The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-06
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1 to the bride. She told Samuel to order three magnificent dresses and inuum- l erable trinkets from London as his gift to his 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 min iature and have Gus Hoskins In every Sunday and be altogether happy. But their pretty dreams were dashed to the ground by Mrs. Hoggarty. who inform cd them that she was sick of the coun- try and would go to London with her dear nephew and niece. So they came on dismally enough in a carriage which cost him fourteen pounds for the post CTS, nearly exhausting all his little hoard.
 They went into lodgings where they stayed a week and then left be- cause Aunt Hoggarty vowed that the landlord stole slices from the mutton They left the second lodging in a week because Aunt Hoggarty declared that the maid stole the candles. Tn short. they moved from one lodging to an- other till MT. Titmarsh and his young wife were half distracted with the con tinual changings and worries. and the long stories and scolding of Mrs. Hog garty 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 Mir Trough however, made up for 1t. He drove to their lodgings and not only treated Mrs. Hoggarty with the deep respeet that her rank demanded, but finally. when she complained about her habita- ton and compared 1t scornfully with Castle Hoggarty, he carried her off bod lily to his villa at Fulham.
 When MT Titmarsh walked home rom the office that evening with Gus, who always accompanied him as far as the door but never went in, because Mrs. Hoggarty could not abide that yui- gar person, they saw Mary smiling at the window and beckoning to them 10 come In, She laughed and danced and clapped her hands and welcomed Gus, whose spirits rose wonderfully when he heard the news.
 They wore very merry for threo weeks while their aunt was at Putnam. She might have stayed there longer If her attorney. Mir. Smithers, had not ba- gun to fear that Mir. Brough vas about to snatch her out of his own needy hands. Being a gentleman who had studied Mrs Hoggarty for long years with intense business interest, he knew that ordinary arguments would merely drive her into his rivals camp. So ho cunningly conveyed to her a hint that since she had taken her keen eye from her trusting nephew's wife that young woman was seeing altogether too much of MT. Augustus Hoskins,
 Thus 1t happened that one day just as Gus was blowing the froth from d pot of porter in the Titmarsh lodgings. Mrs. Hoggarty burst into the room. looked him full in the face, pointed to the door maiestically and said: Be gonet-an invitation which poor Gus obeyed so promptly that he tumbled down stairs at once.
 MT. Brough was in a furious i'll hu- nor with Mir Titmarsh when Mrs. lIoggarty left his house and home. When, in addition. he learned that Mary's little fortune was invested out of her husbands control altogether he strode away in a rage. No more in- vitations to Putnam, no more holidays, no more paternaI advances of money came to him, On the contrary, the private clerkship, at fl5o. was abol- ished.
 This was the more embarrassing since Mrs. Hoggarty's genteel aspir- ations had necessitated the renting of a house, which she filled with her furniture. She insisted, also. on en- gazing a boy to act as page. garbed in an old livery Followed by this won derful creature. Aunt Hoggarty forced herself int osociety Once she even succeeded in getting near Lady Drum
 
 That old dowager. who had forgotten all about her passing whim of know ing such person as Hoggarty, screamed for a policeman.
 Soon afterward the Ginger Beer Company exploded like one of It's own bottles. The Patent Pump shares went down few days the Ginger Beer Company went up. Still the Indepen- dent West Diddlesex held up it's heaA proudly and its shares remained high. and Mrs. Hoggarty continued her des- perate and hopeless assault on society, till Mir. Samuel Titmarsh was deluged with bills.
 He had been married a year when the Nun and Tippet Company shut up with nothing to show for its stock holders investment of f300 900 except a treaty with some unknown Indians who had afterward tomah awked the agent of the company. Then came a fro that destroyed an establishment insured for f2o.O00 in the West Did dlesex.
 Mir. Brough tried desperately to raise money. He sent Mrs. Brough in her carriage to induce Mrs. HoRgarty to invest her monay, that lady hRv-