The Springdale news., 1915-09-03

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 the excited visitor that Clarence, the monkey. was not at all q wild beast of the Virginia jungle. but simply an itin eraut organ grinders friend, compan= fen and collector of external revenue.
 Then the stranger made known his name and erraHd
 - am Marmadake smxthe. barrister. of London England. solicitor and agent ..ef The estate of tle earls of Stanley of Stanley castle WarUirkshire. he said Lord stanley died tHefe month asa from the iHhrmities of cid age. leaving 10 heir in EnstHa5 tle succession fail |. to the eIeftSt=sz4tI= I=ot#t the elder branch of SraaHeFs ef tIIis place, Stan Iet=hall
 T remember | well. for WI. here to verify the American heir nearly twenty years ago. Aha beastly eX perieHee had, my dear young lady. I was ambushed ny croaking sayases and fell off Fl nurse and was thrown not off the horse, but ttcuraffyely thrown into the midst of q terrific and bl8odtHirsty feHd between Colonel Stanley and Judge Stanley, both rip snorting. bally fire eaters as you Yam l5ees waY down east in Virginia sav
 "So my crrand, young lady, in these wild parts of the American border is to notify young Arthur stanley. both Colonel Stanley aHd the judge being dead that he i@ tho Ear of stanley, and the title and estates await him in WarWiekshire
 AHd then il was Esther.s painful task 10 tell the strange caller of the accuSa- tions against the y.Hne man he sought. of =hi@ wild hisht and disappearanee
 My word = exclaimed the embar- ras+ea London lawyer aWhat dread- ful way you wild Yankees have of tomahawking each other, don't you know If the American earl is a erim- inal iH hiding l mnst notify the next of kin. inc Iate judges son. whom l l distinctly rememhcr as q vicious little ] beeear who hit me severely
 la ease his arl@hR. a~ must call him. he fugitive is captured hy your white cap chaps he win undoubtedly he lxnched a~ is Yoar iHvariabIe eas l tom on the American frontiers here | i believe Hence tho Son of the late iadac will be tlIe Earl of Stanley.
 Itat is. provided of course. the i London lawyer added. "that this Hon. Blair Stanley. a~ he would he called with Us has not oHteroWn his vicious propeHsiticS as child For assume If ho bites your prominent border ruff danS he will be tomahaWked or lynch cd or put an end to in some unpleasant manner Sc you must excuse my talk ing leave, IS 1 must notify the next of kin
 And he raised his troPic helmet po- lftely and walked in wide circle around the chattering monkey, Clar- enee, as though he rather doubted the alleged harmiessness of the animal he deemed a denizcn of the local jungle
 Al the gloomy threshold of Mrs La mar Stanley'S house the London law yer received further confirmation of his personal belief that Blair Stanley whose vicious propensities he remem hered wond ne1ef enteraw the san culinary propeusites of his childhood
 Tn the bitter mood that now obsessed her Rlair's mother informed the tar tlel lawyer that her sen HOW nest ia line for the p"oua stanley earldom. had fel. no onc bHew Whthcr and sh, hoped r. never see his laee again
 All shs would sly iii reply To th9 harrister's nervous pleadings-for he dreaded long search for the heirs oi Stanley in harbarous America-wa that Blair might be found at the home of Mrs Burton Randolph, his cousin In Richmond. And for that place tht lawyer took the first train from Fai- fax