4 TERMS tlfttl.r Per Yenr, I IN AD I'ANCi:. , AN INDEPENDENT FAMILY NEWSPAPER. 7S Cents for 6 Months; 40 Cts.for 3 months. Vol. VI. IVcav Uloomnelcl, I'xi., Tuesday, Triivoli If), TVo. IS. mb Iff 1 1 1p J If 1 1 Bfejl II S IS PUBLISH BD KTEKT TLF8DAT MOBNINO, BT ' FRANK MORTIMER & CO., It New Itloomfleld, Terry Co., Ta. Being provided with Steam Tower, and large Cylinder hiiU Job-Tresses, we are prepared to do ail kind!) of Jobl'ilntlng In good style and at Low Trices. ' . ' ADVERTISING RATES! TramitiU 8 Cents per line for one Insertion. . , . 13 " " . two insertions . 15 " " "three Insertions. Business Notices In Local Column 10 Cents fQT line. Notices of Marriages or Deaths Inserted free. Tributes of Respect, fcc, Ten cents per line. VEARI.Y ADVEHTISfiMENTS. 1 ' Tn I.lnc Nonpareil one year SlO.nn Twenty lines " " " $18.00 For longer yearly adv'ts terms will be given pun application. A Lawyer Cheated, Oil Mr. Fiel's Delicate Case. "VirrHEN MR3, F!EL was a lrido, all T the spectators agreed tliat she was a pretty and interesting girl, who would make a tine woman when she came to fill out. But she never did fill out; on the contrary, Time, that stole her years away, robbed her of plumpness too; and after thirty anniversaries of that wedding-day, she was considerably more slender than at starting; but a better wife you will scarcely find in all England, and that is infinitely more important than comeliness and tasteful attlro, as you will own before you have been married for a quarter of a century. Excellent at all times, Mrs. Fiel culmina ted at meals. Call no man happy till you have seen him at breakfast; a natural irrita bility in Mr. Fiel's disposition had boon al most entirely cured by little soothing com forts and tit-bits. lie was a solicitor, witii an office in London, nnd a semi-detached villa in the suburbs, who had to leave the latter at nine to reach the former by ten every morning. This necessitated break fast at eight, but even at that early hour Mrs. Fiel saw to every detail herself. It would haveshakon a very confirmed bachelor to have seen hor table one spring morning a few years ago the linen was so white, and the tea so black, the water cresses and radishes so fresh, the marma lade and apricot jam so daintily set out, the eggs so new-lookiug, the loaf so brown and crusty, the dry toast so crisp and thin. And when she heard the tread of her hus band's foot on the staircase, and the flourish on his nose which Invariably heralded his approach, she rang the bell for the appetis ing little covered dish, which matched and fitted the slop-basin, to be brought up. This contained frizzled slices of ham or bacon, delicate and curled, a sausage, a kidney, or the savory thigh of a chicken May such be your ouly domestic broils ! A hale, neat man, with sharp, gray eyes, and a very good opinion of himself, entered and looked at his letters, selecting and opening one at once. " Well, Martha," said he, "theChipchow has arrived at. last." " You don't say so 1 Then Mr. Lobyear will be here presently. Will ho come to stay with us, do you think?" " I don't know. You had better have a bed ready; though I expect he has not come to England with the idea of shutting him elf up with an old man and woman four miles from the Marblo Arch. Still, as everything will be strange to him at first, he may accept my invitation for a night or two." " This Mr. Thomas Lobyear U rich is ho not?" " Will be, I suppose. At present, he probably depends upon his father, who has given me very liberal orders, absurdly liber al orders, about him. From living so long among savages, the old man must have lost all Idea of the value of money. However, there is plenty of it accumulating, and it does not matter to me." "Don't you think," said Mrs. Fiel, "It might bo well to have Sarah home ?" Barah, the only child of the Fiols, was at a fiuiahing-Bchool at Clifton, but she was seventeen nnd a woman. "Ah, ah, ah I" laughed the lawyer. "At your match-making, old lady? From what I am advised, he is proor against youi attempts. Besides which, it would bo omething like a breach of trust; old Lob- 7&ar has evidently got other views for his on then marrying him at presentat any rate to an English woinau." "Why, he would never go and match him with a heathen, with a ring through her nose like a pig 1" "I don't know that," replied Mr. Fiel, laughing; " if