The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30
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 WONDERFUL THING HAT ABEL TTTcHER- SHOULD hAvE 50 TAR KvaTEp HE -UNkNoSy LAD

paying for e long time. It was necessary to give 1t up and go on with
 the mills which the old Quaker had
 owned. Phineas settled down as
 Uncle Phineas" in his friends house. I hold.
 In spite of Ursula's urging. John had refused to go to law to wrest from Brtthwood his wife's fortune, and now I was sadly worried over his financial | affairs. He believed that if he could I get a lease of certain cloth mills near Enderley he. could make his fortune | but that would take money.
 As he sat breeding, with a gulf of l poverty on one side of him and visions of wealth on the other, came to him Lord Luxmore, graceful. bland, high
 bred and immoral. Lord Luxmore l brought his son and was charmed of
 course. to see again his estImable con
 nections.
 Pardon me-" said the Earl. My
 son, Lord Ravenel. He has just com
 pleted his education at the college of St. | Omer, was 1t not, William?
 %At the Catholic College of St. Omer," replied the boy, tall, spare youth of IS, with large. soft eyes. Tut" cried the Earl. What does
 1t matter? Mir. Halifax, do not imagine
 we, are a Catholic family. I hope the
 next Earl of Luxmore will be able to
 take the oaths whether or no we get emancipation"
 It soon developed that 1t was to the matter thus introduced that John owed the honor of this visit from his wife's
 noble relative. The question of Catho- | lie emancipation was to come up in the next Parliament and the Earl was In favor of it. He knew that John thought the same way. for by this time Mir. Halifax had become a man
 much listened to by the people.
 of course," said his lordship, offer
 ing his snuff box, "a wise man esteems l all faiths alike worthless"
 That was the very last thing
 meant to imply" retorted John, T hold that every mans faith is so sacred that no other man has a right to in- terfere with it"
 Exactly, exactly" responded the Earl. What facility of expressions" In short, Lord Luxmore, knowing how
 John stood with the people, was anxi- ous to have him returned from the pocket borough of KingsweIl Of the fifteen free and Independent bur- gesses" who returned a member Of Parliament from Kingswef, twelve
 were tenants of Lord Luxmore and three of Phineas-and Phineas, of course, was John for such purposes. Lord .Luxmore talked of politics and
 the Prince Regent; and at the end, of
 his talk he was astounded to hear John
 say that under no circumstances would he stand for Kingswell--or for any other rotten borough. But he broach- ed the subject of the [ cloth mills, ot which Lord Luxmore was owner; and his lordship, cunningly thinking. "here
 is way to win this fellow" offered him the coveted lease. Alas" said John. your lordships
 kindness is unavailing. I have not the
 money"
 T should have imagined that your wife's future-"Byan the Earl Then
 Ursula broke out and told him all about
 shocking" said the Earl T must really expostulate with Brithwood." And he did so, and few days after ward Ursula's fortune was turned over
 to her and John took a lease of the cloth mills. While his father had been striving to weave his net around John, Lord Ravenel had been in the little garden watching the children at .play--for by this time there were three child voices
 heard about the house--Muriels and two boys, Guy and Edwin. Poor Muriel had beenS born blind, but was better loved, perhaps, on that account, than the others, though all were very
 dear to Ursula and John.
 Young Lord Ravenel seemed much
 attracted toward the blind girl, and afterward. when John had bought
 little country place called Longfield.
 which he did at once upon receiving his wife's fortune the gentle boy was
 much with the Halifax family. and he
 and Muriel played duets together in
 the dusk on the organ in the old parish church.
 Then came the election for Kingswell
 and John, having been again positive- ly refused to be a candidate, Mir. BrIth-
 wood nominated Mir. Gerald Vermilye, and Lord Luxmore seconded the nomi- nation. One workingman burst into a loud laugh at this. The relations between Lady C&rolipe and Gerald