The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-09-19

The girl was the greatest heiress in
England. On the morrow she was to
leave the University where in antici-
patton Of assuming the responsibility
Of her fortune, she had acquired all
of the theory of political economy
that text books could give her Speak
ing to a girl friend, she summed up
the sources Of her wealth:
ITO begin with, there is the Brew
cry. You cannot escape from big
brewery if it belongs to you. You
cannot hide it away. Messenger,
Marsden & Companys Stout, their
xxx. their Old and Mild, their Bitter,
their Family Ales Chat particularly at
eight-and-six the nine gallon cask. If
paid for on delivery, their drays. their
huge horses. their strong men-these
things stare one in the face wherever
you go. l am Messenger, Marsden G.
Company, myself, the sole partner in
what my lawyer sweetly calls the
Concern"
Also there was an unconscionable
sum of money in the Funds. And
whole streets of houses. They lay all
about Whitechapel way. Her grand
father had bought houses as other
people buy apples.
Yet Angela Messenger never had
been inside one Of her own houses.
Never had visited her brewery. She
knew all the theories about people,
but she didn't know people themselves.
She resolved:
Il efface myself. l vanish. I disap-
pear. Your Angela will be a dress
maker, and she will live by herself and
become-what her great-grandmothe
Was-one of the people"
This was in June, 1881.
For long time to come, fashionable
London would see Angela Messenger
| no more.
But in Whitechapel district, a charm
ing young woman claiming the name
of Kennedy appeared from nowhere in
particular, to open dressmaking rooms.
At Mrs. Bormalack's boarding house
she met the man.
The man had all the personal refine
ment, education and aristocratic poise
that was to be expected in the favorite
member of the family of Lord JoceIyn
LIE Breton. Reaching the age Of TWEEN
ty-three, he had been told the secret
OF his birth; his only claim upon that
home of wealth and social distinction
! was one of gratitude. For. in truth
he had been the child of a sergeant
LIE Breton, his name was Goslett-
Harry Goslett, the first name being
! pronounced AIRY in the neighborhood
where he had been born
Free to make his choice, he resolved
to go back to his own people.
Mrs. Bormalack's boarding house
was old and mean. Everything was
old and shabby; everything wanted
polishing, washing, frightening up.
The boarders numbered an elderly
couple from a New Hampshire town
hugging the delusion that they were
rightful owners Of peerage, and
awaiting the day when their rights
would be recognized; a sleight-of-hanC
performer out Of employment, who
bored his fellows by practising his
magic upon them; a learned schola,
| from Australia, who claimed the dis
covery Of the original tablets of stone
upon which the Ten Commandments
had been written, but who was de
prived of the glory due such ar
achievement, by the jealousy Of hi:
| rival scholars; a clerk in the grea
brewery, who for thirty years hac
labored under suspicion of stealing
certain valuables from a safe of the
Concern holding on to an ill-pait
position through the decades, withou
hope Of promotion or fear Of discharge
until guilt might be proven or thu
missing valuables discovered.
In such surroundings, Angela an(
Harry naturally gravitated toward
each other, Without question, the,
took each other at face value; she, :
dressmaker with a little money t.
set herself up In business; he, cabi