he would discover a new weed or a fresh variety of black beetles by it, he certainly would." It was of good augury for Mrs. Fiel when her husband laughed, and a better when he replied to her observations, instead of look ing deaf and grunting, which he generally did if she alluded to his clients or their business; for it showed that he was willing to be pumped, and Mrs. Fiel's thirst forin- formation was great, though it was ntfely slaked. In tho present instance, however, the lawyer thought he might require Jfctui nino aid in tho tank which ho had under taken, and was therefore not unwilling to admit his wife into his confidence. "Ah," said she, "that was a curiohs idea for a rich man, to banish himself com pletely, and give, up civilized life, for the Rake of studying botany and buterllies in Japan. For a poor man, indeed, it would be expHcifble if he expected to mako some thing by it in the cud; but from what you say, Mr. Lobyear has mora money tliaujio knows what to do with as it is." " Yes; he was well off originally, and got a good property through his wife besides1 " Ah, poor man; I dare say grief for her death gave him a craze." "Fudge 1" exclaimed Mr. Fiel somewhat rudely. " Ho was glad enough to be free to go hunting on his favorite hobby. If she had lived another year, it is my opin ion that ho would havo bolted and left her." " Ah, well," said Mr. Fiel, " it is a for tunate thing for him, or at any rate for this son, that he fixed on so good a man of business as yourself to look after his inter ests." " Well," replied her husband, compla cently, "considering that the bulk of his property is in houses situated in a rapidly improving neighborhood, and that tho ten ants are up to all sorts of dodges to avoid having their rents raised, perhaps an agent who was not sharp might miss an advan tage horo and there. For instance, there was an application for tho renewal of a lease tho other day, and I discovered that the tenant, who had being paying forty pound a year, had underlet for the last three years at a hundred and ten." " Lor, how sharp you are !" " Well, I was not born in Yorkshire for nothing. I do not know of more than one person who ever regularly took mo in that young rasoal, Tom Scott, who robbed me five years ago." "Ah, that was very shocking," said tho good wife, soothingly, "but then, you know, he was brought up in your own office." "Why, Martha I Do you suppose, then, that he learned dishonesty tlicro 1 1 never expected au epigram of that sort from your mouth. I would havo you to know that I could put at least a couple of thous and a year in my pocket from this Lobyear property alone, without a chance of detec tion, if I chose to bo dishonorable." " I am sure I never meant to call you an epigram, or any other name," cried Mrs. Fiel, astonished at this outbreak. " I only said that a breech or trust was easy for that Scott, because he had boon under you for some time, and probably had had opportu nities." "Oh, that is different," said her husband, cracking an egg. It was not a tender con science which made Mr. Fiel so touchy for though priding himself upon keen shrewdness, ho was perfectly upright and trustworthy but ho thought of Tom Scott. There is the disadvantage in reckoning yourself to be cleverer than tho rest of the world, that if ever you are taken in, it rankles. So the remembrance of Tom Scott always irritated him. He had taken a fancy to the sharp lad, and put him iu tho office, where ho favored, encouraged, and trusted him more and more every year; and tho result had been a cunning bit of roguery, nnd flight. There was one consolation; he had caught tho scoundrel, who was senten ced totwo years' Imprisonment. Had Tom Scott got o(T with impunity, his heart would have been near breaking. " I suppose this young gentloman was quite a lad when his father went to foreign parts ?" said Mrs. Fiel presently, returning to the pump-handle. " As he is not of age yet, I suppose he must have been," replied hor husband, con tinuing to flow. " Was ho educated in England before be went out to his father?" "I don't know. Mr. Lobyear never mentioned him before. I have writ in reg ularly to advise him how his affairs stood, and he has from time to time briefly ac knowledged my letters, declaring himself satisfied, telling me to do what I thought best, saying where he wished his remittances sent, and