Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1893-06-30

was taking place in the dining-room.
Mr.. Monk was announcing his in
tention OF going upstairs to person
ally eject that most innocent Of
fender, the "lodger." Temple inn
plored him to refrain, and at last
burst out:
"He has daughter. You can't be
violent with lady. sir"
"A daughter!" echoed Mr.. Monk,
frowning. at seems to me this
place is overrun with young women.
However, it will make no difference.
And not needing the remonstrances
OF his son, in which his wife joined,
he, left the room, proceeding upstairs
with surprising alacrity for an invalid,
and with an imperative knock at the
drawing-room door, ushered himself
into the presence of Colonel and
Miss Frere.
Mrs. Monk and her three sons
gathered together at the foot of the
stairs, awaiting, some in terror and
some in mischievous amusement, the
sounds of angry alteration.
Il wonder which of them will
throw the other downstairsm muir
INJURED Harry, to the accompaniment
of his mothers means.
But the minutes passed. and still
no reluctant figure was precipitated
over the banisters. Temple and his
mother began to hope, the younger
boys TO fear, that there would be no
Grow" after all. Presently the
sounds of laughter were heard and
Harry heaved a sigh-not OF relief
The fact. was that Linda, having
witnessed the arrival of Mr.. and Mrs.
Monk, and guessed the difficulty the
boys would be in, had confessed the
whole story to her father, and had
coaxed him TO see il by its laugha-
BILE side. AS he had already deliv-
cred his note of complaint to Eliza
the colonel guessed into whose hands
it would fall, and was prepared for
Mr.. Monks indignant entrance.
Mutual explanations, therefore, soon
put matters on "a satisfactory footing
between the two gentlemen, and half
an hours conversation ended in an
invitation from Mr. Monk to the coll
onel to extend his visit This invi-
tation Colonel Frere was reluctant to
accept, but that sly little mink Linda,
for reasons of her own, persuaded her
father TO give way.
"My servants will be here to-mor-
row." Mr.. Monk went on. Il shall
telegraph for them at once, and you
shall not have to complain again of
the 'disgraceful management of this
singular establishment" / assure
you. You must of course let me re-
turn you the money my rascally boys
made you pay
But Colonel Frere would not hear
of that.
'Let it count to the lads as pocket
money, Mr.. Monk" he said. "And
by the bye, one of them has been
paying me double trick, l think.
This young Temple Monk. of course,
is your son too"
Il knew it; knew it. He told me,
papa" said Linda, blushing.
The colonel looked at her atten-
lively.
'I've no doubt he did," he said,
dryly.
But, to her great relief, he showed
no absolute ferocity. For the discov-
cry had come about more favorably
than the young ones had ventured to
hope.
Half into the night and for the
whole of next day the search for the
missing will went on. 1t was discov-
cred at last in a small secret cup
board which the late Mr.. Monk had
made in the wall of his bedroom. AL
though Annie Hutchinson's forecast
of its contents proved correct, this,
the latest will, contained certain pro-
visions not altogether pleasing to the
present head of the family. For in
stead of leaving all his property to
his son, the late Mr. Monk had be-
queathed small income of four hum
dred year direct TO each of his four
grandsons. legacy of five hundred
pounds to Mrs. Hutchinson, and moth
ing to Annie, and had taken precau-
tions that his son, while enjoying
the remainder, should not make
ducks and brakes of it.
The only point that rejoiced the
mean soul of Cameron more than all
the rest was that Annie got nothing
at all.
"For now," he said, "you will have
to marry me, or otherwise you will
have nothing to live on"
And although she protested that
she was not going to be starved into
surrender, yet she made no very
fierce resistance; and Mr.. and Mrs.
Monk, considering all things, could
not very we'll refuse to accept her as
a daughter-in-law.
AS for Temple, he would have stuck
to his resolution to leave the army,
but that the colonel was willing to
waive his objection to compare
lively poor son-in-law, in the face OF
three facts: the first was Linda's pref
udice in favor of soldiers; the
second was his own prejudice in the
same direction; the third was the
knowledge that Temple would be
better off some day.
And so the remarkable attempt
of these young gentlemen to
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