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Tembarom
By
Frances Hodgson Burnett -
Toronto—William Briggs.
(Continued from last week.)
Tembarom reflected as . though
seeding his thoughts backward into
a pretty thorou'ghly forgotten and ig-
nored past. 'There had beau no rea-
son connected with filial affection
which should have caused him to re-
call memories of hie father. They
had not Jilted each other. He had
known that he luta been resented and
looked down upon as a characteris-
tically. American product. His fa-
ther had more than once said ha was
s "amnion American lad," and he
had known he was.
"Seems to me," he said et test
"that once when be was pretty mad
at his luck I heard him grumbling
about English laws, and he said some
of his distant relations were swell
people who would never think of
speaking to him,—peehaps didn't
know he was alive,—and they lived
- in a big way in a place that was nam-
ed after the family. He never saw it
• or them, and he said that was the
way in England—one fellow got ev-
erything and the rest were paupers
like himself. He'd always been
poor."
"Yea, the relation was a distant
one. Until this investigation 'began
the family knew nothing of him. The
inquiry has been a tiresome one. I
trust I am reaching the end of it. We
have given nearly two years to fol-
lowing this clue."
"What for?" burst forth Tembar-
can, sitting upright.
"Because it was necessary to find
either George Temple Barholm or his
son, if he had one."
"I'm his son,. all right, but he died
when •I was eight years old," Tern-
barom volunteered. "I, don't re-
member much about him.'
"You remember that he was not an
American?"
"He was English. Hated it; but he
wasn't fond of America."
"Have you any papers belonging to
him?"
Tembaroan hesitated again.
"There's a few old letters—oh, and
one of those glass photographs in a
case. 'believe it's my 'grandfather
and grandmother, taken when they
were married. Him on a chair, you
know, and her standing with her
hand on his shoulder."
"Can you show them to me?" Pal -
ford suggested.
"Sure,' Tembarom answered, get-
ting up from his seat. "They're in
spy room. turned them up yester-
day among some other things."
When he left them, Mr. Palford sat
gently rubbing his chin. Hutchin-
son wanted to burst forth with ques-
tions, but he looked so remote and
acidly dignified that there was a sug-
gestion.of boldness in the idea of in-
truding in his reflections. •Hutchin-
son stared at him and breathed hard
and short in his suspense. The stiff
old chap was thinking things over
and putting things together in his
lawyer's way. ,He was entirely obliv-
ilous to his surroundings. Little Ann
'went on with .her mending, but she
wore her absorbed look, and it was
not a result of her work.
Tembarom came back with some
papers in his hand. They were yel-
lowed old 'letters, and on the -top of
the package there was a worn
daguerreotype -ease with broken
clasp.
"Here they are," he said, giving
them to Palford. I guess they'd just
been married," opening the case.
"Get on to her embroidered collar
and big breast -pin with his picture
in it. That's English enough, Isn't
it? He'd given it to her' fora wed-
ding -present. There's something in
one of the letters about it."
It 'was the letters to which Mr. Pal -
ford gave the most attention. He
.read them and examined post -marks
and dates. When he had finished, he
rose from his chair with a slightly
portentous touch of lirofessienal cere-
mony.
"Yes, those 'are sufficiently convin-
cing. You are a very fortunate
young man. Allow me to congratu-
late you."
He did not look particularly pleas-
ed, though he 'extended his hand and
shook Temfbarom's politely. He was
rigorously endeavoring to conceal that
he found 'himself called upon to make
the best' of an extremely bad job.
Hutchinson started fortvard, resting
his hands on his knees and glaring
with ill -suppressed excitement.
"What's that for?" Tembarom
said. He felt rather like a fool. He
laughed 'half nervously. It seemed
to be up to him to upderstand, and
he didn't underdtand fn the least.
"You have, through your father's
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"Temple flarhohn!" he aimed
shouted, "I elunnot believe theel Why,
it's one ef oldestiellices in Eng.
land and one c. th' biggest.
Temple Barinilons as didn t come over
with th' Conqueror was there betere
Ishii. Some of them vas Saxon kings!
And bifn---Apointing a stumpy, red
finger diaparagingly at. Tembarom,
aghast and inereduloies—"that New
York lad that's sold newspapers, in
the streetsyou say he's come into
it?" 9 '
"Precisely." 'Mr. Pafford, spoke
with sone crispness of diction. Noise
and bluster annoyed him. . "That is
my business here. Mr. Teinbaronf is,
in fact, Mr. Temple Temple Barholm
of Temple Baeholm, which you seem
to have heard of."
