The Roswell daily record. [volume] (Roswell, N.M.) 1903-current, 1905-03-06
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Stephen King. retired pork packer,
saving uiade u fortune. turnvd his TT
tentioa to ancestry. He built hin NJ
ancestral home and desired to nil II
with tie portraits of his ancestors.
Furthermore. his daughter Alice being
: yong Lady of rare good sense. some
13raUty and u refinement Inherited
from her mother. Mr.. King hoped That
i.-e might marry into some old family
eli her. Ameriean or foreign Europe
MAS the. place to lind ancestral heir
looms and u husband. Mr.. King Went
With his family to London and took 6
5ous;e there.
In England MIR. King met a middle
aged Iu3.n, Francis Howard Cressy.
who. though lie was not titled. claimed
TO be connected with one of the oldest
families i'll England Mr.. King intro
GuceI him to his daughter. but with
title hope OF ii match. for Mr.. Greasy
had great pride of ancestry and de
elared that his wife must equal him IN
the matter of descent. Meanwhile Alice
King had met abroad George Levan. 3
young American who had worked his
way through college. studied law and
managed to scrape together sufficient
funds to give him a short trip abroad
before entering upon the practice of his
profession. L-evan antagoniZed Mr.
King ut once by admitting that his ia
ther was a farmer of little or no educa-
ton and his grandfather was IN I'M
known quantity.
One morning Alice King found on
the table of the drl wing room an ad
vertisemeEt of Il curiosity vendor. She
took II fancy to visit this shop. and
when George LeyaH called again they
went thee together.
They were received o~bSequiously by
he vender. VIII limited that he would
furnish them with an ancestry. inclCG-
ing heirlooms. The portrait of Il
Norman baron in chain arnor and one
Of Il lord mayor of London of Queen
EliZabeth'S time struck them as eSpe-
cially ancient and curious. I.evan took
a fancy to a pewter platter and mug
about which there was an attractive
LONELINESS and bought them. Not
wishing any ancestors. their purchases
were confined to a few trinketS. which
they afterward suspected had been
manufactured especially for the shop.
L~evanoand Alice went about together
a LgreatttdeaI visiting the sights" of
London. One day Mr.. King warned
his daughter that since he thought
there Was a chance Of her allying her
self with an ancient family she must
not become otherwise ~entangled. Soon
after this warning George and Alice
came In n day and We're surprised
to see the portrait of the lord mayor
they had seen at the curiosity shop
hanging on b wall.
Nothing was said about the pur-
chase and Alice was far from suspect
ing that the lord mayor was to become
n of her ancestors until she over
heard her father. while showing the
portrait to NJ. Cressy. tell him that
such was tie case. Alice. who possess
ed Il great deal of tact. held her
tongue and awaited developments.
1l.cn ane an invitation from Mr..
Cresay foi89hes King family to inspect
his ancestral! home ear T~wickenham. a
sub&Tbf Gf London. They found a ram
slsacklG Old structure. with worn furni-
cure and a nusty smell. Mr.. CresSy
did not Eve there: he preferred apart
ments in the city. He showed them
through the rooms and in a spacious
drawing room paused before a portrait
hanging over an open fireplace.
''This is my most remote ancestor.
founder of the family" he said. Hugh
Crecy. knighted for bravery at tie fa-
nous battle of Crecy. His sovereign
Insisted tina he should take his name
from the struggle in which he had dis
tingUished himself. a name that has
been corrupted to Greasy"
Alice looked at the picture thunder
struck. Sir Hugh was the Norman
baron in chain armor she and George
Levan had seen in the curiosity shop.
But. az has been remarked. Alice
was not a girl to blunder into a quag-
mire or run up against a stone wall.
For Ii present Mr.. Cressy and her
father might purchase all the ancestors
they pleased. She looked admiringly
at b portrait and. being shrewd and
wondered how the effect of
age had been produced. Mr.. Cressy
remarked thai his ancestral pile was
in need of repair. and he hoped some
day to fix 1t up and live in 1t. This
"4some day" Alice understood to mean
when he married her and received her
fathers settlements. Then they all re-
turned to the city. where Alice talked
the matter over with George Levan.
and they concluded that b Cressy
manor had been hired for the occa-
sion.
One day Mr.. Greasy called and was
with Mr.. King. While they |
were together George Levan called and
met Alice II the library. He had had
engraved on his pewter
service and brought the articles 40
show her, Presently they heard foot