The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-02-26
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CHAPTER x.


fers under the English and Dutch char
ters.
He took the plots where the smaller
pleasure grounds were to be located.
Then he turned his attention to the
large tract where the great park was
to spring up like a section of fairy land
in the metropolis, embellished with ev-
cry beauty the best landscape artist
could design.
'Great heavens!" was his eiacula-
tion, and he drew up the heavy volume
closer to his sight, while near bysearch-
ers looked at him as if he had gone crazy.
George Leland" " he read, calming
down. George Leland! Strange! A
coincidence; that's all's in itl'
The lots We're all owned by George
Leland, purchased at about the same
time from men whose names were known
In the history of the county as those of
people of quaint manners and methods.
They were men who lived in the past.
The encroachments of the city Jared up
on their country senses, and though they
had not much faith in the greater de-
velopment of the municipality they
steads and move farther back from tho
march of peace destroying progress.
The price placed upon the land in the
days when Leland bought it was not
high. Even in the city people had no
idea that this tract would form several
wards in the course of time. This is
not surprising to those who recall that
when the city hall in New York was
erected old material was used in the
rear, because the building was ON the
outskirts of tho town, and no one be-
lieved that the roar of traffic would ever
be heard behind it. The rear was not
even rough cast. The projectors of the
building We're not adjudged thoroughly
sane, and had they dared to intimate
that any citizen would travel beyond
and inspect it from country view
they would have been hooted out of
town. The city today runs 10 miles
above the city hall.
In Brooklyn, which will yet form
part of the greater New York, the city
hall was built to meet the demands of
the growth of 100 years. Ii failed 10
supply the needs Of 10. The inunici-
pal building was erected later. Still
the city strided out on Long Island, and
more room was reouired in nlaces of
public business. There are eight large
buildings in that city TODAY occupied by
governmental departments, and yet the
pleasant little gentleman who has been
deputy county treasurer for a quarter Of
a century, James Gardiner, remembers
the time when il a claim was presented
against the municipality the treasurer
nut his hands into his pockets TO see if
there was enough change in the treas
ury to paw the bill This yearthe run
ming expenses of The government there
will cost over $40, 600, 900, and the city
alone is rich enough TO carry the mag
nificent debt of $50. 600, 600.
Can The cause of the remarkable in
crease in the yalpe of the land GEORGE
Leland acquired 20 years before be bet
ter Illustrated?
But was this George ,clanl tha father
OF Esabei?
That was the question forcing itself
before Laurence Manpau. 1t was a
wild dream maybe. but he cosld not
get rid of it, So bo gathered all his
facts together. Ha won't iuto the hoard
of assessment and found that Ieland
had not paid taxes, He learned in the
arrears department that fhe lands had
been sold. and the sl,irmish be had with
the registrar had been outlined by that
worthy official in way that leayes no
need for repetition
"Maybe this is Isabel's father. ~
mused Nongan after leaving tho ,et,is.
harm to run him down II ba ia oI;va
it will be rood thing to fell him that
his neglect of the taxes ia about to cost
him a loss of millions. IN see Mother
St. Gertrude arain. There may be some-
thing she has NOT tnlJ ma tbot will baln
mo in tbis affair ),
Mother " t;srtruda racaivad him as
cordially as usual.
"What ara Won after now.,t was her
greeting.
ITS hard TO tell
"Well if Won can't foil. 7 can't Tn
sure. | hone Won don't want to see Is-
abel. | can't consent. It is hetier for
Won NOT to fall IN bar again mill oftar
Won come back from Denyern
81 do not care ia seq her until sha ia
willing TO explain her STRANGE conduct -
"Then Won have given mn Isabe1>n
"By no means. Im satisfied she
will exnlain all when II snits her
Meanwhila 7 will snara her md ,,,sole
tba aronv oF such a neating ~ tbo loci
But If she ia what I'm half inclinod to
think she ia will snIrende, my claim
when the evidence is ALL in. as LAWYERS
say and the case ia nroved J,
lyon will She ia tbe hest pirI vo,
ever knew Laurence Pm s,,rn,isaJ hat
YOU have changed 40 soon. Why, yon
actualIv Iutimota tbar, l. So,,atl,;nts L.,
tbe mast 80 terrible "a 10 make her nm.
worthy in your ewes -
"You misunderstood me ~