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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Baronet Seeks an Estate

The baronet only laughed at his com panion's pose in the matter and was him self 50 impressed with the wild and rug ged picturesqueness of the western coast of the island that he determined to buy an estate there in a region which. he declared. was more grand and varied in magnificent scenery than the Scottish highlands, the English lake region or Killarney.
 Such were the two men who travelled together. The yacht also contained Mile Heinzelman, Hanoverian lady who claimed descent from the Hohenzollerns and had pride enough for a Hapsburg She and Grenfell were antiphics. nor was their warfare hidden or shoulder ing one.
 'Do you intend to go ashore in this barbarous spot?" asked Grenfell, as the yacht came to anchor. "Of course I do, replied Sir Gervais, i've will have to stay two or three days here.'
 Blessed invention, a yacht retorted the polite Grenfell. "As a means of To- comotion there's not a cripple but could beat 1t, and as place to live in, to eat. sleep, wash and exercise In there's not a cell in Brixton is not palace in com parison."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
A Singular Tradition

When he recovered he went to Ire land and disappeared from the world in the most secluded parts of the is- land. He had spent most of his for tune before, and now he squandered married the daughter of peasant. The people into whom he had mar ried made his life burden. and at last, utterly broken in hopes, fortune, health and reputation. he had come to Innishmore to take up the life which Vyner found him leading.
 Concerning the Luttrells there was a singular tradition current among the peasantry of the west coast of Ireland. To one of the old Luttrells had appeared the devil, who. after enumerating the various weaknesses of the family, de- clared that pride was their greatest failing, and that nothing would cure the race and bring them to distinction and power again but the marriage of three generations of the chief of the race with a peasant girl. "No hurry, take your time about it. the devil had said good naturedly Take 20o years If you want to-"
 Soon after this family episode the chief of the Luttrells had married a peasant girl. John Hamilton Luttrell had married peasant girl as has been stated-and now the allotted 200 years were drawing to an end with only two peasant marriages accounted for. The Luttrells had fallen upon evil days. but the Luttrell pride was still unbroken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Tearing for Society

MT. Grenfell yearned to be considered in society and could never penetrate its innermost circles. So he was soured, cynical, calculating. possessed of little principle and snob
 People wondered how Sir Gervais could tolerate him; but Sir Gervais was rather an easy going person and Grenfell hav- ing attached himself to the baronet, the baronet accepted the situation without the least suspicion that he had not cre- ated 1t himself Grenfell did grate on him once in a while, 1t Is true, but he hastily put all such feeling from him as unworthy thoughts about a friend
 Grenfel1 affected to consider Ireland as barbarous country and it's inhabitants as savages, and had spoken of his trip to the shores of that country as if vyner had been taking him to the Fiji islands
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Beautiful and Spirited Girl

Luttrell had given all his dead wife's g belongings to be distributed among the members of her family, and Katherine had chosen for her portion an amber necklace which she showed to ORorke with great pride. Tt is worth a king s ransom" she said. Tt would not bring 40 shilllngs tomorrow" replied O'Rorke. T don't believe you. Tim ORorke," she retorted It was just like you to make little of what is anothers."
 You have the family tongue said he. Are you tired coming so far7" Not a bit. I took the short cut by Linscanare, and caine down where tho waterfall comes in winter, cutting off four miles, But you might have broken your neckr' My neck is safe enough"
 Perhaps you could trust your feet If you couldn't your head" he mocked T could trust both. Tim O'Rorke; and maybe they'd both bring me higher aud further than ever yours did" There it is again; 1t runs In the blood" said ORorke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Luttrell and Family

