The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-08-28
HE KNEW HE WASRIGHT
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE.
Continued
CHAPTER LXXXVIIl


CHAPTER LYXXVIII.
al do not know that can help you, ,"
said Barty, finding that longer pause
than usual made some word from him
absolutely necessary.
81 am going on to that, and regret
that nv story should detain you so long,
Mr.. Burgess. And she did 60 on. She
had, she said, made some saving out OF
her income. She was not going to
trouble Mr.. Burgess with this matter
only that she might explain to him that
what she would at once give to the
Young couple, and what she would set
tie on Dorothy after her own death,
would all come from such savings, and
that such gifts and requests would not
diminish the family property. Barty
again smiled as be heard this, and Miss
Stanbury in her heart likened him to
the devil in person. But still she went
ON. She was very DESTROYS that Brooke
Burgess sno"ia 800 and live at Exeter.
His property would be IN Jmo o" A. ..ad
the neighbOrhood. 1t would be SEEM
" thing-such were her wOrds-that he
should occupy the house that had be
longed to his grandfather and his great
grandfather; and then, moreover--she
acknowledged that she spoke selhShly
she dreaded the idea of being left
alone for the remainder of her own
years. Her proposition at last was ut
tered. 1t was simply this, that Barty
Burgess should give TO kis nephew,
Brooke, his share III the bank.
81 am damned if do~ said Barty
Burgess, rising up from bis chair.
H., fiona ha bod l.tr Z Ia he had
agreed to consider the proposition. Miss
Stanbury had of course known that any
such snssostion oomiug from hor with
out an adequate reason assigned, would
have been mere idle wind. She was
prepared with such adequate reason. If
Mr.. Burgess could see his way to make
the proposed transfer of his share of the
bank business, she, Miss Stanbury,
would hand over to him, for his life, a
certain proportion of the Burgess pro-
perty which lay in the city, the income
of which would exceed that drawn by
him from the business. Would he, at
his time of life, take that for doing
nothing which he now got for working
hard 7 That was the meaning of 1t.
And then, too, as far as the portion Of
the property went-and it extended to
houses owned by Miss Stanbury to the
bank side of the Close-it would belong
altogether to Barty Burgess for his life.
at will simply be this, Mr.. Burgess;-
that Brooke will be your heir-as would
bShatural"
81 don't know that it would be at all
natural" said he. ~ should prefer to
choose my own heir"
mo doubt, Mr.. Burgess--in respect
to your own property" said Miss Stan
bury.
AT last he said that he would think
of it, aud consult his partner; and then
he got up to take his leave. "FOr my
self" said Miss Stanbury, 81 would
wish that all anlmosities might be
buried"
ave can say that they are buried"
said the grim old man-"but nobody
will believe u.s."
it ourselves !"
"But suppose we didn't. don't be-
lieve that much good can Come from
talkisg of such things, Miss Stanbury.
You and have grown too old to swear
friendship. will think of this thing,
and if find that it can be made to suit
without much difficulty; | will perhaps
entertain it," Then the interview was
over, and old Barty made his way down
stairs, and out of the house. lie looked
over TO the tenements in the Close
which were offered to him, every cir
cumstauce of each one of which he knew,
aud felt that he might do worse. Were
he TO leave the bank, he could not take
his entire income with him, and it had
been long said of him that he ought to
leavelt. The Choppers, who were his
partnerS-and whom he had never loved
would be glad to welcome in his place
one of the old family who would have
money; and then the name would be
perpetuated i'll Exeter, which, even TO
Barty Burgess, was something.
On that night the scheme was divulg-
ed to Dorothy, and she was in ecStasies,
London had always sounded bleak and
and distant and terrible to her; and her
heart had misgiven her at the idea of
leaving her aunt. If only this thing
might be arranged When Brooke
spoke the next morning of returning az
once to his office, he was rebuked by both
the ladies. What was the Ecclesiastical
Commission Office to any of them, when
matters of such Importance were con-
cernedi But Brooke would not be talk
ed out of his prudence. He was very
willing to be made a banker at Exeter,
and to go to school again and learn
banking business; but he would not
throw up his occupation in London till
NE Knew that there was another ready
Tor him 10 the country. One day longer
he spent IN Exeter, aud during that day
he was more than once with his uncle.
he saw also the Messrs. Cropper and
was considerably chilled the mannar
in which they at first seemed to enter.
tain the proposition. Indeed. for =
couple of hours he thought that the
scheme must be abandoned. 1t was
poiHed oat to him that Mr.. Barty Bur.
gess's life would probably be short, and
that he-Barty-had but small part OF
the business at his disposal. But grad
ually way to terms was seen-not quits
SO simple as that which Miss Stanbury
had suggested; and Brooke, when he let
Exeter, did believe IL possible that he
after all, might become the family re
preventative in the old banking house
OF the Burgesses.
And how long will it take, Aunt
Stanburyp Dorothy asked.