New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-06

.av mare and foaI had fetched one hundred and
thirty golden soyereigas between them More
over she had only given eighty guineas for the
mare Who viii be astonished. therefore, that
shs found the news OF her bargain quite an
agreeable adjunct to her breakfast that morn
inge
Ms Trapaud was woman Of some hunlor;
v-her her husband died she met a friend-a man
also q some humor-who knew. as al the world
t-~ayr and IS Mrs TrapaUd had never pretended
a. hide that the marriage had been the reverse
80 ba,ry. He looked at her weeds with a com
rreheu1ing smile
..-,,t your divorce at last?" be said
..1.ss and IN the higher courts, too.' she re-
Piled
sion
,rbs. T-a7au5 died his widow carried on the
81, ~ his life. she continued 10 breed his
,,-sss Not Sc much be II understood. from
-. -,--rfr- sv--ratIy with the dear departed
- e-,-- a sound conviction that il was in her
-----.-a The thing pay. And she did
r. MS a strange household, composed OF an
.-,s-a= serving men and women who had been
,.-.--a- ana born on the estate, and in whom
-. -a-- exuirir- breath OF feudalism fingered
- .r--.rb diving hard TTapaUd left no heir. and
49,, farm and stable hands, these domestic
sl-,t-r maids. were Mrs Trapaud's children
3D. 51sed and Ihysi-ked them when they re-
4s7 II she rubbed their backs when the
-ra.-.arisrn got unportunate; she scolded, she
--s-a5 rewarded and blanchard they loved
le-
r-- Is in every fol5 there IS one black sheep,
g. in this pa-riarchal family there was one
s--er-e..rz Dau.eI-he had no other name
had nor been born and bred on the estate; he
had rat even first seen light in the village; no,
MOI within zen leagues Of i, the gossips said
He came from practically nowhere it was so
very FAR away. or winter nights, when the
evenings were long and duh, the younger ones
for a-e WIS a mere matter Of comparison in the
T-s7su5 h5usehoI5-would coax old Mrs. Good
heart 10 tell again the story Of how Daniel first
CINE TO the hall
II were q wild bleak night jest SIGH a one
rs -l.s.a Tie o.5 housekeeper would begin.
And Tie wind were bowling in the chimbley,
We knows" would interpoIate an irresponsible
voice.
VIII ye -tver learn 70 hould yer tongue then
End not Interrupt the story?' chorus Of voices
would protest and then, Mrs. Goodheart having
duly allowed herself 10 be appeased, the story
would drag out its slow. familiar existence
r1rc,uated with obs" and abs and ''theet
Gaws' that had become sancthed by custom
into 3 sort Of rite But the reader who does
not know what 800 days spent OF a midland
horse farm situated a good twenty miles from
anywhere on The map can be like would hardly
appreciate the art with which Daniels history
was told. so We VIII offer q brief and more mod
en- up-to-5ate sketch that shall state the plain
matter IN a nutshell
one Christmas Eve quarter Of century ago
tie h0sri-aLIe glare Of FIRE that not only could
roast a. ca but was actually doing so attracted
& little ragged fellow who was tramping along
the high road in search OF z nights lodging One
o. the keepers found him in the fr plantation
TIE glare OF the freight before Trapaud. his
VIE, and the assembled household Questioned.
TIE little fellow said his name was Daniel. he
was founding and had been put out to service
with drunken carpenter, from whom he had
ru1 away. BE had got as far north as this IN
6 barge along the canals and had worked al
whatever came 10 his hand for all the food and
lodging that charity had not given him Ira
pa-d liked the lads face and took him into his
service. He was honest and Industrious he had
risen BY slow degrees, and now for seven years
lie had been butler at the hall Daniel took 2
pathetic pleasure fl hearing his own story re-
cited = made him feel z kind Of hero, but
there was always the ever present ache at his
heart that he bought his proud position at the
cost Of love and fear. He was never quite one
o. them, but q thing apart, IS a man who does
10; know his own surname must ever be-
Mrs, Trapaud vas habitually careful about