The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-01-25
larry Millionaire.
ONE PHASnE THE GREAT HARDIN WILL
use IN NEW YORK.

A short be ago the commanding officer
OF man Ear lying at this station was
| informed tNsone of the old salts belonging
| TO his shiptshed to speak to him on the
quarter Dc The Captain promptly
| appeared, as he stepped from his cabin
| venerab looking man-of-war's man,
with eyes y ferret's and face as rough
as a nutm Crater, drew himself up and
touched hicap with the precision of an
Aigerine sqer. The old salt was dressed
IN clean Inc, mastering suit, carried q
JACK knife &ened to a snow white lanyard
and had sWed in his starboard cheek
| something b than q quarter of pound of
tobacco. Well, my lad, what do you
want !" asl# the Captain. The old sailor
hauled of Hcap, slowed it under his arm,
let out qux or SO of tobacco juice, and
then haulednt from inside his shirt let
ter coveredHth foreign postage stamps
and domestiairt.
"I'd like {go ashore, sir, to see about
this letter." said in reply.
Let's sedyour name is Hardin, isn't
it The lastme you went ashore you got
beastly drum and we had to pay $40 to
get you out 1.-THE lookup" and the Cap
tain was abet to order the old seaman
forward whek something in the appearance
of the letter the mans hand made him
hesitate.
Whats yir letter about7 Let me see
it," he asked. The letter was addressed to
Henry Hardh United States ship -.
Mare Island,Cal. 1t was an aristocratic
looking epish, having coat of arms in
blue and gob and delicate water lines
across the eha. The envelop was square
and also bos the same heraldic device
in flaming c0rs. The handwriting was
neat and beautiful in style, and as the
Captain gland at it be thought it was
written by oman.
THE APTAIN ASTONIsHED.
The letter IN as follows:
ARMAGH, Qpnty Armagh, Sept. "a, 1873.
Dear Henry Your last letter to me was
dated more thu eight months ago, SO do not
know if you Ore yet on board the -,
though hope !, for it is important that the
news have shield reach you. 1t is
SO long since ID went away from home, and
you have led sdkheckered and eyentful life,
that l presumt you have forgotten many of
your relatives Aere and abroad. Do you re-
member UnclS George, fathers youngest
brother, who ent to America thirty elght
years ago If pu remember correctly q was
a very little gig then) it was just about the
time you so footshly ran away from home
that was in lbs, was it not I Well, Uncle
George grew tcbe enormously rich as a linen
in No York, and when he retired
from business De added 30 his fortune still
more by lucky pal estate speculations in and
around place 3lled Central Park. We have
now received tie important news of the old
geutleman's de4h, which occurred, it seems
several mopths ago. His estate is eLor-
nous one, beipG Talued, the lawyers who have
charge of it think, at over G2,000,CO0. He
leaves no family, nor was he ever married,
though l beliete there is a woman named
Walker, who claims to have married him
years ago, end NOV presents claim to an in
terest in the esd ate. She will not be able
though, think, to prove her marriage, and so
our interests will not suffer. There are, of
q ,ron hal 30 II, 1,oo
80 many branches; but still think our share
will not fall thdt of E10O,O0O each. Lord
kenneally, who knows Uncle George well,
thinks If the property is permitted to lie and
much more. It seems some of ia large
tract-lies in what is known as Westchester
county, near New York, where they are making
great improvements. ! suppose, though, it
remember him, do you not f-has
been or is about to be selected to go to New
York and arrange for meeting of the heirs
Can you not manage to get discharged from
and meet your cousin He would be glad to
see you, know. 1 think, dear Henry, that
now is the opportunity for you to take Your
place once more in the society 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, Ibeg of you. Your friends
will give you warm welcome, and with the
hCahS "ulCi " III yOuE uip oodl 6SOu you
will be enabled 70 take your place in the
county. Your aunt, Lady Mary Kirby, it still
living; She often speaks Of you, and, know,
regards you with more affection than any
SSsNmber Of the family: So, too, does your
TSshew, Sir James, who, by the way, was a
hons little boy when you went away. His
| elySesII know, would be open to you. as it
cemS6 has been to me: Therefore, Henry,
Write. DO, beg of you.
action So,es at once and let us know what
| 70 JTnc1aSfSSe in your interest with reference
and iovinA ages property. Your affectionate
| er, HENRIETTA HARDIN.
MI, go ocRAcY IN BLUE.
and dn ioo Ia9SI e aad the letter carefully,
inter smazemeNs. weather-beaten tar in
"DO you meaista
are the person aadfsy, Hardin, that You
Why, you've been 8RSSed in this letter
twenty years or moSe. -of-war's man for
me in the Lancaster, N sailed with
then gray haired MANI and you were
don't you go homef" TN the worlo
Old Hardin has voice that
in it's softest cadences, like tHnds, even
three dozen rats shut up ineiapolse OF
drum. He rumbled out, in ApSa brass
tural way: gut
"Wa'al, Cap'n, that's just whStI
to see you about. I've been in theset9nt
!. now, man and boy, for nigh on to tRirie
1--WE year, an if this ERE moneys coRSr
No me I'd like to git hold of it. That's all
L But, Hardin" said the Captain, WIN
). nod would itdoyouf You know you can