The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-06
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Of t4O0 a year, farm and three houses, as well as f3200 in loose cash, MT. Brough besought him to make her fortune by advising her to invest the cash in West Diddlesex shares. During the course of his peroration he was moved almost to tears, and at last con descended so far as to bring inkstand pen and paper with his own hands that MT. Titmarsh might lose no time in advising her to invest her money be- fore the price of shares went up any higher.
 MT. Brough became kinder and kind ham till he became a regular guest there; and that he should appear at his best the great man drove him in his own gorgeous carriage to tailors and matters and shoemakers, where MT Titmarsh ordered grand waistcoats and coats of a cut quite different from the high-waised blue coat that he had brought from the country
 Soon there came a. letter from his aunt agreeing to invest R300O and MT. Brough made a beautiful speech about it. At the next annual meeting he declared a dividend of per cent and MT Tit marsh had the qualification of sending his aunt Hoggarty so fat a check that she sent him a present of G10 and wrote asking whether she would not better sell
 her landed property and invest all the money in shares.
 When MT. Brough heard of this Tit marsh was advanced to second clerk with salary of e250 a year. Some days aft erward, when he had promised to write to Mrs Hoggarty, telling her that though the shares were at premium MT. Brough was willing to part with e5oOO worth of his own holdings purely for love of his young friend Titmarsh, the office of sec retary to the managing director was cre- ated and MT Titmarsh was installed in with an additional salary of s15O year. There was no obstacle now to his union with Miss Mary Smith. That young woman had fortune of gro year in- father, Lieutenant Smith, retired, had promised that they might marry when their income was $500. So away went Mr. Samuel Titmarsh to marry the pretty daughter of the late Commander Smith, R. N.
 The village turned out to receive it's young man who had become such great young man in the city His aunt Hog garty would not hear of his going t, his mothers humble house, but insisted on taking him to hers, where he had to I1- | She kept him up night after night de- | batting about her investments, but as | her agents could not get the price she demanded for the property. no immediate results came of it.
 Aunt Hoggarty was immensely kind to | the bride She told Samuel to order three | magnificent dresses and innumerable Mary and informed him that he need not worry about the bills.
 | Samuel had picked out a snug little | cottage near London for their home where they were to keep house in minia- 1 ture and have Gus Hoskins in every Sun. | day and be altogether happy. But their | pretty dreams were dashed to the ground 1 by Mrs. Hoggarty, who informed them | that she was sick of the country and would go to London with her dear neph- ew and niece So they came on dismally l enough in a carriage which cost him G1a for the posters nearly exhaustng all 1 his little hoard.
 They went into lodgings, where they stayed a week and then left because Aunt
 Hoggarty vowed that the landlady stolo
 slices from the mutton. They left the
 second lodging in week because Aunt Hoggarty declared that the maid stole the
 candles. In short, they moved from one
 lodging to another till MT. Titmarsh and
 his young wife were half distracted with the continual changes and worries. and l the long stories and seedlings of Mrs
 Hoggarty of Castle Hoggarty.
 Her temper was not improved by the fact that Samuel failed to introduce her
 to her great relatives, Lady Drum, Lady
 Tiptoff and the rest. MT. Brough how
 ever. made up for it. He drove to their lodgings and not only treated Mrs. Hog.