The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-16


which am afraid YOU viii not like
Tile deed Is done" and 40 ask -FOUR
forgiveness. Wei, what do you think7
We have at last paid our respects to
Dear Robert S. and I am very much
pleased with my visit and shall cor
tulnly trouble the old fellow again
with llttlc more or my company. lilo
regrets Miss Agnes will not return,
for my part, I think he Is desperately
smitten With you. and 10 he did not
love to look at his little finger too
much, / do not know but what could
consent to, you know what We have
also dined at Mr.. Washington's and
Invited them here with the old dame.
After making Inc get MY rest, they did
not conc. ] must tell you or tho trick
Mr.. Gray served us the day you Left
here, he understood that we were to
come as far as Trealiill Gate with you
and then he was to take mo behind
him and the rest go in tile CARRIAGE
(Which. bye the-bse. l had heard
nothing of. He waited some time at
the gate aud then concluded that wo
lad given out going. when. only think
Ann Roberta and myself, dressed in
Our best until z o'clock waited for
lin: every room, in the house as wet
as water could make them and not a
llhouthfnl of dinner given out. We had
! to do the best we could. lie went
down to the fishing shore and then
|Sou think OF it? Ihaye heard nothing
of Ellen aud Eliza W., but intend go
IinS to church Sunday. must beg
you Will get the garden seed you
promised. as we have begun ours. and
| Will l hope, look very smart. Roberta
l is with me and sends her love to her
sisters and you. Remember me to
Mrs. Warning and Eliza.
Yours, etc,
a. d. GRAY.
The second faded letter is from tho
3 widow. Observation-Disclosures IF
| young widow bears no date, and was
sent to Travellers Rest "by Tom:
White Cottage.
Saturday evening.
Ny Dear Marg't-I want to know
what has become of you all this long
time. II appears an ago since I saw
any OF the family. Il think you might
ride over now and then and see me. Do
you know 1t has been nearly four
been staying at Mrs. Carriers for the
last three or four days. Tell Sister
Agnes l am almost as much In love
with tlGm as she was. write now
hccausetn headache / have will prevent
inc seeing you tomorrow, ard by
way Of reminding you of me. Cir
cutnstances prevent my writing you AZ
often as 1 wish, but know you
generously will make all excuses
necessary, should the family require
any. 1t would be needless to say 1t
has never been my intention to forget
the most distant relative of my dear
husband since the day of my marriage,
hen they only are left to remind ma
OF him. II outward appearances are
against me you have the love and re-
spect of my ever grateful heart I
would add prayers. but prayers of the
wicked avail nothing. l will leave my
pro fession, and In future trust to my
conduct. have lately been good
deal in the world. indeed, too much.
think. for my present situation. L hone
shall be forgiven II have accident
ally (for VIII not say Intentionally
ovcrstepped the bounds of decorum;
VIII perhaps say should know bet
ter. To tell tho truth have SO many 4
temptations that 1t battles my resolu
tons. and am at last compelled to
yield, Many Is the hour sit and
chew the cud of bitter reflection. You
VIII laugh and say had as we'll cons
fort myself as Mr.. Charles Banlshead
does. my saying. II know the right, and
| approve 1t. too. I know the wrong.
but still the wrong pursue or spme-
thing to that amount. If have
failed in words l have given You the
sense.
Yours With the warnest affection,
C.. u. G..
r. IeooE 8lilllt NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. W1dOWs
pretty and innocent. the beauS beset
her, We donbt not. and she was not old
enough or wise enough to resist them.
The third and last lettcrsis written
hearted widow of Prince Murat. an
nouncing his death at Tallahassee, Fla,
to her first husbands mother. Mrs.
John Gray OF Travellers Rest Murats
only regret in dying was leaving his
good, dear Wife,"
In 1S47 MIR John Gray, Of Travellers
Rest. wrote an account of his life.
task which even the humblest OF us
should not fall to undertake..
Mr.. Gray writes: My grandfathers,
both by my fathers and mothers side.
were substantial merchants In Gas
gov, engaged principally in the Vir-
ginia trade. and at the same time land
ed proprietors. My father, William
Gray, of Carl Craig. II seat within two
miles of Glasgow. was the eldest son
of his father, and, as customary in
ertY OF the FAMILY, married isabel
Bowie, the only child and lleiress OF
john Bowie. of 'Hill of Bath
house at Carl Craig, where was born
in March, 1863. Ny father enga ged in
business, and was a partner in a
banking house. He had a house In
to attend to his business; where he
died in the year 177S, in his forty
eighth year. My mother was left a
WIDOW IN her tHlrty-SlNlnf year, with y
eight Young children. an aged father
and both her husbands estates to
manage. All of my brothers and sis
tiers died comparatively young. none
of them reaching thirty-six Years,
whilo I. the survivor of them ALL am
now QSl7) In my seventy-elghth year.
although my mother often told me i
was the most weakly of them all. My
mother sent me to a boarding school
in Yorkshire. England. where remain
cd three years, and in the year 1854.
when only fifteen years old, I em-
barked for Virginia. Ny uncle. An
drew Spreul. lived in GospoI. and. 4
believe, owned the site on which the
navy yard now stands. settled finally
in Port Royal. and in 1797 married my
present Wife, Lucy Thobb. became
engaged in stemming and shipping to-
bacco to London. tThe tobacco then
grown In Caroline county answered adj b
'mirably weil) From London ini-
ported my goods doing II safe. though
not large. business-never running
any great risk, OF which i cannot help
giving, an Instance, a certain Mr.. WI,
OF Baltimore. who, by extensive ops
crations It is said. had made several
hundred thousand dollars, proposed my 4.
Joining him In loading Il vessel OF 900 Il