Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1915-10-07

the excited visitor that Clarence, the
monkey, was not at all a wild beast Of
the Virginia jungle, but simply an itin-
Grant organ grinders friend, compan-
ion and collector Of external revenue.
Then the stranger made known his
name and errand. ...,.% =.
II am Marmaduke Smythe, barrister,
of London, England, solicitor and agent
Of the estate of the earls Of Stanley Of
Stanley castle, Warwickshire," he said.
lord Stanley died there a month ago
from the infrmities Of old age, leaving
no heir in England, the succession fall
ing to the eldest son Of the elder
branch Of Stanleys Of this place, Stan
ley hall. De-.
Il remember 1t well, for I was here
to verify the American heir nearly
twenty years ago. And a beastly ex-
perience I had, my dear young lady.
was ambushed by croaking savages
and fell off a horse and was thrown
not off the horse, but fguratively
thrown into the midst Of a terrific and
bloodthirsty feud between Colonel
Stanley and Judge Stanley. both rip
snorting, bally fire eaters, as you Yam
KEGS way down east in Virginia say.
$50 my errand, young lady, in these
wild parts of the American border is
to notify young Arthur Stanley, both
Colonel Stanley and the Judge being
dead, that he is the Earl Of Stanley,
and the title and estates await him fn
Warwickshire."
And then it was Esther's painful task
to tell the strange caller of the accusa-
tons against the young man he sought.
Of his wild fight and disappearance.
"My word" exclaimed the embar-
raised London lawyer. "What a dread
full way you Wild Yankees have Of
tomahawking each other, don't you
know! If the American earl is a GRIM
tinal in hiding l must notify the next
Of kin, the late judges son. whom I
distinctly remember as a vicious little
beggar who bit me severely.
I'm case his lordship, as I must call
him, the fugitive, is captured by your
white cap chaps he will undoubtedly
be lynched, as is your inyariable Gus
tom on the American frontiers here, l
believe. Hence the son of the late
judge will be the Earl of Stanley.
"That is, provided, Of COURSE" the
London lawyer added, "that this Hon.
Blair Stanley, as he would be called
with us, has not outgrown his vicious
propensities as a child. For I assume
If he bites your prominent border ruf.
fans he will be tomahawked or lynch
ed or put an end to in some unpleasant
hammer. So you must excuse my tax
ing leave, as I must notify the next Of
kim"
And he raised his tropic helmet po-
litely and walked in a wide circle
around the chattering monkey, Clar-
ence, as though he rather doubted the
alleged harmlessness Of the animal he
deemed a denizen Of the local jungle.
At 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-
bered, would never outgrow the san.
culinary p%ropensities Of his childhood.
In the bitter mood that now obsessed
her Blair's. mother informed the star
tied lawyer that her son.. nov next in
line for the proud Stanley earldom, had
fed, no one knew whittier. and she
hoped to never see his lace again.
AL she would say in reply to the
barrister's nervous pleadings-for he
dreaded a long search for the heirs of
Stanley in barbarous America-was
that Blair might be found at the home
Of Mrs. Burton Randolph. his cousin,
in Richmond. And for that place the
lawyer took the first train from Fair
tax.