"Heard of It! My mother was
born in the village an' dives there yet.
Art tha struck dumb fad!" he said
almost fiercely to. Tembarom. "By
Judd! This well may he!"
\Temlbarom was standing holding
the back of a chair. He was pale,
and had once opened his mouth, and
then gulped and shut it. Little Ann
had dropped- her sewing. His first
look had leaped to her, and she had
looked back straight into his eyes.
"I'm struck something," he said,
his half -laugh slightly unsteady.
"Witokl blame me?"
"You'd better Sit down," said Lit-
tle Ann. "Sudden things are upset-,
ting."
He did sit doirn. He felt 'rather
shaky. He touched himself on his
chest and laughed again.
"Me!" he said. "T. T.! Helly
gee! It's like a turn at a vaudeville.
The sentiment prevailing Hutch-
inson's mind seemed to verge on in-
dignation.
"Thee th' matter of Temple Bar -
holm!" he ejaculated. "Why, it
stood for seventy thousand pound' a.
year!"
"It did and it does," said Mr. Pal -
ford, curtly. He had less and less
taste for the situation. There was
neither dignity nor proper sentiment
in 4. The young man was utterly
incapable of comprehending the mean-
ing and proportions of the extraor-
dinary event which had befallen him.
It appeared to present to him the
aspect of a somewhat slangy New
York joke.
"You do not seem much impressed,
Mr. Temple Barhalm," he said.
"Oh. I'm impressed, all right," an-
swered Tembarom, "but, say, this
thing can't be true! You couldn't
make it true if you sat up all night
to do it,"
'When I go into the business de-
tails of the matter to -morrow morn-
ing you will realize the truth of it,"
Said Mr. Palford. "Seventy thou-
sand pounds a year—and Temple
Barholm—are not unsubstantial
facts."
"Three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars,, my lad—that's what it stands
for!" -nut in Mr. Hutchinson,
"Well." said Tembaram, "I guess
I can worry along on that if I tryo
hard enough. I mayn't be able t
keep myself in the way I've been us-
ed to but I've got to make it do."
Mr. Palford stiffened. He did not
know that the garish, flipant-sound-
ing joking was the kind of defense
the streets of New York had provid-
ed Mr. Temple Barholm with in many
an hour when he had been a half-
clad newsboy with an empty stomach
and a bundle of unsold newspapers
under his arm.
"Y,ou are jocular," he said. "I find
the Now Yorkers are given to being
jocular—eontinuously."
Tetnbarom looked at him rather
searchingly. Palford wouldn't have
found it possible to believe that the
young roan knew all about his dis-
taste and its near approach to dis-
gust, that he knew quite well what
he thought of his ten -dollar suit, his
ex -newsboy's diction, and his entire
incongruousness as a factor in any
circumstances connected with dignity
and splendor. He woujd certainly
not have credited the fact that though
he, had not the remotest idea what
sort of a place Temple Barholrn.was,
and what sort of men its long line of
possessors had been, he had gained -a
curious knowledge of their signifi-
Canes through the mental attitude of
their legal representative when he for
a moment failed to conceal his sense
of actual revolt.
"It seems sort of like a joke till
you get on to it," he said. "But I
guess it ain't such a merry jest as
it seems."
And then Mr. Palford did begin to
observe that he had lost his color
entirely; also that he had a rather
decent, sharp -cut face, and extremely
white and good young teeth, which he
showed not unattractively when he
smiled. ‘,And he smiled frequently,
but he was not smiling now.
CHAPTER VII
In the'course of the interview given
to the explaining of 'business and
legal detail which took place between
Mr. Palford and his client the fol-
lowing morning, Tembarom's knowl-
edge of his situation extended itself
largely, and at the same time added
in a proportionate degree to hie sense
of his own incongruity as connected
with it. .He sat at a table in Pal -
ford's private sitting -room at the
respectable, old-fashioned hotel the
solicitor had chosen—sat and listened
and answered questions and asked
them, until his head began to feel as
though it were crammed.to bursting
with extraordinary detail.
