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A FAMILY AFFAIR
BY HUGH CONWAY,
Author of “Called Baric 1 ' and “Dark Days."
CHAPTER VII.
THE GREAT JUNE AUDIT.
The wisest sometimes make mistakes. The
most careful housekeeper has been known to
spoil a pudding by putting salt instead of
sugar on it. Let it then be no detraction from
the Talberts’ general administrative ability
that the nurse girl turned out badly. They
had been so successful with cooks, parlor
maids, house maids aad kitchen maids that
their failure in this oue instance must not be
considered.
The gil l’s misdeeds need not be detailed,
suffice it to say the culmination of them was
this: Horace and Herbert driving up the lane
one evening saw a young man and woman
embracing vigorously, and generally having a
happy time of it. They could not recognize
the girl, but felt sure she was cue of their
household, so the discreet Whittaker was or
dered to wait at the side door and send the
first arrival to his masters.
Os course, she repelled the accusation. She
had indeed stepped out for a minute, to post
a letter to her aged mother, but as for speak
ing to, much less kissing, a man—well, she
never did! Alas, for feminine, veracity! On
the back of her print dress was the impres
sion of four fingers and a thumb, printed
there in good black mold, for it was an under
gardener who had succumbed to her charms.
It was Herbert who, while Horace expostu
lated, was seated at the table and so saw her
back, who drew attention to this damning
evidence. This gave rise to impertinence and
a month’s warning, given in the most dig
nified and calm way by her masters.
They decided to engage anolder and Raider
body, and being perhaps rather crestfallen al
lowed Miss Clauson to have a voice in the
matter. One morning a quiet-looking, pale
faced woman waited upon them. She heard
that a nurse was wanted and offered her serv
ices. Character she had none to give, hav
ing been out of service for some years; but
plenty of people would speak for her respect
ability. The Talberts were much taken with
her general demeanor; but hummed and
hawed when they found she did not come red
hot from a place. Horace examined her at
tentively through his eye-glass.
“Haven’t I seen you before?” he asked.
“Yes, sir. I lived many years ago with
Mr. Merton, of Cavendish square. You were
often at the house.”
She said her name was Miller, and that she
was a widow. She spoke well, and in that re
spectful, but not servile, way which the Tal
berts liked. If they could bring themselves
to get over the absence of credentials, and
deny themselves the pleasure of calling on
and cross-examining a former mistress, they
thought this woman might do.
Beatrice had no doubt about it; and upon
such inquiries as could be made being an
swered Satisfactorily, Mrs. Miller was in
stalled in the place of the frail failure whose
escapade with the gardener had lowered the
whole moral tone of the establishment. A
giddy girl in a bachelor’s establishment
means destruction.
But Mrs. Miller was a very different mat
ter. Miss Clauson found her perfection—
nimble-handed, kind and experienced—more
over, quite qualified to fulfill the duties of
lady’s maid when occasion required. Whit
taker approved of her. She was a coadjutor
after his own respectable heart. The first one
to be considered, the boy, took to her as read
ily as he had taken to Beatrice. Horace and
Herbert, in spite of the sharp lookout they
kept for a while, could find no flaw in her
conduct, and when at the end of two months
they ascertained that she had used less soap—
four cakes less than her predecessor had dur
ing her short stay, they began to think they
had acquired a treasure.
“For the child looks as clean as ever,” said
Herbert to Horace. “I always felt sure that
girl left the soap in the hot water and forgot
all about it.”
The last winter months and the spring
months passed very quietly at Hazlewood
House. The Talberts and their niece dined
occasionally with the best families in the
neighborhood, and in return the Talberts
asked the best families to dine with them. The
seven days’ wonder about the boy had almost
died away. Everyone, of course, felt sure he
was somebody, but no one knew what body,
[f there was any scandal the serene brothers
heard it not. It is true that old Lady Bowker,
a very important personage, paid them a visit
on purpose to find out all about everything.
She had known the Talberts as boys, so felt
entitled to ask them point blank for an explan
ation. People who have known you as a
boy are, as a rule, great nuisances.
She told them she wanted to speak to them
on private business, so Beatrice left the room.
Then she turned from one to the other of the
grave, long-faced men:
‘‘Now, Horace; now, Herbert, what is the
meaning of this affair? Who is the boy you
are making such a fuss about?”
“I don’t think we ever make fusses,” said
Herbert in a deprecating way.
“Certainly not,” said Horace, with decision.
“Well, mysteries then; we all want to know
who this child really is—the child who came
in the dead of night wrapped up in an anti
macassar or something—came by Pickford’s
van, I am told.”
“I wish you could tell us, Lady Bowker.
We know no more than you do.”
