The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1888-11-03

child for month, had been brought VI
and handed to the master only TO be found
fault with and sent away. On that night
Mr.. Meeson had no appetite.
"Jehn son." he said to the butler when
he was sure the footman could not heal
him, has Mr.. Eustace been here"
"Yes, SIR"
HAS he gomez"
eyes, sir. He came to fetch his things
and then went away in a cab"
"Where to-"
'I don't know, sir. He told the man to
drive to Birmingham"
"Did he leave any messageF"
eyes, sir; he bade me say that you should
not be troubled with him again, but that
he was sorry that you had parted from
him in anger"
"Why did you not give me that message
befores'
Because Mr.. Eustace said was not to
give it unless you asked after him."
Every good. Johnson
"Yes, SIR"
"You Will give orders that Mr. Eustace's
name is not to be mentioned in this house
again. Amy servant mentioning Mr. Eus
tace's name will be dismissed"
Very good, sir" and Johnson went.
Mr.. Meeson gaZed round him. He looked
at the long array of glass and silver, at
the spotless napery and costly flowers. He
looked at the walls hung with works Of
art, which, whatever else they might be,
were at least expensive; at the mirrors ana
the soft wax lights; at the marble mantel.
pieces and the bright, warm fires (for Ii
was November); at the rich wall paper and
the soft, deep-hued carpet, and reflected
that they were all his. And then he
sighed, and his coarse, heavy face sank in
and grew sad. OF what use was this last
extremity of luxury to him? He had no
body 10 leave it to, and, to speak the truth,
it gave him but little pleasure. Such
pleasure as he had in life was derived
from making money, not from spending it.
The only times when he was really happy
were when he was in his counting house,
the enterprises of his vast es-
tablishment, and adding sovereign by SOW
ereign to his enormous accumulations.
That had been his one JOY for forty years.
and it was still his JOY.
And then he fell TO thinking Of his
nephew, the only son of his brother whom
he had once loved, before he lost himself
in publishing books and making money,
and sighed. he had been attached to the
lad in his own coarse way, and 1t was
blow to him to cut himself loose from him.
But Eustace had defied him, and-what
was worse-he had told him the truth,
which he, Of all men, could not bear. He
had said that his system of trade was dis
honest, that he took more than his due,
and it was so. He knew it, but he could
not tolerate that it should be told him,
and that his whole life should thereby be
and even his accumulated
gold arnished-stamped as i'll gotten;
least of all could he bear it from his de-
pendent. He was not altogether bad
man; nobody is. He was only a coarse,
vulgar tradesman, hardened and defiled
by long career of sharp dealing AT the
bottom he had his feelings like other men,
but he could not tolerate exposure or even
contradiction; therefore he had revenged
himself. And yet, as he sat there in soli-
tary glory, he realized that to revenge
does not bring happiness, and could even
find 1t in his heart to envy the steadfast
honesty that had defied him at the cost of
its own ruin.
Not that he meant to relent or alter his
determination. Mr.. Meeson never relent-
ed and never changed his mind; had he
done so, he would not at that moment
have been the master Of two millions OF
money.
CHAPTER III AUGUSTUS LITTLE SISTER.
When Augusta left Nelson's she was in
q very sad condition of mind, to explain
which it will be necessary to say q word
or two about that accomplished young
lady's previous history. Her father had
been a clergyman, and, like most clergy
men, not overburdened with the good
things of this world. When Mr.. Smithers
or, rather, the Rev. James Smithers-
had died he left behind him a widow and
two children-Augusta, aged fourteen,
and JEANNE, aged two. There had been
two others, both boys, who had come into
tho world between Augusta and JEANNE,
but they had both preceded their father
to the land of shadows. Mrs. Smithers
had, fortunately for herself, life interest
In q sum of seven thousand pounds, which,
being well invested, brought her in three
hundred and fifty pounds year; and, in
order to turn this little income to the best
possible account and give her two girls
the best educational opportunities possible
under the circumstances, she, on her hus-
bands death. moved from the village
where he had for many years been curate,
into the city of Birmingham. Here she
lived In absolute retirement for some seven
years and then suddenly died, leaving the
two girls, then respectively nineteen and
eight years of age, to mourn her loss, and,
friendless as they were, to fight their way
In the hard world.
Mrs. Smithers had been saving woman,
and on her death it was found that, after
paying all debts, there remained sum OF
six hundred pounds for the two girls to
live ON, and nothing else, for their mothers 8
fortune died with her. Now, it will be
obvious that the interest arising from six
hundred pounds is not sufficient to sup
port two young people, and therefore Au-
gusta was forced to live upon the princi-
pal. From an early age, however, sne
(Augusta) had shown strong literary
tendency, and shortly after her mother s
death she published her first book at her
own expense. 1t was q dead failure, and
cost her fifty-two pounds. the balance be-
tween the profit and loss account. After
q while, however, she recovered from this
blow and wrote Terminals Now," which
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