The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1872-11-16

from which he and they had been orig
inally made. All that was known Of him
or, rather, all that he chose to say Of him
sell, was that he had been an Easter
merchant someWhere-locality not OK.
actly defined; and that the result wa
MOunSey Park. And Mrs. Dormer sage
ly concluded to look no closer, and asl
no more. h1.. g.
Down in the village lived one VII
CobbOld, slippery, clever, ne'er.do.weel
carpenter BY trade, o mechaniciAn b,
genius, generally supposed TO be capable
OF anything TO which he chose 10 tufl
his hand, but who had drunk away al hi
chances as fast as they had offered them,
selves, gradually passing from bad b
worse till he was now the warning ex
ample held up aS 0 moral scarecrow b,
parents and advisers. viii had o tidJ
kind Of wife, poor body, and 4 son, o de-
cent fellow enough, who partly because
the bad name Of his father chung to hin
In the old place, partly because he likeC
rambling for It's own sake, had gone Of
on his travels, until be had cast anchor L
o small village In Wales. 10 precisl
name does not signify. It was made "
OF q couple OF us and as many re- viii
. y and " 40 the floating power. NJ
one In Market Hill knew much about II
anyhow. Least OF all did Mr.. MouuseJ
Of MounSey Park trouble himself 10 learT
where young viii Cobbold, the drunken
carpenters son, had bestowed himself.
AS for old VIII, he and Mr.. Mounsey
were always q! twos, as the neighbour
said. As Christian, the gentleman rep
rotated the loose habits Of the workman
as q magistrate he fined them, and thai
heavily. So that Wills days were, at thil
time. exceptionally evil; and his heart to
wards the new magnate Of the district
was bitter. - q l-rII,
He wrote out bis gries to his son at the
unpronounceable Welsh village; and ex-
pressed as his private opinion, that "Mls.
Lefty Dormer, Of the Cottage, who WaI
agoing TO be his vile, and hF. Ratclifft
put aside, as II he had been nothing bet
Ter than dummy, would have her hands
full when she got the old Radical; and
that she had better think twice before shC
did what no one In the world could undo
when did" vr,I
This letter young VIII read to his wife
Mary, as he sat by the fireslde with heI
and her mother, not q month after hi.
marriage. - -
"What Mounsey may that beG" asked
Mrs. Jones, Msry's mother, II was &
Mounsey myself afore saw poor Jones
Don't know" said young VIII; "morG
nor he be q manly rich gentleman as hav
been 10 the East someWheres; but no one
knows much about him"
His name mayn't be three M's-Mor.
ley MRgnus" asked Mrs. Jones in vague
way. q, r.-I.5.-.tT ....1r..r-.
%Aythat I know It Is" said Will; "and
many's the good laugh we've had over Il
"Why mother r. cried Mary who had
turned quite pale. .-,
SAY lassl / know what you'd say" SAID
her mother rising, and speaking In an ex
cited manner. "As sure as you're born
that's the uncle you've heard me speah
Of so oltenl Will Cobbold, that Noun
sey yonder in his fine park is my brother
There can't. be another such name in the
world; for father he called him Morley
Magnus after his two god-tathers, the
chemist and the draper OF Herket YoT
zee Il your gentleman don't come from
Herket IN the Forest; you see II he don't
He went to foreign parts better nor TWEEN
ty years agone. BE was as clever as you
please, but always close grippe; and, i
you'll believe me, he has never once
wrote home since he heard that pool
father died, and mother and me was II
trouble, and he was asked to help with 6
few pounds; and he rolling in riches as one
may say"
"Weil, mother" said Will; Suppose w
give them all start at the old place, snC
travel there unexpected? ! reckon our tine
gentleman won't be quite so down on faith
er when his own neice has got his son
hey, MaryY l,.
mot much Of get" said Mary saucily
But Will gave her one for her imperti
hence; and they cried quits over the pun
ishment. 81
The preparations for Letty's marriage
with the rich possessor of Mounsey Parh
were still going on In languid, intermit
tent sort OF way; the girl protesting, the
mother insisting, the man persevering
and expressing himself confident as to the
future. Meanwhile, Geo. Radcliffe cant
back to Market Hill; and his presence
while 1t comfOrted Lefty, served TO make
all things more confused. His firm reiu-
sal to be dismissed on anything short o.
her expressed desire, and Mrs. Dormer'G
as firm refusal 10 allow Of his pretensions
made kind of tumult in the place, which
set every one talking. But no one knew
the exact rights Of the case. Allthat va
certain was, that there was hitch some
where; that Lefty looked miserably Ill
, aud George RAtcliffe miserably unhappy
J and that Of the whole Of the quartett
, concerned, Mr.. Mounsey, OF MouuseJ
Park, was the only one who kept any sp
pearance OF content, or who seemed q
. the doctor said, as If he could eat NUT
ton chop without choking. BE neve
spoke to any one in confidence. He wa
not the kind Of man TO give his confidence
But he often said rs q matter OF cours
/ his neighbors, "When l am married
will do so and So" "That must wait Ill
we have come back from our tour.
When IhRve my wife at Mounsey Park
/ this and that will be better arranged.
All said in the quietest and most positiv
tone imaginable-tone Of man who, Q
he himself said, erode TO win" y " fF
III One day Lefty was sitting In the littl
morning room, TO which latterly she hs
retreated as a plAce Of refuge, he. mothe
having the fine lady's natural disinclina
! ton to sit in anything but the drawiu
room. Here she was hiding in sad moo
enough, thinking over her position, an
wondering how she should get out Of th
net which was being daily drawn NOR
closely round her, when her mother com
10. % &
} Lefty" she said abruptly: thing
have come TO crisis; and you must de