Connecticut western news., 1920-08-26
.HE Duries of Ballantrae were a

NHE Dur1eS or bdllduITde W6IS u
 strong family in Scotland from
 I'M 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 ful and retired from the world. There was the master (James in baptism) with his fathers love of study; but what was tact in the father changed to black dissimulation in him. Though ever in broiis, invariably he left his partners in mischief to pay the piper. The second son, Mr. Henry, was neither able nor bad; an out-of-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-willed, heiress 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 wita the prince; which left Mir. Henry to take King Georges side, this being a 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 MT. Henry, to preserve the estate, married Miss Alison, although 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 treasure of the pirate ship as she was about to fall into the hands of kings cruiser, and escaped with 1t 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 tho support of the master, who was then in France.
 There was a letter from the master which threw MT. Henry in passion. He calls me a niggardly dog" he cried. "But If ruin the estate l shall stufr him, the blood-sucker And all this foresaw when he elected himself 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 es- tate I must needs ride to Edinburgh and there raise new loans on hard terms to keep old ones afoat; and this held for seven years, MT. 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 we'll as at home; for never a word of this business did he even tell to the old lord or Mrs. Henry, it being the devilish malice of the mas ter to require this secrecy and the loyal nature of his brother to comply.
 The odium attaching to MT. Henry and the knowledge, which came to me, that the master all this time had also a pension from the Scotch fund in Paris, became too great burden for me. I took 1t on myself to tell Mrs. Henry how her husband had already sent TOGO to the master. Thereafter no