The Rathdrum tribune. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1903-1963, 1922-10-06

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and to say the honest truth Mackt
lar, | had begun to take a pride
the estates" He gloomed for m
ment. But what would you have
he went on. Nothing is mine. not
ing. This days news has knocke
the bottom out of my life. hav
only the name and the shadow G
things; only the shadow; there is N
substance in my rights"
They will prove substantial enough
before court" said /.
He looked at me with a burnin.
eye, and seemed to repress the wore
upon his lips; and | repented what
had said, for | saw that while he
spoke of the estate he had still a side
thought to his marriage. And then
of a sudden, he twitched the letter
from his pocket, where it lay all crum-
pied, smoothed it violently on the
table, and read these words to me
with trembling tongue:
My dear Jacob'-This is how he
begins!" cries he" My dear Jacob.
once called you so, you may remem-
Der; and you have now done the bust
ness, and flung my heels as high as
Criffel.' What do you think of that.
Mackellar," says he, from an only
brother? | declare to God liked him
very we'll; / was always stanch to
him; and this is how he writes! But
will not sit down under the imputa-
tion'-( walking to and fro)-'T am as
good as he, am better man than
lie, | call on God to prove it! can
lot give him all the monstrous sum
le asks; he knows the estate to be
Incompetent; but | will give him what
have, and it is more than he expects.
have borne all this too long. See
What he writes further on; read it for
ourself: I know you are niggardly
og.' A niggardly dog! |, niggardly?
5 that true, Mackellar? You think it
~"
really thought he would have
truck me at that. "Oh, you all think
D. Well, you shall see, and he shall
se, and God shall see If / ruin the
state and go barefoot, l shall stuff
lis bloodsucker Let him ask all
!, and he shall have it! 1t is all his
Z rights. Ali" he cried, and | fore
w all this and worse, when he would
IT let me 60" He poured out an
her glass of wine and was about to
Try it to his lips, when I made so
Id as lay finger on his arm He
opped a moment You are right"
id he, and flung glass and all in the
eplace. Come, let us count the
,ney." n
burst no longer oppose him; in
ed, was very much affected by the
hit of so much disorder in a man .
lally so controlled: and we sat :
wn together, counted the money u
made it up in packets for the ID
eater ease of Colonel Burke, who u
S to be the bearer. This done. MIR. W
nry returned to the hall, where he VI
| my lord sat all night through with
III guest. ju
little before dawn | was called pc
set out with the colonel He a
lld scarce have liked a less re- w
nsible convoy, for he was a man &c
} valued himself; nor could we af- ca
l him one more dignified, for Mr.. Sc
Try must not appear with the free de
iers. 1t was a very bitter morn re
of wind, and as we went down We
,ugh the long shrubbery, the col ra
held himself muffled in his cloak. We
Sir said |, this is a great sum sill
money that your friend requires. | pie
It suppose his necessities to be WI
2 great ge
We must suppose so" says he,
light dryly, but perhaps it was the wo
k about his mouth int
am only a servant of the fam tat
said l.. you may deal openly it;
me- think we are likely to get low
2 good by him." EN-
fy dear man. said the colonel ant
lantrae is a gentleman of the DIRE
eminent natural abilities. and anC
that admire and that | revere, Mr.
lie very ground he treads on" And to
he seemed to me to pause like I
in difficulty. pos
nut for all that" said /, 1--WE are sue
y to get little good by him?v bio
ure. and you can have it your this