New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-13

oT had said partly from what You didn't say.
Wei, I was astonishod; but Eliza really Is
All John did was to take ELIAS hand in bis, and
say: ,, -, - 18th oLor+ Il 7 ex.
nected Lizzie TO take what said pretty bravery,
but never thought she would take IL as Sne , nas
done. NV grandfather, must tell you, was clcIk
in bank in London very Weh Rn Saca r great
friends with two other young men III tnc 1ai ~
who were not quite the companions ne ongnt 70
have had After some months OF very lITeRular
living. these two young friends of my grandtathers
determined on q plan for getting money 70 pay
of their most pressing deots. ny ,nduccd
to jon them. The scheme however, lnciuasu
forging the name of one of the customers OF the
bank and though my n impcated
TO he arrested (when the plot came ont as OF course
it did with the others, to be tried, sentenced anu
90 lie was only twenty-five when this happened
and before ne had worked ont his sentence had had
ample time to be heartily sorry, anu heH WIEnY
ashamed of his folly in being so led away Noil'
ho got ont at last and went away into the couhIrY
where like many another young scspe-pTa nc goV
on from being an assistant on nd s6 On TN Inc cot
money enough to 60 away to Canada ana DuS
share in good business. II. ,h4
lie got on exceedingly well, and in time bought
q good house. and bit of ground r0unu IL, anu
lived in really comfortable style. Ill.,. uhor
Il must tell yOu now an important thing When
he left Australia he changed his name, as most men
nerhans wonld have done IN similar circumstances,
from HousogO. his real name, Hananiah liouseeo IL
was to Whiting. Why Whiting. d99 wh h3Gw
Int of conrss I'm not wrong to call myself WhltlhR,
as nv father always had the namo, ana his Drother
and sister too. For my grandfather had married ~
with his vito; and after his death without VIII
she suuandered pretty well all his money tha5
ought 10 have come to my itS Spd vcpy Hapny
life and this was partly owing to rather strange
circumstance which must now tell you about.
ANY one might have thought that my granu-
70 loft Australia and gene lar away,
and having changed his name, ana vng uiueI 5 ~ W
together new circumstances might nave Eot ~ W
ali assOciations connected with his ctnTlctl0h'
Wall now there was one person in Canada who
found out or who knew all about NM anu lnls uli-
known person. for some reason mover tot
prosecuted my poor grandfather I'D the stlanBeS'
manner. . o.o4 ,,,o,, ~, all
things which belong to them nclualng, VI
labor is what they call broad arrow wen, me
broad arrow pursued my grandfather ne lounu ~
first / believe one day marked on his gate-post' ITO
Quietly rubbed it off, and IN Jew DAYS ~ reap
peared Then it turned mp, rs he walked out carry
morning scratched IN 1e 4sT eether
boundaries of his estate At OlhcI times lie WnuIu
receive letter through the post with the marx on
the outside, and on opening 1t tonn0 nOLhnlg ,nut
the same repeated. Of course it annoyed and iIri-
tated him immensely, the more so as lie c0ud take
no open measures to discover the author Oh inc per
secntion nor take anyone into his confidence. lie
tried hard enough you NAV be sure, IN quiet way
10 find out who did 1t. But he never had the
slightest clew to who it was; 1t must have been
spite, of course. ill.,
1t went on for years. and it was supposed after
his death that this wCTrV must really nave uhdcr-
mined his health fG3 he met win an acfene ,.
Gncnces hut he siCkencd and died. Before MS
death however he told my father, his eldest child,
ali about it. and his real NAME which my iather
had never known, enOming on him strict secrecy
except TO his own children who, nc said' ought u
'That5 said John, lis the whole of tho story,
rather sad one and not very interesting stlIl' Hs
said thought You ought to know ~ rs IL 50 con-
Germs myself. At the same Time uIGG sco WY
friends against me when first came over since
II il 40 MANY years since my grandfather dicd'
and all this has been at an Gha I4F ong Tght
what you've said can make any dlHerence III my
opinion of you; and Eliza seems to have taken you
with her eyes open. But thmk lts rIBhI VI } ou W
We talked n little more over the curiOns story
but John himself had nothing more to tell us imam
lust what I've told you, and then he Iclt ,e.
Next morning, as we were sitting at DIeaklas''
I've been thinking about John
Have you really = said /. How odd"
Nonsense she said i don't mean about HIM.
but about his odd story and his curious name Tor
.Don't YOU think said J. that you've heard tho
I'm sure Of it, but where, can't tho least no
How We puzzled over that name and what IL was
associated with in our MINDS! III seemed 10 nave
taken nOsseSSl0n oil us DOln, anu dltlOuSh ~ %
such IN unimportant thing, we conld not rest LOT
thinking Of it. However. all we could think OF
was that IL seemed connected with our last NiSt 10
the country. .
Idaresav Won Will have guessed long ago where 1t
was that we had seen it: but it wasn't till after
several days had passed that Eliza said to me sud
Antony. that name was on the cosy. Pm sure
u '0f course it was said /; but in connection
Do Won know that nothing would content us but
we must find out what 1t for don't you Sec III
was such an uncommon namc. mono such appeearInB
even in the Directory, and we had got quite OK
think It was clever of Eliza to have remembered
where it was, Pm sure mover should Out thoh ~
think said, she is clever. ,,.
Well, at last thought OF plan ana Eliza
having hunted up the date OF our stay IN the conn
try and knowing that that Times was sent us
few DAYS after we left London. went one after
noon to The Times Office, and said wanted TO look
through the file for that month. ,
/ hadn't looked through many before suddenly l
saw the whole COSY before me- ! seemed 10 know
every line and word Of it. Really by this tlmo l
eager about it; but looking down the columns /
couldn't see the name anywhere. SO then began
carefully at the beginning and read straight
through and thec found it.
IL was an advertisement for next OF kin and
began, TO Thomas HOusegO'; and further down
| had the name that had so bothered us, Hananlah
| Housego Thinking this really must concern
Young John, | soon bought O copy, and took II
home to Eliza: When got homo found john sit It.
ting with Eliza. Now we hadn't seen much OIL
! John for some days, ho being very much occupied,
| and when we did it so happened that we hadn't
talked about this; so you may think he was aston
| ished when | ran into the room; spread ont the
paper and began to read the advertisement Il cut IL
| out, and here it iS): !,
| TO Thomas Houscgo formerly of Norwich, in the
county of Norfolk, his next Of kin, or legal per,
| sonal Representatives. Whereas, the RbOve-named
| Thomas Housego, who was one of the children OF
Jonathan HOusego late OF Norwich aforesaid, gen
tleman deceased, left England III the lifetime OF hls
| father and has not since been heard of; and
! whereas the said Jonathan HousegO had two other
sons, named respectively Jonathan llolIsegO and
| Hananiah Hoxsego and whereas the said Jonathan.
son of Jonathan HOusego aforesaid died the 3lst
| OF March last and But there, J needn't read