The Morning herald., 1877-01-08
CORD AND CRRESE.
CHAPTER XVIII.
INQUIRIES.

J
es, Sir"
Vas he relative ?"
IN no, Sir, only lawyers clerk; want
zee about business ! dare say. Per-
TO collect bill. Let me see J.; the
er who sent him was named Thorn
hornton said Brandon, as the name
into his soul.
es; he lived at Hobby"
lndon drew a long breath.
o, Sir; no friends came, whether he
ny or not. They were all sick at the
house for weeks"
I'D Isuppose they all died there ?''
Brandon, in a strange, sweet voice.
b, Sir. They were not so happy"
hat suffering could be greater "
hey do talk dreadfully in this town;
Rnd dare say it's not true, but if j,
enough to make mans blood run
ou excite my curiosity. Remember
an American, and these things seem
me. | always thought your British
trats could not be ruined.'
pre- was one, Sir, that was, anyhow"
on"
ell, Sir, the old man died in the
house The others got we'll. As
p they were well enough they went
Pw did they get away ?"
Is hel lped them," replied the tailor,
peculiar tone. "They went away
he village"
here did they go?'
ople say to Liverpool. l only tell
know. ! heard young Bill Potts,
te lows son. boasting one night al
where he was half drunk, how they
rved the Brandons. He said they
to leave the village, 10 his father
them away to Amdrica."
America?'
5, Sir"
bdon made no rejoinder.
! Potts said they went to Liverpool,
en- left for America to make their
s."
bat part of America ?" asked Bran
differently. Il never saw or heard
b.
n't you, Sir ?" asked the tailor, who
Iy thought that America was like
English county, where every body
Ear Of every body else. "That's odd,
was going to ask you if you had"
onder what ship they went out in ?"
can't say, Sir. Bill Potts kept
bout that. He said one thing,
that Sc, us thinking"
|at was that p
y, that they went out in an emigrant
ssteerase passengers."
don was silent.
people!' said he at last.
iIs time the tailor had finished his
q handed it back 10 him. Having
al! the information that he man
I'VE brandon paid him and left.
Fslns BY the inn he walked en- till he
lhe alms-house. Here he stood
ME and looked at it.
don alms-house was small, badly
badly managed, and badly built,
mig done there was badly and
Done. |! was white washed from
post point of every chimney down
D"eSi edge Of the basement. A
Fepulchre. For there was foulness
The air, in the surroundings, in
ing Squalor and dirt reigned.
lt grew sick as those hideous walls
pre- his sight.
en this and Brandon Hall there
,ltrence, a distance almost i'm
o'e; to pass from one to the other
conceived Of as incredible; and
passage had been made.
SO lar as to 60 the whole distance
the two; TO begin in one and end
'ler; to be born, brought up, and
move and have ones being in the
'iien TO die in the other; what
: incredible than this? Yet this
the fate Of his father,
q 'he place, he walked directly
brandon Hall.
on Hall Was begun, nobody knows
'hen; but it is said that the loun-
ere lald before the time OF Egbsrt.
rus OF the old mansion the pro-
English civilization might be
IN the Norman arches of the old
4e slender pointed style of the
century doorway that opened to
'ne false Grecian of the early
's,rlod, and the wing added in
Gay, the days OF that old Ralph
VINO sank his ship and its treasure
II from falling into the hands of
lhIs grand old Hall were scenes
ulu be found nowhere save in
WIDE fields, forever green with
velvet, over which rose groves
elm. Elm. giving shelter to innum,ra.
1here the deer bounded and
Dund a covert. The broad ave-
ee s 70 the Hall went up through
p' rich sylvan scenery, winding