Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1890-03-16

eight horses: and half dozen carriages,
newly designed, and built on the latest
lines, and emblazoned with the crest of
griffin rampant. which Mr. Potts mad
| recently discovered at the College of
| Heraidry that he was entitled to bear
for the sum of eighty guineas, filed the
coach houses. The Mayfower. spick
/ and span steam launch, was moored In a
boat house built on a bac1water OF the
Thames, down to whose fowery banks
stretched the lands of Reminshau Abbey.
| The griffin r2mped on massive services
of silver, glass, table linen and cutlery.
Wherever crest could be placed a grit
/ fin appeared. From the chimneys and
| gutterspouts, over which grifins how
cred, to the ground glass windows OF the
buffers pantry. on which griffins were
engraved, the new made Washington
Potts crest was obtrusively conspicuous
This lordly pleasure dome and all its
appendages Mr. Washington Potts had
I bought for himself, but before ne could
enjoy himself in 1t he required to see it
filed with an elegant and well dressed
mob. To obtain this end Josiah con-
suited Lady Charlotte Craddock. He
went 10 call upon her one morning to-
wards the end Of June, and found her
pale and exhausted. she had not yet
recovered from an alarming interview
with an irate jobmaster. who had sup
piled her with the pretty bays that drew
her half brougham and victoria, and
who now threatened summonses and
county courts, and-moSt terrible of all
Threatened TO send man TO take away
the bays then and there unless Lady
Charlotte paid him the trifing sum of
9400, due by her to him for horse hire.
Lady Charlotte promised 10 send a
check on account by the end OF the
week, and rehearsed the gamut of equiv
ocations used by people who live on
credit, but Mr. Buck, of Buck & Jibb,
jobmasters aud horse dealers, Oxford
street, W., was not so easily pacified.
you let nae ave q check for two
'undred on account before close my
Office at 3 O'Clock this afternoon, and
I'll leave my 'osses in your stable; you
don't, and III send my man for them
bays, and even if they are in the Row
I'll ave the harness took off and leave
the carriage there. When l says a thing
I means it. and / mean that" and Mr..
Buck had departed, leaving Lady Char
iotte to face the full awfulness of the
demand A balance OF $40 at her
bankers and eco to be paid before
nightfall. 1t was horrid. For few
moments Lady Charlotte gave herself
up to despair, but at the end of half an
hour she had formed a desperate resolu-
ton. At first she had almost enter
tanned the idea of failing to pay and let
ting the horses be taken, but the recollec-
tions of Nottingham, where she had an
engagement that very afternoon, the
Row, and the thousand and one occa-
Cions when horses and a carriage are alb
solutely indispensable, made that impos-
sible. No, Lady Charlotte would go to
a money lender. She knew they were
disreputable, and knew that they would
cheat her; but she must trust in provi-
dence or her own wits to save her from
possible worry in the future, and she
must provide for the memorable Now.
Lady Charlotte put on her oldest tailor
gown and drove in a hanson to the
Office of member of the tribe of Levi,
whose shining brass door plate an
nounced him to be solicitor, but whose
name and appearance suggested usury.
After great amount of discussion and
explanation Mr.. Abraham Levi stated
that he had no ready money on hand and
was himself, indeed, not q money lender,
but would act in that capacity on behalf
OF friend who had some few hundreds
TO invest. When Lady Charlotte left his
Office Mr. Levi had undertaken to send a
trustworthy clerk with notes for $500 to
her house at o'clock, the earliest hour
oy which the obIging friend could be
communicated with, and his client had
signed an agreement to pay monthly in
staIlments of 600, with interest added,
until the debt should be paid off, the
first payment to be made one month
from the day of the signing of the agree
ment. The Hebrew solicitor, who only
asked moderate commission for his
assistance, drew up an agreement so
Charlotte reid and signed 1t in utter
Inconsistencies of the fact that she was
undertaking to pay 100 per cent for the
accommodation.
Lady Charlotte sent notes for goo 90
Messrs. Buck & Jibb and reserved G100
for her personal Use. trusting that she
could ward of all large payments until
t1,a eu1 of the saacOn at least
Wearied with the unusual business Of
the morning Lady Charlotte leaned back
in low saddlebag lounge seat and gently
famed herself as she greeted Mr.. Josiah
Washington Potts.
Il hear YOU have bought the Remins-
hall estate:"
Yes. / guess I am boss of Reminshall
Abbey and park. I've fixed il up and
it's all comfortable now There's q tow
er at one end. supposed to date from
Stephen. well, I've had al elevator fitted
there; electric light. electric indicators.
complete telephone communication. In
fact you wouldn't know tie old hole
again; and now | want your ladyship
to come down and stay few weeks. or
SIS long as you Ike. and to ask party.
I've asked all the people that you brought
TO my dinner; but they won't half tIli
the place, and want to have relays Of
company, one batch after another, as
one reads about your regular swels IN
the society papers They are a sort Of
catechisrn for Us self made men and
show as the way we should 90 II we
want to &c fashionable
Just 50. Bu: surely. my dear Ar.
Potts. you have friends Of your own;
4 man Of your wealth NUT have made I