now and then requesting me to undertake certain commissions for him con nected with his pursuits, but not at all with my business. However, as he has always behaved veryhandsoiuely, I have done my best to oblige him, and mean to do so stili, though the present job is rather a delicate affair, and quite out of my line: what I call a regular bit of diplomacy." " Ah?" " Yes. It seems that the young man has inherited his father's fancy for a roving life, though not his scientific tastes. Ho lias been living iu Borneo for some years, sailing about with expeditions against the pirates, and I don't know what all. Mr. Lobyear, senior, went to China from Japan a year and a half ago, and his sou joined him at Hongkong, whero ho intimated a desiro to go to England for a while, and have a spell of coinfortablo living. Tho father was willing enough to lot him do so, and gave him a letter of credit to me, and started him in ono of tho sailing-ships. But after ho had sailed, Mr. Lobyear, senior, received information from a friend that his son's principal reason for desiring to visit England was the hope of meeting with an adventuress, whoso acquaintance he had made in Calcutta, and whom, in tho ardor of a first passion, lie desired to marry. The lady had other views at tho time; and she is a most undesirable wife for him. This news having come to mo by steamer, has of course long preceded tho youngster's actual arrival; and my mission is to prevent the marriage. This can be done witli compar ative ease while he is a minor; but he will come of age in eight months, and It would be poor success merely to delay matters for that time. I hope to break it offaltogctb er." " Exactly. And don't you think that if he wero thrown into the society of an inno cent, accomplished, and attractive girl, his infatuation for this creature would the sooner be got over ?" "Well, well; send for Sarah if you like; sho would be leaving, anyhow, at tho end of tho quarter. Only, don t put her up to thinking this youngster a very great catch, for his father may havo other children and older ones, for aught I know. Or he may spend nil his money in building pagodas, or aquariums, or black-bcetlo museums; or in fitting out expeditions to discover tho South Polo, which really ought to have turn, after nil tho fuss in a do about tho North. I am not by any means suro that it is a good tiling, Martha." As Mr. Fiel uttered these last words, ho looked at his watch, and then took a cigar out of his case; whereupon Mrs. Fiel brush cd his hat, and brought it to him, together with a light. Something liko awifo 1 And ere a man could cry" Conductor; hold !" the City Atlas had devoured him up. It is ono thing for a sailing-ship to bo tel egraphed, and another for it to auivo in port. A heavy gale tantalised the crow and passengers of the Chipchow,and it was a week before Mr. Fiol and his client's son met by which time tho accomplished Sarah was safely established under tho paternal roof; for her mother thought the lawyer exaggerated the chances against the young man's inheriting a good fortune, and stuck to her intrigue. It is certain that she her- self ovor-ostimated her daughter's attrac tions. Sarah was a good girl enough, but common-place, and not beautiful: a pellet hardly calculated to drive out another very firmly fixed in tho pop-gun heart of a lover. However, the designing motlior and un witting daughter had a fair chance, for Lobyear accepted the offer of hospitality made him by Mr. Fiel, and established himself iu their house until ho could look about him. Travel in hot climates had matured the young man, whom you would have taken for five-and-t wenty. It had likewise tanned him; and his face and hands wero so dark, that Mrs. Fiel was induced to mako inquiries about the nationality of his mother; but as her husband had never known anything of Mr. Lobyear before he put his affairs In his hands, on going out to the east, and was even ignorant, until quite lately, of the very existence of this son, she could not got much satisfactory in formation out of him. So she concluded that Mr. Lobyear senior's oriental tastes wero not confined to tho fauna and flora; and the deep blackness of the young man's hair, eyebrows, and long, drooping, silky moustache certainly tended to confirm her theory. Ills manners were not very good. There was an evident restraint about