Though not more than 3s years of age, Luttrell looked like a old man; his hair was white and his blue eyes dimmed and circled with dark wrinkles His shoulders stopped and his look was downcast.
 Of his wife it could be seen that she had once been handsome, but her wasted frame and incessant cough showed that she was in the last stages of consumption. Poor woman! She never moved out of the house from the time she was carried ashore in that lonely spot, but every forenoon could be seen sitting, sad and hopeless. at a certain window.
 They had one child, boy, the picture of infantile beauty and of that daring boldness which sits so gracefully upon childhood. If he was dressed in the very cheapest and coarsest fashion, to the islanders he seemed attired in splendor; and his jacket of dark crim- son cloth and a little feather he wore in his cap sufficed to win for him the name of 'prince." which he never lost afterward.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Grenfell-Much Advertised

It was just at this time that there put into the harbor of the island for repairs a trim yacht which had sprung her fore topmast. The yacht was owned by Sir Gervais vyner. a wealthy English baro- net, and the owner had along as his guest his daughter Ada, girl years of age, and his friends, MT. George Gren- fell
 Now Grenfeil was nobody, with the additional disadvantage of being mo- body that everyone knew ''Grenfelr g Italian Warehouse" ~Grenfells potted meats" "Grenfelrs pickled salmon" etc.. being European in celebrity-and thus e means by which his father had made an enormous fortuner-were miseries which poisoned his life, rising. spectre like. before him on every dinner table, etaring at him in great capitals in every edItion of the Times.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

Georgiana vexed at the interest which old Sir Within took in the fair Irish girl.
 It was a great mistake, Miss Courte- nay told lawyer Mckinley, Vyner's man of business, to take girl from her natural surroundings and elevate her into a sphere of society where she must contract habits and form ideas which would only unfit her for the peasant life to which, of course, she must one day return.
 MT. Mckinley had prospered in his pro fession, was unmarried and had turned ambitious eyes upon the mature Georg- ina, who. seeing his designs, would fiatter him. cajole him and then as suddenly turn upon him with sarcasm. She understood the man and played with him, making him all the while her agent in the business which she had proposed for herself which was to get rid of Katherine OHara.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
DesoIate Arrans

Tn the days when our story opens of that group of islands off the north east coast of Ireland called the Ar rans, Innishmore was striking in- stance of neglect and desolatton. Some circular novels, shaped like beehtves, with an aperture in the top to let out the smoke, were the dwellings of a famine stricken people engaged in fish ing and kelp burning. They depended for their life upon the chances of the seasons In spot where storms were all but perpetual and where day of com parative calm was a rare event.
 Curiously enough, in that wild and rugged spot civilization and religion had onoe nourished and the ruins of the strong walls of the abbey of St. Finbar attested the size and proportions of the ancient monastery.
 A part of the old ruins had been con- verted into & rude but habitable dwell ing and there had come to live in gloomy solitude the owner of the islands, John Hamilton Luttrell-Lut- trell of Arran. as he was called.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Mistress of Sir Within's Castle

But when from the hints of McKin- ley Sir Within received the false idea that Vyner wanted to be relieved or Kate, the old diplomat joyously declared as his ward she must come and live at Dalradern. Visions of success, almost possessed. now opened out before Kate. She was practically mistress of the castle, her slightest wish had only to be expressed to be gratified
 Sir Withln's manner gradually changed from the paternal to one which caused the ambitious girl to believe that the title of My Lady would soon be hers. Tho neighbors talked. of course. and were properly mortified, and MT. Adol- phus Ladarelle came flying down to Dal- radern scared out of his few wits at the situation.
 Grenfell had borrowed Vyner's cottage and was stopping there. He and Adol- phus struck up an acquaintance and Adolphus sought from the worldly-wise Grenfell advice and counsel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Friends Part

Shortly before the yacht was ready to sail, however, Vyner. while roaming about the island came unexpectedly upon Luttrell. "vyner.' cried the re- clue, "I would not have had you see me in this condition-these rags this penury, all this misery
 Vyner begged Luttrell to give up his present mode of life and have try at tho great world again. But Luttrell said T have played all my cards-and never scored a point. And I'll not try again. As for the boy. why should he not continue to live here all his lifeY Why should he know of all these me prizes his father tried for and missed any more than of fine clothes, fine food or equipages. My great mistake was not to have come here before my health was broken my hand unsteady, my foot weak, my nerves shattered. Goodbyl Please do not write to melt would only unsettle me-"
 And thus the two friends parted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
A CL ASSIC
 IN A P A G E

