The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1915-07-01
The Arrival of Franklin Blake.


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 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 Mr.. Blake discovered that the only
way OF being even with his country for
the manner in which it had treated
him 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 it, latter
the way in which my native institu-
tions 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
countrymen in the parliament house
and to publish statement on the sub
]ect of the duke in possession, which
has remained an unfinished statement
from that day to this.
Our :ice boy didn't forget us after
he went abroad. He wrote everv now
and then; sometimes to my lady, some
times to Miss Rachel and sometimes
to me. We had had a transaction TO-
gether before he left, which consisted
OF his borrowing Of me a ball Of string.
Il four bladed knife and seven and 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. I 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
MIN, he gave the French a turn next
ana the Italians a turn after that.
Ihey made him among them sort of
universal genius, as we'll as could un-
derstand it. He wrote a little, he
painted little, he sang and PLAYED
and composed little, borrowing. as T
suspect, in all these cases just as he
had borrowed from me. On Thursday.
May 70, 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 high courage and he was five
and twenty years Of age by our reck-
oning.
The Thursday was as fine a sum-
mer's day as ever you saw and nv
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 I went and
had look at 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
we'll as steward-at my own 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 cellar-then, I say, fetched up
some of our famous Latour claret 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.
1~took up my beehive chair: to go out
into the back court when. 1 was stop
ped by hearing sound like the soft
beating of a drum on the terrace in
front OF my lady's residence. Il.
Going round U 10 the terra e. I, found
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