him; and if, in an unguarded moment, he gave nature her head, he becamo boisterous and vulgar. He was very careful, however, and only broke out once or twice, recover ing himself almost immediately. Ho seem ed to find that the safest plan was to spoon Sarah, and devoted himself to her so assid uously tho first evening, that Mr. Fiel listened to his wifo's statement of pro and eon with seriousness that night. "I have no doubt his father moans well by him at present," said he, "or he would hardly show so much anxiety about his contracting an unfavorable ' marriage, as to give me almost eartt blatuht in the cost of preventing it. Neither would he namo so handsome a sum as sixty pounds a month for expenses, If he Intended to leave him penniless at death. But this is all con jecture." " But rather strong, surely, dear; and he Is certainly smitten with Sarah," said Mrs. Fiol. " Don't be too sure of that. Very likely he carries on with everything in a petticoat, or out of one, in those Borneo parts, that ho meets; or it may bo that ho is throwing dust in my eyes, to cover his intriguo witli his old Calcutta friend." Mr. Fiel felt it to bo so important to pre vent the young man giving him the slip, that ho loft his other business to the clerks, and took upon him tho offlco of cicerone whereby he made acquaintance with many London sights tliat he had never seen bo fore the Interior of St. Paul's, to wit: the top of tho monument; Madamo Tussaud's wax-works; and certain bewildoring circu lar pictures, apparently seen from tho in side, as if ono were a flguro represented, called panoramas all of which very much interested the young man, who neverthe less owned tliat, on tho whole,ho preferred Calcutta. Mention of that city gavo the lawyer an opening: ho inquired if there was much society there pleasant sooicty ? And, eventually, Mr. Lobyear, the sou, who of course could not be expected to know his father's discovery and communication to his lawyer, took his ciccrono into confidence Ho adored tho most charming, innocent, persecuted saint that over excited tho jealousy ot a spitelul cotorio. Ilcr namo was Montacuto, and she was a widow with out encumbrances. Sho had been residing in a quiet part of the Islo of Wight,but was now on her way to London; and lie had re ceived a letter that very morning directing him whero to find her; so he would not trespass on Mr. Fiel's hospitality after that day. Whereabouts was Duko street, Jermyn street ? The complacent Mr. Fiel conducted him to that neighborhood, and also, in reply to farther questions, gavo him an outline of the steps it was necessary t'o take before a gentleman and lady, inclinod tliat way, could bo joined together in holy mat rimony. There could bo no harm done iu affording him such scraps of information tho first cabman passing would havo driven him to tho address, and the charming widow probably had license and banns formalities at hor finger's ends. " Of oourse, you aro of age ?" ho threw it in at the end. "1 believe my rather would say 1 was some time short of it," replied the young man carelessly, " but really his evidence is so little to be trusted in any matter not connected with plants or insects, that I mean to give myself the benefit of the doubt. That's good law, eh ?" Mr. Fiel propscd a bachelor's dinner at his club that day, and entertained his guest all the evening with costic observations upon widows, and tho'dangors to which young men aro exposed from beautiful sirens, whose antecedents would not bear strict examination, illustrated with numo ous apposic anecdotes, wlilcli tlio young man seemed to enjoy heartily. But ho woum not apply tnom to liis own case; so that, at last, the lawyer was forced to be more explicit, and with much apology asked whether the young man knew who the late Mr. Montacute was, and under wnac circumstances the lair widow came to be alone and unprotected in Calcutta? But the ardent lover would not listen to a hint reflecting upon the object of his affec tions and got so excited and angry that Mr. Fiol dropped the subject at onco. Whero was the use of talking sense to a man who declared that if all tho world swore to anything which his mistress denied, he should take her word In preference to tho united oath?. To expose his game by showing the paternal letter empowering him to forbid the marriage, would have been stupid indeed at