The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-28
WHEN The GOOD ship
LEGACY" LANDED.
BY HARDWOOD sRIERLEY.


cheeping. chlrrupine and carroling OF mul
fitudinous birds. They We're all rejoicing
and Emily herself felt happy and free
as though she had been new born Their
came the osfmau s. knock at the cottage
door. and her heart lHaued up as al tho
sound 81 the trumpet. She dressed IN d
few minutes and FASTENED downstairs
Graudmamma Tresser had been Up fully
an hour. She had prepared the breakfast
and there was one sprink of bacon oil
on her spectacles. il was quite plain
that Emily had oversight herslf although
she was received with the usual kiss
and smile from that gentle old body hei
grandmama. who this morning seemed
greatly excited.
..Here is something for you from South
ampton, Emily, said she. handing the
letter. 1T may be news about Austin"
The passionate young lady tore OpeT
the envelope (and herOines. as well as
any body. can tear their envelopes and
Mrs. Tresser's granddaughter then read
the following;
Dearest Emily
Il shall be with you few hours after
YOU get this. not. though. with view of
asking yOI 10 forfeit your fortune, but
10 accept what IS left of II, and my own
self TO balance the deficiency. Yours
Here was news both good and bad.
Austin was alive. and he would doubt
less soon be at Little Huntington. but
not untainted by the disgrace Of liar.
spendthrift. and TObber. Emily, however.
did not faint. or with the brushes Of agi-
tation or veNation paint deathly pallOr
on her skin. or its red. full-blOOdei eN-
have been nOnsensical and childish. She
merely sat down to eat her breakfast.
the vital note propped against the white
sugar basin before her, and, afterward.
she read. as usual. some comforting pas
sages out of the family Bible to her feeble
old grandmama and herself. Then she
set about her daily household duties-first
the cleaning, then the cooking. She was
soon in the midst Of sage onions and
bread for grand, saVOry pudding, SOFTLY
singing all the time, Just she was wont
TO do every day Emily Tresser was in
deed more practical than most girls.
And she meant to be more practical still
when her cousin. DrumscOe, came with
the golden ship and the mercenary appeal.
Emily dear" said Mrs. Tresser, tremb-
ling for her grandchild's sake If / had
anything at all TO compensate you with,
you should not accept any part of your
Uncle Toms legacy. His own son should
have inherited n; anybody else doing so
is an interloper"
But. grandmama, q man may surely
do as he chooses with his own. And my
uncle was I'm complete possession Of his
senses when he made the last will and
fs lament that provides both YOU and me
with a gOd-send Yes, and he highly APP
proved George Herring AT Southampton
and he told me there what l might expect
and how / was to go on in future
Old Mrs. Tresser was silent again, al
though her knitting sounded loud.
Emily served the hens with their din
ner before anybody else. Austin Drumscoe
was expected every minute, and various
suggestions We're made as to what he
would look like, how he would account for
ms long procraStination in foreign cities,
now ne could bear TO part at all with the
money ne was supposed to be bringing,
and what he would say when he could
not marry the lawful owner of It,
Yes he came before the dinner things
had been cleared away; but surely he had
not expected TO receive a cordial well
come, and the best fatted calf in that
cottage home? Emily refused him even
the invisible little sacrifice of a kiss. Aus
tins appearance was gaunt and greedy
dark, devil-may-care, and dreadful OF
ceremony or etiquette he appeared to have
no knowledge, Ringing himself down in
a chair and Immediately calling for a
pitcherful of best beer. He did not con-
graduate his relatives on their looking
Well nor did he comment on England be-
ing lovelier country than America. Aus
tralia or the Sandwich Isles. He was
lndubitably a man who loved himself the
world and the riches thereof. and could
draw those things to himself by mar
velOus centripetency not known to the
majority OF selfish minds.
was this the man who had been en-
trusted 30 convey to an innocent and
lovely country girl in PARKWAY England
her great fortune of ten thousand pounds q?
Amongst the Towering peas in the kitch-
en- garden Emily might later have been
seen with Austin Drumscoe, who was try
ing to bcguile her thus:
You have now your two thousand
pounds, EnuN, ana could do with them
very Wei. / know you ought to have had
ten thousand, but, you see, / wanted
eight to settle my debts and then indulge
in a little high-falutin foe a year or so
However. that is done with, and here YOU
and are. the one wanting a husband, the
other a wife. It's time | settled down,
little cousin-its killing work, this skip
ping and dancing all over the land. BY
both day and night. Now, no cleric OBJ
jects to splice cousins unless the groom
is niggardly about fees. Emily you and
| viii be spliecd-do you hear? My dear,
you are good enough for me-"
Austin. you are selfish, and you are
cruel. Oh, / did not think that manhood
could be sown over with such bad, coarse
seeds | would rather die this day than
accede to your request"
WHO'S this Herring pray?" demanded
he, fiercely. A common fisherman. L sup
pose"
He is nobleman without an actual
title"
oh he is, is he?-bah"
Don't sneer, or | shall-Well. never
mind George and will be married in a
few weeks"
Not if know it," exclaimed Drumscoe,
setting his teeth Satan and ! will play
you the better side in that gamer
A few weeks passed over. George Her
ring had by this time found respectable
employment for his late seafarng hands
and head in the neighboring town of
Templeborough, so that there was Just
occasion for great rejoicing and the set