Show i otm 1 V IS Jl LJ LjO HJ4 " i d ' ft TfF fn Tn p U 1 £ O Ci Lii o ion tlo vy i i MAGAZINE A SALT LAICE OF SCIENCE JLITEKATUffiE AND ART ELT Vol & E W TULUDGE EDITORS HARRISON £107 ALL DROSS ®T E W TCJLLIDGE o- CHAPTER X LOOKING FCR TI1E AVENGER Ha! Wortley so you are come at last?’ Blakely exclaimed as the lawyer entered his den’ I must correct you Sir Herbert I am first The time is last not I It lacks just fourteen minutes to eight which makes me just fourteen minutes first Your clock Sir Herbert is exactly three minutes and a half too fast Yes I assure you that is the time I regulay ted my repeater by Greenwich authority’ The lawyer spoko with a soft suavity $r though he was in the best of humor and comfortable in spite of being almost frozen and quite wet through but the baronet knew that Wortley was paying him back in his true lawyer method ‘Out upon the time! I need no sermon upou the matter ‘ Right Sir Herbert Look for yourself Exactly now thirteen minutes to eight’ and the lawyer provokingly laid jhis gold repeater before the impatient ‘ baronet ‘ Come come Wortley no retaliation I know that you are annoyed at my instructions to Snap but I thought you would find this apartment quite as cosey as my valet's You need a change of clothing which you’ll find in my wardrobe Be expeditious I am bursting with impatience to learn the full particulars of your negotiations with Courtney’ ‘I think I had better thaw a little before changing Upon my honor I have no fingers to dress or undress I am almost inclined to think they are frozen off At any rate I do not feel them yet if I may' trust ray eyes there does seem to bo something of them left’ ‘Next to your fees Wortley I think Tut tut man I you love retaliation Drink a ionly designed your comfort glass of brandy that will thaw you and 1 will air the linen by the time you are ready for it’ said Blakely going to his vardrobe Wortley was conciliated and then he jknew that the checkmate which young Bir Walter Templar had given would furnish Blakely w ith ample opportunity for rage without his provoking him farther In a quarter of an hour the lawyer was quite thawed and cosily seated in a luxurious chair by the fire opposite Sir Herbert 1 GREAT SALT LAKE CITY U T X ‘Now Wortley for your budget Let me have it without the rouud-a-bomethod of you lawyers’ 1 wjjl not be jnoro proli$ than nece PUBLISHED j j ) NOVEMBER Hut you will admit when I am is required to give you the bearings of the case which I fear is rather complicated’ q ‘ Complicated I What the devil do you mean ? You wrote me that Courtnev the necessity of closing with niv offer V wrote thus Sir Herbert’ I ‘ Have you deceived me Wortley ? By the Fiend I like not to be played with sitry through that detail sir!’ ‘I have not juggled you Courtney did admit the necessity’ ‘Well sir!’ And upon the very lip was his atcepL ance of the terms’ ‘ Ha ! say you so? ‘ Yes upon the very lip I say was his consent Sir Herbert’ ‘ Then there can be no obstacle that cannot be swept at once from the path You say Wortley that Courtney acknowledged the necessity and that upon his very tongue was the words which would make the D’Lacy estates mine?’ In less than an hour all the papers would have been signed and the estates Sir Herbert7 yours ‘ Why by all that’s wonderful what miracle prevented it ?’ No miracle but simply a boy ‘By the Fiend sir you do but jest with me’ never jest Sir Ilerbert in business’ ‘I ‘ Quick man’ said Sir Herbert ‘quick no more round-aboLet me have tie ‘ wonderful obstacle which you discovered in a boy— the beggar D’Lacy ’Tis plain sir you have been a fool There’s bungling in the business and you are approaching it with cunning preparation Well sir tell me more of this miracle which you found in a boy7 After reading a letter brought in by the servant which I presumed wag an answer to Courtney’s last effort to save the D’Lacy estates Sir Richard mournfully acknowledged there was no alternative to the acceptance of our terms I expressed satisfaction at the amicablo which we had reached understanding and said ‘ so you accept our offer Sir ?’ The acceptance as I have Richard told you was on his lips w hen the voico of a youth behind me exclaimed haughtily and imperatively ‘Sir Richard Courtthe oiler of Sir Herbert ney' rejects ’ Blakely’ ‘Now this is heroic indeed lawyer Wortley Of course it was D’Lacys beggar‘ brat Just like bi& father’ So I took the youth at first But it turned out to he Courtney’s nephew Sir Walter Templar’ ‘ Better and better liYcll sir go on’ In short this boy Sir Walter Templar imperatively commanded— aye com ! IN THE TWENTIETH WARD SALT LAKE CITY 18 1864 5 No manded— for it was very like a command — he commanded Sir Richard Courtney to sell the princely mines of the Templars in Cornwall and pay off the mortAt firgt Sir gage on the D’Lacy estates Richard resisted the impetuous boy ” bilt Let me finish the narrative for you — sir lawyer Courtney finding this unex- pected denouement which a inexperienced boy had given upon second thought hit upon a Cunning ruse Ho d feigned to give way to his nephew' pretended to entertain the mad proposition of the boy and so befooled a witlesg blockhead Why sir lawyer he dared not strain his prerogative of guardian to sacrifice his ward and nephew even to save the D’Lacy estate Sell the Tem- plar mines Pshaw They are as mines of gold to Courtney’s own family Young Sir Walter Templar himself in his maturity would be the first to call his uncle A 'L 1 Ht to an account were he to allow the sacrifice I tell thqe thou art befooled ’Tis time sir that I transfer my bui ness into other hands’ ‘ Were it not Sir Herbert’ that IknoQ you will make acknowledgment for your insult you should find as you ere now said that retaliation is with me more than my fee I never forgive a man who treats me as a fool I could forgive much in a client who paid well but not that insult Blakely I sympathise with your and as I know that you disappointment will pay my judgment the compliment of following my advice I will forgive you me a fool’ calling ‘ Well I own that I have ever found you most astute But you cannot in your calm judgment think it other than a masterly ruse of the stategic Court-ne- y i 4 i ?’ one week Sir Herbert the hold on the D’Lacy estates for which your father so long plotted would have passed out of your hands and young Sir Walter Templar would have superceded you aa ‘In mortgagee’ ‘ Think you so in cool judgment Wort- ley? I would stake my legal judgment upon’ and that is riot indifferently low' Right Wortley few in your profession stand higher than yourself’ ‘You have not knowing himmucji mistaken the foe you will meet in this it vouth ' Sir Walter’ Foe say you and a boy ? Pshaw ! J have in me too much of my father yho was a match for most men to fear a boy ‘ That boy will if ho lives become & rich powerful man’ ‘ I tear him not Wortley Does not your worldly experience tell you that ho most likely will be less dangerous ts & man of tbe world than as a foolish bey ‘ r f i'i i |