The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-14

The Duries of Balantrae were a
strong family in Scotland from the
days of David I. Their ups and downs
/ pass over, to come to that year 1745
when the foundations Of this tragedy
were laid.
| There was my lord, studious, tact
full and retired from the world. There
was The Master Games in baptism)
with his fathers love of study; but
what was tact in the father changed
to black discrimination in him. Though
! ever in broils, invariably he left his
partners in mischief to pay the piper.
The second son, Mr.. Henry, was nei-
tler able nor bad; an outof-doors,
solid sort. who had had an active hand
from a boy in the management of the
estate. In the house also was Miss
Alison Graeme. an orphan, comely and
self-W1lled, helress to a fortune and,
because of my lords necessities,
pledged in marriage to The Master.
Then came the uprising for Prince
Charlie. Against the wishes of the
other three The Master elected to ride
with the Prince; which left Mr.. Henry
to take King Georges side, this being
q common policy Of great houses in
that day. So The Master rode to the
| North. Then came the word Of Cullo.
den and The Masters death. After
a decent time Mr.. Henry, to preserve
the estate, married Miss Alison, al
though he no more than any other
doubted her love for The Masters
memory.
| But The Master was not dead. He
had escaped to sea, his escape being
not to his credit At sea he was cap
tured by a pirate ship. BY the most
ingenious deviltry he secured the treas
ure Of the pirate ship as she was about
TO fall into the hands of Kings
cruiser, and escaped with it to the
swamps on the American shore. One
man he took to guide him out of the
swamp, and dirked him to death after
they were safely clear of it. Thence
he continued his march to French
Canada, although forced on the way
to hide his treasure in the wilderness.
This we learned from a Colonel Burke,
an Irish soldier Of fortune, who came
in the night to plead money for the
support of The Master, who was then
| in France.
There was letter from The Master
which threw Mr.. Henry in a passion.
He calls me a niggardly dog he
cried. But If l ruin the estate I shall
stuff him, the bloodsucker. And all
this l foresaw when he elected him.
self and not me TO go with Prince
| Charlie"
The gap made in our accounts by
| The Masters demands became a sore
embarrassment AS steward of the
estate I must needs ride to Edinburgh
and there raise new loans on hard
terms to keep old ones afloat; and this
held for seven years, Mr. Henry shaw
ing everything to the last farthing to
raise more money, and yet more
money; winning for himself thereby
no better title than Miser with the
countryside as well as at home; for
never a word Of this business did he
even tell to the old lord or Mrs.
Henry, it being the devlish malice of
The Master to require secrecy and
the loyal nature of his brother to
comply.
The odium attaching to Mr.. Henry
and the knowledge, which came to me
that The Master all this time had also
pension from the Scotch fund in
Paris, became too great a burden for
me. | took it on myself to tell Mrs.
Henry how her husband had already
sent 1000 to The Master. Thereafter
no further monies were sent abroad,
and the telling did much to check a
widening restraint between Mr.. Henry
and my lady, a great joy to me.
| This action resulted in The Masters
return to US, great curse to the
household; for in all matters of conten-
ton, though Mr.. Henry might be right,
The Master had the trick of setting
him in the wrong. He still demanded
money, and, to satisfy him, the entail
vas broken and a great piece of land
sold; and all the while he ceased not
to lay siege to the heart Of Mrs. Henry
carrying it on so deity that l scarce
knew if she was aware Of it herself,
she that 1 doubt not still loved him.
This brings me to the night when
he laid the most unbearable of insults
on Mr.. Henry. Il never knew wo-
man." said The Master, who did not
prefer me, nor-I think-who did not
> continue to prefer me to you At
which MI Henry coldly struck him on
the mouth.
"A blow" cried The Master. Il
will not take a blow from God Al.
mighty. l must have blood for this
They fought beyond the shrubbery
I bringing the candles for them. From
the first Mr.. Henry showed himself
the stronger, which so surprised and
confused The Master that he tried foul
play, but got only the length of Mr.
Henry's sword through the body. He
fell, apparently lifeless.
Mr. Henry shook with sobs. l led
him into the house, and told the old
lord and my lady; but going back to
bring in the body, found it gone. a
, good radiance, thought, whether dead
or alive, but the nights work threw
Mr.. Henry into a fever. and his mind
was never again the same clear mind
; as Of old.
The old lord died, and to my lady
and Mr.. Henry, now my lord, was born
boy, and to that boy my lord became
, a slave, which had not been so with his
first child, Katherine. He would pass
by his wife as though she were a dog
before the hearth to come at the boy