American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-10-26
VOL. XXU.

self-made man, he was not vulgar. Alst
that he had no family belonging to hiI
to show the rougher side of the web froI
which he. and they, had been original
made. All that was known of him, Oh
rather, all that he chose to say. of himself
was that he had been an Eastern merchan
somewhere-lOcality not exactly defined
and that the result was MOunsey Park
And Mrs. DOrmer sagely concluded t
look no closer. and ask no more.
Down in the village lived one viii Cob
bold, a slippery, clever, ne'er-do-weel
a carpenter by trade, a mechanician b.
] genius, generally supposed TO be capabl
of any thing to which he chose to turf
his hand, but who had drunk away all hi
chances as fast as they had offered them
selves, gradually passing from bad t.
| worse till he was now the warning ex
ample held up as a moral scarecrow BY
parents and advisers. Will had a tidy
kind of wife, poor body, and son, de
cent fellow enough, who, partly because
the bad name of his father chung to hin
in the old place, partly because he liket
on his travels, until he had cast anchor
in a small village in Wales. It's precise
name does not signify. 1t was made VI
of couple of I's as MANY RS, with \
and W as the floating power. No one
in Market Hill knew much about it. any
how. Least of all did Mr.. Mounsev o
Mounsey Park trouble himself to learr
where young Will Cobbold, the drunken
carpenters son. had bestowed himself.
As for old Will, he and Mr.. Mounsey
were always at twos, as the neighbors
said. AS Christian. the gentleman rep.
rotated the loose habits of the workman
as a magistrate, he fined them, and thai
heavily. So that Wills days were, at this
time, exceptionally evil and his heart to
wards the new magnate of the district
was bitter.
He wrote out his griefs to his son al
the unpronounceable Welsh village; and
expressed, as his private opinion, that
Miss Lefty Dormer, of the Cottage,
who was a going to be his wife, and Mr..
Radcliffe put aside as if he had been moth
ing better nor 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 Will read to his wife
Mary, as he sat by the ireside with her
and her mother. not a month after his
marriage.
what Mounsey may that be? '' asked
Mrs. Jones, Mary's mother. 81 was a
Mounsey myself afOre saw poor Jones. -
Don't know" said young VIII, ''more
nor he be mainly rich gentleman as hav'
Uccu LII IIlc EldSG SOultWueItS DuL no one
knows much about him."
His name mayn't be three M's,-Mor-
ley MagnusT % asked Mrs. Jones in a
vague way.
GAY! that 1 know it isl said Will; ;
= and many's the good laugh we've had
over it in the town.
"why, mother =" cried Mary, who had
turned quite pale.
Gay, lass! 1 know what you'd say"
has rr,fh Ar n,.I IL. -.
an excited manner. "As sure as you're
born, that's the uncle you've heard me
speak of so oftenI Will Cobbold, that
N.ounsey 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
Iathers, the chemist and the draper of
Herket. You see if your gentleman don't
come from Herket in the Forest; you see
( he don't. He went to foreign parts bet
,er nor twenty years agOne. He was as
clever as you please, but always close
grip; and, If you'll believe me, he has
never once wrote home since he heard
hat poor father died, and mother and me
vas in trouble, and he was asked to help
With few pounds; and he rolling in
'iches. as one may say"
swell, mother" said Will, s'suppose
We give them ALI start at the old place,
,ur fine gentleman won't be quite SO
lown on father when his own niece has got
lis son, hey, Mary ?''
mot much of a GET" said Mary sauc-
ly.
But Will gave her one for her imperti-
renee and they cried quits over the pun
shment. 3
The preparations for Letty's marriage
With the rich pOssessor of Mounsey Park
we're still going on in a languid, intermit-
ent sort Of way: the girl protesting, the
mother insisting the man pcrsevering and
expressing himself confident as to the flu
ure. Meanwhile, George Radcliffe came
ack to Market Hill; and his presence,
While it comforted Lefty, served to make
II things more confused. His firm refu-
al to be dismissed on any thing short of
er expressed desire and Mrs. Dormer's as
rm refusal to allow of his pretentions,
made kind of tumult in the place which
ct every one talking. But no one knew
he exact rights OF the case. All that
vas certain was, that there was a hitch
omewhere that Lefty looked miserably
1, and George Radcliffe miserably unhap-
y; and of the whole of the quartette
oncerned, Mr.. Mounsey of Mounsey
ark. was the only one who kept any APP
earance of content, or who seemed, as
he doctor said, as if he could eat a NUT
without choking. He never
poke to any one in confidence. He was
OF the kind of man to give his confidence.
ut he often said, as a matter of course.
} his neighbors, ssWhen am married,
ill do so and So" ssThat must wait I'M
/ we come back from our tour" "When
have my wife at MOunsey Park, this and
nat will be better arranged" All said
the quietest and most positive tone i'm
tone of a man who, as he
imself said, rode to win."
One day Lefty was sitting in the little |
to which latterly she had
as place of refuge, her mother
aving the fine lady's natural disinclina- |
on to sit in anything but the draw
lg room. Here she was hiding, in sad |
iOod enough, thinking over her position |
nd wondering how she should get out of
losely round her, when her mother came |
Lefty" she said abruptly: s'things have !
ome to crisis !. and now you must de-
de our future"
Mamma, have decided 70 answered
city. with her weary air. 'sWhy will |
on torture me so cruelly?'
1.-The cruelty has not been on my side,'
lid her mother. 81 said so once before,
nd l say SO now again"
'sIt would be hard to make me believe
lat." said Lefty.
$50? then, must tell you the whole
nth. Listen, Lefty: if you had been
bedient, and had done as you ought, you
eed never have known it. 1 owe Mr..
several thousands of pounds
nd If you do not marry him he will pro-
ed against me. That Is all. 1t is sim
ly a question of our utter ruin,-yOurs
nd mine together, Lctty,-or your con-
,nting to be his wife. Now, leave my
tie in your hands,
''You mean, i'm fact, mamma, that you
ave sold me to this man. said Lefty,