There is little or nothing of the dash and abandon of Harry Lorrequer," Charles o'Malley- or From Burke of would hardly think the stories were by the same hand. Yet Luttrell of Ar ran'' is a far more carefully written and ambitious effort than any of the others named. It Is. perhaps, Levers most finished production. The story Is full of characters of marked individ- uality well and carefully worked out, so that each one does what you would naturally expect him, or her, to do in the given circumstances. Sir Within Wardle is joy forever, and 1t is al- most too bad that Georgiana captures hin in the end, though 1t Is evident from the first that nothing short of a miracle is going to save him from his fate. The story is a long one. the involved. But to read 1t Is to en- joy and remember 1t and to get far different idea of the genius of Lever than Is afforded by his lighter works Lever was poor all his life-the gamb- ling table kept him so-but when Lord Derby remarked, as he gave him his appointment as consul at Trieste, ing. and you are just the man to do it.' his lordship was more witty thao just. For Lever was a prolific writer, and there was more than one sort of m author in him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Gossip of the Black Art

Luttrell lived . gloomy life. no visit crs came to see him. he wandered alone about the island, busying himself with collecting antiquarian relics or shut up in his room in the tower of the old abbey, pondering until late at night over curious old volumes. They were volumes, rare ones many of them of ancient Irish history.
 But the stern look of the man, the manner in which his eyes would blaze forth with a baleful light of anger at the slightest excuse. his strange man ner of life and the light burning through the wild. dark nights in his study, the threshold of which no one was allowed to cross, caused the superstitious islanders to look upon him with fear, whispering that he dabbled in the black art.
 Tho natural deference they had toward him e .Luttrell of Arran," and the gloomy haughtiness of the man would have. of itself, been sufficient to nave caused them to leave him in the solitari- ness which he demanded
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

friends of the young savage. and Ada, taking him below, showed him her toys and the 1uxuries of the yacht. The boy was amazed and deeply interested, but, too proud to show much feelings, re- garded everything with the unbetraying stoicism of young Indian.
 When finally he left the yacht Nyner sent by him note to Luttrell, asking permission to visit him. Shortly after an answer was returned. In which Lut- trell said that he begged that his old friend would leave him to himself and forget him. He, fin fact. refused to see the baronet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Fate. a Boy and a Girl

Vyner wrote to 1.uttrell asking him to be co-guardian of Katherine with Sir Within Wardle of Dalraden Castle a neighbor of the baronet. He simply stated that he had taken an Irish peas ant girl to bring up, concealing from Iuttrell the fact that she was his late wife's neice. To his qualification and surprise I,uttrell replied accepting the charge and appointing Vyner guardian Of his son, Harry, after his father s death.
 Harry Luttrell was no longer with his father on the lonely island on Innish- more Moved by the boys entreaties to be allowed to try the world Luttrell mad. in a sudden freak of temper, al- lowed Harry to go off to sea with an American captain who had chanced to come to the island.
 Katherine O'Hare grew into her new surroundings rapidly. Under the guid- ance of Mademoiselle Heinzelman she pursued her studies with such avidity that she soon overlook and outstripped the less brilliant Ada. Between the stranger child and Ada. and between her and Sir Gervais and Lady vyner, there sprang up a strong affection.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Timothy O'Rorke's Inn

On the borders of a solitary lake in Donegal there stood a small matched house over the door of which appeared the sign, Entertainment for man and beast" What imaginable spirit of enter prise could have induced MT. Timothy ORorke to have established an inn in such a region is not easy to guess.
 To the north of Lough Anare lay a vast. untraveled. almost roadless dis trict Great mountains and deep val leys, wild plains of heather enclosing lakes with islands, sometimes mere rocks, sometimes covered with an oak scrub-last remnant of primeval for ests-succeeded each other apparently without end.
 A sheallng, usually podlocked on the outside was all that betokened human habitation and living being was rarely met with. The scenery, which for gran deur and beauty. might have vied with the most vaunted spots on the island, was as unknown as if 1t had lain thous- ands of miles away in some Indian sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Death of Luttrell,s Wife

