The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1915-05-28
The Arrival Of Franklin Blake.

NJ lady's eldest sister married
the celebrated Mr.. Blake,
equally famous for his great
riches and his great suit ut
law. How many years lie G OF
worrying the tribunals of his country
TO turn out the duke in possession and
TO put himself In the dukes place; how
many lawyers purses he filled to burst
ing, and how many otherwise harmless
people he set by the ears together dis
putting whether he was right or wrong,
is more by Il great deal than l can reck-
on up. His wife died. and two of his
three children died before the tribunals
could make up their minds to show
him the door and take no more of his
money. When it was all over and the
duke In possession was left in possess
sion MIR. Blake discovered that the only
way OF being ever with his country for
the manner in which it had treated
MIN was not to let his country have
the honor of educating his son. GLOW
can | trust my native Institutions"
was the form in which he put it, "after
the way in which my native institu-
tons have behaved to me?" Add to
this that Mr.. Blake disliked all bows.
his own included, and you will admit
that 1T could only end in one way.
Master Franklin was taken from us in
England and was sent to institutions
which his father could trust, in that
superior country, Germany. Mr.. Blake
himself, YOU will observe. remaining
snug in England to improve his fellow
no''trymen in the parliament house
and to publish a statement on the sub
1ect of the duke in possession, which
has remained an unfinished statement
from that day to this.
Our rice boy didn't forget us after
he went abroad. He wrote every now
ana then: sometimes to my lady. one
times to Miss Rachel and sometimes
to me. We had had Il transaction TO-
gether before he left. which consisted
of his borrowing of me a ball of string.
Il tour b!nucd knife and seven INC six
pence in money. the color of which last
have not seen and never expect to
see again. His letters to me chiefly
related to borrowing more. heard.
however, from my lady, how he got on
abroad as he grew in years and stat
urc. After he had learned what the
institutions of Germany could teach
him, he gave the French a turn next
and the Italians Il turn after that.
They made him among them a sort of
universal genius. as we'll as I could un-
dcrStlnd it. He wrote IL little. he
painted a little, he SAN and played
and composed a little, borrowing, as I
suspect. in all these cases Just as he
had borrowed from nc. On Thursday,
May -. we were to see for the first
time what our nice boy had grown to
be as a man. He came of good blood,
he had a high courage and he was five
and twenty years Of age by our reck-
Oning.
The Thursday was as fine IL sum-
mer's day as ever you saw, and m
lady and Miss Rachel, not expecting
Mr.. Franklin till dinner time. drove out
to lunch with some friends in the
neighborhood.
When they were gone | went and
AsNS - W. tl az DSllovlll lllSll ulu
been got ready for our guest and saw
that all was straight. Then. being
butler in my lady's establishment as
well as steward-at my OWL particu-
lar request, mind. and because it vex-
ed me to see anybody but myself in
possession Of the key of the late Sir
Johns c%ellar-then. l say. I fetched up
some of famous Latour clarct and
set it in the warm summer air to take off
the chill before dinner. Concluding to
set myself in the warm summer air
next. seeing that what is good for
old claret is equally good for old age,
l took up my beehive chair to go cut
into the back court when l was stop
ped by hearing a sound like the soft
beating of a drum on the terrace in
front of my lady's residence.
Going round to the terrace, l found
three mahogany colored Indians, in