New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-09

The Story of an Inheritance.
BY MARY STEWART BOYD.
IN FOUR PARTS-PART I.

A good soldier rarely possesses that cheaptr quail
ity which is known the business faculty. Major
General Mecnaught, in his busy career had gained
much honor and but little gold Throughout his
active years the memory Of the boyhood passed
with his brother in the gray castle among the
Highland hills haunted his thoughts like some
golden dream a life it had been OF glorious free
DOM with only the nfrequent tasks imposed by
overindulGent tutor TO make their truancy the
sweeter.
For many generations Glen-na- Grual. although
not entaed, had passed In unbroken line from
father to son, and the boys would sooner have ex-
pected the skies fall than that other than a
Macnaught should rule at the castle.
Unfortunately for them. their father-the Red
cottars-added TO the lavish hospitality common TO
his forefathers Partially for games of chance
ter days of the Rcd Hamish birds OF queer feather
the estate. Thereafter came day when the two
from oxford. Hamish from the Highland regiment
he had just joinedto meet by the deathbed of their
However manifold his failings. the Red Hamlsh
faith was shaken to its foundations by the knowl-
edge that through his prOdiSaity. their birthrtSht
word ie''''e' & D''''''''
AS they stood IN the moonlight looking across
place whittier that day they had borne the body
YOUTH and heah Con soemny an eeee
vow TO go forth into the world and 10 wrest
home of his ancestors. Hamish. eager to share his
% fn0ke Of Throwing up the S n o as
in the race for wealth but Colin met the proposal
There has always been fighter among the
Macnaughts. You are to be the fighter Hamish.
keep up the traditions , Of the family In a few
M gS o @e bo T m Walk Eo the heaef
again, knowing that the place is ours
hands of a moneyed Southron. who fancied adding
the name nc Of Hghlend estate to the list Of his
70 Hong Kong; to join the shipping house of
IN barracks trying. to solve the problem. set be
fore every mpecunious young officer Of living on
his pay pay ,,sso, - collin ,.r, 81 -.or,, - Tho
East remained unwed Hamish on getting his
family, but .''j no fortune, Who died leaving him
father reared after an original man fashion which
made matrons of orthodox views predict disastrous
developing him into a fine manly young fellow.
ocean from Hong Kong They told Of briefly con-
tinued success; and though he rarely mentioned
resolution TO regain il had never faltercd. Many
were his interested inquiries regarding his nephew
sired should not follow his fathers profession.
brothers had left the old home The general. now
on retired pay, was feeling his enforced idleness
course was discussing the advisability of reading
for the bar. when a letter from the exile at Hong
the tranquility of their lives In his epistle Mr.
agent at Inverness of Glen na-Grqal being in the
market, he had become the purchaser and tn IT
on his way home to take possession
Nothing IS harder than. in the absence OF ocular
evidence. o realize the passage OF years. Stand
ing the wharf that bleak January day, inn
patiently waiting while the liner ponderously sided
her huge bulk against the landing stage, General
Macnaught found himself all unwittingly scanning
the youthful male faces among the passengers for
some trace of that brother from Whem since they
were both lads continents had divided him.; He
still looking, with growing sense of dlsap-
pointment. when a voice that even long separation
had rendered unfamiliar exclaimed, "Hamish!
Hamish! you haven't changed bit!' And, turn
ing. the General discovered traveller, enwrapped
tOpCOdtS
shaking Colin vigorously by the hand,
Tut, man. cried the general choking down
lump that had risen unaccountably in his throat,
This l. That's only my boyi
The most distasteful moment in mans life -