The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1892-11-10

entered just as the shower burst in
all its fury.
AS took a seat beside the old man.
he said
Rather dismal place to be caught
in a thunder shower, isn't it?'
"Well. yes," answered, 'it is so. l
am glad have company. But how
happened you to be here at this time,
if may ask2"
why, certainly you may ask such a
question. l am here to prepare place
for one of my tenants. You see have
been sexton of this cemetery for forty
years, and have come to look upon all
the inmates as my tenants"
I looked little way from where we
sat- and the pile of fresh earth indicat-
ed the place where he had made pre-
paration for the new tenant
Another binding fash of lightning
made me involuntarily start, and as the
peal OF thunder which followed died
away said:
Forty years! that's long time. l
suppose you could tell some interesting
stories from your experience here?'
YES" answered the old sexton; IF
had the faculty of storytelling /
could find enough to make many stor-
les"
Whose grave are. you making ready
nowT' qneried.
"Mrs. Trescott's," be said, in mus
ing manner, and ] asked:
''And who might Mrs. Trescott be"'
The old sexton sat in study for q
moment, and then replied:
"Who, was Mrs. Trescot.3 Well, III
have to begin at the beginning. Sixty
years ago Thomas and Robert Ed
munds came to this town from Eng
land. The two men were brothers and
had married sisters. Thomas, the eld-
est, was widower with one daughter,
three years of age. Roberts wife was
an invalid, and their family consisted
of son, also three years old.
"These two brothers built those two
houses that you can get glimpse of
over the tops of the trees yonder. The
houses stand side by side, and in the
rear between the two stands garden
cr's house, where lived Richard Tres
cott a gardener whom the Edmunds
| brothers had brought with them from
England. Richard Trescott's wife was
a thorough lady, and they had one son,
Richard, Jr., four years Of ago.
i, 1.-THE two brothers built the large
woolen min which you passed Just be.
low here, and for many years tho busi.
mesa went on. The brothers intended
that Edward and Alice should we'd al
an early age, and the property thus be
| kept In the family.
/ "Richard Trescott had been gardener
for the family for many years in Eng
land, and had succeeded his father, and
50 he had grown up with the brothers
| It was only natural, therefore, that lit
tie Richard should be the playmate o.
Edward and Alice.
''All was well for several years, but
! when the cousins were twelve or thir
teen years of age slight trouble com
menced. Edward had a hasty temper
and an overbearing disposition, and so
! on account of his superior standing ant
the knowledge that Alice was his in
tended wife, a jealousy was aroused BY
the strong friendship between Alice
and Richard. and this Jealousy had fre
| quent outbursts.
~Young Richard was a manly fellow
and stood Edwards insults In a calm
and quiet manner, never reseutang any
OF his iudignitiea g.
MATTERS went on thus until Edwart
and Alice were sixteen. and by thil
time the young man had become 50 ex
asperated that he told his father Of th
stsAe Of AFFAIRS Thomas was soon IN
formed, and stosxny scene ensued
Tho result was that Richard Trescot
was obliged to leave the employ Of th'
brothers and 90 leave tho town.
sHcou afser thia. rhmns, ths eide
brother, was taken seSaos.sly ~, and
\ feasing sza4 b might no& live to -
the unicn a his dnaghtar and her cous
h. he endeapored, By the most urgeu
persnasion, 10 make her promise tia
his desire should te realized on he
twenty y-arss birt9aay. afr
''Eor . long time the gira refused Z
comply with. this demand. but .
length, when IL became evident tina
her fnther could not recover. she con
scpted.
And 30 Thomas died, and it wa
understood that his win provided tina
in case Alice died before she wa
twenty-oue, her half OF the propcrs
should go to Edward, and in case sh
passed her twenty-first birthday with
out marrying her cousin he would tax
the property the same
"As Edward grew Older he shove
signs Of dissipation, and after fe,
years 1t became common thing to
him TO 60 home at . late hour in th
night very much under the innuenc