The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-10
THE FAMILY VENDETTA.
How an American Carried Out Mis-
sion.
From the St. Louis Republic.

From the st. Louis Republic.
This is story of great family ven-
delta. The prologue is in Kings Bench
Prison. The time is 1890, or thereabouts.
It is summer evening, In one of the
cheapest rooms a man of about 40 lies dy-
ing. The foul air, privation, disap-
pointment and Imprisonment having
killed him. BY this bedside sits his
wife, weeping. There also stands two
boys, aged Is and 10, awed and silent.
Take them away, Lucy" says the dying
man; 81 shall be gone before the morn
ing.
"Take them out Of this accursed coun-
try. Take to America. Teach them to
hate England. Teach them to remember
the man who sent me here and kept me
here to die like a rat. Teach them to
take revenge upon his children and his
grandchildren" In this fine Christian
spirit the imprisoned debtor departed
this world, and now lies buried in the
churchyard of st. Georges, Southwark,
under the windows of the Marshalsea
and close to the body of Bishop Bonner.
A hundred years later his great-grand-
son, the first of the line who has ever got
on, for bad luck was in the blood, has
made some money and has come over
TO see the old country. His grandfather.
the boy of 10, never forgot the death-bed
scene and his fathers last words. He
would fam have crossed the water him
self to execute that revenge. But cir
cumstances were too strong for him. He
invented revenges which he could not
carry out. He imagined himself hunting
down his enemy, pursuing his enemy's
children. But he could never muster up
money enough to leave the little town
where he worked. And so he died unre-
venged.
His son inherited the vendetta, to-
gether with the papers connected with
the case. But with him the desire for re-
venge had become a feeble passion. Per-
haps he would have done o bad turn to
his grandfathers enemies if it had in
volved no trouble. But, like his father,
he could never afford to leave his native
town. So he in his turn died. And still
that great injury remained unavenged
Then the greatgrandson inherited the pa
pers, and the duty of revenge. But by this
time the desire for vengeance had dwin-
died down to q very mild emotion indeed
This greatgrandsoG, however, broke the
family record of lll-luck. He became a
lawyer and an orator, and made enough
money, while still young man, to make a
visit to the old country.
OF course, he was an American through
and through, and he regarded Great
Britain with mixed feelings of contempt
and envy. The latter he did not acknowl-
edge, but it was there. The contempt he
avoWed. We have House of Lords, YOU
see-all prohigates-and church rolling
in riches. 1t was at this time that
made his acquaintance. He told me about
the cherished and hereditary vendetta
/ asked him what he proposed to do when
he found out the descendants OF his fore
fathers enemy, He laughed. He said
that he didn't know what he would do.
but he should like to find them out if he
could. He spoke vaguely of a coming
fight.
saw him no more for six months, when
met him walking along Piccadilly He
was not alone. There was with him a
young lady, and there was something
in his manner. He greeted me with
a friendliRess. And then he laughed. II
told you all about the vendetta, didn't r."
he said. Terrible thing having family
vendetta, isn't it2 Creepy thing, because
the other side might look in first. Well,
I've settled our old vendetta.
"Oh, it's wonderful! / did exactly
what had been taught to do. followed
them up. / found them out. And this is
one of the enemies. Let me introduce
you to Miss Florence call her Florry.
And I've taken the most awful-the most
terrible-the most earthquakiug epoch
making, shuddering, ghostly revenge YOU
ever heard Of For I've made the enc
my's only great-granddaughte promise
to marry me! Oh? The lifelong mis-
cry! The exquisite revonge!! Isn't it
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