It was all extraordinary to him. He
'had had no time for reading and no
books to read, Mid therefore knew lit-
tle of fiction. Hewas entirely ignor-
ant of all romance but 'such as the
New York papers provided. This was
highly colored, but it did not deal
with events connected with the pos-
sessors of vast English estates and
the dethils of their habits and cus-
toms. His geographical knowledge
of Great Britain was simple and
largely incorrect. Information con-
cerning its usual conditions and as-
pects had come to bins through talk
of international Marriages and cup
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pression, upon him. He -L. -liked New r
'York—its noise, its streets, its glare,
its
ever-increasing number of ah
and pictures of -everything on e
which could be 'photographed.
choice, when he could allow hhns
a fifty -cent seat at the theater,
turally ran to production which w
farcical or cheerfully musical,
had never reached Serious dra
perhaps because he 'h'ad never
money enough to pay for entrane
anything like half of the "shawls"
other fellows recommended. He
totally unprepared for the facing
any kind of drama as connected wi
himself. The worst of it 'was t
it struck him as being of the ,natu
of frace when regarded from
normal New York point of view.,
be had somehow had the luck
come into the possession of money
ways which were familiar to him
to strike It rich in the way of a '
job" or "deal,"—he would have b
better able to adjust himself to c
cumstances. He might not ha
known how to spend his money b
he would have spent it in New Yo
on New York joys. There wou
have been no foreign remoter
about the thing, howsoever faints
tically unexpected such fortune mig
have been. At any rate, in N
York he would have known the names
of places and things.
Through a large part of his inte
view with Palford 'his elbow rest
on the table, and he held his ch
with his hand and rubbed it though
fully. The last Temple Temple Be
holm had been an eccentric and u
companionable person. He had live
alone and had not married. He ha
cherished a prejudice against th
man who would have succeeded hi
as next of kin if he had not die
young. People had been of th
opinion that he had disliked him mer
y because ihe did not wish to be r
minded that some one else must sons
day inevitably stand in his shoe
and own the possessions of which h
himself was arrogantly fond. Ther
were always more female Temipl
Barholms than Male ones, and th
families were small. The relativ
who had emigrated to Brooklyn ha
een a comparatively unknown per
on. His only intercourse with th
ead of the house had been confined
o a begging letter, written from
'merica when 'his circumstances wer
t their worst. It was an ill -man
ered and ill -expressed letter, whic
ad been considered presuming, an
ad, been answered chillingly with
mere five -pound note, clearly explain
d as a final charity. This beggin
etter, which bitterly contrasted th
writer's poverty with his indifferen
elative's luxuries, had, by a curiou
riok of chance which preserved it
uite extraordinarily turned up dur
g an examination of apparently un
in:portant, forgotten papers, and 'had
urnished a clue in the search fo
ext of kin. The writer had greatly
nnoyed old Mr. Temple Barholm by
lling 'him that he had called his
n by his name—"not that there
as ever likely to be anything in it
✓ him.", But a waif of the New
twit streets who was known as
em" or "Tembarom" was not a
nk easily attached to any, chain, an.4
e search had been long and rather
opeless. It had, however, at last
ached Mrs. Bowse's 'boarding-house
d before Mr. Palford sat Mr.
mple Temple •Barholm, a cheap
ung man in cheap clothes, and
caking New York slang ith a
sal accent. Mr. Palford, feeling
m appalling and absolutely without
e pale, was still aware that he
cod in the position of an import -
t client of the firm of Palford &-
imfby. There was a section of the
ces at Lincoln's Inn devoted to
currents representing a lifetime of
ention-tp the affairs of the Temple
rhoim estates. It was greatly to
hoped that the crass ignorance and
monness of this young outsider
uld not cause impossible complica-
ns.
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When confronted ,these baffliPf
absurdities,''Mn'. firitferti either said,
"I beg pardon," or.etiffened and re -
=glued silent. •
When Teinbarope /earned that he
Was the bestir of one of the oldest
amilies in land, md aspect of the
desirable islign his position
eached him in
'the legit.
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When 'he was told That he was lord
of the manor of Temple Barham,, he
did not - know what a- manor was.
"What's a manor, And what .hap-
pens if you're lord of (It?" he asked.
He bad not heard .of William the
Conqueror, and did not appear moved
to admiration of 'him, though he own-
ed that he seemed to 'have "put it
over."
"Why didn't he make a republic
of it while he was about it?" he said.
"But I guess that wasn't his kind. He
didn't do all that fighting for his
hemaalth.
interest was not alone totally
dissevered from, the events of past
centuries; it 'was as dissevered from
those of mere past years. The hab-
its, customs, and points of view of
five years before seemed to have been
oast into a vast waste -paper basket
• as wholly unpractical in connection
with present experiences.
"A man that's going to keep up
with the procession cant waste time
thinking about yesterday. What he's
got to do is to 'keep his eye on what's
going to happen the week afar next,"
he summed it up.
Rather to Mr. Palford's surprise,
he did not speak lightly, but with a
sort of inner seriousness. It sug-
gested that he had not arrived at
this conclusion without the aid of
sharp experience. Now and then one
saw a touch of this,profound prac-
tical perception in hint.
