The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1874-01-09

ouched his cap with the precision OF
IN Algerine soldier. The old salt was
lressed in a clean blue mastering suit
carried jack knife fastened to a anou
white lanyard, and had slowed in his
cardboard cheek something less than a
quarter of a pound of tobacco. well,
ny lad, what do you want? asked the
captain. The old sailor hauled off his
'sp, slowed it under his arm, let out
QUART OR so OF TOBACCO JUICE,
Ind then hauled out from inside his
.hirt letter covered with foreign pos
age stamps and domestic dirt.
I'D like to 60 ashore. sir, to see
abCut this letter" he said in reply.
"Let's see, your name is Hardin,
isn'tt. The last time you went ashore
you got beastly drunk, and we had to
pay SlO to get you out OF the lookup"
and the captain was about to order the
old seaman forward when something in
the appes,ance,of the letter In the mans
hand made him hesitate.
What's your letter about? Let me
see it." he asked. The letter was adj
dressed to Henry Hsrdia, United States
ship -, Mare Island, Cal. 1t was
an aristocratc looking epistle, having
a coat of arms in blue and gold, and
delicate water lines across the sheet.
The envelope wss square and also bore
the same heraldc device in flaming
colors. The handwriting was neat and
beautiful in style, aud as the captain
glanced at it he thought it was written
by woman.
THE CAPTAIN ASToSIsHED.
The letter ran az !ollows:
ARMAGH, COUNTY ARMAGH, |
September "a, 1878. !
DEAR HENRY Your last letter 10
ne WAS dated more than eight months
,go. 50 DO not know if you are yet on
BOARD the -, though | hope so, Tor
il is important that the news | have
should reach you. 1t
is so long since you went away from
home, aud you have led 80 checkered
and eventful Lille. that | presume you
have forgotten many OF your relatives
here and abroad. Do you remember
Uncle George, father youngest brother,
who went to America SO years ago? II
I remember correctly, | was very
little girl then). it was just about the
time YOU so roolishly ran away from
home-that WAS in 1885, was it not
Well, Uncle George grew to be enor-
nously rich as linen merchantin New
York, and when he retired from busl-
ness he added to his fortune still more
BY lucky real estate spsculatoas in and
around a place called Central Park.
We have now received the important
news OF the old gentleman's death
which occurred, it SCENE, several months
ago. His estate 10 an enormous one
being valued, the lawyers who have II
in charge think, at over sc, 100000. H'
caves no family, nor was he ever mar
red, though l believe there is
A WOMAN NAMED WALKER,
vb y claims to have married him yeare
AGO and now presents q claim to an in
jerest in the estate. She will not be
able though, think, to prove her mar
rage, and so our interests will rot euf-
fer, There are, OF course, great many
heirs as our family has so many branch
ps: but still | think our share will no:
fail short OF 100000 each. Lord Ken
neatly, who knew Uncle George well,
thinks that if the property is permitted
10 lie and not be sold, it will in few
wears be worth much more. 1t seems
,ome of ia large tract-lies in what
: knows as Westchester county, near
New York, where they are making
,reat Improvements. suppose, though
/ will have to be sold. Cousin SIR
Robert Hardiu-you remember him,
40 YOU not ?-bas been or is about to
be selected to GO to New York and ar
range for meeting of the heirs. Can
YOU not manage to get discharged from
your present unfortunate position ADD
20 their and meet your cousin? lie
would be glad to see you, l know. l
.hink, dear Henry, that now is the OPP
porlunity for you TO
TAKE YOUR PLACE ONCE MORE
in the society in which you were born
and raised. Think OF it You have
for more than thirty years wandered
about the world accomplishing nothing
but losing much. Now come home, l
beg Of YOU. Your.friends will give you
a warm welcome, and with the means
that will be at your disposal soon You
will be enabled TO take your proper
place in the county. Your aunt, La
dy Mary Kirby, is still living. She
often speaks OF you, and, l know, re-
Cards YOU with more affection than
any member OF the family. So. too,
does your nephew, Sir James, who. by
the wav, was a very little boy when
you went away. His house, know,
would be open to you, as It always has
been to me. Therefore, Henry, come
home. Do, l beg OF you.
Write to me at once and let US know
what action to take in your interest
with reference to Uncle Georges prop
erty. Your affectiopate and loving
sister HENRIETTA HARDIN.
ARISToCRACY IN BLUE.
The Captain read the letter carefully
and then looked at the weather-besten
tar in utter amazement.
do YOU mean to say, Hardio, that
YOU are the person addressed in this