New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-13


enthusiastically not exactly defined
and that the result was Mounsey Park.
And Mrs. Dormer sagely concluded to look
no closer and ask no more.
Down in the village lived one VIII Cob
bold, slippery, clever, ne'erdo -weei;
carpenter by trade, a mechanician by gen
JUS. generally supposed to be capable, o.
anything to which he chose to turn h!s
hand, but who had drunk away all hls
chances as fast as they had offered them
selves, gradually passing from bad 70 worse
till he was now the warning example helo
up as a moral scarecrow by parents anu ao
viserg, Will had tidy kind OF Wlle' poor
BODY, and son, a decent fellow enough
who. partly because the bad name OF bis
father clupg to him In the old place, partly
because he liked rambling for its own sake
had rome off on his travels, until he haC
cast anchor in a small village IN Wales. ltt
precise name does not signify 1t was made
up many HIS and RS, with Y and al
the floating power NO one IN Market hl
knew much about it anyhow. Least of al
did Mr. Mounsey. of Mounsey Park trouble
himself to learn whereayOung Will Cobbold
the drunken carpenters son, had bestowed
himself.
AS for old WIN, he and Mr.. Mounsey were
always at twos, as the neig hbOrs say. As d
Christian, the gentleman reprobated the
loose habits of the workman; as q magis
trate, he fined them, and that heavily. Sc
that Wills days were, at this time, excep
tionalIy evil; and his heart toward the new
magnate of the district was bitter.
He wrote out his griefs to his son at the
unpronounceable Welsh village, and ex.
pressed, as his private opinion, that Miss
Lefty Dormer, Of the cottage, who was
agoing to be his wife, and Mr.. Radcliffe put
aside as if he had been nothing better nor
a dummy, would have her hands full when
she got the old Radical, and that she had
better think twice afOre she did what no
one in the world could undo when did"
This letter young Win read to his wife
Mary, as he sat by the Preside with her and
her mother, not a month after his marriage.
''What Mounsey may that be2' asked
Mrs. Jones, Mary's mother. II was a
Mounsey myself afore I saw poor JONES'"
"Don't know" said young Will, more
NOR he be mainly rich gentleman as have
been in the East somewheres; but no one
knows much about him"
s'His name mayn't be three MszrMorley
Magnus' asked Mrs. Jones in vague way.
SAY, that know it is" said viii; "and
many's the good laugh we've had over it in
the town.
"Why, mother!" cried Mary, who had
turned quite pale.
"Aye, lass | 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 speak OF
so often VIII Cobbold, that MOunsey yOn
der 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 godfathers, the chemist and
the draper Of Herket. You see if your
gentleman don't come from Herket in the
In 10
foreign parts better nor twenty years
agone. He was as clever as you please, but
always q close grippe; and, if you'll believe
me, he has never once wrote home since he
heard that poor father died, and mother
and me was in trouble, and he was asked
to help with few pounds, and he rolling
in riches, as one may say"
"WelI, mother" said VIII, suppose we
give them all start at the old place and
travel there Unexpected reckon our fine
gentleman won't be quite so down on father
when his own niece has got his son, hey,
Mary ?"
Not much of get" said Mary, saucily.
But Will gave her one for her imperti-
hence, and they cried quits over the pun
ishment.
The preparations for Letty's marriage
with the rich possessor of Mounsey Park
were still going on in languid, intermit-
tent sort of way; the girl protesting, the
mother insisting, the man persevering, and
expressing himself confi&Bnt as to the fu-
ture. Meanwhile George Radcliffe came
back to Market Hill, and his presence,
while it comforted Lefty, served to make
all things more confused. His firm refusal
to be dismissed on anything short Of her ex-
pressed desire, and Mrs. Dormers as firm
refusal to allow of his pretensions, made a
kind of tumult in the place which set every
one talking. But no one knew the exact
rights of the case All that was GER
tain was that there a hitch some
where; that Lefty looked miserably
i'll, and George Radcliffe miserably
unhappy; and that of the whole of the
quartette concerned, Mr.; Mounsey, of
Mounsey Park, was the only one who kept
any appearance of content, or who seemed,
as the doctor said, as if he could eat NUT
ton-chop without choking. He never spoke
to any one in confidence. He was not the
kind Of man to give his confidence. But
be often said, as a matter OF course, to his
neighbors, "When L am married | will do
SO and So" THAT must wait till we have
come back from our tour" When l have
my wife at Mounsey Park, this and that
will be better arranged" ALI said in the
quietest and most positive tone imaginable-
the tone of man who, as he himself said
erode to win"
One day Lefty was sitting in the little
morning room, TO which latterly she had re-
treated as a place of refuge, her mother
having the fine lady's natural Discrimination
to sit in anything but the drawing room.
Here she was hiding, in sad mood enough,
thinking over her position and wondering
how she could get out of the net that was
being daily drawn more closely round her,
when her mother came in.
Lefty" she said abruptly, "fhings have
come to crisis, and now you must decide
our future"
MAMMA, | have decided" answered Let
ty, with her weary air. "Why will you tor
ture me so cruelty"
.The cruelty has not been On my side,"
said her mother. II said SO once before, and
| say so now again"
lit would be hard to make me believe
that" said Lefty.
"So7 then, l must tell you the whole
truth. Listen, Lefty; if you had been
obedient, and done as you ought, you need
never have known it. | owe Mr.. Mounsey
several thousands of pounds; end if you do
not marry him he will proceed against me-
That is all. It's simply a question of our
utter ruin-yours and mine together,
Letty-or your consenting to be his wife.
Now, | leave my fate in your hands"
You mean. IN fact, mamma, that you
have sold me to this man" said Lefty, With
a strange, unnatural calmness; land that [
must pay the price-by myself"
"You may call it what you like, Lefty; but
Why choose such unpleasant termsf The
fact is the only thing to be dealt with, I'M
fortunately. for us both"
Unfortunately, yes indeed" sighed
Lefty, still with fixed, strained look "But
must speak to George. l can do nothing,
say nothing without him.
II don't see much good in going to him
for advice" said her mother irritably. at
is your affair, not his"
sMammaiN demonstrated Inttr