. The cottage in which Mrs
Stanbury lived at NuncOmbe Putney
was the tiniest little dwelling in whick
a lady and her two daughters ever
sheltered themselves, There was, in
deed, a sitting-rO two bedrooms and
a kitchen; but they were all so diminu-
tive in size that the cottage was little
more than a cabin. But there was a
house in the village, NOT large indeed,
but eminently respectable, three stories
high, covered with ivy, having a garden
behind it, aud generally called the
Clock House, because there had once
been n clock Hpon it. This house had
been lately vacated, and Hugh Inform
ed his sister that he was thinking of TAX
ing it for his mothers accommodation.
Now, the late occupants of the Clock
House, at NnncOmbe Putney had been
people with five or six hundred year.
Had other matters been in accordance,
the house would almost have entitled
them to consider themselves as county
people. A gardener had always been
kept there,-and Il cow
The Clock House for mamma"
"Well, yes. Don't say word about
it as yet to Aunt Stanbury, as she'll
think that I've sold myself altogether
to the old gentleman
bat, Hugh, how can mamma live
therew
"The fact is, Dorothy, there is Sc
cret. | can't tell you quite yet. OF
course, you'll know it, and everybody
will know it, if the thing comes
about. But as you won't talk, l will
tell you what most concerns ourselves"
"And am to 60 back ?"
Certainly motif You will take my
advice. Stick to you aunt. You don't
want to smoke pipes, and wear Tom
and-Jerry hats, and write for the penny
Now Hugh Stanbury's secret was
this; -that Louis Trevelyan'S wife and
law were to leave the house in
Curzou Street, and come and live at
Putuey with Mrs. Stanbury
aud Priscilla. Such, at least, was the
plan to be carried cut, if Hugh Stanbu-
ry should be successful IN his present