The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-14

y think I may say the business of
Nay, am not in it. Ny business
is just as WANT it. and am not go
ing talk about it-one way or the
Is not Rawdon Court Of some inter
est to you9 It has been the home and
seat of the family for many centuries. E
5 a good many Mostyn women have been
& its mistress.
woman who would not have been far
happier away from RaWdon Court.
It was Calvary to them ALL
There was little Mamie Mostyn,
who died with her. first baby be-
+ cause Squire Anthony strhck her in
"a drunken passion; and the proud
{ A1ethia Mostyn, who suffered twenty
and Sara, who took ESQ, 900 to Squire
Hubert, to fling away at the green
table; and Harriet, who was made by her
husband, Squire Humphrey, to jump a
fence when out hunting with him, and
was brought home crippled and SCARED
for ife-a lovely girl of 20 who went
thru agonies for. eleven years without
while he was following fox; and there
was pretty Barbara Mostyn--''
Come, come, mother T. did not call
here this morning to hear The Rawdons
abused, and you forget your own mar
rage. 1t was happy one, / am sure.
One RaWdon. at least, must be ex-
cepted; and think treated my wife
wife -
mot you! You treated Mary very
badly
/" Mother, not even from you ;,
III say 1t again. The little girl was
dying for year or more, and you were
it, IL she said or looked little com
plant, You moved restless-like and told
her she moped too much AS the end
came spoke to you, and you pooh
poohed all said. She went suddenly,
/ know, to most people, but she knew
it was her last day, and she lenged so
to see you, that I sent servant to
hurry you home, but she died before
you could make up your mind to leave
your cases., She and | were alone
when she whispered her last message
!. for you-a loving one, too
@ q Mother! Mother! Why recall that
bitter day. 8 did not think swear
8. / did not think -
stNever mind swearing. I was just
reminding you that the Rawdons have
not been the finest specimens of good
husbands They make landlords, and
s Judges. and soldiers, and even loom
lords of very respectable sort; but
husbandst Lord help their poor WivesI
3 So You see, as. a Mostyn woman, I
have no special interest in Rawdon
Court
:. Z. You would not like it to go out
: of the family?,'
Z did. - 49,
g suppose you know Fred Mostyn
has a mortgage on it that the present
squire is unable to lift. -
- faye, Fred told me he had 100000
on the old place. told him he was a
2 fool to put his money on it.
Zone of the finest manors and man
or houses in England, mother.
have seen it. l was born and
brought up near=enough to 1T, think
9 Eighty thousand pounds is a bagga-
telle for the place; yet if Fred forces a
sale, it may 60 for that, or even less. /
can't bear to think of it.
"Why not buy it yourself9'
would lift the mortgage tomorrow
If I-had the means have not at pres
ent. -
AWell, I am in the same box. You
have just spoken as if the Mostyns and
Rawdons had an equal interest In Raw
be far wrong for Fred Mostyln to have
it. Many a Mostyn has gone there as
wife and slave. I would dearly like to
see one Mostyn go as master. -
I shall get no help from you, then,
/ understand that. -
I'm Mostyn by birth, I'm only
Rawdon by marriage The birth band
ties me fast to my family
"Good morning, mother. You have
failed me for the first time in your
life. y
If the money had been for you, Ed
| ward, or yours,
g It s-good-by.' go
She called him back peremptorily,
| and he returned and stood at the open
door.
q Why don It you ask Ethel7''
II did not think / had the right,
mother
| More right to ask her than I. See
| what she says. She's Rawdon, every
| inch of hers