Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1871-02-09

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did not forget sthing-eyen to tn,
i baby's socks. 1 returned to the library
and taking Lewis by the hand, expresset
my regret GHe contintiedIS{ L1h--e
t'sNot a, penny in ltheR worldb5B an
beggared, my dear friend, byI thes meI
whom. I have helped to affinences, Ny
own people have turned upon me. Ny
own stewards have destroyed me. The
people and places Hound poorand bate
and that are now thrivingy are the zen
tres of the infamy that has stripped me
You heard one of my bailiffs this morn.
ing give me notice. This rascal is RAJ
number twenty, and carries offcH hand
some competence with HIM II But some
are not at the trouble of masking theil
\ ingratitude. THERE'S o-creature on two
legs, nor upon four, half so ungratefnl
as bad servant whom you have petted
and can pet no longer. See that fellow
! crossingI the park with a loaded cart. He
came tonne shir1essfat number twenty.
4 one.r .13;.,, I,-,,4s.-, g,frp tFtofiil rG 4
] "a g But how has this come to pass my
dear bswjsI3 bs;.sjS, asskkfdi is it altogether
g. g. at has come 6o, pass as 4 have told
| YOU Every man ON whose honor have
i relied has betrayed me.y My model cot
I tagers, am told, laugh at me for a fool.
have trebled the trade IN my. county
town, and the townsfolk haven't a good
word for me, although they hadGplenty
yesterday, The local paper has turned
about its readers. East week was I1uni-
| ficent but in to-day's copy am a fool:
lin the next edition / shall be a rogue.
should advise you to clear the sinking
ship while there's afboat-thatjis a coach
at handy II a'JRb ,iIGdIOlb "a
q" Leave you, lewis, at such; q mo.
ment u l exclaimed for I was hurt at
his suggestion, which was not a very
delicate one under the -circumstances.
\" Leave you now Iwouh NOT think Sof
such thing nor should anything less
than the case-tile tremendous caseEof
Thunder. VS.. Butter, drag me from your
side tomorrow"
T A smile passed over the placid face of
| Lewis while / spoke. 1t was q smile 1
had seen before, and at which a less
amiable man than, + iican say without
vanity, I am, might have taken offense.
"You leave tomorrow, then2" Lewis
| asked. Of Ls1Etlsli "'H II 5i' e.
"I must" ssf 4~a
'H Well, we shall tide over the week,
| 4 dare say; but there will be elbow
room in the castle before then, 1 can
see.'' .00 .55COJ0
L - Il
made every allowance for him under
the circumstances; and when had seen
my wife to the station with the children,
the maids, the jewel and dressing cases,
and my dispatch box. in which my deeds
were safely under lock and key made
second attempt to be kind and SYM
pathetic. I asked whether there was
lanything / could do for him in London.
: "Yes,n he said, raising his cold blue
eyes, and cutting his words with his
glittering teeth. ssY Yes-remain in it y
This was too much and | left him.
Now all my impressions as to his char
acter were confirmed and l could un-
derstand thoroughly why I never liked
him. 4 7o f..-F .,r-.; -,.tl mol nj. i-
At the railway station-fof left that
very EVENING" found more than half
the castle servants. The station master
was compelled to put on three or four
Fextra luggage vans; and kept the
train quite five minutes, getting my
boys pony Lewis last presently into a
horse box. ~-"5 |it (':-.i'.
{ When reached town 1 heard more
| than care TO relate about the immense
ruin in which Lewis had involved him
ltself. He had trusted vast sums of
money to friends and relatives, right
and left; he had listened to any kind
| OF got-up tale OF distress ne had been
imposed upon in fifty directions. A
| splendid man of business a powerful,
clear-headed administrator-he had
doubled the value of the enormous prop
erty which came to him, after SO many
years of battling and of poverty, from
his lncleC But, you Isee, he ruined all
| by putting faith in men who were not
ltrustworthy ; and am told that when
| he left the castle there was not a man
lleft there to carry his carpet bag to the
railway. ~, ,-,-i f-.,-,,
I cannot help feeling a kind of
warmth towards the man when my wife
| comes like queen into her drawing
room, covered with the marriage parure
| of diamonds; but my conscience is at
| ease-is as quiet as a babe asleep--for,
as am sure L must have remarked
twenty times, even at the height of his
prosperity, never liked LewiszNever