The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1906-01-23
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Brown would be but little Improvement
on Miss Alice Skrable."
/ The lover went away sorrowful
| One day Browns eye fell on para
graph in newspaper that set him
! thinking. He thought all day and
most Of the night When he awoke In
the morning his thoughts went right
on like an automobile In which the
stopping apparatus has become unmnn-
ageable. He thought a whole week, at
the end Of which he brought his fist
down on table and exclaimed:
a'I'n do it!''
From that time Browns law partner
noticed that he was paying very little
attention to business. He seemed to
be spending all bis time searching for
something. 1t was not legal matter,
for no legally drawn papers appeared
to be passing through his hands. He
received a great many letters. but new
err spoke Of the contents OF any one OF
them. Indeed. whatever was his pur.
pose be kept Ii profound secret
Then suddenly Brown announced
that he was going abroad, His part
ner. astonished and dissatisfied, threat
ened to dissolve the Arm, complaining
that Brown would leave him to do all
the work-it was not onerous- and was
keeping important matters from him.
Brown told him just enough to satisfy
him. then suddenly disappeared
Six months passed. The Skrable
family. Alice excepted, had forgotten
Mr.. Brown and were greatly pleased
to have an opportunity to forget him.
His intimate friends wondered where
he was and how be obtained the means
to spend so much time away from
home. Some one said that nm uncle. his
mothers brother, was furnishing him
with money. This was true The uncle
supplied him with barely enough for
his purpose. Browns partner sat In
his Office waiting for clients who did
not come and wished for Brown, who
was pushing fellow and had many
ingenious methods OF securing bust
ness. "Have you heard from Brown
everybody asked Of everybody. and
everybody replied: mo. Have your
mo wonder where he is and what
he's up to- ooh, he's got some wild
scheme on hand. But, no matter how
wild Browns schemes, be has way
OF carrying them out. He's probably
getting contract for replacing the
Ntreet cars in some foreign city with
american flying machines. But he'll
do 1t. You bet, bell work it through"
There was a good dead OF such talk,
and the uncle who was grub stalking
Brown looked very knowing whenever
approached on the subject. but said
nothing All this increased the cur
osity Of Browns friends and acquaint-
ances
One day steamer arrived, and In
the passenger list published was the
name Of Sir Peter Brown. The name.
IN the minds Of Browns friends, had
no connection with him whatever.
Some Of them saw It, but went on with
their daily avocations inst the same.
It occasioned not the slightest rufie
among them. but the next morning
paragraph in a newspaper let out the
secret Of Browns absence, and none OF
his friends did anything during the
day except visit one another and gos-
sip with mouth and eyes wide open
upon this exploit This was the para
graph referred to:
oar fellow citizen. Peter Brown. has
Sust returned from a trip 20 England.
where no has established his right TO the
oaronetcy granted in 1862 70 Hugh Brown.
after the restoration OF Charles H., for
] loyalty to the house OF Stuart. dormant
since i7sa.
These few lines were quite enough TO
stir every one who had ever heard Of
Peter Brown. For week nothing else
was talked OF, and every one wondered
that Brown had never been heard TO
claim any relationship whatever with
any baronet. Meanwhile Invitations
were showsred upon Sir Peter, and
cards came from the Skrable family
for musicale. Sir Peter accepted. and
during the evening he and the smiling
Alice vanished into a corner by them
selves.
"Come, tell me all about it, she ask
ed. How did you ever do itg'
lone morning read paragraph in
newspaper stating that as the law OF
England now stands any man can as
sumo with lmpunity some presumably
extinct or dormant baronetcy prior to.
1888. A recent work, called Extinct
and Dormant Baronetcies,' says that
thousand or these titles have iapsed be-
tween the original creation and the
present day. OF these the majority be-
came extinct or dormant before 1888.
Armed with as much information
about my family as could collect, !
went to England TO End dormant
Brown baronetcy. lighted on the one
4 granted Hugh Brown, proved that
my ancestors came from the same
county and before got through made
the discovery that / am really Sir
Peter Brown"
Alice SkrabIe elapped her hands. then
threw her arms around her lovers
neck
In q few days the engagement Of Sir
Peter Brown and Alice Skrabie was
announced, and they were married I'm
due time Lady Brown was furnished
with money by her father to buy the
original Brown property, and the pres
PDt Sir Peter Brown and bis family live
IN EnRaud