The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1873-03-22

"Of course. have full powers. There
is no difficulty, then % And Count Andre,
as kromeski, feeling that his head was Sc.
cure, fell upon Mr.. erode and Rugged him
to his heart-the only man in the world
who had ever been guilty Of such insanity.
"None whatever" answered Mr.. erode,
disengagipg himself from the counts en-
brace. sit is in safe hands; and this day
two months it shall be in yours"
CHAPTER X.-THE FEELING OF A FATHER.
He had not reckoned without his host
There are few things that man with a
few millions in view will not manage some
how. Greater apparent impossibilities are
done every day for the sake of few hun,
dreds.
More than one idea floated through his
mind when Count Andreas left him, for
each of which much was to be said. But
the best and safest seemed to be to put
himself at once in communication with
Arthur Cranstoun, play the part of for
giving father inform him of the possession
of the stone by the Jew, obtain the latter
by legal means, and then, in conjunction
with his sor -in-law, build up a great new
house of Cranstoun & erode, or perhaps
erode & Cranstoun. The Jews possession
was obviously illegal; and there was but
one serious difficulty about the matter
that neither lie, nor any one else, knew
what had become of the once wealthy
money-lender. After the first nine days
wonder at the extraordinary price paid for
the dead maybe, it was generally believed
that its purchaser had taken himself
abroad. Still, however, no matter how far
he might have travelled, the world is very
narrow after all, especially since the inven-
ton of steamboats, and railway carriages;
and a man of the appearance of Nathan
Levi WAS not one to be lost like needle in
a bundle of hay.
At all events, the very next morning Mr..
erode, having passed night feverish with
excitement, set out to put in operation the
eeive his daughter and her now once more
wealthy lover back to his arms. He learn
ed from the solicitor who had acted for the
latter in his transactions with the creditors
of the firm, that his ellie MT was now living
in Newman street, though how he was liv-
ing there he did not know; he only feared
that Mr.. Cranstoun's gen crosby and sense
of honor had left him hard up-an accornt
which Mr.. erode, since it would make his
own conduct seem the more disinterested,
was not sorry to hear.
He betook himself. then. to Newman
street, and inquired for Mr.. Cranstoun at
the house to which he had been directed
MIR. Cranston, however, was out; but
would he be good enough to wait his re-
turn? So he was shown up into Arthur
room on the third floor, which proved to
be painter S studio of most rudimentary
painter. To rival Fra Angelica had been
one Of the grand ideas of his prosperous
days, and " 18th that object he had always
dabbled in painting, and, for time, had
worked at it with will; and now it SEEM
ed to him the best way in which he could
make his talents pay. Of course, it was
an insane piece of folly. To imagine or to
copy Saints and Holy Families after the
style Of Cimabue-for in that direction as
being Numerically opposed to the taste Of
the world, had his own taste carried him
had been, heretofore, My harmless waste
Of time; but now it " as useless even for
the decoration of churches that went in for
pre- aphaelitism in ritual and ornament.
For he was beyond the pale even of the
"P. X. B." in the extravaganza of his
mediavalism; and, urlike the early men,
bers of the Brothe rhood, did not redeem
his mediavalism by any striking merits as
a painter. If he had only accepted some
employment in another house of bust
ness-and there were plenty of leading
houses that, out Of sheer kindness and
good feeling, would have received him
gladly, without expecting much from his
services in return-he would have been
But then he felt, or fancied, til at he was
untitled for business by nature; a nd though
for Felicia's sake, he would with good
grace have put into his pocket any guam
tty of personal fastidiousness, he still did
not feel justified and, in this feeling, he
may be credited with perfect nesty-in
permitting others to buy worthless services
as a matter of charity. And he felt-as
many like him have fancied and will doubt
less fancy to t'ne end of time-that to be
able to paint a picture is to be able to
sell one also. In his good days he had
mixed much with celebrated and success
full painters, and had known the great
prices that their works commanded
With. the unsuccessful majority he had moi
J.ed, or he would have learned a very
different lesson. But, as it was, to paint
according to his experience, meant to coil
gold; and perhaps, too, he made the eveI
still more comm ON error of installing in
clination for e MUS. any way, with thu
best and most honest motives possible, HI
committed two of the gravest follies o
which any on 8 can be guilty; he refused t.
receive pay simply because he believed
himself to be incapable of doing anything
to deserve it, and he became a painter be
cause he thought it best way to maxi
something more than bare living. Ant
| it is difficult to say which, from practica
/ point of view, was the greater folly of tn
| two.
The studio, however, look ambitious,
not business-like; but the contents and sur
| roundings could not but make man lik