The Central Glamorgan Gazette, and General, Commercial, and Agricultural Advertiser. — 1880-02-20 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

COW. The lawyer mint:hided, it ill,- or %tit aiti i• ist io which the Kirks hail last heard from 'is,,,, IS. I r ,::•. to call rot Short and sound hila oil reeela Seriatim hnew idiot . ii.....th. lio trusted bine if his aid ia•ee—ary ; to help a 5P1•1...t. :111•: TOWera. 1155,1 I stayed a nights at th.• ii.oi tar; at lemst, lio lo II i• is,sl ter's strviess Si, tiy and ele .1. SpOlter ,;11q1 from Dobbs that the lawyet ;. instrument, his tool, t d is 1, lawyer bad partictilari.v r s;.. :0 . . any itetion touching his its Is tii . chapel at lirackenbury 1.0 t... lc II: .1 ' -,•A. without his ,Doblis s cons :it i Is before Sputter withdraw t, ',,,s Ca, to I.;lo..itti: 5.5.1 "roily to return to it /.. ~or I. 1.,, j,,,,j 1%, placing of :al iti 1111 l ~,1110111, it tux un , Elterhic'e, thoobiliz.td,t,ic and another mi I i • :rt.  4  desk, and he had sent two others to London to as colleague who would despatch them Menet. iii he re.galar mails, each of which missive urged upon the Countess and Hardwick to remove that superstitious temple of crime and murder and ghostly stories for ever from their otherwise unexceptiouable estate. One letter contained a prediction that danger, perhaps death, to both father and daughter, were involved in delay. Hardwick had not mentioned these letters to Dobbs, for secrecy was asked for le; the writer, "a trusted servant of his Majesty the King." who undertook to make himself known to Hardwick when the good work was done. The notion of removing what was a perpetual source of fear and wonder commended itself to Susan, for she longed to shut out every recollection of its horrors, and the idea impressed itself upon Hardwiek because he was not a good man, and therefore not a brave man, and because he was, a proud man, and the bait of " a trusted servant of the King" caught his vanity and inspircd a vague hope of some royal recognition of the work, especially as he had resolved to convert the inacdam chapel adjoining the mausoleum of the baneful knight into a Protestant Church. In this latter scheme Hardwick was at present thwarted by his daughter, upon whom the impressive and beantiNl ceremony of the Church of Bops, On that eventful day of her marriage had sunk deep into her imagination while Father Busby's earnest and authoritative words of consolation liati tonehed'her heart and influenced her mind more than any spiritual ministration she lied ver experienced. Somewhat of a sceptic as we have already seen in religions matters, -in the hour of •,her bewilderment and sorrow—a wife and a widow in the same hour discovering in that SAnme hour the utter perfidy of her father, and meeting the man she loved and had mourned as dead—Susan had in imagination clung for support to the cross which Father Busby had raised before her eyes. Never had pries; found man or woman in a frame of mind more favourable for the promises and hopes of the Romish Church- to work upon. There was something truthful and good and self-denying, too, in the Father's manner and words, and he had knelt down by her side and prayed for her so fervently and so eloquently touching her forlorn state, the agony of her heart torn by so many contending emotions, and asking for help and guidance in that high and novel position in which she now found herself, wherein wealth and high stall brought with them new duties, new responsibilities, and a new stewardship which had its aecannt with God and His saints. . .  Hardwick had met with an nut xpeeted eheA when Susan informed him that at present it was her intention to maintain Father Busby and his ministrations —and even possibly to extend their operations, the which she considered, apart from other influences, a duty she owed to her dead lord. In face of this triumph of his eloquence and prayer, Father Busby had raised no objection to the Countess's decision in regard to the ancient chapel and tomb, only asking that a memorial might be set up on the spot recording the history of it, and dAlicated to the memory of the last of the Ellerhies, a wish that met with prompt approval from the Countess.  (To