The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1909-02-04
CHAPTER VI.


were the epithets he applied to the squire,
In these first moments of his wrath Even
4 usurious solicitor is possessed OF pride
Of some kind. and though he may hold it
In tolerable subsection during the early
stages of his career, like other mems.
Ii wakes fat and thrives wonderfully un-
der the accumulation of wealth. Harold
Denison had trampled il remorselessly I'M
der foot. Then the irritation subsidized.
and the astute old head once more began
20 reckon up the chances of the game. tie
played it all over again in his own mind
NO" he muttered; don't think L made
my mistakes! l was a fool to lose my
temper, though. Hadn't l made up my
mind, all along. that he'd take 1t pretty
much in that way. to start with! When
[ think how many of 'e.n I've seen run
rusty about their family names, places.
md plate, 1t was foolish-ay, very fool
sh--.to be annoyed at Denison's tantrums-
Names bah ~ continued the old man,
eontemptuously. IF it came all the way
from the Conqueror. its worth on stamp
81 paper is the only valid test
Sam Pearman, when he heard the re-
mlt of his fathers mission, took rather
4 different view of it from his progenitor.
AS a Younger man he lacked the patience
and then, moreover, was there not the
blow to his self-esteem? Between twenty
and thirty we feel that acuteiy; from
thirty to forty. with sort OF modified
soreness; at fifty the conceit has been
taken out of most of US. and we are no
onger astonshed at finding that the world
rates US a little lower than our own val
nation. Electroplate may pass for gold
for a short season, in these days, but so
ciety is pretty certain to detect the ring
Of false metal ere very long
Samuel the junior had so far been a
fortunate man in pursuit of his ambi-
lions. Though not so successful as. he
could have wished. yet, TO certain ex-
tent, he had worked his way into the
county society. There were many houses
that he was occasionally asked. to, as an
Ddd bachelor to male up Despite all his
father had said at the time, man with
Sam Tearnan's eye TO the main chance
could not conceive a man in Harold
Denison's position rejecting proposal so
very much to his own advantage. He
might recognize a certain amount OF diff
Rculty on the part of the lady, but men
Of his age are not wont to be diffidept
about their own powers of attraction on
these occasions. and Sam pearman was
,ne of the last to entertain apprehensions
m that score.
"He don't know what's good for him.
and that's about the size of il ~ vas that
rentleman's remark, as his sire retailed
he account of his interview with Deni-
son. 1--WE shall have to exercise little
~raucura I'm MT O0inO IN no
rhoked off my game. at all events at this
tage of the proceedings. Invalids often
require coercion to make them take the
onics necessary for their existence. and
will he for you to make Denison under
stand that he will cease TO be Denison of
Him. at all events, unless he is prepared
20 welcome me as a son-in-law."
Leave it to me, Sam. and don't be
m a hurry / made up my mind about it
he other night. / don't say all, my boy,
put a good many things / have made up
ny mind to have come to pass ia course of
.ime Leave me alone to work the oracle
,ust now, and, depend upon it, I'll give
you due notice when it's time for you to
make a move"
The son acquiesced. If at times he
thought his father was getting a little
low at turf tactics-a purs VT from which
re had in great measure withdrawn-he
still held a firm belief that his parent
~as difficult to beat in the great game of
Efe, more especially when he held win
ming card or two in his hand
Some two or three weeks elapsed; and
:hen, one spring morning, Harold Deni-
son received letter to the effect that Mr..
pearman of Mannersley felt it incumbent
On himself to call in his money lent on
mortgage, a more favorable opportunity
;or investment having offered.
That this would probably be the result
,f their last interview, the squire had
;oreseen Yet. as days went by without
any such notince, he began fondly to hope
hat the attorney had seen the prespmp-
ton he had been guilty of. and that things
would still jog quietly along in their old
xay. How ephemeral that way had now
become, under almost any circumstances.
he still kept locked within his own
breast. But as he read that letter the
squire knew well that the rubicon was
passed, that his ships were burnt, and
himself defeated. He knew, too we'll, thai
to raise that ten thousand anywhere else
would result a an exposure of his sf-
feirs tantamount to ruin. He was quite
aware that Pearman was equally convers-
ant with the fact. He prepared himself
for the impending crash.
But there is a certain amount of notice
requisite on the calling in OF a mortgage,
and this gave Harold Derison time to
reilect-whether for good or evil the read
ers of this story must determine Had
tine blow fallen at once he would have
abandoned Glinn, grimly, and set up his
lonely tent in some remote watering place.
But the crafty solicitor had measured the
strength of his prey with great accuracy.
Vt was not without design that the notice
OF the foreclosure of the mortgage had
been delayed. Give it time-give il
time" quoth that fisher of feeble human
ity. He was right; and day after day
did Harold Denison ponder over the old
hsherman's TENS; at first contemp.uous-
iy, then moodily, until at last he began
to think that it was his duty to retain
Glinn at all hazards. Once arrived thus
far, the speciousness of the reasoning
became easy and rapid. THE lands | re-
ceived from my ancestors it is my duty to
transmit 20 my descendants" ine coon-
try gentleman's sentiment, that would
have invariably insured a round of ap-
pIause at the farmers ordinary IN any
market town of respectable dimensions.
NOW, of course, il was all plain sailing.
morally. As a personal matter. the mean
est lodgings at Hastings or St. Leonards
would have sufficed. 1t were better so
chan TO see Denison of Glinn so vilely
mated. But there were other ties to be
considered He. Harold Denison had I'M
doubtedly betrayed the trust of long
line OF ancestors.
Then he began to think once more of
bis daughter. He felt conjunction al
the idea of yielding his handsome Maude
to this low-born sutton. But then Maud
had never been to him what an only child
is to most fathers. He had never quito
forgiven the fact of her not being a son.
and she had ever been mors her mothers
pet than his Again. this candidate for
her hand had been brought up a gentle
man, had the mark of the university
stamped on his based composition. and.