Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-08-12

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man on horseback to the station, some six miles
off, to watch every train, But had little hope o.
finding him again. He knew the country well
had a good start and would probably strike across
the mountains to Wigwillem, in the adjoining
county, where he might laugh at my beard. Nc
sooner did this thought strike me than | determin
cd to follow that track myself, and started off al
the rate of about six miles anhour. TWAS hot
breezeless May day, the first day ofSummer; what
with the heat and the turbulence ofmind in which
was, 1 arrived at the top of the pass some l,5O(
feet above the sca-level, quite exhausted. Hung
myself down on the top ofa rock, the highest point
oyerhanging the foot. path below, and followed with
my eye the track, which could trace for miles, to
whereit crossed the border of the county. There
wasn't a living soul upon it. In the great hush
and hum of that suitry Summer afternoon, as lay
among the heather, my soul cried out with the bit
terness of death upon it. was ruined, root and
branch. For every penny Of those sixteen hundred
odd pounds was personally liable. No matter that
Potts wasn't worth penny, and that he had only
been captured as means of extorting money from
his friends that made no difference in the eye o
the law. had done no wrong, had hardly been
imprudent, and yet was ruined, and all my peo.
pie. My poor old father would, probably, end his
days in the workhouse My friend, who had lent
me h o name would have to take the road again
for bare subsistence. I might become bankrupt
and get clerkship afterwards, but had the heart
to begin life again with such q load upon me
Wouldn't it be better for me to end my misery and
perplexty by rolling off this soping bank into the
great chasm below?
''Then I thought of Mary Jane, and how she
would wait and watt and how gradually, from i'm
patience, she would come from uneasiness to terror
and how she would spend the night in sorrow, and
the morning would bring no Joy; and how the
whisper would go round the town. They've found
the body a! and, Oh! how hard on the poor creature
only six months, wife, and in way to become a
mother!
mo, I could never be such coward God
knows couldn't have done it, but in great trouble
strange thoughts surge in your brain.
II felt better after while, and gentle breeze
sprung up and cooled my burning temples, and
heard the bleating of the lambs, and the bark Of
the shepherds dog, and the call Of his master tal
away on the hillside. At all events, | hadn't te
pay the sixteen hundred pounds that night;
would crawl home, and perhaps could think Of
some plan for staving off ruin tomorrow.
"WeI, got home, and remember that Mary
Jane pitched into me awfuly because [ was an
hour late for DINNER, and everything was spollt
she said. I took couple of glasses of brandy at
ter dinner, and that steadied my nerves, and
could think
II would go up to Londan tomorrow, and try
to compromise with my creditors. [ could, per
haps, by the sale of all had, and by borrowing or
my life policy, make up s500.
II could offer this and as it was five hundred
times as much as they would have got out Potts
surely they would take it and cry quits?
"Of course, Mary Jane had heard of Potts es
cape, and she made me very savage by expressing
her delight at the event. She didn't know how
nearly it concerned her, poor thing and l dldn
tell her. only said had business in London mex
day, and asked her to pack my travelling bag.
went up by the night train, and wretched jour
ney had. Next morning [ went to find Nose:
& Moshcim, who had chambers somewhere up ;
little court or square out of Bishopsgate street
Mr.. Moses wasn't in,' the clerk said. 'Didn
know if Mr.. Moshcim were; would take my care
and see Yes, he was in and would see me by
and BY I sat down and waited in the dingy Of
fee, feeling the ndgnity of my position in having
to wait at all for such man. Professional pride
made me look upon Mosheim with the feeling
Brahmin might have fora Pariah. There are law
yers and lawyers, you know. had graduated
with highcaste firm. Fudge would never have
acknowledged the existence of such firm as Nose
& Co. Frizzleum, who would sometimes have tt
meet such creatures on behalf of some of his grea
clients sons or relatives, would treat them with tn
coolest insolencc of which he was capable.
''Thcre was, however, suppliant before thes'
Shylocks!
"Moshen was dark, rather gentemanly man
very neatly dressed. But for his curly hair ant
big nose you'd have thought him a Christian HI
pretended to be busy writing when [ entered, ant
looked up and motioned me with the butt end o
his pen to chair but walked up to the Fireplace
and stood there
"'Mr. Moshem?
\ That IS my name.
"'NIine is Roberts, and I'm UnderSheriff o
! Caerleonshire.
"'Happy to have the opportunity ofmaking TIN
acquaintance of Mr. Under-Sheriff, said Moshcim
showing his white teeth.
"'I don't come to make your acquaintance, MIR
Mosheim, but to make some arrangements will
you as to an unfortunate accident which has hap
pened to me in my official capacity.
u 'Mosbeim bowed grimly.
"'You are, I believe, acting on behalf Of tn
, creditors of Captain Potts"
"'Certain clients of mine have claims agains
that gentleman. Well?
ga ca. sa. taken out by yourfrm has been will
me for execution.
"'Precsey.'
"'Well, Potts has escaped.
"'What an excessively disagrccablc incident 10
your And again the white teeth cleaned.
"'Now what propose to do is this: under
take to pay you five hundred pounds in week,
you will give me full release.
"I think, Mr-Jones did you say? that tn
total fthe detainers is rather more than that, lo
know the exact figure, perhaps
"Ion know the figure as we'll as | do, MIR
Moshcim. Six shillings in the pound, or there
abouts, my offer would give your clients. lo
wouldn't have got sixpencc in the pound out 0
Potts.