Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-06-18

age to mend it. The fact is, my right hand
is too rheumatic to be good for anything, and
I'll be very much obliged to you if you'll set
it to rights for me-"
Russell Immediately produced knife from
his pocket, and set to work to repair the bro
ken girth, task in which he displayed con.
siderable ingenuity, and which he accomplish
ed so satisfactorily as to elicit the old gentle
mans warm thanks.
"pm much obliged to you-much obliged,
I'm sure," he said, when it was finished. "lf
you or somebody else, had not come to my
assistance, should have been reduced to the
necessity of walking the rest Of the way; and
though 1 am not going very far, should not
have relished the tramp under this September
sun. Very warm to,:ay-don't you think SOP
He was mopping his face with huge red
silk pocket-handkerchief, as he spoke, for the
exertious he had been making previous to
Russells timely arrival, had, indeed, thrown
him into profuse heat.
"It is rather warm" said Russell "Shall
I help you to mount, sir AS we appear to
be riding the same way, perhaps may be Of
some further service to you"
Every happy of your company, sir" said
the old gentleman, "though trust shall not
have any more breakdowns I'm on my way
to Col. Hollingwood's- fine old place about
a mile beyond here; perhaps you know it p
"Why, that's just where I am going" said
Russell.
"Indeed! Friend of the family, sir?"
"Yes; that is, Col. Hollingwood kindly in
sisted on my paying him visit, some time
back, as had very intimate friend staying
there-Sidney Temple, of Columbia"
"Why, he's still there, amt he? heard
he was laid up from an accident, and likely
to remain there some time longer"
That is the case, I know" said Russell,
"though from late accounts, he was improv-
ing"
"Glad to hear it, Too many fatal acci-
dents occur from rash driving; it's lucky the
Colonel's pretty granddaughter didn't suffer
on that occasion. Splendid girl, she is, sir. !"
"Very," said Russell, adding to himself,
"though I never could find it Out"
"I've known her since she was that high, "
said Mr.. Bradley, measuring with his hand
about foot above the saddle. "I've been
the family solicitor ever since the Colonel set
tied down in this neighborhood, and that's
forty years ago. I knew his wife-though
she didn't live long after they came here-and
his children, every one of them; fine fami-
ly they we're! but now they're gone-every
one gone-most of them having died young
and unmarried, and Ellinor is the only living
grand-child. Sad-very sad p
Every, indeed" said Russell ; "Miss Hol-
lingwood appears to be devoted to her grand
father"
$50 she is and he to her. It's very natu-
raj, living, as they do, apart from other
people I must own, though, I'd like to see
her happily married before the Colonel dies
it is a melancholy thing for young creature
like that to be left alone in the world. She
need not be dependent on any one, however,
that's one comfort, for, Of course all her
grand-father's property will 60 to her."
"He is very wealthy, I believer ald
Russell.
"Why, yes the family property has always
been considerable, and by judicious invest
ments, it has been swelled into pretty toer-
able sum. 1 Aatter myself that have been
instrumental in some arrangements which
have been very profitable to the Colonel; he
never was very much Of hand at money
matters. We lawyers, you know, sir, have to
be sharp, and I never neglect my clients in
terests, in the smallest particular. Now, I've
just completed nice little settlement, which
makes my old friend some thousands richer in
pocket; mere trife to him, perhaps, but
which 1 would not have been justified in neg
lecting, and every little tells
Russell mentally wondered, as he glanced
at the old gentleman's capacious pockets,
whether the few thousands of which he spoke
so unconcernedly, were at that moment in his
possession and thought, in that case, how
pleasant it would be to transfer them to his
own. 1t was a point, however, on which he
did not feel at liberty to seek enlightenment
"Noble old place, this is, remarked Mr..
Bradley, as they rode up the long avenue.
"Pity to think it should ever pass into other
handsW
"Is there any prospect ofts doing so, sir p
asked Russell.
"Oh I mean when the Colonel dies, of
course. If Ellinor remains single, of course,
it will eventually go out of the family; and
if she marries, why her name and her de-
scendants' names will be changed A thou
sand pities the fine old stock of Hollingwoods
should die out! IT'S q name long venerated
in our State, and one around which honors
have clustered thckly in days gone by. In
the Revolution, sir, there wasn't braver set
of men in the army than those that went from
that family-and pretty good number there
was of the name, too. But this is a world of
change, Mr.. Russell, and the older we grow the
more fully we realize it,
Russell thought his companion was getting
prosy, and was relieved when they found
themselves at the gate. A servant, who saw
their approach, ran out to take their horses,
and Col. Hollingwood himself, appeared on
the front porch to receive them.
"Welcome, gentlemen, both! p he cried, in
his CHEEKY, hospitable voice. "Walk into the
library, Bradley-you don't need to be shown
the way MIR. Russell, I'm glad to see you