It was not to be denied that he
was clear-headed enough where pure-
ly practical business detail was con-
cerned. He was at first plainly
rather stunned by the proportions
presented to hirw but his questions
were direct and of a' common-serure
order not to be despised.
"I don't know anything about it
yet," he said once. "It's all Dutch
to .me. I can't- calculate in half-
crowns and pounds and half pounds,
but I'm going to find out. I've got
to."
It was extraordinary and annoying
to feel that one must explain every-
thing; but this impossible fellow was
not an actual fool on all points, and
he did not seem to be a weakling. He
might team certain things in time,
and at all events one Tams no further
e personally responsible for hire and
his impossilbilities than the business
h concerns of his estate would oblige
d auy legal firm to be. Clients, whe-
a ther highly desirable or otherwise,
- were no more than clients, They
g were not relatives whom one must
e introduce to one's friends. Thus Mr.
t Palford, who was not a speeially hu -
s mane or sympathetic person, mental-
ly decided. He saw no pathos in this
raw young man, who would presently
- 'find himself floundering unaided in
waters utterly unknown to him. There
✓ was even' a touch of bitter amuse-
ment in the solicitor's mind as he
glanced toward the future.
He explained with detail the ne-
cessity for their immediate departure
for the other side of the Atlantic.
Certain legal formalities which must
at once be attended to demanded
their presence in England, Fore-
seeing this, on the day when he had
finally felt himself secure as to the
identity of his client he had taken
the liberty of engaging optionally
certain state -rooms on the Adriana,
sailing the following Wednesday.
"Subject of course to your approv-
el," he added politely, "lilt it is
imperative that we should be,on the
spot as early as possible." He did
mention that he himself was
minably tired of his sojourn on
n shores, and wanted to be back
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"He knows nothing! He knows
nothing!" Pafford found himself forc-
ed to exclaim mentally not once, but
a hundred times, in the course of
their talk.
There was — this revealed itself
as the interview proceeded—just one,
slight palliation of his impossible be-
nightedness: he was not the kind of
young man who, knowing nothing,
huffily proterta himself by pretend-
ing to know everything. He was of
an unreserve concerning his ignor-
ance whit}, his solicitor felt some-
times almost struck one in the face.
Now and then it quite made one
jump. He was 'singularly free from
any vestige of personal vanity. He
was also singularly unready to bake
offense. To the head of the firm of
Pafford & Grimby, who was not ac-
customed to lightness of manner, and
inclined to the view that a person
who made a joke took rather a lib-
erty with him, his tendency to be
jocular, even 'about himself and the
estate of Temple Barholm, was irri-
tating and somewhat disrespectful.
Mr. Palford did not easily compre-
hend jokes of any sort; especially was
he 'annoyed by cryptic phraseology
and mammoth exaggeration. For in-
stance, he could not in the least com-
pass Mr. Temple Barbohn's meaning
when he casually remarked that
something or other was "all to the
merry"; or again, quite as though he
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Tembarom's face changed its ex-
pression. He had been looking ra-
ther weighed down and fatigued, and
he lighted up to eagerness
"Say," he exclaimed, "why couldn't
we go on the Trans -atlantic on Sat-
urda 9"
"It is one of the small, cheap
boats," objected Pafford "The
ac-
commodation would be niesi infer-
ior."
Ternbarom leaned forward and
touched his sleeve in hasty, boyish
appeal.
"I avant to go on it," hp said; "I
want to go steerage."
Pafford stared at him.
"You want to go on the Trans-
atlantic! Steerage!" he ejaculated,
quite aghast. This was a novel or-
der of madness 'to reveal itself in
the recent inheritor of a great for-
tune.
Tembarom's appeal grew franker;
it took on the note of a too crude
young fellow's misplaced cnfidence.
"You do this for me," he said. "I'd
give a farm to go on that beat. The
Hutchinsons are sailing on it—Mr.
and Miss Hutohinson, the ones you
saw at the house last night."
"I—it is really impossible." Mr.
Pafford hesitated, "As to steerage,
my dear Mr. Temple Brhnlin,
you -
you can't."
Tembarom got up and stood With
his 'hands thrust deep in his pockets.
It seemed to be a sort of expression
of his sudden hopeful excitement.
"Why not?" he said. "If I own
about half of England and have
money to burn, I guess I can buy a
steerage passage on a nine -day
steamer."
"You can bey Anything you like,"
Palford answ&red stiffly. "It is not
a mutter of buying. But I shdald
not be conducting myself properly
toward you if I allowed it. It would
not be—fbecoming."
