The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-03-09

tDaJ 5no may VHfOW uILH Of0T IalL6I-
wards" 1t was thus that Mr.. Bartho-
lomew Burgess cautioned his nephew
Brooke.
Ne"pn take care that, she sha'n't break
my heart, Uncle 'Barty. will 90 my
way, and she may go hers, and she may
give her money TO the hospital if she
pleases.n ss,,'E. .-ssz-s-
On the morning after his arrival,
Brooke Burgess had declared aloud in
Miss StanbuEy's parlor that he was 60
ing oyer to the bank to see his uncle.
Now there was in this almost breach
of contract Miss Stanbury, when she
invited the young man to Exter, had
stipulated that there should be no in
teTcourse between her house and the
bank. "0f course | shall not need to
know where you go OF where you don't
60" she had written; "bnt, after all
that had passed, there must not be any
positive intercourse between my house
and the bank" And now he had spoken
of gaing over to G and b, as hc called
chem, with tbs utmost indifference.
Miss Stanbury had looked very grave,
but had said nothing. She had deter
mind to be on her guard, so that she
should not be driven To quarrel WIN
Brooke if she eonld a old it.
Bartholomew Burgess was atali, thin,
! ill-trmpered old mau, as we'll known IN
Exeter as the cathedral, and respected
after fashion. No one liked him. He
said i'll natured things of all his neigh
| bors, and had never earned any reputa-
tion for doing good natured acts. But
| he had lived IN Exeter for nearly seven
w years, and had achieved that sort oil
esteem which comes from long tenure.
! And he had committed no great lnIqul.
Ties in the course of his fifty years oil
business. The bank had never stopped
payment, and he had robbed no one.
He had not swallowed up widows and
orphans, and had done his work in tue
firm of Chopper aAd Burgess after the
old fashioned safe manner, which leads
neither to riches nor to ruin. There
tore he was respected But no was q
discontinued, sour old man, who believed
himself to have been lBjared by all bis
own friends, who disliked his own part
ners because they bad bought that
which had, at any rate, never belonged
to him; and whose strongest passion II
was to bate Miss Stanbury of the Close
"She's got parson by the hand now,
said the uncle, as he continued his eau
ton to the nephew.
"There was a clergyman there last
night"
Enc doubt, aud she'll play him of
against you, and you against him; and
then she'll throw You both over.
know her."
"She has got right to do what she
likes with her own, Uncle Barty."
"And how did she get it'll Never mind
I'm not going to set you against her, il
you're her favOrite for the moment
She has niece with her there,-basn'y
sheW .....
zone Of her brothers daughters"
"They say she's going to make that
clergyman marry her"
"What,-Mr. Gibson"
''Yes. They tell me he was as good as
engaged to another girl,-one of the
Freucbes of Heavitree. And therefore
dear Jemima ceuld do nothing bet
ter than inter fere. When she has sue
ceeded in breaking the girls heart
(Which girls heart, Uncle BartJp
"The girl the man was TO have mar
ried; when that's done she'll throw Glib
son over. You'll see. She'll refuse to
give the girl a shilling. She took the
girls brother by the hand ever so long,
and then she threw him over. And
she'll throw the girl over too and send
her back to the place she came from.
And then she'll throw you over"
30, 81, hn II n
most malicious old woman that ever was
allowed to live"
81 don't think there are many to beat
her, as far as malice goes. But you'll
find ont for yourself. l shouldn't be
surprised if she were to tell you befor,
long that you were to marry the niece.
IL shouldn't think that such very
hard lines either" said Brooke Burg 80
Eve no doubt you may have her /
you like" said Barty, "in spite of Mr
Gibson. Only 1 shouId rec "mmend yor
to rake care and get the money first"
To be Continued