The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-07
THE TRANsFUSED TRANSFORMED.
A TALE OF BLOOD.

a TALE OF ~ -
BY JAMES PAIN.
IL you live Ia Downshire and do not know
the t fiendelles OF I I iendell Court, you are
unknown indeed; the circumstance Of their
name being spelt with two little is, and pro-
nounced Fendall, stamps 1t with a peculiar
aristocracy. Radicals. indeed-persons who
Interest themselves In rnofe-assertt that there
was at one time no such thing as a capital In
our alphabet, and that II was indicated by the
duplication of the small letters. As intelli-
uence Increased, capitals were invented, and
the laat persons to use them we're, OF course,
the most illiterate; 30 that the retention OF
the two small is is not-intellectually speak
ina feather In the I iendell cap. On the
other hand, as q token OF antiquity, 1t is in
valuable. The possession OF q nane that no
body can pronounce without instruction Is
also obviously d great Inheritance, and In this
case 1t was the more valuable, since there Is
III record of d I I iendall, or DownBhire, having
bDen distinguished LII any other way. The
family had '.fourished" for centuries, In the
sense that an old tree is said to flourish, and,
uke il, most Of II was underground.
Sir Geofrrey Tendall (for we will take the
liberty on spelling his name as It was pro-
n0unced, as though he were an ordinary
Christian), the present tenant OF tile Court,
Wus d widower, chlldless, and stricken ia
years. The long line which had moved as d.
rectiy as O pawn In chess for so many genera
tiUne had ut last failed, and the succession
@SSFnn SYfi4ln ap1ulIt. Npt HVGI EtKZHK-i1KH IIB
Knights u0ve-to Q second cousin, young
Peroival Fendall, OF Lineoln's Inn, barrister
81 law. His father had suosisted On o very
moderate property, tho Income from which
had been lii no aysuppletnenJed BY the head
OF the family, and had bequeathed 1t in a re-
duoed condttion TO his son. The former had
discovered BY bitter experience that the fact
Of his name being spelt with two 10 dld not
enhance it's finanGial value at the back of q
Sbills while the latter was seriously thinking
0f discAr1ing the popularity altogether, AZ
VI affectatioI out OF which nothing had ever
come but rldieule, when suddenly old Geof-
"A frey. acting under advice mot legal, but
medluall awoke to the fact of hts helr-pre-
Bunaptfve's existence. He wrote from Down
ehire with his " hand to invite Perclval to
III Fendal Court. /.
Most young men would nave lufnped ~
such an offer, nor was Percival himself by
any means blind to its possible advantages;
al but Tia was d man OF that disposition which,
in poor people, i5 called Obstinacy, IN persons
of moderate means f%irlnness, and II rich peo-
ple determination oil character. Thanks to
nobody but himself, he was surely, but slow
INV, making his way In the world, and ne was
not disposed to barter his Independence, even
FOR the reversion OF the family estate. This
sas not entailed upon hlm, w y would Y hay. have
with two Is that Cousin Godfrey should leave
II to any other person than the natural heir.
sIhe young man knew, In fact, that unless ne
gave hts kinsInan solle grave cause Of oilense
ok &,sxs,lA .,ssa iii Il, rnjfYrr IN hiG afcad Wntltn
10 not be better, therefore, as he had not an
idHain c0Mmorl with the Did Squire, that they
should keep apart, 80 that no otfense could bs
given by him? Percival certainly, did not
Wish to 20 to DOWnehire. Ii was November,
u md, Hiace he was no sportsman, he greatly
preferred London at that season to the coun-
try; just now, indeed, he preferred 1t at all
seasons, from the circumstance that 1t con-
tained, It'll Gloucester Place, q young lady
called Mary Blake, whose name 1t was his in
tention to change to FendaH with one III as
soon as his income had become sufficient for
III him no marry upon Ii.
Her father was q l1Op-merchant, and no
doubt given to speculation in his own line,
but strongly opposed to contingencies in con-
nFcttOn with his daughters settlement In life.
He had at fret refused to take Percivals
great expectations into consideration at all
but when this invitation came from the old
Baronet he ilad visibly thawed, and even held
out q hope that he might not now insist upon
seeing PereivaIs ledger, setting forth that he
had received i'm fees, etc, at least E5OO 2 year,
before hs would give consent TO his daugh-
ter's marriage.
TO the young man himself this relaxation
Of MIR. BlAke's provisO gave much less salts
faction than that gentleman had anticipated.
In his own mind ne was persuaded that the
match would be diSagreeable to S1r GeOf1feY,
and render his expectations even less promls-
Ing than before; and this was one OIL the reA-
sons that made him incline to be very dutiful
TO his venerable cousin at q distance, and
through the medium OF the pOstot1ice. He
did not like the old gentleman; he had re-
Bented the GOODNESS he had shown to his
father, and he did not appreciate the overtures
now made W himself, which he thoroughly
understood We're not owing to any personal
regard, but only because circumstances had
made him the sole surviving member of the
house Of two Is. At the same time he was
much too sensible to throw away the brilliant
prospects which had thus unf0lded themselves
! ID his view, II he could retain them with self
and Without much inconvenience. AL
u Though d very unworthy descendant Of his
race as regarded the belief In their blue blood
which he looked upon either as imaginary,
SS0r y very serious physical ailment--he had in
bored or troubled. Old Sir Godfrey
himself, with his G2o,00 0 q year and
an ubeiient county, did not dislike being sput
out. more Than he did, and when he was an
n0yed he ooh az little pains as his great
kinBfnan to conceal 1t. Such men are socially
speaking, the very salt Of the earth, who
among q W0rld Of SnOoS anu toutes speak Tile
nlain truth 10 its little tyrants, even ii they dc
not succeed in teaching them how TO behave
themselves. But Perclval had no sense q
npostleship whatever. He simply liked his
nm way as much as his betters did, and
Sinne his ambition was ~Iimited-almost as
Dftenl rot III; u man who did not walk, and
look, and speak as II the street belonged 70 him
but rather as ii he did not care one haiipeenny
(which Was the easel To whom It did belong
Moreover, hts father had been no tenth
s kxansmitter uf q foolish race, and this young
Knew hinlselr-it is only fools, n~otwithstand'
NV what philosophers have said to the con