Weekly commercial herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1884-18??, 1885-11-06
IN LUCK AT LAST.
81 WALTgR BEsANT.
continued From sunday, october 1871

'Yes; let u pretend. Oh, grandfather,
stop one mosnentl Our castle, Arnold, shall
be, first OF all, the most beautiful studio in
the world for you. You shall have tapestry,
blue china, armor, lovely glass, soft car.
pets, carved doors and painted panels. a tall
manteisaelf. old wooden cabinets, silver
enpss and everything else what one ought 70
IKE, and you shall choose everything
yourself, and never get tired OF it But y@
must go on painting; you must never stop
working. because we must 10 proud of you
~ well that you like Oh, but / nave not
done yet Ny grandfather is to have two
rooms for himself, which he can ill with
the books he viii spend his time in collect.
ing; Lala Roy will have two more rooms,
quite separate, where he can sit By himself
whenever he does not choose to sit with me:
shall have my own study to myself, where
lshall go on reading mathematics; and
shall all have, between US, the most beautE
1ut dining-room and drawing-room that you
sver saw; and a garden and a fountain; and
-yes-money to give to people who are
not so fortunate as ourselves. Win that do,
Arnoldr
YES, but you have almost forgotten your
sell, dear. There must be carriages for
you, and jewels, and dainty things all your
own, and a boudoir, and nobody shall think
81 doing or saying anything in the house at
all, except for your pleasure; will that do,
IrisF
II suppose we shall have to give parties
Of some kind, and to go to them Perhaps
one may get to like society. You will teach
me iawn-tsnnis, Arnold; and l should like, l
think, to learn dancing. l suppose / must
leave of making my own dresses, though |
know that | never shall b. so well dressed
lido. And about tho cakes and pud-
dings-but, oh, there is enough pretend
ing"
1T Is difficult" said Lala Roy, "to bear
adversely. But to be temperate in prosper
ity Is the height Of wisdom"
"And now suppose, Iris,r said Arnold,
shat the inheritance, instead Of being thou
sands a year, is only a few hundreds"
1Ah, then, Arnold, it will b ever so
much simpler. We shall have something to
live upon until you begin to make money
for us all"
"Yes; that is very simple. But suppose,
again, that the inheritance is nothing but a
small sum of money"
"Why, then" said Iris, 1--WE will give it
all to grandfather, who will pay off his
creditor, and we will go on as if nothing
had happened"
Child" said Mr.. Emblem, edo you think
that / would take your little alp
DAnd suppose, again" Arnold went on,
'athat the inheritance turns out a delusion,
and that there is nothing at allr'
THAT cannot be supposed, y said Mr.. En-
blem quickly; ''that is absurdi"
sIf it were," said Iris, 1--WE shall only be.
tomorrow, just exactly what we are TODAY
z am a teacher by correspondence, with five
pupils. Arnold is looking for art which
will pay; and between us, my dear grand
father and Lala Roy, We are going to see
that you want nothing
Always Lala Roy with her grandfather.
IS Il their interests vera identical. and. in
desd, he had lived 20 long with them that
Iris could not separate the two old men.
ssWe will all live together Iris continued.
tsand when our fortune is made we will ali
live In a palace. And now, grandfather.
thar we have relieved our feelings, shall we
have the story and the opening OF the papers
in the safer
(which will you have frst?" Mr.. Emblem
N4Eou again.
tAOh, the safe" said Arnold. "The story
can wait Let us examine the contents Of
the safe.n
tThe story.s said Mr.. Emblem. "s nearly
ali told in your fathers letter. nv dear. But
there is a little that / would tell Won first.
before / read that letter. You know. Iris
that I have never been rich; my shop has
kept me up till now, but l have never been
able to put BY money. Well-my dauohter
Alice, your poor mother, my dear. who was
IS good and clever as you are, was de-
termined to earn her own living. and so sb.
went out ss a governsss. And n day she
came home with her husband: she had been
married the day before, and she told me
they had very little money. and her hus.
band was d scholar and a gentleman and
wanted to get work by writing. He got
some. bat not enough. and they were alwsvs
ii a Door way, until one day he GOT a letter
from America-it was while the civil war
was ~raging-from an old Oxford friend. in.
yiting him to emigrate and trv fortune os
4 Journalist out there. He went. and bis
wife was to ioin him. But she died nv
dear: vour mother died. and a wear Iator I
had your fathers last letter. which I am
now going TO read 70 voup
ssOne moment. sir. said Arnold ssBasoro
Won open the safe and take ont the naners
remember that Iris and | can take NOTHING
nothing at all for ourselves until ali veur
troubles are tided over.n
sChildren-children, cried Nh. Emblam
sGo, my son, to the desert,n observed the