Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1886-10-24

| peY1DtendiDR the REMOVAL OF Lucin0e's
travelling trunks from my dressing
room, into which they had my stsriously
intruded.
$50 you have published my dsiriss
and private notes." said to her with
. RioaD.
/ 'l.., uear, and they have had such
Q sale and brought us In heaps Of
money. When Lord Selcoysr behaved
80 badly about Jour African journals
snd got all the profit Of them--a great
deal more than be paid us altogether
people said to me it was such . pity
that there was nothing else of yours to
be published for my benefit. j knew
that you were always taking notes OF
thirgs, aud that they were so clever, so
sbrewd, as people say. So | showed
them to a publisher, and be said they
would sell like wildfre If brought out
at orce. And so they did, to be sure,
ard made you quite famous, and re.
litved me Of all anxiety"
"But the personal illusions those
should have been left OUT"
"Well, some one did suggest it; but
the publisher said the market value OF
tie book would DO destroyed. W.
were very careful not to print names
" hen it was better not, and | am sure
it is wonderful how nobody can con-
uadict anything that is in the book.
1t was so clever of you to find out so
much !"
why was l not told at once yes
terdsy ?"
"Well, Willie would have it that you
would be angry, SO left it for little.
But | was sure you would not, be
cause you never wrote anything, or
could write any thing, Of which you
would be ashamed"
| did not know what to answer, but !
sighed little.
lyon always intended to write a
great work." my wife went on, sand
now it is done, and no trouble, and it
has made a little fortune for US and
you ought not to mind what jealous PEG.
pie say. People are always jealous of
a great man,"
81 am afraid my success has driven
me out of England forever" was all |
could answer her.
And SO it proved to be. | had not a
real friend left, but had made thou
sand enemies. Every opening was
closed to me every door was kept
shut in my face. There was not a
house except my own in which could
sit down and feel that | was welcome.
Even my son turned sulky because
Lucinda quarreled with him on my &C.
count. They had a stormy interview
before her departure, which took place
the day after my return.
81 foIgave him when | thought he
vas dead, but now that he is alive
CANT" so | heard her sobbing
through the open door as | went down
the passage.
"He DIDN'T mean you," said Willie
yaliantly.
"Who could be mean by 'the ca!cu-
lating little simpleton with somebody
else's hair except me?" wepl
Lucinda.
"It's uncommonly hard on fellow
10 have TO 90 through this sort Of
lhirg," Willie said to me reproachfully
slterwaId. 81 don't know any body
else whose father ever put him into
such q hole. When people go in foI
being dead ard all that they DONE
usually make any bother afterward ,
thought the remark unfeeling, but
Twas prepared to make allowance fol
the awkwardness Of the boys position
Ny married daughter Clara came
over TO see me, and her visit did NO
give ne unmitigated pleasure.
] an very glad you are alive and a
tome,' she assured me, with an air o
injury, "but | can never ask you t.
NY house any more. ! mad to max
Edward promise to say nothing to yo'
that first day in town. lie is certai
that that remark about the broken
nosed young man with the vulgar man
ners refers to him. And though | al
sure you would never write of him il
that way-for bis nose is hardl.
crooked at all and his manners quit
good don't think mamma ought t.
have let that sentence be published
But she is so blind and so careless she
never notices anything "
Many people who had forborne t
quarrel with my wife on my accoun
now turned their backs upon both o
US. Sundry threats reached me of i'm
pending prosecutions for libel, and M
position was altogether an unenyiabl
ere.
| got out Of it as soon as | could
Ny son-in-law bought my house in tn
hope of facilitating my departure frou
England; | sold my goods, left my SOL
to be married to his Lucinda, and car
ried off my wife and younger children
to Australia. The threats of prosecu
tion came to nothing; nobody liked t
take the initiative. Ny account Of IN.
late adventures in Africa sold well
following the masterpiece, and | wa
told by the publisher that further book
Of travel would lie fsVorably locke,
upon.
shall have to spend the rest Of N,
life as q traveller. Nobody who know
NE will have anything TO do with me
Wherever 90 my book follows me
both yiSibly in its stout volumes an
inyisibly in It's influence. 1t is only a
a uameless stranger that | can &c
welcome or adnittance anywhere. N
beauty is so certain Of her charms, n
sage is so confident Of his wisdom a
voluntarily to risk an interview wit
me. Ny book has brought me fam
ard fortune, certainly, but it seems
have made me for the rest Of my life
social outcast.