Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-11-19
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Of counsel, or charge Of Judge. calls Quit
Verdict for the ciaimanti's
Verdict for claimantl'' emphatically an
nounces the judge
Then rings cheer OF approval through
out the crowded court; such as can only
be heard when justice is believed to have
triumphed-even the tipstaffs making no
attempt TO check it
six months after the trial above record
ed, received an invitation to spend =
week at Beechwoods Park, and do some
Strengthening Of pheasants, which L ac-
cepted.
It Is hardly necessary to say that my
host was not Nigel Harding, nor nv hos
tess his wife. nee Belle Mainwaring. The
new master and mistress of that fine man
sion We're both better people, though bear
ing the same name. For the successful
claimant in the suit of Harding v. Harding
had some time since been put into pos
session OF the estate.
He who had so long Illegally enjoyed IL
was not of the company 1 met there hay-
ing, as learnt, gone out to India with ain
his belongings-wife and mother-in-law. Of
course, included.
The generous Henry had not proved re-
sentful for the many wrongs received ah
the hands of his half-brother. Though OF
different mothers. they were sons OF the
same father; and for that fathers sake he
not only withheld vengeance, but behaved
towards Nigel with noble generosity--tak-
ing but Brothers Revenge" To tho
thousand pounds left the latter in the will
he added other thousands-enough to keep
him and his wife from want. even in En-
gland.
But England was no longer a land to
their liking. Hindustaa was the country
for them now; and thither went they. Nj
gel having obtained from John Company
an appointment as Resident Magistrate,
TO mete out justice to the talookdars; his
wife to distribute her witching smiles upon
various colonies, captains and su5alterns;
while the mother-in-law would no doubt
seek solace in dealing out Oriental scan
DIAL.
OF most of the other characters who have
figured in our tale 1 am able to record
something of later date. Mr.. Violet Is
still pettifogging. and plundering his poor
clients. without having as vet obtained
rich one, or at least OF the aristocratio
kind. or these his first was General Hard
ing and Nigel the last.
From the contemplation of such a shady
character 1t is pleasant to turn TO those OF
brighter hue. Indeed, it is at all times
agreeable to speak OF ones friends-es-
pecially when one can tell of their pros
perity And this pleasant task is ours.
of all those in whom the reader may have
felt interested.
Mr.. Lawson, senior. through the infiu-
ence of his new client the owner OF Beech
u, Al In, nlNf l,ft
seat in Parliament while his son some day
expects to tread in the footsteps of his
honored father.
Tomasso-the wronged, misguided, bub
repentant Tomasso-is an appendase OF
the Beechwood establshment--head game
keeper with snug little farmstead
man he rescued from captivity. and the
woman he saved from dishonor.
The Sindico, after a twelvemonth's So
journ with his daughter in her splendid
English home, returned to the South
American estancia, whittier his son and
daughter-in-law had already preceded
him and where II is not impossible his SOM
in-law and daughter may follow him. For
Henry Harding has been often heard 20
say-his wife joyfully hearing it-that ha
was never so happy as in that home upon
the parnpas. This, too, surrounded by
wealth, power and splendor-an heart
could desire!
But to the true heart there is no wealth
like contentment. no power so enjoyable
as physical health. and no splendor OF our
so-called civilization TO be compared with
the scenes and charms Of Nature-whether
in forest or upon prairie.
CThe End)