Waterbury evening Democrat., 1888-08-25

"be,ore WAose JsidQnlent Bar shdu De pyeSenap summoned to stand the 0,edtest or sinners ved "Isot tcfthottt hope QJ Everlasting Redena ption Jor "Ch1tStS sake. Amen
 AMOS TRENOWETR.''
 Such was the will, written on stiff parch- ment in grabbed and unscholarly characters, without legal forms or witnesses, but all such were needless, as I have pointed out. And in- deed my father was wise, as I think. to show it to nobody, but go his way quietly as before, managing the farm as he had managed 1t during the old mans last years. Only by degrees he broke from the seclusion which had been natural to him during his parents lifetime, so far as to look about him for a wife, shyly enough at first, until he caught the dark eyes of Margery Freethy one Sunday morning in Polkimbra church, whither he had gone of late for freedom, to the no small tribulation Of the meeting house. Now whether this tribu- lation arose from the backsliding of a promis- ing member, or the loss of the owner of Lan- trig (who was at the same time unmarried), I need not pause here to discuss. Nor is it necessary to tell how regularly Margery and Ezekiel found themselves in church, nor how often they caught each others eyes straying away from the prayer-book. It is enough that at the years end Margery answered Ezekiel's question, and shortly after came to Lantrig " for good"
 
 have been very happy as I gather from the hushed joy with which my mother always spoke of them. I gather also that my first appearance in this world caused more delight than l have ever given since-God forgive me for it But shortly after was four years old everything began to go wrong. First of all, two ships in which my father had many shares Were lost at least; then the cattle were seized with plague, and the stock gradually dwin- died away to nothing. Finally, my fathers bank broke, or, as we say in the West, went scat,' and we were left all but penniless, with the prospect of having to sell Lantrig, being without stock and lacking means to replenish it. It was at this time, I have since learned from my mother, that Amos Trenoweth's will was first thought about. She, poor soul, had never heard of the parchment before, and her heart misGave her as she read of peril to soul and body sternly hinted at therein. Also her best beloved brother had gone down in a squall of the Cape of Good Hope so that she always looked upon the sea as a cruel and treacherous foe, and shuddered to think of it as lying in wait for her Ezekiel's life It came to pass. therefore, that for two years the young wifes tears and entreates prevailed, but at the end of this time, matters growing worse and worse, and also because it seemed hard that Lantrig should pass away from the Trenoweths while, for aught we knew, treas- ure was to be had for the looking, poverty and my fathers wish prevailed, and it was determined, with the fearful assent of my mother, that he should start to seek this Elihu Sanderson of Bombay, and, with good fortune, save the falling house of the Treno- weths. Only he waited until the worst part of the winter was over, and then, having com mended us to the care of his aunt, Elizabeth Loveday of Lizard Town and provided us with the largest sum he could scrape together (and small indeed it was), he started for the port of Plymouth one woeful morning in Feb ruary, and thence sailed away in the good ship Golden Wave to win his inheritance.