The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1914-07-24

I tate IlOm tNt clutches VI hls me tHtih' Z
was at Castle Clchy IN my grand.
fathers home, and The home CT my an
eestoIs through innumersble genera
uons
Never in my most eXtraV1gsut
dreams had | imagined that such d
consummation Of my journey would
occur / had set out from Winnipeg
hlied with hatred toward those kins
folk who had diso8ned. my father and
LETT him 10 die III need IN a tar coun-
try. AND here / was the guest CT
M grandfather ana his widowed
daughter, and engaged TO my half
cousin, Charles
But for tie present the engagement
was to be kept secret That ia
sisted upon determined that ! would
win the hearts Of his relatives also be
fore allowing him 60 present me to
them as his future bride ] could not
but fear that the old comte might treat
him as he had treated my father
On the third morning after my ar
rival l wrote to Mary Jenner, my
room-mate in Winnipeg, for the first
time since my departure
when ] tell you that am actually
in my grandfathers chateau" ! wrote !
YOU viii open your ewes wide. in that |
taking way YOU have. and be glad that
} ann not there TO say. i told YOU so |
For were you not the ringleader in the |
conspiracy 10 keep me at home till the /
close Of the school year when we /
were 10 make up a party to see Flu /
fope2 And Mary dear do hope that
scheme has not fallen through Come
10 France, and a royal welcome awaits
YOU
Have YOU pursued your acquaint-
auce With little Mr. Spratt2 Poor lit
.le mani ! have not yet glanced i'm
side the covers OF the monumental
work of his upon the Code Napoleon
b hich he presented to me so proudly
II the moment Of my departure BE
rood to him Mary. and make a man
IT him He's timId with ladies' so
lon't be afraid 10 give him encour
cement
And now you'll want to know about
'astle Clichy Mary 1t is the very
manifest place-al early Norman.
.ith basuons and moats and battle
leuts. set i'm the midst Of am enor-
nous park. and mos, delightfully."- feud-
J. But by the time you receive this ,
won't be in the possession OF our
imily any longer Fancy being turned
90 of your home after YOU have in-
ab.ted il for eight hundred years.
.ut We're Wretchedly poor ana in the
auds of an interruptions banker. one
iagnn by name who owns mort "
age on US. and unless We can obtain s.
telve thousand francs S. .400-With- 3
j "a few days. 20 meet the interest. In
Itchy passes out OF our hands forever
This Nagnin is the most ayaricious
oundrel imaginable. except his son C.
hos worse Mary. he's agreed 10 pay
e $4,000 for those bonds OF mine
'u always laughed about when the 90
fe is opened next week And So fr
ought ! might just as wen pay on ID
e interest ou the mortgage out of 10
wrote o. bin. asking him 10 advance
t s. 400 aad be curly refused lie
o. grdGge against ms grandfather ii
% means 90 turn him OUT or his "a
nae ! went 20 Paris 10 plead with 3d.
n aud he sent out Woru he would u,
[ See me. Think OF II. my gIAudfa "a
sI must lose bis property when less -
80 a week 4I-eIsard I shall receive
lugh none. % have saved il man.
ies over. Veil I've done my best
there no use cTy ing over h nov.
Come 90 France. Mary. and an uf
]. night soon. embrace YOU aud
ute you as we French say. <
~ s. I'm quite French nowl" e
did not convey in this letter The :
se % impotence the burning anger n
b which the bankers conduct hai II
pired me When ! had proposed n, II
grandfather that he let me meet II
interest due out OF THE proceeds II
b the bonds. he seemed 10 realize Il
futiilty of the attempt II
It's 10 use. ny little Anne. he said II
thank you from The depths nf NV II
.rt But you Nlil BE- beating against II
ianlte Wall Magnin means 10 have II
.hy. aid Ls volt advance you IL