The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-28

"Don't you be impatient, my DEAR"
81 am not the least impatient; but Of
course l want to tell mamma and Pris-
ella. 1t will be so nice to live here and
not 60 up to London. Are we to stay
herein this very houseiD
slave you not found out vet that
Brooke will be likely to have an opinion
of his own on such thingsp
"But would you wish us to live here,
aunti"
81 hardly know, dear. 1 am a fool
ish old woman, and cannot say what
would wish. l cannot bear to be
alone"
"Of course we will stay with you"
"And yet should be jealous if were
net mistress of my own house."
"Of course you will be mistress"
III believe, Dolly, that it would Dc
better that should die. l have come
to feel that / can do more good by goiHs
out of the world than by remaining ~
it," Dorothy hardly answered 'nLs
words, but sat close by her aunt hoiu
ing the old wsman's hand ana caiessins
il. and administering that love OF WHICH
Miss Stanbury had enjoyed so iittle uur.
ing her life, and which had become 81
necessary to her.
mepts, though kept of course as a great
secret soon became common in Exeter.
II vas known to be good thing for the
firm in general that Barty Burgess
abould he removed from his share Of the
management. He was old-fashioned,
unpopular, and very stubborn; and he
and q certain Mr.. Julius Chopper, who
was the leading man among the Crop
pers, had not always been comfortable
together. 1t was at first limited that old
Miss Stanbury had been sostened by
sudden twinges of conscience, and that
She had confessed to some terrible crime
in the way of forgery, perjury, or per-
hans worse, and had relieved herself AT
last by making full restitution. But
such q rumor as this did not last long or
receive wide Credence. When 1t was
limited to such old friends as Sir Peter
Mancrudy and Mrs. MacHugh, they
laughed it to scorn-and it did not exist
even in the vague form of an undlvulg-
ed mystery for above three days. Then
it was asserted that old Barty had been
found to have no real claim to any share
in the bank, and that he was to be
turned out at Miss Stanbury's instance;
that he was to be turned out, and that
Brooke had been acknowledged to be
the owner of the Burgess share OF her
business. Then came the fact that ola
Barty had been bought out, and that
the future husband of Miss Stanbury's
niece was to be the junior partner. A
general feeling prevailed at last that
there had been another great battle be-
tween Miss Stanbury and old Barty, land
that the old maid had prevailed now as
she had done in former.
Before the end of July the papers
were in the lawyers hands, and all the
terms had been fixed. Brooke came
down again and again, to Dorotby's
great delight, and displayed considera-
bic firmness in the management OF his
own interest. If Fate intended to make
him banker in Exeter instead OF a
clerk in the Ecclesiastical Commission
Office, he would be banker after re-.
spectacle fashion. There was more
than one little struggle between him
and Mr.. Julius Chopper, which ended IN
accession of respect on the part of MIR.
Chopper for his new partner. Mr.. Crop
per had thought that the establishment
might best be known to the commercial
world of the West of England as Crop
pers' Bank" but Brooke had been very
firm in asserting that if he was to have
anything to do with it the old name
should be maintained.
''It's to be Chopper 81 Burgess " he
said to Dorothy one afternoon. "They
fought hard for Chopper, Chopper q
bui So wouldn't stand more
than one Chopper"
"Of course not" said Dorothy, with
something almost of scorn in her voice
BY this time Dorothy had gone very
deeply into banking business.
To be Continued.