The Batesburg advocate. [volume] (Batesburg, S.C.) 1901-1911, 1904-05-05

BILE and sorrow there could possibr,
be in store for him over the miserable
events OF the past week. and he also
wondered IL he ever again would
know peace upon this earth. IL was
impossible TO help looking back to a
short month age, to the time before
that discovery had been made at the
inn at lie Nocq. and to remembering
how happy lie had been then. how
everything in this world had seemed
TO smile upon him. He had been hap
py I'm the position he held in :he eyes
of men. happy without any slloy to his
happiness. And then, from the mo-
ment when he Lad found that there
was another son c. bis fathe In the
world. how all the brightness OF his
life had changed. | irst had come the
knowledge OF that broth er alive some
where. whom. thinking he was poor
and outcaSt, lie had pitied; then the
revelation that that brother, FAR from
being the abiect creature he ina giaed,
WAS In actual fact the rightfu owner
of the Icsition he usurped: and then
the horror and the misery os the cruel
ly barlr rous death that brother had
been put to, directly after revealing
himself in his true light. And, as
horrible almost as all else were, the
lies. and the secrecy, and the duplici-
ties with which he had environed him.
self. in the hopes uf shielding every
thing from the eyes of the world Lies,
and secrecies, and duplicities prac-
ticed by him. vino had once regarded
trIth ANA openness as the first attri-
butes OF man,
And there was ono other thing that
struck deeply To his heart: the bitter
wickedness OF man. with such no
bility OF nature as his brother had
shown. being cruelty stabbed to death.
His life had been one long abnegation
of what shout have been his, resig-
nation OF the honor of his birthright,
so that he, who had taken his place.
Should never be cast out of 1t: an
abnegation that had been crowned by
en almost sublime act. the act Of fore
Ing himself 10 witness the happiness
of the one, who had taken so much
from him, with tile woman he had
long loved. For that he had determ-
was, after the letter he had written.
no doubt. And, as he thought of all
the unSeltishneSs of that hrother's ma
ture, and of his awful death, the tears
flowed To his eyes. and being alone.
he buried his head In his hands and
wept as he had wept once before. IF
] could call him back again." he said
to himself. "lf | could once more see
him stand before me alive and well. I
would cheerGully go out a beggar into
the world. But ii cannot be, and
must bear the lot that has fallen on
me az best | can
lie reached his house early in the
evening, and the footman handed him
letter that had been loft by mes
senger but short time before. 1t
ran as follows:
'Grosvenor Place, June l2, 1883.
"My Lord.
In searching through the papers
of my late employer. Mr.. Walter Gun.
dali. have come across will made
by him three years ago. BY it. the
whole OF his fortune and estates ara
left tn you. your names and title being
carefully described. l have placed
the will IN the hands OF AIR. Fordyce,
Mr.. Cundalrs solicitor, from whom
you will doubtless hear shortly.
'.Your obedicnt Servant.
a. STUART.
''The Rt. Hon. NiScount Penlyn.''
That was all: without one word of
explanation or of surprise ut the man
ner in which Walter Cundalrs vast
wellth had been beIueathed
Lord i'eniyu crushed the letter in
his hand when he lid read It, and,
as he threw himself into chair, he
moaned, Everything must be known,
everything discovered: there Is no
help for ii. What will Ida think Of
me now: Why did not tell her to-
day: Why did ! not tell her?"