Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1897-10-28
CHAPTER xrIx.-ccon.inuea.,

10y iytfiDsfi. sttu AZ iAhJ topN
ing up inquirilgly.
SIS there nothing familiar in the
sound of that name?" asked Wclby,
impressively.
Nothing whatever"
Have you 10 vague recollection OF
having heard II before. under some
what singular ald interesting circum-
stancesy"
"Not the slightest In th eworld."
sDear madam, carry your recollcc-
tion back several y~ears-back TO that
winters day when /, II poor, forlorl..
orphan boy, was dragged into your
splendid drawing room by the three
gentlemen who captured me in Canal
street
.Fulke. yes. | have much reason to
remember that boyish freak of yours.
1t gave me more anguish than almost
any event of my life. But /. Fulke,
have never once ~reproached you with
1t. To have done so, indeed, would
have been ungenerous, since all your
subsequent conduct has been perfectly
irreproachablc. SO good, SO affection
ate. so solicitouo to please me have
you been, my love. that. whereas. be-
fore you ran away. / only loved you in
a. ~ 4 wi vi a 90 tst GolA
of my late husband by his first wife.
since then. my dear, l have loved you
from the bottom of my heart, and for
your own personal merits,'
"Oh. that you may continue to re-
gard NE for myself alone, lady. dear
lady. fer that is the only claim | can
venture TO make upon you."
"But, my dear Fulkc. why have o
parplInt fhat toan rnaut ntpa.t.oS fo nx... 90
my mindY"
Madam: dear Mrs. Greville: my
more than mother! try to recall i'm de-
tail the events of that night; recollect
the account given you of my capture
by the gentlemen who arrested me.
Recollect that they told you that they
FOUND me crying oysters in Canal
street; that l resisted their attempts
to capture me with all my boyish
strength! That | persisted in as
sorting myself t o be nm emigrant from
England, a fish boy, in the service Of
old Carnes of Water street, my name
sWelby DUNBAR
Il remember that; but what of it?
And what freak has made you use that
false name again.
Lady" said the young man. contin-
FAAAA&@ ri uIlNNtIlUk
her question. remember. also. that
when these gentlemen retired and left
me alone with you, I still persisted in
asserting that l was not your son: l
still resisted the splendid destiny that
was forced upon me. but to which |
had conceived l had no right!''
/ II know that you did. Fulke: but
why you did 1t, l cannot imagine, un-
Ices - noe lpaa.vo,n x.Dxx. -. cxts~~.
left nothing, and l. who wished to en-
rich you for his sake, was only your
step-mother.'
mo, madam. IL was not that said
the Young man. s0rrowfully; lit was
not that; 1t was because. in sad truth,
/ was not what you claimed me to be:
! was not your step-son; my name was
not Fulke Greville; / was, indeed,
what / declared myself to be-a new
ly-arrived emigrant from England: a
fish boy, In the service of old Carnes
OF Water street; and my name was
Welby Dunbar. / had no means OF
proving my identity; the ship by
which / came had sailed again! my
emigrant companions had dispersed in
every direction. Old Carnes could tes-
tify only to the fact that upon a GER
~ a. = "a 1OiAiC W lill lOI Cll-
ployment. That proved nothing, as
any runaway schoolboy might have
done that for a freak! So / had no
mean OF proving my identity. All my
unsupported words were disregarded.
n bore 30 striking a resemblance to
your missing step-son. whom you had
not seen for twelve months, as to
seem his counterpart, or himself. /
Il U1g n minor In tho rnnrx.nr ~ tl,.cn
who believed and asserted themselves
10 be my legal guardians. And thus.
n spite of all my pr~otestations, l was
orn from my humble sphere, and the
condition of a gentleman forced uDon
ne-upon me. n poor. forlorn and
Eiameless orphan. l say nameless,
ady. for of my own origin l know
aothing, not even that my parents bore
he name that was given to me- But
IN! lady, do you imagine that, ever
While protesting against the greatness
hrust upon me-. the poor fish boy was
ot much tempted to be silent. and to
AXE the goods the gods providcdY He
vas. His II dream-pcor outcast as
e had been-was to rise to the condi.
ion OF n gentleman by his own exer-
ions. Fer that he came to this band
4 freedom and equality. Fox that he
you'd have toiled long years. And
ghen. unexpectedly, the opportunity Of
bringing ut once into that rank was
breed upon him, do you not think he
ras sorely tempted to embrace It? He
Fas, Mrs. Greville; he was. But the
10y. poor in everything else. was rich
4 the possession of a pure conscience;
nat conscience would not permit him
y accept a tempting position to which
2 had no right! He protested against
liking II; and even when he knew
bat his protestations were all in vain.
warned you, when you should find
lt your mistake, not to brand him as
imposteri And he resolved that.
Iring his minority. he would obey his
elf-styled mother and self constituted
1ardians: do all he could to prove
mself grateful for their bounty; and
make the best use of his 0pportuni-
es for improvement: and that, as
$on as he should attain his majority.
I'D be free to act for himself, he
3ould. at any sacrifice of personal
%3eling or pecuniary prospects, aband-
3%a n position to which he had no Just
8sht. Lady, ! appeal to yourself TO
kdge whether the first section OF these
III solutions has not been kept? For
F7<t&p rest I have to inform Won that