The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-09-27

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FEAsTED AT THE AMERICANS EXPENSE.
Before the last days of June Mr..
Washington Potts had bought from its
noble and impoverished owner the Tudor
mansion and park known as Reminshall
Abbey, Bucks. Here, in the early days
of July, Mr.. Potts intended to inaugurate
his career as a lord of the soil. He had
put the abbey into the hands of West
End upholsterer, who had renovated
whatever it was possible to renovate In
the furniture, and had fitted up the Tudor
building with electric light, and had done
all that lay in his power to modernize
and hotelify the venerable. edifce. A most
superior brigade Of smart maid servants,
lofty footnen and an affable archangel
Of butler, engaged by the house agent,
amply furnished forth the servants hall
and housekeeper's room. Prancing BAYS,
blacks and roans filled the stabling for
eight horses; and half dozen carriages.
newly designed, and built on the LATEST
lines, and emblazdned with the crest of
a griffin rampant, which Mr. Potts mad
recently discovered at the College of
Heraldry that he was entitled to bear
for the sum of eighty guineasy filled the
coach houses. The Mayhower. a spick
and span steam launch, was moored in a
boat house built on backwater of the
Thames, down to whose fowery, banks
stretched the lands of Reminshall Abbey.
The griffin ramped on massive services
of silver, glass, table linen and cutlery.
Wherever a crest could be placed grif-
fin appeared. From the chimneys and
gutterspouts, over which grifsins how
cred, to the ground glass windows of the
buffers pantry, on which griffins We're
engraved, the new made Washington
Potts crest was, obtrusively conspicuous.
This lordly pleasure dome and all its
APPENDICES Mr.. Washington Potts had
bought for himself, but before he could
enjoy himself in it he required to see it
filled with an elegant and well dressed
mob. To obtain this end Josiah con-
suited Lady Charlotte Craddock. He
went to 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 jobndaster, 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 a man to take away
the bays then and there unless Lady
Charlotte paid him the trifling sum Of
e400, due by her to him for horse hire.
Lady Charlotte promised to 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 and horse dealers, Oxford
street, W., was not SO easily pacihed.
"You let me ave check for two
hundred on account before close my
Office at o'clock this afternoon, and
I'll leave my 'osses in your stable; you
don't, and I'll 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 says thing
means it, and I mean that" and Mr..
Buck had departed, leaving Lady Char
lotte to face the full awfulness of the
demand a balance of G70 at her
bankers and GOO 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 desperate resolu-
ton. At first she had almost enter
tanned the idea of failing to pay and LETT
ting the horses be taken, but the recollec-
tions of birmingham, where she had an
engagement that very afternoon, the
Row. and the thousand and one ocea-
sions when horses and o carriage are abb
solutely Indispensable made that impos-
sible. No, Lady Charlotte would go to
a money lender. She knew they were
disreputabIe, and knew that they would
cheat her; but she must trust in proyi-
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 ana drove in hanson to the
office OF Iaesaber Of the tribe of Levi,
whose shining brass door plate an
nounced him TO be solicitor, but whose
name ami appearance suggested usury.
After a great amount of discussion and
tXBilliGllOu Ri. 4ADldl4dtth LEVI ot<tlCu
that he had no ready money on hand and
was himself, indeed, not a 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
by which the obliging friend could BIO
communicated with, and his client had
signed an agreement to pay monthly in
stallments Of e100. 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 q moderate commission for his
assistance, drew up an agreement SO
slirouded in teclmicalities That Laa'-
Charlotte read and signed 1t IN utter
Inconsistencies of the fact that she was
undertaking to pay 1870 per cent. for tho
accommodation.
Lady Charlotte sent notes for 5000 10
Mesars- Buck s. Jibb and reserved 600