Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-07-30

course between the Park and No. 2,
Cheyne Walk"
Terrace. Lavin1a. 1t was Carlyle
who lived in Cheyne Walk."
ITO be sure! Well, as 1 was say
ing, the intercourse between the Park
and No. 2, Cheyne Terrace, vas new
er of a very intimate nature"
"Never!" Miss Priscilla confirmed
the statement. II Slunched there once;
the veal outlets were overdone.
Esme's father wa a mere newspaper
man. He always returned home, I be-
lieve, long after midnight"
She rose up as a portly butler n
nounced dinner, in a voice smooth
mayonnaise sauce Sir Giles offered
his arm to Lady Albiana Jalland and
led the way through the red drawing
room and the entrance hall into the
dining room beyond.
Before We follow them, it may be
well to touch lightly upon the Mont
t~isfonts and their history. The father
of Sir Giles spent much time and a
considerable sum Of money in tracing
his resent to one John de la Mothe,
Knight of the Shire of Slowshire, in
the reign of Henry III. In his admir-
able and indispensable work, Sir Ber-
nard Burke, to whom the nobility and
gentry of Britain owe so i~ncalculable
a debt, had traced fliation from this
De la Mothe to one George Mott, who
gift to a field near Hernshaw Magma
In which dubbed a remarkably fine
spring, spoken Of in still existing
charters as Mott Hys Fonte or Fon-
tame. Hence, by easy transition, we
come to Giles, or GILES de Mottys-
fonte grandson to George Mott) who
married an heiress of the Pundle
family, and held a lucrative appoint
ment under the crown during the
reign of Elizabeth.
A historian of the Forest has writ
ten of Giles de Mottysfonte that he
was well versed in the arts which
commend a subject to his sovereign"
The particle was dropped during the
%troublous times of the Civil War and
never reassumed. To make up for it's
loss. the Merry Monarch POSSIBLY in
a moment Of inebriety) conferred a
baronetcy upon the then head of this
ancient family.
Ever since the days of George Mott
the family seem to have justified It's
motto, "Probus ct Tenax," by acquir-
ing principally through judicious
marriages. as much land as possible,
and then refusing, under any circum.
stances, to part with an acre of It
In addition, an extraordinary number
of Forest rights are attached to the
manor; pasturage for all commonable
| ., ;~,o1 Lee 1aropf ~ oN,,obonf ltrht nf
mari digging, right of turbary and of
digging and cutting heath and furze,
right of fifteen loads of good fuel and
on and SO forth.
At dinner, young Mrs. Giles pratt.
tied %cleverly. She possessed the rare
gift of believing and of making 9th
ers believe, that her obiter dicta were
of value to society. She knew quite in
timately some celebrities, whose auto
graphs might be found in a book Of
GHOSTS" which she carried about
with her, and she quoted these great
men as invariably agreeing with her
81 sent for fowler at once" she
would say-alluding airily to the fam
Gus Regius professor-"and he said;
My dear, I think just as you do" Or
II sat next to General Pomeroy a
dinner the other night, and told hin
frankly that I could not quite swal
low all the clauses of the new Army
Scheme. And he said: 'Mollie, nobod,
knows better than I that some 0
them are ipdigestible.'"
AS Q. rule she delighted in shock
ing the aunts by discussing with as
tonisning frankness books and play!
never mentioned in the Forest. Will