The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1915-05-29

tQuilll idiliOuS loE lie EAthl
riches and his great suit at
law. How many years he went on
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 a 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 II was all over and the
duke In possession was left In posses
sion Mr.. Blake discovered that the only
way OF being even with his country for
the manner In which 1t had treated
aim was not to let his country have
the honor Of educating his son. How
can ] trust my native institutions"
was the form in which he put 1t. after
the way In which my native institu-
tons have behaved to me?" Add to
this that Mr.. Blake disliked all boys.
his own included. and you will admit
that II 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
eountrymen in the parliament house
and to publish a statement on the sub
ject 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
and then; sometimes to my lady. some.
lime to Miss Rachel and sometimes
10 me. We had had n transaction to
gether before he left. which consisted
OF his borrowing of me n ball of string.
Il four bladed knife and seven and six
pence In money. the color of which last
l nave 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
ure. After he had learned what the
Institutions Of Germany could teach
him, he gave the French a turn next
ana the Italians a turn after that.
Ihey made him among them a sort of
universal genius. as well as | could I'M
aerstand II. He wrote n little, he
painted n little. he sang and played
ana composed a little, borrowing, as I
spe In all these cases Just as he
had borrowed from me. On Thursday.
May %. we We're to see for the first
time what our nice boy had grown to
De as a man. He came of good blood,
ne had a high courage and he was five
and twenty years of age by our reck-
oning.
The Thursday was as fine n sum-
mers day as ever you saw. and NV
lady and Miss Rachel, not expectinc
Mr.. Franklin till dinner time, drove out
to lunch with some friends In the
neighborhood.
when they were gone l went and
had a look Mt the bedroom which had
been got ready for our guest and saw
that all was straight. Then. being
butler in my lady's establishment as
wen as steward-at my own particu-
Tar request. mind. and because 1t vex-
ed me to see anybody but myself in
possession of the key of the late Sir
Johns cellar-then. l say. l fetched up
some of u famous Latour claret and
set 1t in the warm summer air to take off
the chill before dinner. Concluding 10
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 out
into the back court when | 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. ! found
three mahogany colored Indians, in