Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1886-04-16

"Gtve me q secret and / an, happy"
elk reflected There had been earlier in the day
conversation with his profes in which the latter
promised to take him out of the country in week
at furthest, in fact he had concluded the
sale of his proprietary club, with all its rights, ad
vantages good viii and clientele. The purchaser
we may explain, in parenthesis. was a gentleman
connected with the turf, and entirely fitted for the
post of proprietor That is to say he perfectly
INSCRIPTIONS, without morals honesty, prejudice or
pity. And yet, for want of the goo manners which
served the count in lieu Of these things. he speedily
ruined the club and dis ersei he gamblers, who
now gamble elsewhere. A week at furthest. He
could not shove the old gentleman down thu sta
he wished to do. 1t was sary either to change
his lodging or to conciate MIN.
lie conciiated him. He assured Uncle Joseph that
1t would give him the ate atsfacton TO confide
in his honor and to 1--WE him In this apartment.
"Then," said the old man. with an involuntary
smacking of his lips las you've got, no doubt, some
OF the money left my dear young friend, and 1t IS
very easant to sit and talk let us have-ah-let us
have-oh!' he drew a long, deep sigh, ga bottle of
champagne"
suppose his long professional career had accus-
toned hi to associate champagne with secrecy, just
as other peoples experience leafs them to associate
champagne with love, or with race courses, with
dancing.
They had glorious bottle of champagne. Uncle
Joseph drank it nearly all, and on parting shook
Dick effpsivey by the hand promised to come again
next day, and swQre that his secret sacred
that Of thu Thirty third degree.
He kept his word and returned faithfully the next
evening, VIXEN he mad anoth bottle of champagne
Uncle Joseph rubbed his hands his own clever
ness. Why it was almost like return to the good
Old umes except that the bottle of champagne was
not preceded by banquet This caused unstea,r
ness of gait on the way home, and disposition to
laugh and sit on doorsteps, to become playful and
to find ones speech strangely thick Dicks secret
however, was safe.
oh, m. dear young frIen - said Uncle Joseph,
what happiness for You that 1t was who dscov-
red yo'; oppose IL had been your father Norah2
what would have happ ne :? Twas in pc ice court
THIS M bnlnT he certa / 81 delightful
panon--"i was in police court and there was
poor young man brought up for embezz ement Ee
had run away and they 70 ind him, and he was com
mitted for trial. l thought of you, Dick AMI my
heart bled- IL come ag:in tomorrow"
he did return next day, but meantime Dick had
heard something which made hi II less careful TO
con, iliate the who had hi, secret. In fact the
word had come to be in readiness.
ihe count mad seit,eI ever. thing and they were
to go away the very day. There ore when
UAc Joaeph dubbed his hands, and sad that IL was
thirsty weather, sent by Proyi .ence in order 10
bring out the full flavor of dry, sparkling wine
Dick co lily said that he wa MT going tan1 any
more but if Un:le Joseph chose to drink soda am
whisky, instead he could.
The Old man was wounded in his tenderest and
most sacred depths. But he dissembled, and drank
the substitute, which. compared with the great
original is little better than mere zoetons He
drank it, and went away early with reachery in his
heart, but smile upon his lips.
"Come to morrow night, Uncle Joseph, said Dick,
land you shall have as much champagne a you can
drink. You shall battle in champagne if you like
lner5 was d soinelhin5, ILLS nv urea Ola man
felt, which meant mischief He would not get
the promised champagne. DICK wouldn't look like
thatif he meant fair AMI honest. Yet how mean.
How paltry! To grudge single bottle of champagne.
just one day, for the safeguarding of so valuable
secret!
In the morning Uncle Joseph made quite long
iourn y He took the train from King Gross to
Bishopsgate whence he walked to Whtechapel roai.
Here he took the train which runs along the Com
M real road He got out half way down. ana made
hi- way through certain by-strees to CLAIMS road,
Shadweil where stands the Children's Hospital
By this time he had lsarned thing, partly BIZ
pr tending to know already, and partly by cunning
questions and partly because Dick, with brutal