The weekly Thibodaux sentinel and journal of the 8th Senatorial District. [volume] (Thibodaux, Lna. [i.e. La.]) 1875-1898, 1883-10-20
SUSPECTED :!
The Fate Of the Gamekeeper.
RARKET.T SYLVESTER.
AUTHOR OF-
!. y.rAI MISTAKE" "FErrrRED, YET FREE" "Es.
ssIRS ERROR" "sTRICKRT DUNE" ''CLOCD0
AND SUNSHINE, ""FALsE PEIDE," ETC.
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CHAPTER Xxx.
4 is three years since the events related
kappened at Kingscourt A greatmany thin. 8
Ave happened since then Three years sell
dOm pass without bringing changes to most
oeopie. The first thing that happened was
as death of the old Earl Then the Abys-
iuiap war broke out, and called Blount away
hom his lady-love. He was absent for fif.
zen months, and for Us many more an in.
uld Q. home, having been wounded in q
drmih with King Tueo'lore's guerillaa
Vsre Lord Kincscoart, did not long en-
Whs new title, if indeed he ever enjoyed it.
mpid decline carried him Off about nine
zouths after the shooting of Robert North.
h anxiety connected with that event.
II the means he had taken to drive away
q anxiety, had undermined his never ro-
tuk constitution, and he died ct Kingscourt
n,iy in the following January.
The Countess il brolen-hearted woman.
It strange to say, not nearly SO great an in-
hid ~ formerly. She has given up think
| q Of her ailments, and, as matter Of
! uune they have given up troubling her.
Doctor Jones is now more frequently occu-
I'd in the administration of business con.
npted with the estate than in prescribing
snaics for hypochondriasis.
Tie Trathaways have long since left the
NIL They could not stay there after the
In atendant on Lord Heriot's disclosure.
1s haieved they emigrated to New Zea-
md Anne Grace never recovered her good
tnkS nor could she ever endure the men,
- Of Lord Herios's name; and, though
0ce or twice he had asked to see her, she
suaH not come up to Kingscourt or allow
- 10 help her by gift OF money, as he
n desired to do.
There had been another death at Kings
Gut that Of old Grant, the gamekeeper.
% bis death-bed he had confessed that he
~ found the handkerchief among tho
Vssd near the stile, while searching for .
nb6t TINT he had saot, and had given it up
b VI. Cartwright, he being magistrate !:
~ III. Cartwright had bribed him to place
4am0ng the brambles where the body had
I'm found, and had then sent for the de-
asdn officers and pat them Oh the scent.
- confession was h,lshed up good deal,
II 4 gained credence III the village after
1as when Mr.. Cartwright's ascendency
sove.
mmeiiately after Nsrcwarl's release from
hndins college fellowship not the
deafnm he used TO fancy it, aud longing
sns more active life wherein to banish
be had Obtained through interest q
Ion in West Indian regiment. He
~ seen any Of his Kingscourt friends
- be joined his company. Blount was
= time on his way to Abyssinia.
nfher liked his life abroad, but it did
lnsh regret. Nor did regret mike the
zhae attack Of yellow fever ON his ar-
e1f proved fatal to him. He would
have grown content with the pres
@ aaairs-seeing that to hope for
= wished for was sneer madness-had
"a not heard one day that he had come
g Considerable fortune.
- intelligence had NO: taken him COM
oy surprise. 1t had sometimes oc-
70 hun OF late that he would in all
ananiy inherit the fortune.
nlaef was second son. His elder
.I :. mad succeeded to large inheritance:
3. roman hereward had been cut off with
because he had married girl as
himself. She Was pretty, and of q
nnily, but in reduced circumstances.
ster- -brllned young Captain of Line
~ would not listen to parental warn
soala not look before he lenped. He
years after his marriage, leaving q
s0d son to battle with the world On
pounds year.
had done it, but how il would be
"a. % say. It was better when Here
slsH III. and could help by taking
and prizes; but then his mother
ana it was all tlarA.,ess and loneli-
& iof the few college f.ianls whom
4. cared tor, like BloUnt. Afterward
y, sunt mad woven gold thread
y warp and woof OF his life. It
proved tinsel thread, but it had
the melancholy fabric wonder
q II i could not last.
-. une his rich uncle had ignored
and Hereward had never re-
-. 80 0t bis existence 10y word or
alny years lie had remained
Without children but, about the
:sls~aru going to kingscourt, he
- again. He had, however, died
and now Oliel was Hereward's.
~ o s'x thousand year.
/ ~. susence reached Hereward at Mon
3 sanaica, where lis regiment then
i = once decided upon selling out
'ng to England.
~. London on the fifteenth of De.
laa s tour years afterthas memorable
sr;u ~ december when he had walked
~ .sourt through the snow. His
I..O 40 see Blount. He knows that
s,y reioinsd his regiment, and he
~ sae orderly room ut his barracks,
= y. aue less stout and fed-faced but
q - = respect different from the Dick
.sne. ne. days The hand-clasp be-
~ n,ends shows that these wears
: ase not estranged them.