The one domestic of the establishment, the housemaid, Molly, who had come to the island with this strange family, was as communicative as her master.
 The boy, left to himself, ran about among the fhsermen. learned to swim, sail a boat, made himself at home in the huts of the islanders, grew strong, hearty and independent. He was 8 dom- ineering little chap. fully conscious of his position as Luttrell. but the people were devoted to him-no real little prince ever had such loyal and admiring sub 1ects as the little heir of Arran.
 A few hours and the peasant girl whom John Hamilton Luttrell had married and from whose relatives, as well as from all the disappointments and vicistudes Of an unfortunate and ruined life. he had fled to Innishmore, was dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Duel and Annulment

Suddenly there was great sensation In the political world. Luttrell was deeply concerned in Irish politics and had secretly allied himself with some peculiarly radical section of the Irish party Luttrell told Georgiana the se- crets of the organization, thereby irnpli- eating many important men in office. ,
 Georgiana, in spite of her pledge of secrecy. told her father, who was some thing -or-cther in the cabinet. There was an investigation and the sensation ensued. Some one accused Luttrell of betraying his coworker and Luttrell chal- lenged him.
 In the duel which followed Luttrell was severely wounded. He was laid up for two months. but all ignorant or the fact that 1t was his bethrothcd who had betrayed his confidence, looked forward with eagerness to his recovery. and mar rfage.
 But before he left his sick bed he was informed that Georgiana and her father had decided that "the marriage was Impossible"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
With Luttrell at Innismore

Filled with shame and anger she fled from him and wrote to her other guar dian, Luttrell, saying that she was ; tired of the world and wished to share with him the solitude of Innishmore. Also she told him her relationship to his late wife.
 Luttrell wrote back consenting to receive her He stipulated. however, that she must hold mo communication with her family: that she must take the name of Luttrel; that he would not be expected to show her any af- fection--that she must live the lonely life of the island and must be to him practi- cally as a stranger in his house.
 Heswas now quite alone, he said. for not long befire he had received news that the vessel upon which his son had been sailing had been lost at sea. in the Mediterranean, and that Harry had been among the drowned. Thus, from the splendors of Da1radern Kate re- tired 10 the gloomy life of Innishmors. where she gradually gained the conf, dence and esteem of Luttrell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

I Peter Malone. old and rugged. proved to be the father of that peasant girl whom Luttrell of Arran had married,
 and was now returning with his grand daughter, Katherine OTIara, a girl some
 10 or Il years old, from the funeral at Innishmore.
 | The girl was a child of remarkable
 beauty as well as of quick wit, and her aspirations. quickened probably by her visit to Arran, overleaped tho
 mountain barriers. and longed for the great world beyond. Her aunt had married Luttrell of Arran, had be- come a "lady'--why should not she?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
A Quarrel Stopped

'dademoiselle wished to say good night.'' announced the governess. "1s 1t not too soon to go to bed?' said Ada. What does mademoiselle say?' asked vyner, smiling into the eager face of his child. Sir Gervais adored his daughter. Even the disappointment that she was not son threw no cloud over his affec- ton. The governess, in reply to the bar onet's question. produced an immense sil- yer watch with an enormous dial.
 That's real curiosity cried Grenfell. 'Is 1t possible to ask nearer view, Mile. Heinbelman?' "Freiligh," said she '1t was made in Wurtzbug by Jacob Schmellng. in the year 1736." And in- tended. doubtless, for the town hall" mocked Grenfell. "No, saar." replied the governess hotly, 'it was made for him whose arms it bears. for my ancestor. Gottreid von Heinzelman, burgomeister of Wurtzburg, a German nobleman, who neither made sausages nor sold Swiss cheeses''
 Good night, good night. my darling, ' said vyner, thus stopping the quarrel. There were little encounters like this whenever the governess and the guest met-and the governess always came off victorious.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Troubles of Kate

