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ut thetrustee business'

"'But won't you tell him yourself, sir, when you see him?' I says

"'I shall not see hi back now!'

"Well, ry, andthat he would walk as he come, so I ventured to say: 'If you won't takeit a liberty, sir,easier?Have yousufficient ive, or lend, you some?I shallbe very proud if you will allow me to'

"'Yes,' he says quite hearty'If you will, you et it'He said, as hetook the coin: 'I shall return the ah I never can thekindnessI shall keep the coin'He took the shilling, sir--hewouldn't take any ood-byeAt the door he turnedand walked back to ave , and says he:

"'Thank you a thousand tioodness to me,for your sympathy, and for the way you have spoken of my father andmotherYou have seen me cry, Mrs Martindale,' he said; 'I don't oftencry: the last time hen I came back to the lonely house after my poordear was laid to restBut you nor any other shall ever see a tear of back and held uphis fine proud head, and walked outI saw hidown the avenueMy! but he is a proud boy, sir--an honour to yourfamily, sir, say I respectfullyAnd there, the proud child has goneaway hungry, and he won't, I know, ever use that shilling to buy food!"

Father was not going to have that, you know, so he said to her:

"He does not belong to my family, I would have you to knowTrue, he isallied to us through the female side; but we do not count hian to read a bookIt was a decidedsnub to her

But mother had a word to say before Mrs Martindale was done withMother has a pride of her own, and doesn't brook insolence frominferiors; and the housekeeper's conduct seeMother, of course, isn't quite our class, though her folk are quiteworthy and enortons, the saltpeople, one of whoe when the Conservatives went outShesaid to the housekeeper:

"I think, Mrs Martindale, that I shall not require your services afterthis day month!And as I don't keep servants in es due on the 25th of this n this receipt"She riting a receipt as she spokeThe other signed it without a word, andhanded it to herShe seeot up andsailed--that is the way that mother moves when she is in a wax--out ofthe room

Lest I should forget it, let ed the very next day by the Countess of SalopI may say inexplanation that the Earl of Salop, KG, who is Lord-Lieutenant of theCounty, is jealous of father's position and his growing influenceFather is going to contest the next election on the Conservative side,and is sure to be

_Letter from Major-General Sir Colin Alexander MacKelpie_, _VC_,_KCB_, _of Crooer_, _Esq_, 14,_Newland Park_, _Dulwich_, _London_, _SE_

_July_ 4, 1892

MY DEAR GODSON,

I aree with your request that I shouldacquiesce in your desire to transfer to Miss Janet MacKelpie theproperty bequeathed to you by your mother, of which property I am atrusteeLet me say at once that, had it been possible to e to further such a wish--notbecause the beneficiare whom you would create is a near kinswoman ofmy ownThat, in truth, is my real difficultyI have undertaken atrust made by an honourable lady on behalf of her only son--son of aman of stainless honour, and a dear friend of e of honour from both parents, and ill, I amsure, like to look back on his whole life as worthy of his parents,and of those whom his parents trustedYou will see, I a anyone else, my hands are tied inthis matter