The Exeter Times, 1891-2-5, Page 3A STRANGE COURTSHIP
Richard wrote to Hillsborough, to state
that hie attempt to come to terms. with
4 Horn had feted, and thee further coneilia-
tion was out of the question; and received
CHAPTER XLV.—W4n as Daelsalun niornmg air, it was that he tonight swear ata reluctant. consent feom Mrs, Winthrop to
Richard Oakiei h was not lifmsel f a le ' al his four footed friend with greater vigour; resort to stronger measures. That ponder''
to er but one sa fracVon of the fire oe If ice troubled himself withany personal ex- oris stone crusher, the engine of the law,
was accordingly put in motion at its usual
very moderate rate of speed. In the .course
of a few weeks, a dapper clerk arrived at
Wapshot, and placed in Mr. Horn's own
hand a document eommeneing; "VICTORIA,
by the Grace of God," tic,, and citing that
gentleman, within sixteen days of service,
to appear at our court—though not at St.
,Tamer's—in default whereof, judgment
V!! arid, Lynes, and Oaklei h the same house .`cruel, it was, to peck up atones, and pelt
wherein he had been an articled clerk, and lis bull -dog. Such couduet was calculated
to in which he had purchasuea heed trshtp, by and tang's temthe best per wasnot a good oulated of canine ue.pThe
help of the fortune bequeathed to him by sultriness of the weather had affected hien
Professor Flint. ;ler ward had long been
'for some time, and made him morethan ever
translated to the regions reserved for de the terror c£ the village; he was out of sorts,
ceased attorneys ; but Mr, Lynes was still 8
qualifying himself for that inberitanee by' teen sp► gad s general health-ineon-
the very sharpest attendance lnisfiness ly kkilled a peacock the a nafinent of theter- might be signed, and he pet out of posses -
winch it is possible for aer mid
to race, and Mrs, Merthyr's especial pet, and anon.
pay. He not only never said die, but eaten him, featheraand all. Here's curses It was lucky for the dapper Clerk:
lever Entertained such an idea ac all His Were responded to by rowis, his flying stones that Fang was no longer in the
mind was essentially secular, which was per- most
haps.. the reasons that he had left the affairs by a menacing exhtbltiou of teeth, " Very flesh, for otherwise he would
of St. Etheldreda to be administered, by his good," said Horn, in hisgrim way, after one assuredly have been set at him by his out.-
junior partner, and thereby introduced him of these latter nia'aIfestettvus of rebellion; raged master; and also that Born was still
to Mr. Simeoe's notice. He .vas rather at, brunch of a tree. so crippled byifs wound that the ofTice of
of and he tore d01til a
tacked to Richard than otherwise; he felt and beggan to strip it, 'With eleodebot eyes, kicking bine down stair was deputed to
it as a compliment to his own revoeiise; stratfve and him neat red tongue lolling out of his Murk, a man ever open to compromise and
capacities—for Mr. Lynes into ever,yy. mouth, Mang wateheel this operation with.
thing, and sent .his voice down every speak- well-grounded snapieLEf.
Dun
in -trunk et in the liousa--that the Come here, said Bern, in the mild ton
m hadbecomea principal in the firm that he soreetimes affected when he was
where he had been a clerk; and yet he did about to be particularly „brutal- "1C ant
not think hint of quite suftfitcieutly good going tacit occasions which were not nem-
mstrial for the citrin +out of an attorneyn such
e woodM to speak)swam notarc i (rent) Fane,' wautd eotno tv his toaster
half a sovereign.
Ver days afterwards the masterot Wapghot
Rall was dangerous to approach, and shirked
by every servant in the house : he drank
more deeply than ever; slept less ; perambu-
lated the park and village at untimely boars;
and one Hue night in .August, after rambiing
the t il 1 mimed)
forth as Mal, did not return home at all:
& it badtoo mai • kmita in rt —seri les. crawling ou his stout eh, as a Siamese , oblo His bed i►ad not love►► slept in; the brandy
Richard. ou nis part, vita act, flan a Piptaaehes his king, and uttering &nen- bottleQ yhitss aabsd - stilll MOO
convincing.
tatted Mr. Lynes' superior acumen sews out, terrified howls ,but this time he
as a lawyer, and fin Iing ides out gave one short sharp bark, calf f kspti , [non Wint rOpffbad baddisappeared.
reek,a" Re's
mem at liberty, at once laid before him, half•dcfiance, depressed bis apology
t to the lowestangle of which it was capable, Murk nett morning, "' and I only hopu he
eeahl
ms aha, ofa course, at all sentiment, and rat' home as atra' lit as a bee•lino ; hamrt t ovine tm harm. Nobody else hopes
cele that had just been aubmrttcld to nim. "1'11 kill, hit}," esti Rbrn conf deutially that ; not even Murk himself Was eo can.
self. ` Perlia s too still small voice of CunseienCe gInne as to eat et that he had conga to any
"� So that's your young widow's story, is was tat so wholly stilled In the mads heart moot],
co r
lt1 gddrunted tura veteran covtly, when it wA a but that it trade e4nig mild remonstrance
gTt)1IItc» r1HCEta.)
coneluded. E . •
a ainst this stern decree ; perhaps the voice
That is th, meta answered ]chard v� universal Aaturo, speaking in song of
rather emphatically. 'bird and babble of brook, under that
" pooh, pooh to said ler, Lynes. t, No called such. don't believe one warwindless agcy, seemed to make some appeal
be all
sveever stated a case yet- tlhat could ward for mercy , for he added, as though in au -
about thisman Michael, to be in with, Hewer " will, bye :