present; that must be kept as the very last resource, when, combined with consideration of probable disinheritance it might have effect. What effect? Mr. Fiel asked himself unflinching ly when quiet that night. Probably that of making young Lobyear dissemblo for the time, and marry his widow elsewhere, unknown to the lawyer. And if the agent. were deceived, the bridegroom might well hope to conceal tho matter from his butterfly-hunting father; at all events, for a time. Young people, especially when In ovp, never look far forward, but have a confidence in things turning up. Mr. Fiol owned with inward chagrin tliat ho was at fault. Suddenly an idea flashed upon him like an inspiration. Why not attack the wo man ? He had her address. "Of course," he said, turning his head on his pillow. "What, my dear?" responded Mrs. Fiol. "Nothing," and he wont to sleep. Next morning young Lobyear loft Mr. Fiel's house, and went to a hotel in Jermyn street. Mr. Fiol possessed a very sharp office- boy, for in spite of the trick which had been played him by Tom Scott, ho likod sharp boys; only, he meant never to give another the chnnco of abusing his confi dence. Billy Daw was employed in minor matters alone; his master had no intention of punishing him. Tiio lad had already seen young Lobyear; the house iu Duke street was now pointed out to him, and he was directed to watch it, and let his master know when Mr. Lob year left it. So Mr. Fiel waited in his club, which was closo by, and Billy Daw loafed within sight of Duke Btreet. Billy was good at loafing; ho gleaned amusement nnd in struction from the window of a newspaper and caricature shop; studied natural history at a fishmonger's; set two boys to fight; ex asperated a drunken man; procured "cuts behind" for several youngsters who wero riding without paying tiieir fare all with out loosing sight of the door ho was direct ed to watch. His report at the end of tho day was, that Mr. Lobyear had loft his hotel, and gone to the house in Duke street at eleven a. m. At half-past one a scrvant giil bad come out with an empty dish, and returned in ton minutes with oysters. At six o'clock Mr. Lobyear did at last como out, accompanied by a lndy,and they walk ed together arm in arm to St. James' Hall., "Never mind," said Mr. Fiel; "lie can't stick so close as that to her long, howover desperate his condition may bo. Try again to-morrow." True enough at twelve o'clock tho noxt day Billy Daw summoned his master from the club, and informed him that Mr. Lob year had gono out for some time, and the lady was at home. Asked how ho knew that his absence was not for a few minutes only, ho replied tliat the gentleman had lit np his baccy directly he got outside the door. Mr. Fiel wasted no time in farther ques tioning, nnd hastened to the house in Duke street, knocked and rang, and inquir ed for Mrs Montacuto. Yes, the servant girl said; sho lodged there, and was at homo. What name ? And tho lawyor was ushered into tho front drawing-room. A lady with a creamy complexion and golden hair, elegantly dressed in half mourning, closed tho novel sho had been reading, and rose from her lomiging-chair to recoive hiin. Pretty, thought tho visitor, decidedly pretty; but at least ten years older than hi is. " You do not know me, madam, or tho object of my visit," ho said; "so I had better toll you at onco that my name is Fiel, and that I am the legal adviser of Mr. Lobyear, the father of the gentleman who aspires, I believo, to tho honor of your hand." Mrs. Montacuto bowed, and requested him to be seated. " I hope you will pardon me continued Mr. Fiel, dropped into a chair which faced tho lady, and looking as c.mcilaitory as he could, "if what I have to say should in any way prove disagreeable; I am but the mouthpiece of my client, you know. Mr. Lobyear,, Benlor, has heard, not from his son, but through other sources, of his pro jected marriage, I i egret to my he has conveyed to me his disapproval." "O, sir I" " His very decided disapproval. .Ho has never had tho honor or pleasure of seeing you, madam, or he would probably view the matter In vory different light, and hes itate before depriving his only child of the felicity so nearly secured to him. But, unfortunately, his letter was forwarded to me from Hong-Kong ; he was then about CONCLUDED ON BBOOND TAOK.
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