Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-12-19

T was reading that Sir Knight ! Thompson killed three men for pass ing between him and the fireplnce of an inn"
 "Bosh" He probably got himself out doors as soon as he saw that he couldn't buff them. There's ring at the bell. and 1t must be the geneal. oglst will bring him here, and l you can hear all about the Bowser family first hand. If 1 should take him Into the library and afterward ! tell you what he said you wouldn't | believe me Get that humble apology 1 ready"
 II was the genealogist. Mrs. Bowser had made up her mind that he was a 1 fraud seeking to get ten or fifteen dol lars out of MT EOwser. but she had 10 change her mind almost at once. He Wns inc rcHl thing and m honest man to boot After the introduction he said to Mir. Bowser:
 You paid me $l0 in advance, and went ahead up to q certain point II is up 10 yon to say whether shall go 1 further. l am ready to show you what l have done"
 Have you found that my ancestors came over with Henry the Conqueror" he asked
 Henry? Hes conqueror never heard of. You probably mean VII liam. No. 1t don't wor,: out that way"
 Alr Bowser looked at Mrs. Bowser and caught her smiling over th" Hen ry-Wiliiam business He was help less 10 say anything then. but he regis tered q vow in hcalcn that he would make her hcnrt ache for that before he was two weeks older.
 But you did find that was de scendant of Cheyaler Bowser:" he asked of the professor.
 Well, no; l didn't. This morning l gave you an ofrhaud opinion that you were. but a search shows me that Chevalier Bowser lived and died q sin gle man"
 Again Mr. Bowser looked at Mrs Bowser and caught q ieeting smile on her face, and his second VOW was reg istered. Then he turned to the pro lessor and asked what he had discov- cred.
 "Ncry little. l am sorry to say" was the reply, and consequently 1 shall make no further charge. You are of English descent on one side and Scan dinayi&n on the other. Your line be gins with Jonas Bowser, about 1IO years ago. He was d smuggler and q hard ease and finally died in prison His son. lcnahOd who was your great grandfather, came over here and set tied ill Baltimore, and. as near as 1 can trace him, he died violent death that Is, he was hung up by the neck. If you wish me to go ahead and work out the family tree, l will do so, but l thought
 Report Enrases Rowser.
 He stopped there. Mr Bowser had turned purple in the face and seemed 1 to have an apOplectic stroke.
 And the Thompson family" asked i Mrs. BOWSer
 The Thompson family, madam, is | one of the oldest and most honorable 1 in England. They have been of the nobility for many hundred years, and l the present Duke
 The professor stopped again. Mr. ! Bowser had reached his feet and was ! pointing down the front hall. He was trying to say something. but he could . only point. The professor understood | the sign language and made his bow to Mrs. Bowser and departed When the door had closed after him MT BowSer looked around for the ax or crowbar 10 destroy things, and there was a gurgling noise in his throat Thus for 6 minute, and then he passed down the hail, donned hat and over coat and went out into the night. There were darkness and wind and fain and turmoil, but he needed them not. He was a crushed man. Mrs. Bowser had flung him down and walk ed all over him and trodden him into the earth, and r1fe held nothing further for him. Nj. QUAD