"Becoming!" cried Tembarom,
"Thunder! It's not a sprint hat. I
tell you' r want to go. Just that way."
Pafford saw abnormal breakers a-
head. He felt that he would be glad
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they were paupers, just because
suddenly struck it' rich! Hully
I- guess not. A fellow there
dmosted up in the air all in a mi
as I 'have,has got to lie pretty
to keep folks front wanting to
him, anyhow: Hutchinson's da
sight smarter fellow than I am,
he knows it.—ami be's Lances
you bet.", lie stopped a minute
flushed. "As to Little Ann," -he
—"me make that sort of a Wreak
her! Well, I should be a fool."
Pelford was a cold blooded and
imaginative person, but a long I
experience had built up within
a certain shrew mess of percept
He had naturally glanced once
twice at the girl sitting still at
mending, and he had observed
he said very little and had a sin
any quiet, firm little voice.
"I beg pardon. You are probab
ght. I had very -little converse
vrith either of them. Miss Hutahi
on struck me as having an into
ent face."
"She's a 'wonder," said Ternbar
evoutly. "She's ust a wonder."
"Under the oircumstances," s
ested Mr. Pelford, "it might not
bad idea to explain to her your i
f the steerage passage. An inte
ent girl can often give excellent
ce. You will probably have an
ortunity of speaking to her to -Mg
id you say they were sailing to -m
ow?"
To -morrow! That brought it
ear that it gave Tembarom a sho
e had known that they sailed
aturday, and now Saturday had
me to -morrow. Things began
rge through his mind—all sorts
hinge he had no time to think
early, though it was true they ha
rted vaguely about in the delirio
citement of the night, during whi
had scarcely slept at all. His fa
aged again, and the appeal 'di
t of it. He began to look anxio
d restless.
"Yes, they're going to -morrow,"
swered,
"You see," argued Mr. Pelford, wi
nviction, "how impossible it wou
for us to make any arrangernen
so few hours. You will excuse m
ying," he added punctiliously, "th
could not make the voyage in t
erage."
Tembarom laughed. He thought
w him doing it.
'That's so," he said. Then, wi
ewed hope, he added, "Say, I'
ing to try and get them to wa
Wednesday."
`I do not think—" Mr. Pelford b
n, and then felt it wiser to lea
ngs as they were. "But I'm n
alified to give an opinion. I do n
ow Miss Hutchinson at all."
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nk. He had a private convictio
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CHAPTER VIII
There was a slight awkwardness
even to Tembarom in entering the
dining-rom that evening. He had
not seeri his fellow boarder's, as his
restless night had made him sleep
later than usual. But Mrs. Howse
had told him of the excitement he
had caused.
"They just couldn't eat," she said.
"They could do nothing but talk and
talk and ask questions; and I had
waffles, too, and they got stone cold."
The babel of friendly outcry which
broke out on his entry was made up
of jukes, ejaculations, questions, and
congratulatory outbursts from all
"Good old T. T!" "Give hint a
Harvard yell! Rah! Rah! Rah!"
"Lend me fifty-five cents?" "Where's
your tiara?" "Darned glad of it!"
"IVIake us a speech!"
Say, pople," .sid. Tembarom,
"don't you get me rattled or I can't
) tell you anything. I'm rattled en-
ough already."
"Well, is it true?" called out Mr.
sSi ttrt, Nii npoeg,r,.T
,d o;
"It couldn't be; that's
nntbarem answered back,
what I told Pafford. I shall wake up
in a minute or two and find myself
in a hospital with a peacherino of a
trained nurse smoothing 'me piller.'
You can't fool me with a pipe -dream
like this. Pafford's easier; he's not
.a New Yorker. }le says it is true,
and I can't get out of it."
. "Whew! Great lakes!" A long
breath was exhaled all round the
table.
"What are you, anyhow?" cried
Jim Bowles across the dishes.
Tembarom rested his elbow on the
edge of the table and began to check
off his points on bis finges.
"I'm this, he said: "Pm Temple
Temple Barham, Esquire, of Temple
Berhohn, Lancashire, England. At
the time of the flood my folks knocked
up a house just about where the ark
landed, and I guess they've held on
to it ever since. I don't know what.
business they went into, but they
made money. Palford swears I've
got three hundred and fifty thousand
dollars a year. I wasn't going to
call the man a liar; but I just missed
it, by jingo!"
Continued next week.
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During, the. sixteenth end seven,
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While savages have, for ages, used
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we know them to -day did not come
into use until the early 'part of the
fourteenth century. They were in -
'traduced into England in 1540, but
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