The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1874-06-04

then; not like a philosopher. s"Yon
ses,' and here esthe old gentleman was
right IS to practice, and wrong AZ, to
theory, "Nhen.a msu can afford to sivp
his daughter decent sam, .of. money
on her weadins-dey, apa ::sne.ns 10, leave
her everything st hi'1death, be expects
Al ~: squiy..leott.'' q il !! -
"a. ..Mslqete .slete foosl s Z thaaght gharlle. af-
Ter ttle gsisIatdisn ''if heisst got! money
be ought to.xfse*.nons, and vice versa.
Ny old governor would gias< i,ls ;ns. T., - sny-
thing, but then :hs :hasr nothing, 10
fact he's ,sry i:' ike IN me, and vhatt I'd do
for Edith However; i : - ne Z, m|.sunr
.derine about il ; III Iaxant,tolkno. is,
how I'm to get ten thousand y sane pounds
out of .n allowance of two, ,hpndred a
year, besides my pay"
It was dm6onlty, most men. will
admit. Falling back on Id The. : governor s.
was about as useful as falling back up
on = heap Of stonee. He had not even
an old aunt, nor . godmother; and
though poison reads very we'll under
the careful nie n.ge@eutEof Miss Brad
don, there wasn't@ubodv to poison, ex.
oepsing bis intended father-in.law. The
wine business h.d been the. ,reeult of
two eigas, and . very good mail.
phsston, which r!attled past hiey window y
with d pair ef'high:stepping eob4s::; and
City life generally-had assumed bet
ter appearance ,updp:tha arrival Of an
East End, a,ilion.ire and i his wife, in
= :pE.Etiou!arly: nett b.rouche, two doors
Of his own :he1se. ..:s::spaeies1ntlitiop. eis1t il
:spseonal.tion,. s . whether ,op Epson 4rsf, Downs
Is in Gspel -Gea.t,i.nd il: Ia not till
~ !. q !4pus~e.y~11ak dt ; y til.
possibility. Of 'spohttsn - outrage: on bis
previous responsibility as 1 ;lyety wsg-
- suggested: it.elfto hiani.dd. D.
Now Charlie was not . ,l,s+ ,lg,smbler: Al ;
nor vicious in any way. <Hezwasn't in
debt nor gluttououg nor wine:bibber
nor avaricious; but he sadly Nsased
ten thousand pounds. at this moment ;
aud he swore if he got it that he'd
make sgood use Of it. He never had
/ bad 4. more than . f 6ve:pouad 7Dote in bis
lite st a time ;, and five. pound notes
were no use to him now unless he put
twenty Of them together. If he want.
ed to preserve ,his good resolutions too,
which, in a nation Of gamblers, did
him, .infaite oredit, be was most unfor.
tuuate, not enly2iu his dsy, but IN the
companions :he. met with. As ho
sauntered along the, day. before the Der
by, and the one. sfter:: the rejection Of
his suit, there vas pnt one topic Of
conversation from one end of the Row
to the; other.
"Pl,udit's7a dead 5an.p
~e.Hen coma TO the post, fora hun.
d1edrssyen.'''' 49,. :: -, 49,.
: :":Doae5s you,4: Ienks," and: the
two gentlemen .beatadzit..
''They sny Wrouebtou had a sore
back, whom Van Amburgh beat him at
Bath"
81 don't care what Wroughton had,
he must be better than Vsubau by
that running"
"Well, then,5 llls sells9ou what III
do. I'll lay youe ea.thoaaaud to hun.
dred about Van, and you shall lay me
five to two about tho Dukes horse"
"Done" aud rdpue."
"Nobbler, old boy, what's tho best
outsider p
"What? to lay against, or to back p
says Nobbler.
20, to back, of course. I want to
lay out a tenner. I've only ono ;bet." I"
"Why there's Fitz.1van, or the
Moor, OF Roquefort," says Nobbler,
mentioning two or three more, with
the prices.
"Why not Hermit, Chaplin's horse" !"
"Hs, h., hs," roars Nobbler, "he's
as good a. boiled. Here, I'll lay you
Eve hundred to Eve" And the price
80 frightened Charlie, that he went
farther on.
Beneath the wide.spreading beech,
almost opposite William Street, watch
ing the equestriaus and pedestrians in
the Row, not much tbiuned (for Tues.
day at EPSON, after all, is only meant
for tho very high .sd the very low),
sat four young nan& what We call IN
our intense suobbism the upper ten,
like the decem ssstertia, short for ten
thousand, and as Charlie Courtland ap.
preached the chair, the ominous num-
Der would come into his head. Two
Of tho four he knew, aud one Of the
two was Peter Mayfair.
"And how do you know be broke a
bloodvessel 2" said one.
"ais owner had telegram" re.
plies a second.
Glow do you know Z" says : third
o"Because Isaw it" rejoius Number
Two, "and seeing is believing"
"How do you know tho owner didn''
send it himseIf?" SAYS Peter. upor