Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-04-21
Love in Lodgings.
by FLORENCE WARDEN.
CHAPTER /.

III seems SO awIully hkely, JUST
what was to be expected, in fact"
''And if it's true it means"
"Smash. Utter smash for the
whole lot of us. YOu will have to
leave the army; there'll be no prac-
tice for me, no bar for the Idol. We
shall all have to go into stockholders
Offices or drive cabs, or something.
"Oh, rubbish! There1l still be
fifteen hundred a year''
"What's fifteen hundred year TO
the governor? Why, he's been living
on his expectations for ever so long.
His debts will almost swallow that
up"
Cant they prove undue inhuenceP"
81 don't think so. Look here.
Everybody knows that for years be-
fore he died he wasn't on good terms
with the governor. Then this Hutch
inson woman, this housekeeper, and
her daughter were too artful to shut
him up. Nobody can prove anything
against them. 1t wasn't as if they'd
got him to leave them everything;
that would have been suspicious, and
much better for us. As it is, it looks
natural enough that he should leave
these people the house he lived in
with them, and half his income, and
only the other half to the son he was
not on good terms with. See?"
His brother did see, and he nodded.
The two young men were travelling
down from Victoria to Westclere
Temple Monk, the elder, fair, slim
fellow, with the full amount of admir-
alton and repect for himself which a
young man who has just entered the
army ought to have, had taken the
tickets and had been reproached by
his brother for going frst-class.
There's the IDOL" said Cameron,
as he jumped out.
The tall, lean figure turned slowly
round, and nodded to them a dig
nified and melancholy greeting.
He handed letter TO Temple, the
eldest, with solemn air. His brother
took it with a condescending nod,
while Cameron gave the Idol hearty
slap on the back which made the lat
rer shake like reed.
"Well, old chap, you are looking
we'll! Nothing like profound thought
for keeping off superhuous flesh, is
there? Wish ! could get that under
fed look! But there, it wouldn't do
to make the receipt too cheap, would
it?"
It was the Idol who suggested,
loftily, that they had better see after
their luggage. So they all turned,
and joined in the general scrimmage
which was going on in front of the
luggage vans. The Idol stood at the
outer edge of the group, watching
the struggles of his brothers, their
skirmishes with the porter, their
tussles with stout mammals. When,
however, Temple and Cameron. hav-
ing recovered one pormanteau,
paused in their efforts and had time
TO look round, they saw the rest of
their luggage in a pile beside the
Idol, who was standing in a pictur-
esque attitude with his right foot
upon it.
"Hallor' cried Temple.
And Cameron said angrily: why
didn't you sing outp"
But his brother merely shrugged
his shoulders at the vulgar sugges-
ton, and made no offer OF help as
Cameron seized his own property and
hurried off with it; while Temple,
who would have rather died than be
seen carrying his own luggage, re-
NAMED wasting his energy in com.
mands TO overworked and unheeding
porters. When the brothers met
again it was on the pavement outside
the station.
mo cabs YETI" said Cameron. ave
must wait"
Better go back to town." sale
Temple gloomily, as he handed to his
brother the letter which the Idol had
brought.
"Why, what's upP" He looked a
the handwriting, and at the head
ing of the letter: ''Hote
du Louvre, Paris. My darling
sons" Here, what does she say
It's all crossed, and on this foreign
paper: can't make it out"
Temple proceeded to read the letter
aloud:
II am IN Such great trouble ABOUT your poo
father that / can scarcely write, bat / hop,
you will DO able to make this letter out.
must tell you that he seemed greatly the bette
for his stay at Como, and when he heard o
your grandfathers death he bore all tn
trouble and fusssvery well. So that whe
Temple suggested that we should all meet a
Westclere and spend a monthiogether in you
Rrandfather's house and arrange matters.
thought he could bear the journey and 90
ready TO start
"But then came the shocking news abou
these upstart Hutchinsons and the new viii
they have brought forward-destroy al
your poor fathers hopes and yours after al
these years. am quite sure II will turn on
90 be forgery-your grandfather could neve
have been so wicked as TO put aside his ow
flesh and blood in favor OF these shameful I'm
postersl But this, OF course, will have TO b
proved-and the worry and shock have mad
your dear father Ill He now lies in bed. w
fear brain fever. and at the best we canno
hope to continue our journey for week or te
daysi have had to send for Amy TO help m
nurse him; SO you will have to manage as bes
you can for few days cannot send you an