Amarillo daily news. [volume] (Amarillo, Tex.) 19??-current, 1912-03-17

urge some more extended confidence
on his part. ChiIls and Fever seated
himself al the foot OF Yancys bed.
STRANGER. what I'm agoin 20 tell
Won. you'll take as tein said man 10
man he began. with the impressive
air OF one who had secret OF great
moment 10 impart. Ever hear tell
OF lords?"
"No Yancy was quick 20 notice
the look OF disappointment on the
faces OF his new friends.
Are you ever heard OF royalty!"
and Cayendish fixed the invalids
wandering glance
you mean kings?"
II shore do"
Yancy made a mighty mental effort.
There's them Bible kings" he
ventured at length.
Mr.. Cavendish shook his head
"Them's sacred kings Are you IA.
miliar with any OF the proiane kings,
Mr.. Yancy?"
We'll. taking them as they come,
them Bible kings seemed TO average
pretty profane" lancy was disposed
20 defend this point
You must heard of the kings OF
England. Sho'. want any OF 20 folks
In the war agin' him.
I'D plumb forgot. why my daddy
A. all through the war" exclaimed
Yancy The Cavendishes were lm.
mensely relieved.
Now yousll keep still,' said cav
endisa. Il want Mr.. Yancy should get
the straight OF this here! The vari-
Gus oruers of royalty are kings. dukes,
earls and lords. Earls is the third
from the top OF the heap. but lords
amt no SLOUGH
Dick had ought to know. 10 he's
an earl himself" cried Polly exultant.
ly.
"Sho. Richard Kepfel Cavendish,
Earl of Lambeth, Sho', that was what
he was Sho'," and some transient
feeling of awe stamped itself upon
their small faces rs they viewed the
long and timber figure of their par,
ent.
These here titles go to the eldes,
son He begins by bein' a yiscount.
continued Chills and Fever. 1t was
my great grandfather come over here
from England His name was Rich
ard Keppel Cavendish. same as mine
is. He lived back yonder on the caro-
lima coast and went 10 ra!sin' tobac
, co. I've heard my grandfather tell
/ how he'd heard folks say his father
was always hintin In his Ticker that
he was a heap better than he seemed
and II people only knowed the truth
about him they'd respect him mo. and
mebby treat him better Wen. sir
he married and riz a family; there
was my grandfather and a passed. OF
girls-and that crop OF children was
the only decent crop he ever r!z.
My grandfather said he never
knowed man with the same aver
sion agin labor as his father had
Folks put IL down to laziness. but they
misjudged him, as come out later, YET
he never let on.
linen one day he got his hands on
a paper that had come acrost In a
ship from England All al once, he
III on something in the paper. and he
started up and let out yell like he'd
been shot by gum, I'm the Earl OF
Lambeth he says, and took out tC
the nearest tavern and got bilin' full
Afterward he showed 'em the paper
and they seen with their own eyes
where Richard Keppel Cavendish
Earl Of Lambeth, had died In London
My great grandfather told 'em that
was his uncle; that when he left
home there was several cousins-bu'
they'd up and died. so the title com,
to him lie never done lick OF worl
after that
I'm an orphan man of title nov
and It's been my dream TO take Polly
and the children and 60 back TO En-
land aud see the king about my title
Don't you reckon he's got the notiol
the Cavendishes has petered outy"
Mr.. fancy considered this likely
The furious shrieking OF a steam
packets whistle broke in upon them
ITS another OF them hawgs, want
in all the river" said Mr. Cavendish
and fed TO the steering oar.