New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-07-07


treat this thing seriously without making
| it dOuhly painful for dear Mrs. Bryce 1
viii all come right in the end"
Yes, my dear, but when IL the end 20 be
gin ?"
It was to begin BY special arrangement
! the next day, after breakfast, when the fol
| lowing conversation took place:
NOW, James," said his cousin, 1--WE shall
not be interrupted for some time, and YOU
must really give me your serious atten
4 tom q
Eyes, cousin Margaret" :
'You see, james, you are man now, and
must act and be treated-do You under
stand l-beated, like other people,
Chats just what ] want to be-"
"Weli, then, / must tell you frankly that
/ am much annoyed by your coming here
| as you did"
1T wasn't my fault that it rained, cousin
Margaret. wish it hadn't" he replied,
! piteOusly.
"I'm not speaking Of your coming in wet
and spelling the chairs. sir; / am much an
noyed at your coming here at all"
phe good widow thought that she would
get on best By being angry, but it was. no
use
Where else was l to go F" he asked.
GLOW you found me out can not think, -
sighed the victim. The observation was
an unlueky one.
''Ah, haw he chuckled, ':you thought l
was a stupid, did your
And then followed long weary story of
how, passing through Manchester he had
seen this person and spoken to that, and
obtained the clue by which he had hunted
his listener down. What made it more pro
yOking was the credit he took for this clever
ness. He warmed to his aubject as he went
on, and finished with the air of man who
had rendered an important service, and ex-
pected TO have it promptly recognized
This threw his victims cut-and-dried
speeches off theline.
"Oh, dear, o, deaF!v she cried. at
doesn't matter how you found me out you
have done so. The question is, what am
to do with you, now you're here What am
/ to do with you ~
Il don't know, cousin Margaret"
"You don't know A pretty answer for
man of five or six-and-twenty. Now look
here James WympeT. | should like to do
something for you for your poor mothers
sake, but ! cannot and-and you have a
right to thrust yourself upon me like this
this, and-and-are you attending to me,
James Wymper ["
Yes, cousin Margaret" he replied with a
jerk, coming suddenly out of his fog.
What was l sayingl
THAT you would like to do something for
my poor mothers sake"
THAT was only half what said, sir. How
dare you pick out my words like that |
went on to say that couldn't do anything
for you, and can't I've not the means.
I'm very poor; can hardly manage for my
self My husband left me very badly off"
did he leave me anythingP
tsYou after your Notwithstanding away
and frightening US as you did Is it likeIy"
II know it was wrong to run away, cou-
sin Margaret, but you see I've come back
again, he said with the utmost gravity.
This was conclusive. For the last half
hour she had been trying to din into his
head that he had no business to come back,
and here he was, taking credit for having
as an act which was to cancel all
the Offenses of his youth Perceiving that
bis reply had troubled her, he proceeded TO
promise upon his word of honor that he
would never, never run away again. What |
was to be done with such man Talking
was clearly useless. One of two courses |
only Temained-tO endure him or call a /
policeman and turn him out neck and crop. |
The conduct of poor James Wymper |
Turing the next two or three days was |
what, in another man, would have raised /
,he indignation of all concerned by it's al |
most sublime audacity. The proceedings |
If Mr.. Charles Mathews in Cool as a Gu
'umber'' are timid and retiring in compari-
ION with those of Mrs. JervOice's unwel-
,Ome guest. If the house and all it con-
aimed had belonged to him, and its inhabi-
antswere dependents upon his bounty, he |
Ould not have behaved more freely and
ii this with an air of innocence which ut
erly disarmed opposition.
40, never mind me-" was his refrain;
! don't want to trouble anybody. I'll do
all for myself Tn all right. You let
ne alone and see."
His first great exploit was to precipitate
imself upon a washing and ringing ma
hine which he found, out of order and dis
sed, in cellar; and whether he had i'm
rOved in deXterity, or sufficient time was
ranted him for the realization of his ideas,
eed not be discussed here. The result
'as satisfactory Not only did he put the
hing into working order, but he worked it
imsef. to the intense delight of Bessy and
Of the cook.
Many other useful things he did. He made
windmill which pumped water up to the
~ Of the house, and saved the sixpence a
ly which bad been paid to boy for this
Dor. He mended an old boat there was,
I'D took Bessy out for rows on the river.
Q became that young lady's right-hand
an in her garden Before month was
'er, not only had cousin Margaret become
lite resigned to have him on her hands,
1t Mrs. Jervoice refused to accept any re.
uneTatiOn for his board and lodging, de-
airing that he was well worth his keep. 1t
rs something, you see, for these lone wO-
IN to have man about the house who
uld and would put his hand to this and .
at, He DID not cut his fingers now.
Before this satisfactory condition Of af 3
rs had been arrived at, tailor and hoiser I
d been set to work, and really peor James
ymper frightened up wonderfully in APP
lrance under their hands. If his head +
not been SO big, and his elbows and
ees so uncOmtOrtably conspicuous he | 9
uld not have been a bad-lOoking man 4
was evidently good hearted one. He \
uld do anything in his power, poor fell y
', for any one; was, in fact, rather too v
i've sometimes when he had been longer !
IN usual IN one of his fOgs, on which Oo- &
lions he would labor like an amiable bull u
a china shop and cause some eonsterna- r
n. OF course he made friends with the | 4
arest blacksmith.
n the early days, when he had not ceased "
be considered nuisance and an intruder. Il
ssy had stood his friend. One ALWAYS / tC
res an interest in those one befriends. and
ssy took great interest in poor James ii
7mper-drawing him out, encouraging | t.
D and defending him against practical q
esi but as time passed this young per
is feeling toward him appeared to under h
a change. Instead of praising what he in
!, and encouraging him TO further exer- p
Il, she found, fault and snubbed him. She Il
lsed to make fun of him as 1T" and had sc
tore Of little bitter disparagiug remarks
bout his independence, his want of self-re. NJ
sct, and so on-ready to shoot at him II OF
nix you are too severe on poor James b,
gmper,' Mrs. JervOice would saw: che il
Ny very willing, and one must not ex-
~ too much of him, poor fellow" If
' ogIner man had done what he did. he
nh NO, not have been damned with such az
Ty i psS.'se, but he was only "poor James
a Ii}tI, . anu! ike the proverbial prophet, di