Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1872-08-26

uucl6, SCIIl COubluu0u HIS SulC, pIOPooOu
and was rejected. He now grew amaz-
ingly melancholy. or at least affected to
be SO, and would wander in this mood
to the banks of the river, and gaze upon
the stream, probably contemplating an
acquaintance with suicide, and giving
his body to the fishes for dissection
His disappointment became known at
the college, and numerous were the jibes
and taunts the poor fellow got from
those over whom he had so insolently
domineered This, of course, did not
tend to add much to the amiability of
his temper, and one day he showed his
magnanimity and courage by knocking
down bright-eyed lad, some five or six
years his junior, for saying that "a fel-
low who had been in the habit of taking
airs on himself, had found Ayers which
could not be so easily taken Tim,
whe stood by, saw this exhibition of
Benson's courage and, in return gave
him a blow under the left ear, that sent
him reeling to the floor. At this, the
whole school shouted, and Tim was ever
after hailed by the youngest as pro-
tector against the tyrannies of Benson.
But Tim himself was not entirely at
ease on the score Of Miss Ayers. The
old uncle had frowned on him as he en-
tered the house, and had given sundry
hints that Eliza was not for him while
at the same time he had attempted to
lay his commands upon Eliza respecting
the acceptance of Benson. The uncle's
name was Pell. He had been made the
sole executor of the will of Eliza father,
himself having the profits of the large
estate of the deceased gentleman, after
supporting and educating the daughter
in her minority, or until she should
marry. An item in the will was to this
efect-that if Eliza married man of
moderate means, the whole estate,
amounting to sixty thousand dollars,
was to become hers on her marriage day,
or when she became of age; but of her
husband was himself heir to thirty thou
sand dollars, half of the estate became
the property of her uncle-which suf-
fciently explains the anxiety on the
part of Mr. Pell that Eliza should mar
ry Benson, as he would thereby become
possessed of d snug little property.
Tim visited Eliza one evening, and
found her in tears. On his inquiring
the cause, she informed him that Ben
son had that day repeated his suit, and
again been rejected that on hearing it
her uncle had come in and upbraided
her, and threatened, if she did not ac-
cept Benson, to dispossess her if her
property, alleging that he possessed the
means of doing SO, as nobody had ever
read the will of her father except him
self, that the subscribing witness die
not know the contents, that probate had
never been taken on it, and that it was
in his power to insert therein a claus,
requiring if she married it must be will
his consent, as her guardian and the ex
ecutor of the will; and then, if she mar
ried Tim, it would be without his con
sent, and she would thereby become dis
inherited forever.
Cant you get possession of the will p
inquired Tim of Eliza.
81 should think it impossible, as m,
uncle keeps it we'll secured in an iro1
safe."
"I'll manage it, my DEAR" replie
!. Tim, "and we'll get the will from tn
: old tyrant, or I am no conjuror. Yo
/ have told me, l think, that your uncl
is very superstitious.
: "He is" said Eliza; "he imagine
often that he hears the voice of NJ
Jones, and others of his former tenant
who are now dead; and no wonder, ft
his expressions were the ruin of thos
i, poor men,
''In what part of the house does yor
uncle lodge ?' inquired Tim.
"On the first floor of the wing, at Il
extremity of the building" she reptile,
: Tim bade her good evening, and the
went to consult Mr. Fletcher, his alto
! ney.
After some time being spent in tt
: consultation, Tim. departed, and ";
vending his way in a brown study t
:, ward his boarding house, when he w
accosted by Peter, the black servant
Pell, with
- '.Fine evening, Massa Jocelyn-I wa
to speak to YOU
d Tim stopped and turned around to t
negro. He was stout, humorous loo
a. ing fellow, and approached Tim We
le gracefully. He had been brought
c. by Eliza's father, and was favori
as domestic of the gentleman in his Iii
r. time. Peter commenced-
of sLook here, Massa Jocelyn, you 7
us know what is going on at Massa Pei
en- since | let you out of the gate dis e1
"a nin.. Dat feller Benson he come ae
J. to see Missis and she scamper off to
M room and shut herself up, and den b
&c. son went away. Pretty soon Massa ?
nv ba UicEad old obon Mocco Iooolv,