The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-01-23


brought him to my house? !? Ex-
plain that, if you please p
Icannot do ii, (" replied his dau0b-
ter, cat least, without violating his
confidence"
"His confidence p sneered her
father.
! "Oh it has come to that, has it.
That will do"
Mr.. Lewis received a short curt
note through the post, in the haEd-
writing of Sandhurst Upton, re-
questing a suspension Of his visits
to the house, and declining any IN
tereOurse, except on business.
BY the same mail came a foreign
letter for Lewis, Whose retreat, it
seems had been discovered) giving
him intelligence of the death Of his
father, and requesting his return to
France, his family having secured
bis pardon from the governor.
Notwithstanding the vigilence Of
Mr.. Upton and Tom Delong, Au-
gusta and Lewis had a final inter
view then he was seen no more.
A year had passed away, and Mr..
Upton had ceased to remember
Lewis, when he one day received q
letter from the British Ambassador,
at Paris, informing him that Count
Bernier, a distinguished nobleman,
at that time in the Kings service,
was about to visit England, and that
be would have the pleasure of Civ
ing him letter of introduction to
Mr.. Upton.
The banker read the eommunica-
ton with feelings Of pleasure. It
was always gratifying to his vanity
to be the recipient of such commu-
nications. His wife, to whom he
exhibited the letter, at once began
to plan a match for her daughter,
Augusta. The lattsr indulged such
hearty scream of laughter that the
propriety Of her mother was com.
pletely shocked.
1t was arranged that a grand din
ner should be given in honor of the
Counts arrival. A mischie7ous
smile was ever playing upon the lips
Of Augusta, which both her father
and mother attributed to wrong
motive.
In his old accustomed seat at the
bank Sandhurst Upton was sitting
some months aftsrward, when the
lard Of Count Bernier was handed
him.
"Show him up Immediately" cried
ihe Banker, sPringing toward the
door.
The next moment he had mechan-
cally grasped the hand of the count
md the two stood regarding each
'ther in silence. At length Mr.
Upton spoke:
Chow is this? I believe am
ooking upon Mr.. LeWis?"
The Count smiled, and, sitting
lown by the banker, explained all
hat was mysterious in his first visit
o Hereford, and completely satisfied
he banker Of the propriety of all his
.ctions.
Before leaving the hank Count
3ernier had obtained Mr.. Tipton's
onsent to propose to his daughter.
"Come down stars cried the bank
r, as he arrived at the door, abso-
utely forgetting for the moment his
lecorum, "come down here and see
n old acquaintance.
A few weeks latter there was a
grand time at the Upton mansion;
,Very one was jolly, and none more
70 than Or. Stole, as he fused and
'umed about the rooms. Augusta
was to marry a nobleman, after all.
Her mothers cup Of joy almost ran
over. Tom Delong was there, but
be did not call the count "a fellow"
and suspended his slang phrases.
except in one solitary instance.
When his aunt asked him what he
thought of the ceremony, he replied
HWell, the psrson gave them a far
start, and I think on a square beat
Gussy will come out ahead"