Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-09-10

Accordingly, in due course Sir Geof-
frey came up to London, and an inter-
view was arranged between himself and
Mary, after which Percival received the
following letter: ..'., .. #
MY DEAR COUSIN: Love has not blinded
you, for / grant that the young person is
very good looking, but it has dulled your
sense of hearing. Miss B. drops her his
one 1 can swear to; it was in "hospital."
This is not her fault, of course, but her
misfortune. 1t is in the blood. IT you
marry her-being what she is, and can't
help being-you shall never have one acre
of the iendell land, nor one shilling of
The old baron would not have dared
to write this but that he had, as he
fattered himself, won over poor Mary to
his side. He had painted to her the
splendid prospects that awaited
Percival, but which her marriage with
him would dissipate forever, and had
appealed to her love itself to discard her
lover.
He did not effect what he had hoped,
but yet succeeded only too we'll. The
thought that she would be the cause of
her PercivaPs future being destroyed,
preyed on her mind and produced
dangerous illness. Percival was heart
broken, and had only just spirit enough
left to direct an envelope to Sir Geof-
frey, inclosing piece of his mind. 1t
was an ugly fragment, and thus con-
GUIDED:
elf through your Internal egotism my
u r will foI,n lott
change the idiotic name of iendell to
Bullock Smithy."
Sir Godfrey was reduced to despair by
this frightful menace.
In the meantime poor Mary got
weaker and weaker, and had hem
orrhage from the lungs, or more
probably from the heart. The blood of
the Blakes, though an inferior fluid, was
necessary to her existence, and she was
rapidly sinking. DR.. Lascelles, who
was called in in consultation, said,
"there is only one thing that can save
this young lady's life. We must try
TRANSMISSION"
The other doctor--who was of the old
school-shook his head as only doctors
can.
Dr. Lacelles understood at once, from
the great significance of the gesture,
that he had never 80 much as heard of
the operation.
"I felt sure you would agree with
me-" he said, with the sweet smile that
had won his way to professional success
for his practice lay chiefly among the
ladies. "Yon remember Playfairs di-
rections, without doubt?" And he told
him what they were. "One Of us two
must sustain this ebbing life"
81 think it had better be you," re-
turned the other hastily. "There's
nothing like new blood mean young
blood" .....
"True; [ am young and strong; |
can't see beautiful creature like this
slipping through our hands" And he
barred his arm to the others lancet.
Two months afterward Sir Godfrey
received the following letter from Per
cival, written under compulsion at his
wife's dictation:
DEAR COUSIN: Actuated by feelings of
passion, which, as yourself once justly re-
marked, renders ones actions invalid,
addressed you communication some time
ago, the terms of which / sincerely regret.
When the blood of the f endells is up they
are not to express themselves strongly; and
you are the last man Except me) not to
make allowances for the fact. / am thank
full to say my dearest Mary has been raised
from her bed of sickness, and is now-I had
almost written "hersef again )" but though
she is az we'll as ever, this is not the case.
She has in very singular, though perfectly
scientific manner become somebody else.
She has undergone the operation of trans
fr1ci OF no rather tho
Cavendish Lascelles, whose noble blood to
use the words of the poet, now "courses
through her VEINS" One has so often
heard of persons who are ready to shed
the last drop Of their blood for this or that
and so seldom seen them shed even the first
drop, that you may have put them down in
the same category with ghosts; but [ saw
this with my own eyes, for Perclval had
been present at the operatiO1,l and can
swear to it. owe adebtt to Lascelles which
1 can never repay, for he brought back to
life the dear girl [ married yesterday. Both
she and are well convinced that our union
will have your appreciation, since the sole
objection you had to it has been removed
by TRANSMISSION.
By birth, it is true, she is still a Blake,
but by blood, shei is a Lascelles.
With our united kind regards, am yours
truly, ra, PERCIvAL F IENDELL.
Poor Cousin Godfrey, thus confronted
not only with q dilemma, but an ano-
maly, was at his wits end-wh1ch was
at no great distance.
In this extremity he consulted his
oracle, an ancient nurse, who had dwelt
in the household almost for that term Of
years secuted, by Mr. Thomas, and who
believed in the iendells first and
of nd
cts my opinion, Sir Godfrey" said
this female sage, Gas it's 20 use crying
over split milk
The baronet himself was already partly
of that opinion; so the reconciliation was
effected, and the young couple were in
vited to the court.
The bride, less from interested mo-
tives than from the sense that the old
man had so much to "get OVER in his
welcome to her, devoted herself to her
host and soon surpassed her husband in
Sir Geofrey's favor.
"You are not only ienaell by
name nv dear" he once said to her,