Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1889-04-19
MRS. COOPER'S NIECE,
by THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH.

AoSPo"uc' luc ccShnt young gentleman
addressed. 81 am disposed to place
implicit reliance upon it and ON you"
You have done nothing since you left
college but kill time"
at is only retaliation in ADVANCE sir
Some day or other the old chap with the
scalp-lock aud scythc will kill NO."
"You are too flppant. Since your
aunt Priscilla left you five thousand a
year you have done nothing but spend
the money. Your income ought TO be
enough for single man, but you draw
on me too"
"l'll try to draw OH you less, SIR"
at is not that. Philip. You are quite
welcome to Il check now and then, for l
know that you neither game nor rcvcl,
and don't mind your horses, your club,
your natural history cru C, nor your lux
urious tastes. But still you spend more
money and get less for it thun most
young men of your agc--have too much,
in fact
I'll don't find it too much, sir. In fact
I was thinking what graceful thing it
would be if you would double it-a
mere trillc to gentleman of your means.
| have to use the most pitiful economy,
l assure you"
ooh, that's it, ch2 Well, there it
mode to increase it very much. You
have heard me speak of Philandcr
Spriggs, of New York;"
Money lender aud skinllintl have
heard of him."
Nonsense, Philip He is quite
wo'thy as well as very wealthy man and
II ne prefers to invest ready money in
short loans, what of that, / lend my
money, or some of it, sometimes"
but not ut cent. per cent"
NO matter. don't propose that
yoa shall borrow Of him. lie has an
only child, n daughter, who will inherit
all ms vast property, just rs you will
mine"
docs she shave notes, father"
"i'hil, be Kind enough not to indulge
III chaif. have seen her and talked
with her. She is young, handsome.
well educated, and has good taste-n
society. gcntlcwoman with domestic
tastes"
"Wcll, father, you are not so old, and
since III ADMIRE her SO much, | see no
reason why"
Stop your nonsense and listen
SprlSSs aud had II talk over it when |
was IN New York, and we have con
GUIDED, if you two come together, to
CHIP i'll equally and settle half million
on you on your wedding day. With
what you have you'll do well enough for
Il while"
"But," dcmurred Philip, az don't like
Spriggs for IL fathcr-in law"
'StuI! you don't marry Spriggs."
"And the name. Think of it,
Spr-r iggs"
"What of thatl With marriage the
name is changed. I don't think she'll
gain much by it Spriggs-Briggs!
six Of one and n half.dozcn OF the other
I'D like to obligc you, father. Isup-
pose | must marry some day; but it will
be some one love; and then, philadcl-
pha like, Insist on woman of good
fam ly"
'Some one you love. How the deuce
do yon know you'll not love her till you
see herr Good family! OF course
you're entitled to that. The pccrage of
Erg and is full Of Viscount Briggscs
The Briggses ale found in the Almnnnch
Won boiha among the crlnucht families.
Your grandfather made three hundred
thousand dollars in hides and talow,
and if he had not invested it in real cs
tate that multiplied itself more than ten.
fold before he died, | should have been
in the same busincss to-day, and you in
the counting room or warehouse. Fam.
lily, indeed! You're n foolish boy, Philip,
and your aunl's legacy has ruined YOU"
81 wish, sir, there were half-dozen
more old aunts to continue nv ruin in
the same way. 1t is of no use getting
angry, father. You can't keep it up.
I'll take to anything you say-law,
physic, or divinity; sell my horses, drop
my club, read by the cubic foot, but to
marry-c cusc me-"
''See here, Phil" exclaimed the
father, ''who by this time was at white
heat, you never knew me to break nv
word. merely ask you to marry for
your own good. point out n wife in
every way suitable TO you Marry to
please me, and will not only start you
fairly in life now, but leave you nil |
have when l am gone. Marry to suit
some foolish fancy of your own, and I'll
yes, I'll found an asylum for idiots
Now you understand me-" And Briggs
marched off, leaving his son to his medi
tetions.
"lf l stay here" said Philip to him.
self, "father and will quarrel. Better
give the dear old gentleman chance 10
cool of. I'll ruralize little"
That afternoon Philip packed port
manteau, and with fshing-rod and
mineral hammer started off to Mont
gomery County, where an old college
mate of his had married and settled. one
whom he had long promised to visit.
When he arrived there he learned that
Boudinot and his wife had gone to Long
Branch for the season, aud the servants
with them, the house being in charge Of
care-takcr. Philip heard of good fish
ing in stream four miles off, and con
cluded to try it. He found lodgings a,
farmhouse near the place, owned by q
man named Seth Cooper.
His quarters were quite comfortable.
The house was an old stone building OF
ante Revolutionary erection, aud wa.
roomy. lie was assigned chamber up
stairs, looking out on a trinity kept gar
den, in which old fashioned flowers and
pot herbs wee grown side by side, aud
which sent Pleasant fragrance through
the open window, The room itself was
adorned with pictures and knick knack.
showing feminine tasted and the bed
stead was furnished with hair mat
tress, and not the bag of feathers of tn,
vicinage