Sir Within. when he found that Kate had flown to Luttrell, wrote begging her to come bacl--and he wrote to the recluse offering marriage to his ward. Adolphus found out that Sir Within was trying to open up correspondence with Kate and had his letters intercepted. In hls anxiety Adolphus went to West port, the nearest part of the Arran islands. and sought out O Rorke, show ing him Grenfells letter.
 Meantime a messenger brought to In- nishmore word that Rates grandfather was in trouble-he was about to be tried for his life. There had been fight be- tween the peasants of the wild district which vyner had bought and some offi- cers sent to serve writs in the mountains. man had boen killed and Malone was charged with the deed. ~
 Tn spite of Luttrelrs stern edict that if Kate went to her grandfather she could never again enter his door, Kate sought her grandfather in prison to comfort hum and to try and arrange fer his legal defense. Worn out, weak ana distracted. she was taken down with m attack of brain fever in a little town near Westport. town where Ladarelie and O'RorSe found her i'll in a hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Baronet's Discoyery

That evening Sir Gervais and Grenfell went ashore for a look at the island. After little Grenfell turned back to the boat, but Vyner walked son toward the ruined abbey. Seeing a light gleam- ing through window on the ground floor of the part which had evidently been fitted up as a habitation. he approached it, for he had seen none of the islanders in his walk and wished to question some of them.
 He peered in at the window and saw a man sitting there with head bowed on his breast-a man old before his time. worn and hopeless-looking. Good God. it's Luttrellw he exclaimed as he drew back and bent his course toward the waiting boat which Grenfell had sent back from the yacht for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13

He would have changed his name, but he was e shrewd man and knew that 1t would avail him nothing. The disguise would invite discovery and at every men tion of him would exact the explanation: No more Seymour or a Villers than you are: the fellow Is old Grenfell's son Grenfell's game sauce and the rest of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Mock Marriage

While the girl was unconscious they penetrated to her bedside and a mock marraige was performed between her and Ladarele, of which a forged certificate was sent to Sir Within. Upon the receipt. of this the old diplomat gave 1t up, his mind began to fail and he went abroad. where he met with Miss Georgialia courtenay, who at last captured him. When Kate recovered she received word that Luttrell was dying and wanted to see her She reached Innishmore in time to receive his last words, which were words of affection. He left the Arran Islands to Kate and she at once began to busy herself in many projects for the improvement of the islands--- projects in which she succeedod.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Plans for a "Wake"

I4uttrell shut himself up in his room while his wife was dying, to await news of the end. He did not even visit the death chamber after the spark had fled, but beside the body of his mother the little LuttreI wept in an agony of grief and refused to be comforted
 Deeply as Luttrel was at variance With his wifes family, word was sent to them of her demise with an invitation to be present at the funeral. It was Molly. the housemaid, who almost forced Lutt- fell to do this.
 Even the naughty lord of Arran did not quite dare to violate the ancient cus- toms of the country and consented that there should be a wake" though he declared he would see none of the people who attended it. So the dead wife ana mother was laid away in the ruined aisles of the fallen abbey church where, be- heath the stones. reposed the bones of a long line of the Luttrells.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-13
Katherine Has an Enemy

But there was one member of the vyner household who did not view with complacency the presence of Kate in the family. That was Georgiana courte- nay. The girl had come from Irelanu; 1t was to Ireland that Luttrell had re- tired; there had been communications between Luttrell and Vyner; there was some mystery here. Miss Courtenay thought. What was it? Anyway she felt a strong antipathy toward the girl and Katherine felt the same toward Georglana.
 As Katherine grew from a beautiful child into a brilliant and beautiful young woman. the hatred of GeorgIana toward her increased. Especially was