Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-04-25
Jim.


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k<sd professional beauty. Even Marcus
allows that there isA difference between
enatsurs and professionals, = Difference
Tat he. summed up IS "gatc money"
4 (osmS,a that observation justiRss me
= thinking that the former spend and
ths latter make money by their probes.
sions. And 50 from the day Was born
till now I myself or my beauty have
never made . fasthing, l am certainly
not entitled to the qualification. There.
fore, On my aunt's principle, the reason
for calling myself so Is demonstrated.
10 begin 1t the beginning, the only re-
maTkable thing about me is that | am
living example OF human gratitude and
! feel that fact more remarkable the
longer | live and the moro | learn.
Ny mother and my aunt were the
only children of Shame, the Cumber'
land Iron King, and they were as oppo-
site 10 character and lives rs only Sis
ters occasionally can be. Aunt Alpha
had been a. exemplary in her marriage
a mamma was the reverse; she had
conseientiously fallen in love with and
ohedisntly married an Irish peer whose
title did not date from the Actof Union;
. marriage that was eminently satisfac-
tory to every one, for Uncle Marcus,
whatever else be may have done, showed
no wish 10 waste or fling her money
on bis ancestral boys, which had been
the one fear in my grandfather's other
wise unslloyed delight. But neither my
aunt's brilliant example nor her
father's threats stopped my mother
marrying . comparatively poor captain
in the Black IIussars, and going with
him when be exchanged into an Indian
regiment. Just before was born he
had been made the resident in half
hostile State; and though he was
warned that on the first opportunity the
rajah meant to revolt, and IS first
step would kill him, he accepted the APP
pointment without hesitation. As it
happened the outbreak was already
planned, the hour for his assassination
fixed, when, returning from a long ride,
be had the good fortune to save the
rsjah's favorits wife from tiger. The
bearers had fed and the animal was
springing on the palanquin when he
shot him.
From that moment the rajah was
England's faithful ally, and from my
infancy my willing slave, companion, or
play fellow but beyond accepting his
friendship aud calling me after the
rsjah's wife, my father would take no.
thing from him; and my mother, who
had been disinherited for her marriage,
was hardly likely to urge him to; and
the rajah was fain during his lifetime to
show his gratitude by treating me as if
/ had been his own dearly-beloved
daughter. Only when he died, year
or two before my mother, it was found
he had lowered me, the only child Of
the companion Of his heart whom he
had once intended to assassinate, so
richly that, though was not as people
persisted in saying fabulously rich. it
would have needed more than life
time for me to get through the for.
tune my father had truly made for me.
He had died before was six years old,
but nothing would induce mamma to
leave the place where she had been so
happy with him, though my Aunt and
Uncle Marcus came out to take her
back to England. and when she too left
me, three years later, she directed was
to remain there till was seventeen, and
then II Aunt Alpha still wished me to
60 to her / was spend year with her,
and then do my best to carry out my
fsther's wish, and, il possibly could,
marry the son Of his oldest friend and
lifelong companion. Lord Ryvenbourn.
But, unlike most wills of that kind, as
far as ] could judge, nothing was to
happen If wouldn't.
OF Lord Ryvenbourn himself, who
had been killed in skirmish in the
hills, had very definite memory; of
his son or two sons knew nothing, and
cared not at all. 1t was no little
wrench to leave the lovely eastern
home that had been father and mother
and home in one to me but my mother
had wished it, and when my guardian, |
the head Of the great .Anglo-Indian
Bank, spoke of taking the necessary
steps to exile me to the North l could |
not demur; SO with Mrs. Ireton, who
had been my mothers maid and my |
housekeeper, as she called herself, my |
own syah, Hydsr, my fathers syce,
and his two subordinates, found my
self met at Brindisi, by my aunt, her
and my cousin.
There was only one incident on the
voyage that concerned me-my ayah
fell overheard, and but for the quick
ness Of one Of the officers of the steamer
would have been drowned. When l
wanted to thank him the captain as
sursd me be was only an ordinary en-
gineer, Is il that made any difference.
But ! did thank him, though | had TO
send ireton to find him. l think he
was the very shyest man l ever saw
ct first, until offered him ten-pound
note; then he said he would rather
wait, and, II he might, ask me to let
him choose his own reward.
he may not be . gentleman Mrs.
Fusilon asserted authoritatively he was
mot, but it didn't need . gentleman to
save poor Raj Mahal, it needed man,
and be was the only one who didit.
There was dinner the first night We
arrived in London, and ! was intro
duced to three men whom Aunt Alpha
has selected to be . body-guard, and
keep off detrimentals, so Marcus said.
Although Lady Mickron audibly whis-
psred TO one Of them ! had been brought
Up In secluded sersglio. hArem. zenana,
! had improved my mind on the voyage
BY studying English manners and Gus
toms a. mirrorsd in novels. And either
people run in groove or the types are
very broad. Lady Mickron's chosen
confident is Angus Forenor Macfusilads
Nsclintosh, master Of somewhere un.
pronouncable, and who will DO, IS she
condsscended TO inform me. lord Of
somewhere else when his uncle dies. In |
~ mean while he is every inch Red |
Donald. He told me he was politi-
clan 10 the English, not, he was careful |