The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-06-30

Vermilye were public scandal
 Soon something happened which had never happened before since Kings well was a borough A candidate was nominated against the Luxmore candi- date and elected. John did 1t.
 MT. Halifax, your servant" said Luxmore, taking a pinch of snuff.
 My Lord.' said John those work men of mine, your tenants-I am aware what results usually follow when a tenant is arrears votes against his landlord. If your agent would be so kind as to apply to me for the rent"
 My agent will use his own discre- tion," said the Earl.
 Then" said John, T mast reply upon your sense of honor"
 We speak of honor among equals. But upon one thing MT. Halifax may the country And with him fled, also, confidently rely-my excellent mem ory,"
 Lord Luxmore did evict his tenants; but John placed them in other homes. and Gerald Vermilye, being pursued by bailiffs because of his debts, fled the coutry. And with him fled, also, the frivolous and weak Lady Caro- line.
 The cloth mills prospered and John bought Beecwood. stately country seat near their beloved rose cottage, and set up finally as the country gem tleman in spite of the fact that he still was a manufacturer. There were so many manufacturers pushing into society in Inose days it really did not signify
 Another child, Walter, came to bless the household; and then when John felt fully sure greatness was aeripeh- ing, Lord Luxmore's excellent memory asserted itself. The stream which turned the great wheels at the cloth mills began to run dry. Lord Lux more was diverting the water to supply some fountains at Luxmore Hall.
 Some wanted John to go to law about it. Some advised giving up the strug- gle. But John resolved upon bold, strange move--a thing which caused half his neighbors to think him crazy and the other half to believe him wicked. He resolved to put in one of those new fangled affairs, steam engine.
 There are men of unmechanical turn of mind, even in this day, to whom the mystery of a steam engine Is an un- solved one. It can be imagined then with what feelings the crowd which assembled at the mills on the day ap- pointed for setting ip motion the new ''contraption" regarded the rash ex- pertinent. Most of them believed with the workman who asserted that there
 
 But 1t worked, and John waxed richer than before, while Lord Lux more went abroad to enjoy his senile pleasures at the court of Charles K, in the delights of Compiegne.
 Lord Ravenel lived on at deserted Luxmore Hall and spent most of his time at Beechwood. When poor, blind Muriel came to die,s the child having never been strong, the young man was among the mourners who saw her laid In the little country churchyard. "Goodby, my little Muriel, goodby." whispered the young man in an agony of grief, as he knelt beside the new made grave.
 Ravenel again, and meantime another daughterS had been born to them. Ursula and John began to tell each other that they were growing old now, but in reality they had only reached a happy middle age, with all their children around them, and happiness and increasing prosperity made their home with John Halifax, gentleman, of Beechwood Hall.
 Lord Ravenel came into their lives again one day when John, by a time ly deposit of cash, stopped the run that was being made on the local bank at Norton Bury. Looking out of the window of the bank, John saw on the verge of the crowd gentleman waiting in a curriele He was dressed in the height of the mode. combined with a novel and eccentric fashion which had lately set by that extraordinary young nobleman whom everybody talked about~-Lord Byron.
 His face, that of a man about s0 was delicate and thin, with an express sion at once cynical and melancholy He sat in his carriage wrapped in furs and looked listlessly out on the scene before him As if there wass nothing in this life worth living for It was William RaveneI; but vastly changed from the gentle youth who used to