The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-14

1 told. He had obtained command of privateer and had been lucky enough | to take a merchant ship laden with an enormously valuable cargo Of indigd
 and silver. He had waited only 10 | make sure of his prize money oeioto | he hastened to Roderick's assistance.
 So soon as he had paid the debts and
 freed his nephew. the open-nanoea | sailor told him that he had obtained
 an armed vessel with which he was l o-oinu to the slave coast. He arranged n let Roderick have 1000 pounds 10 invest in trade stuff while he lent sea pounds to Strap for the same purpose. Roderick had time enough to ride into Sussex and bid a secret fareWeH
 to Narcissa before he ventured to sea
 again bound on another bout with | fortune
 | If seemed as If she had become
 tired of tantalizing him. for where in l hls previous attempts in the world he
 had been sufeited with adventures m
 stead of gold, now he never had an
 adventure. while everything that he and Tom Bowling touched turned It. | self into wealth
 In less than six months they had dis- posed of their entire cargo of trade | stuff In exchange for gold dust-an
 exchange that more than quadrupled
 their investment. The gold dust was l exchanged for 100 slaves. whom they
 took to South America without trouble
 and sold for sum five times over the
 cost.
 This one voyage thus enriched all concerned and Roderick Random look. | ed forward with eagerness to his re- l turn to England. where now there
 would be no obstacle to his marriage with Narcissa. But fortune had not yet done with him. Ia xfA x.A1A AAtv tvr entertained at Buenos Ayres they were | introduced to a tall man of remarkably
 fine mien whose face was sadjened
 with reserve and gravity that at- | tracted their notice at once. So soon | as he heard Roderick Random's name
 he started and asked If his mothers
 name was Charlotte Bowling Tom | Bowling rushed at him, seized him by the hand and cried: Brother Ram
 Jom!"
 It was. indeed, Roderick's father. | After the first joy of the discovery had
 subsided he explained that when he fled from England. heartbroken, he | had deemed the child dead as we'll as | the mother. Having no reason to communicate again with his heartless | father. he travelled about the world aimlessly till at last he reached South I America. where he gained a fortune, Don Rodrigo. as he was known in | Buenos Ayres. hastened to convert all I his estate into cash realizing 40. .eO6
 mounds Together they started for | England. where they arrived after 90 l fair q passage that it seemed as If 1 fortune intended never to desert
 Roderick Random again.
 1 And she never did. He married hls
 Narcissa and retired with her and his
 father to his native place. his father
 having bought the whole great estate l for them. Strap, with the proper
 humility and respect that was so | agreeable a mark of his character. | married the serving maid of Narcissa
 and waxed fat and contented in a
 farm near by which they bought and | stocked for him
 Thus ended the fashionable and un-
 fashionable adventures of Roderick
 Random. gentleman, and Hugh Strap. l barber.
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