Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1876-01-26
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how tired l was, and that we muS6 resU
there forsooth, he took another of the
chairs. and brushing off d little OF the
thick dust and cobwebs, sat down upon
it, and began the story, in low, un-
easy voice which made me so nervous
that presently I even feared to look
around me.
Lindley Warwick was a very young
man when he inherited this estate; very
handsome, as you see, and proud, with
a pride that was ultra sensitive and re-
fined. That such man, possessing n
fine estate, of high birth, and educated
and accomplished as few country gen.
tlemen were in that time, should be
favorite with every London drawing
room is surely no matter Of surprise;
that such man, skilled in all manly
exercises, and free and lavish with his
wealth, should be favorite in every
country mansion in the midlands, is no
matter of surprise. Few who en-
joyed his brilliant conversation noticed
the absence of generous sympathy, or
the cold indifference to those who did
not enter the magic circle of refined and
cultivated society in which he moved;
and few who gazed in admiration on
the fine and perfect face noticed that
the haughtiness which sat SO we'll upon
it was but cold and after cruel pride
all. He lived here but a month or two
in every year, and then he always had
the house full of guests, and ruled with
the most lavish splendor. Between
those visits he enjoyed gay seasons
now in his handsome house in London,
now on his shooting estate in Scotland;
now abroad, and now visiting among
other families. He was the mark at
which all the looks and thoughts Of
mothers were directed; he was the idol
of their daughters, he was almost the
unrivalled pet of society.
One day, when he was staying here,
with crowd of gay and fashionable
visitors, there was a clumsy attempt
made by couple of burglars to rob
the house. I believe IL was the Squire
himself who first heard them, but at
any rate they were surprised before
they had even effected an entrance, and
little boy, whom the villains had put
through broken gap to unfasten the
door to them, was the only person cap
tured. This boy was the only child of
a woman who lived very quiet solitary
life, in tiny cottage which had been
given her. it was said, by the late
Squire himself. She was Spaniard by
birth; beautiful dark faced woman,
who, though she lived so near him, had
never been heard to mention the name
of the rich man who had lured her from
her native land; a woman whose silent.
solitary life was bound up in that OF
her child. When she heard that the
Squire had locked up her boy and sent
for the police, she came up to the hall
for the first time since the Squire's
father (and the father Of her own child
had turned from her last prayer; and
she told the young Squire, with eager,
burning tears, the one reason why he
should have pity on her boy. Then he
smiled his cool and handsome smile,
and quietly advised her, if she lied at
all, not to lie to her own shame.
When the police came and took away
the child, stretching his arms out to
his mother, she stood with white and
rigid lips in the great hall, not even fol
lowing him with her eyes, for they were
fixed upon the handsome face of the
young Squire.
The boy. pretty timid child of
scarcely twelve years old, was brought
before the magistrates, and told his
tale with many tears. He had been
walking quietly home the evening be-
fore, when two men overlook him, and
walked with him. They talked a great
deal together, though not all to him;
but when he turned from the turnpike
road to go home to his mothers cot
tage, they babe him walk little far
Their with them and they would give
him present for his mother. He went
on-a long way he thought it and then
they took him into an empty cottage
and shut the door, and kept him there
till it was quite dark. They carried
him then to the hall, as he could not
have found his way in the dark; and
they put him through small broken
hole in window, and babe him unfasten
door he would find close to him., or If
he did not, he must stay there in the
dark forever.
This was all the child told, but it was
plain to see how he had been fright
ened by the threats of those Williams.
I believe one of the magistrates sug-
gested that the terrible fear the boy had