The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-04-10
AN ENaLIsH VENDgTTA.
Handed Down for Generations, 1t Hes
tho Usual Result.
Fronl the London Queen


The prologue is in the Kings Bench
prison. The time is 1870. or thereabouts.
1t is a summer evening. In one OF the
cheapest rooms man of about 40 lies dy-
ing. The foul air, privation, disappoint-
ment and imprisonment have killed him.
Bv bis bedside sits his wife weeping. There
also stand two boys, aged 10 and ID, awed
and silent.
take them away, Lucy" said the dying
man: II shall be gone before morning.
Take them out OF this accursed country.
Take them to America. Teach them to
hate England. Teach them 20 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 bis grand
children"
In this fine Christian spirit the imprisoned
debtor departed this world, and now lies
buried in the churchyard OF st. Georges,
South wark, under the windows Of the Mar
shalssa, and close to the body Of Bishop
Bonner.
a hundred years later his great grandson,
the GTst Ia the line who has ever got on,
for bad luck was ia the blood, has mado
some money and has come over to zee the
old country. His grandfather, the boy Of
10, never forgot the deathbed scene and his
fathers las words. He would fain have
-ossed thet water himself to execute that
revenge. but circumstances were too
strong for him. He invented revenges
which be could not carry out. He mag
ined himself hunting down his enemy, puT-
suing his enemy's children. But he could
never muster up money enough to leave the
little town where he worked.
And 80 he died unreveDged. His son in
herited the vendetta, together with tho
papers connected With the case But with
him the desire for revenge had become
feeble passion. Perhaps be would have done
O bad turn to his grandfnther's enemies if it
had involved no trouble. But, like his
father, be could never afford TO leave his
native town. So he in turn disd. And
still that great injury remained unavenged.
Then the grest-g randson inherited the
papers and the duty OF revenge. By this
time ths desire for revenge had dwindled
down to q worry mild emotion indeed. This
great-grandson, however, broke the family
record of ill-luck. He became a lawyer and
an orator, and made enough money, while
still young man, to make visit to the old
country. OF course, he was an American
through and through aud he regarded
Great Britain with mixed feelings of con-
tempt and envy. The latter he did not
acknowledge, but it was there. The con-
tempt he Rvowed,
Wo have House OF Lords, you see--all
profligotss; and church rolling ia riches.
1t was at this time that l made his ac-
quaiutGnce. he told me about the cher
ished and hereditary vendetta. ! asked
him what be proposed to do when he found
out the descendants of his forefsther's
enemy. He laughed. He said that he
didn't know what he could do, but he
should like to find them out If he could. de
spoke vaguely OF a coming fight.
/ saw him no moro for six months, when
I met him walking along Piccadilly. He
was not alone. There was with him a
young man, and there was a something in
his manner. He greeted me with
friendliness when be laughed. Il told you
ell about the vendetta, didn't ~ he said.
Terrible thing, having family vendetta,
isn't itl The one thing, because the other
side might get III first. Well, I've settlsd
our old vendetta, but it's wonderful did
exactly what had been taught to do. l
hunted them down. l followed them up.
| found them out. And this is one OF my
enemies. Let rue introduce you TO Miss
Florence-I call her Florrie. And l have
taken the most awful-the most terrible
the most earthquaking, epoch-makinR,
shuddering CHASTITY revenge you ever heard
Of For pve made tho enemy'G only great
granddaughter promise to marry me"