Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1888-08-22
TRAPPING AN HEIRESS.

a lew years ago was very well &C
quainted with lot OF impecunious men
about the Strand, who 'lived upon
their wits" just as 1 am at this mo-
ment acquainted with similar men vino
exist in rhe same way in OF about the
same locality. The mode and style
are different now, but the principle
or rather want of principles the same
as it ever has been.
They were a strange and merry lot
OF ''ne'er-do-wells," mostly men OF
good education and superior families,
who had somehow missed the right way
In life. To describe the first who come
70 my memory briefly, l may say there
was ''retlred" lieutenant from the
Royal Navy whose titled cousin had
rent-roll OF about fifteen thousand
pounds year; fully qualified medical
man, who was the son OF church
dignitary; an Anglo-Roman who had
held the rank OF general in the army of
a semi-savage eastern potentate; late
chaplain in the army; a few brIefess
barrIsUers and ex-Somerset House
clerks; and In addition to those parasites
of society, a few nondeseript indIvid-
uals who humbly picked up the crumbs
which fell from the uncertain tables OF
the foregoing.
One of these men, Master OF Arts
OF one OF tie great Universities, was
never known to be without a plan for
realizing rapid fortune, and after
time he did succeed in foatIng a
scheme, with branches IN all the great
provincial towns, which not only proved
profitable and for time popular, but
succeeded in raising hopes In the
breasts Of thousands of human beings
of all ranks of society which were
destined never to be fulfilled, and
brought with them nothing but ruin,
unhappiness and unutterable misery.
This man was called Greevil, and his
first partner was the unscrupulous
individual who had been-on his own
authorIty-a general in the vicinity Of
Turkestan, and who was known as
Kirby Furnivai.
1 believe that few OF these men knew
my calling at the period. II they did.
1 suppose they thought me too good a
fellow to ''split upon them;" for they
used to discuss their plots aud plans in
my presence with delightful ease and
freedom
One day dropped in" for luncheon
at one of their resorts, where L found
FurnIvA buttonholing young actor
who had just lost a fine engagement at
taken too much to drink-and letting
the public see it.
"Say, Frank said Furnival. ''can
you makeup of the stage as well as
on?'
"what do you mean?"
"What say"
"Do you mean powder my face and
put carmine on my cheeks to produce
an effect in broad daylight?"
mo, no, my ladl'' cried Furnlval,
who was herculean in build, although
not very tall ''What L mean is this,
could you 'make-up'-well, 1 mean
dress and act as, say, young parson,
for n few days, if made 1t worth your
whilep'
Depends" murmured Frank. ca
ressing = heavy mustache, the darkness
of which could not be traced to ma
ture.
''Oh, know what you mean," cried
Furniyal. "Ye want to be paid for
cutting off yer mustache. lFurnival
had peculiar brogue. We'll. look
here, my man, cut the blessed thing
off; I'll provide ys dress for the part.
and If you follow our instructions
Greevll is in the swim with NEWELL
stand you a tenner down, and some
thing more may hang on II you keep
quiet and say nothing to nobody"
Lets hear what it's all about"
said Frank. us it joker"
"The devil Joke in it, 1 can tell
you.n cried Furnival. 'Come on; no
nousensel IL you're game say so. Come
and have your mustache of. and here's
a couple o. quId to sale the bargain.
Are you onf"
"Am 1 on, is itp BY Jovel I'd be
son' to anything for a brace oil thick
uns' to-day"
"AlI right, them" said Furnival.
Come on, and I'll tache ye yer part. :"
And away they went TO arrange mat
ters. leaving a few people behind them
who were highly amused at what they
believed to be the beginning OF a very
fine Ioke. 1t WAS fated that / s-ould
discover very soon after that 1t was no
ioke. and never intended to be anything
INT one of the most serious matters In
life.
about ten days after this message
MAS sent to our office by = highly re-
specrabIe solicitor, asking the assist
ance of an officer of the clearest intelli-
pence. l don't know II L could Lay
claim to that, but being the only one OF
superior rank in at the time was sent
to Lincoln's Inn Fields
Mr.. Handley was a family soiicitor
of the old school, very deliberate In
every movement, but very accurate IN
every expression AT nrst l was IN,
cllned 10 be impatient with MIN, put L
saw that it was best 10 walt until ne
bsd delivered himself in his own way.
lam not gong to trouble you with
his wav or even nv way. shall SIM
nIy try to tell you in few words what
Ia took a great many to convey to me-
Hs had received a communication
/. src.., \ firm OF solicitors in Kingston