The weekly herald. [volume] (Cleveland, Tenn.) 1876-1888, 1881-04-15
RIGHTED AT LAST.

He was gone then! There was no
hope! His little cap, the shoes, and
Jacket, found on the bank where he had
laid them when he went in to bathe-
silly child!-had not been enough to
convince the mother that her missing
boy was lost to her. Yet it was close to
where the river fell into the sea, and
where the tide was strong-how, then,
could she hope? But this latter news,
the finding of this half-decayed body of
little boy, which the finder had been
obliged to bury at once-this was too
plain to be denied. She must give him
up,
Mrs Beaufort closed her doors and
sat down in her splendid mansion to
mourn. Her servants came and went
around her, but she would see no one
else, Her own kindred were too fa1
away, across the ocean in the new world,
to come. to her; and she had known these
of her husbands people only during the
year that he had been master of Beau.
fort Manor.
He had been separated from his
friends, a homeless wanderer, and they
had cared nothing for him, till old Mr.
Beaufort the bachelor lord of the manor
dying, had, to their astonishment and
indignation left the great fortune which
they had confidently expected would be
divided between two families nearest Of
kin, to scapegrace, wandering Bernard
Beaufort, 1t was for this, then, that
they had fattered and petted the eccen
trio, cross old man! 1t was for this they
had lied to him over and over, ant
vowed that they expected nothing from
him, and wanted nothing, and came to
see only him, not the manor. They haG
borne his sardonic grins, when he lis
tened to their falsehood, only that Ber.
nard Beaufort, whom they hardly
acknowledged for a relation, and hi'
American wife, whom they had neyel
acknowledged at all, and their boy
should inherit Beaufort Manor and al
the old mans property, except the &lOC
apiece which he had mockingly be
queathed his two cousins and theii
twelve children, all told
1t was unbearable And all because
Bernard had had the art to name his bo,
Philip, after the old man. Had no
each of his cousins Philip-her eldest
But he said Philip had given him nj
notice of the naming, as they had; ha(
asked no christening present; and tina
he, the old man had heard the child
name only by accident. Therefore, i
must have been named from some recol
lection.
When the new heir and his wife cam
home, the relations pocketed their wratl
80 far ms to visit them. 1t was not wort
while to shut themselves ont of the plac
because it was not to be theirs.
Mrs. Beauford astonished her new rel
atives. They expected to see commo
person; they found lady more highl
bred and educated than themselves. A
elegant form, habited with exquisit
taste; classical face, purely pale; ricl
dark hair; bright, dark eyes, and admi
rably self-possessed-such was the ne
lady whom they went to criticise an
patronize.
Scarcely had the bereavod mothC
moumed for her son month when
lawyers missive reached her; and 81
awoke to the fact that it was not only h,
son who was lost, but the heir of Bea,
fort Manor. The relatives and heir Ina
allowed her to stay so long out of regal
TO her feelings, and because they won
rather she had proposed to go, and Tho
were sorry she had obliged them to I
mind her, that, by the late Philip Bea
forts will, the property was to 60 to u
son of Bernard, and in case he di'
childless, to be divided between tl