The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-04-16


 1 ly of his breakfast. Then he sent 1 little note to MT. Dawkins apologizing | for his awkwardness and begging him
 to accept a Strasbourg pie just sent him
 by Prince Tallyrand Deuceace had
 bought it the night before at a shop,
 but 1t had a card tackled on 1t upon
 which was written with the compli-
 ments of Prince Tallyrand" MT. Daw-
 kins Dit and asked in Deuceace to
 share the pfc. While they were at it, l in comes MT. Blewitt. The two sharp
 CTS lewt Dawkins' rooms together and l Deuceace drew Blewitt into his own 1 rooms. They had heart-to-heart talk l there and Blewitt came to an under
 standing with the Honorable Algernon. l They were to pluck the pigeon togeth- | CT and share the spells. They did, and | took f5000 out of Dawkins That is, l Deauceace took 1t with Blewitt's help. | Then Blewitt came to get his share.
 Upon my word," said Algernon, q
 do not know what you mean" Did you
 not swear upon your honor as gentle l
 in this affair."" Well. sir. what do you l say?" q mean to say that I do not lintend to keep my promise. You in l fernal fool and ninny! Leave the room
 or I will cane you-you coward and
 swindler. Charles. show this man out" | Blewitt was a coward-Deaucease had found that out before he threatened
 him and he slunk off almost in tears. l The next day Deuceace bade Charles 1 put a notice on the door-'Will be back
 at 7"-and departed for France. Daw- kins of course. was ruined. Blewitt
 went about reciting his woes. The Hon. Algernon stopped a while at Boulogne
 while he bought a proper outfit In
 which to make his entrance into the French capital. and while there wrote
 a final letter to his father. the Ear
 of Crabs, asking for letter Of intro
 duction to Lord Bobtail. the British ambassador at Paris. He desired only l 3p enter Paris under the best auspices.
 It was a touching letter which Alger-
 non wrote to his father and called down | blessings upon the heads of all the l family "who still remained under the dear old roof at Sizes Court As af- fectionate was the Earls reply.
 l He sent the letter of introduction to Lord Bobtail, regretted that he had not been able to send his dear son his usual quarterly allowance, but would do So soon, and ended by asking for loan ot l e5OO. The newspaper clipping which he in- closed would, no doubt, be of interest to l Algernon. They were, for they were short accounts of the f1eecing Of MT. | Dawkins and the ,laments of Blewitt. How caneyou, my dear boy said the | exemplary Earl, "quarrel with these peo- | pie? You should have shot the man or l paid him. It Is too late to do the TOT mer and perhaps it would be qulxotlc to do the latter" He closed With great ar lection and wanted the f5O0 by return mail. Give his father e500? Why, he had not seen him for seven years. Sooner than give up $500 of the Dawkins money A1pernon would have seen his father
 horo,ne at Neweate and his sisters con victs at Botany Bay. Algernon went on to Paris in state ana presented his letter to Lord Boptap, which at once launched him in the pest
 Parsian society. He played ms pal | we'll he would not gamble, ne would not drink, except in the most temperate
 manner He attended church regularly at the chapel of the ambassador-he lived like moral, elegant, rehned young man. All tie old dowagers were enam- ored of him, and. as he was reported rich and as he belonged to the aristoc- racv designing mamas tried to hook him fo, tbe,r daughters The Hon. Algernon eav bieh The precariousness of his for
 ner mode of fife had begun to make
 ,tsa,f apparent to the Hon. Algernon,
 and now, through the heecing or MT. Dawkins, having got, as It were' start m the road to fortune, he had made up his mind to continue in thls road py ,,orrvinq a rich wife and settling down. Tn London he was rather too well known hut in Paris he might make success. If was in Paris, therefore, that he took an especial interest in two woheh Ldos Griffin and her stepdaughter, Matilda lieutenant General Sir George Griffin was ahout 75 wears old when he left this life l and the service of the Honorable East h. dia company. He left no male hen to his name and fortune, but he did leave | young widow 27 and a daughter by the first wife about five years younger.
 Miss Matilda Griffin was squint-eyed,
 humpbacked and sentimental; her mother
 n-law was handsome, cold-hearted anu ambitious for social position. The great fortune of the deceased Sir George had been left to his widow and his daugh- ter The question which occupied the in-
 tellectual faculties of the Hon. Algernon
 Percy Deuceace was, how had it been
 left? What were the conditions of the will of the East Indian warrior? Who 1 was the real heiress-Matilda or the | mother-in-law? Both ladies seemed will |
 ling, nay. even anxious, to marry the | Hon. Algernon, but until he had set,led | tho financial side of the matter he could