The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1875-01-14

DEEP WATERS. BY Anna n, Drury. author o.
Neutrality-suspicious. Friends and Fortune"
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This. is book which i wen worth
reading. It is Miss Anna q. Drurys
latest work, and Is quite interesting, be-
sides having very high moral tone.
The story opens in one Of those old En-
glish homes which have been highly re-
spectacle and wealthy. AT the time OF
the Crimcan war, (Which is the date OF
the story the responsibility of the home
il left but the riches ''have taken to them
selves wings" 'Lawleigh,' the resi-
dence Of the Cleaverings the writer says,)
had been in no other hands for five cen
turtles"
Anna Cleavcrings, Of Lawlcigh had
been out walking through the grounds
with her large dog Bruno, for compan-
ion, when suddenly sp,inging from her he
rushes upon a young man, stranger,
who happens to be passing that way. He
is carrying q stick with which he strikes
the dog, breaking his leg This serves to
bring the young folks together, and BY
the time the dog is on all fours again,
they have made up their minds that they
were intended for each other, and in short
they fall in love to such an extent that
they become engaged. This young man
Fred Atterbury-returns to London,
his home, and is taken into partnership
with his father who is banker. He ex-
poets and hopes soon to go and bring his
young bride to London, but his father
being in trouble financially compels him
to marry another young lady, an heires
Just before the wedding Anna Cleavering'i
uncle returns from Australia, and being
very rich buys back all the land around
Lawlcigh that had been sold to keep uI
the homestead and family expenses. The
day before Atterbury's wedding, the bride
elect receives from some unknown person
gift in the shape Of an elegant bracelet
None could imagine where it came from
but when Fred saw it he at once recogniz
ed it as present he had given to Anna
She IN her grief and despair had sent it t
Miss Ormonde Six weeks after the wed
ding the bank of Atterbury & Co. failed
Villainy was supposed tie be at the bottom
Of it, and Fred was accused and suspicion
ed of being the villain. Indignation ap
peared to be SO great that he, although
innocent left the country, and his wife
thinking it robbery to keep her money
gave it all towards the payment OF thu
debts Of the firm. She then makes he
Lying by teaching Music. 1t happens tina
Miss Cleaverings takes lessons OF her ant
the two become strong and intimate
friends. BY accident one day Miss Cleav
erings sees the bracelet she had sent Il
the bride, and asks her music teacher how
she came by it. She is told that it wa
sent as a wedding present by an unknown
friend. Anna then knows all Som.
time after this Atterbury comes back t
England and has secret interview will
his wife. While there robbery is at
tempted at Lawleigh, and Atterbury sue
CCCuS Ill uIISIuS vi tHC lOODCIS. al VA'
ARRAY, however, Atterbury is recogniza(
by one of the men. His wife seeing thi
and fearing he will be arrested pushe.
him in secret closet, which they ha(
discovered, thinking she could release
him at any time and no one be the wiser
But the next morning Bruno was seen K
watch the closet door and 90 snuffin1
around when it was discovered who wa.
there. Atterbury was placed under arrest
tried and acquitted, and the real villain o
the bank affair found out Shortly afte
this, he and his wife went to Australia
and Anna was married to cousin. Thus
everything came out right, Mrs. AtterburJ
claiming it was because they had trusted
j h. :. ont IF Dam lRnkerS