“That’s all nonsense, Horace. I hear you
have engaged a nurse, and that the child is to
stay with you. I think you are most incon
siderate.”
“We are never inconsiderate,” said Horace.
“Certainly not,” said his brother.
“Yes, you are. You are inconsiderate in
not letting at least one safe, discreet person
into the secret. Some one like myself who
could vouch for you.”
“We don’t want to be vouched for.”
“Yes, you do—l don’t see that you are any
better than other people.”
Lady Bowker was growing cross at their
mild obstinacy.
“You are most inconsiderate towards Miss
Clauson. Here, a week after she comes to
live with you, this infant makes its appear
ance. Os course people say you were only
waiting until there was a lady at Hazlewood
House to look after him.”
“They say that, do they?” asked Horace,
Reflectively.
“What else can they say? I don’t say so;
butthen I have known you so long. Isay
that you have some excellent reason for keep
ing this child; but you ought to tell one per
son at least who he really is.”
“But we don’t know.”
“Yes, you do. Now tell me, like good
men.” . ~
They repeated their simple statement, add
ing that the child was kept by Beatrice’s ex
press wish; also because they hoped the
mystery would one day be solved; and be
cause they themselves felt a friendly disposi
tion toward the little waif.
“I don’t believe, a word of it,? said Lady
THE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES: SUNDAY, MAY 17, 1885.
Bowker rudely, and rising to go. The brothers
smiled calmly.
“You will only have yourselves to blame for
the scandal,” continued their visitor. Still
they smiled.
“Dear Lady Bowker,” said Horace, soft
ly, “will you still ask us to dinner occasion
ally?”
“Os course I shall.”
“And still honor Hazlewood House with
your presence?”
“Yes—when you ask me.”
“Then,” said Horace, “we feel we can hold
our own against the world.”
Lady Bowker drove away in a thorough
bad temper, but feeling more certain than
ever that the child was somebody. Indeed,
she managed to convey to most people the
impression that she was in the secret.
“Lady Bowker is a trifle vulgar sometimes,”
said Horace sadly.
“Sho is,” assented Herbert,
It was a painful thing for them to be com
pelled to make such an accusation against a
well-known member of the aristocracy; but
they were conscientious men, and spoke the
truth even when it lacerated their feelings.
Then in a quiet, methodical maimer they
went to work and dusted all the Oriental china
in a largo cabinet on the first landing. They
were fond of Oriental china, which they con
sidered the aristocrat of ceramics.
Ik is of course a proud position for a man to
hold when ho feels he can defy the scandal of
n place like Oakbury, but nevertheless Horace
Talbert was much annoyed, and as week after
week went by this annoyance increased. He
thought that. Herbert should have spoken to
him. He had waived his objections to keep
ing the child at Hazlewood House, and now
that the matter was settled Herbert ought i o
have told him everything. Faithful to bis
creed of non-interference he said or show Hi
nothing of his state of mind until the great
June audit came round.
The great June audit was this: We have
seen how exactly just the brothers were
towards one another in the matter of
pounds, shillings and pence, so it will be
lastly understood that the accounts were kept
with the most clerkly correctness. Horace
was the paymaster, and every item of ex
penditure was duly entered in an account
book—his long, elegant handwriting looking
quite out of place when used for such base
purposes. If the accounts were not kept by
the Italian system of double entry, they were
couched in a form which was perfectly intel
ligible. After all, there must have, been a
strong strain of trading bloodin the Talberts.
If one of them kept a horse more than the
other it was charged to his account. If one
was ill, and a doctor’s bill came in conse
quence, he was debited with the amount.
Tradesmen’s accounts were dissected and
charged off to the proper parties, nnd as soon
as possible after the 30th of June Horace pre
pared an elaborate statement of affairs,which
the two men checked through, signed, and
settled up, whatever amount was due from
one to the other. Nothing could have been
fairer.
But this year, when the accounts were sub
mitted to his inspection, Herbert Talbert
opened bis eyes in astonishment at one item
with which ho was charged. “I don’t under
stand this,” he said, laying his finger on one
amount which stood against him. Horace,
without looking, knew what it was. He had
weighed the matter carefully before he made
that particular entry.
“I think I have charged it as low as in jus
tice I could,” he said.
“But why is it charged at all?” asked Her
bert, raising his eyebrows.
At
“But why was it charged at all?"
Now the entry was: Wages of nurse, six
months, £9 10s. Od.; estimated keep of nurse
and child for six months, say £27165. Od.;
total, £37 6s. Od.
“I thought,” said Horace, slowly—“in fact
your manner at various times gave me to un
derstand—that it was right and just I should
make this entry.”
Herbert’s face grew red. Ho was as nearly
in a rage as he had ever been in his life. Yet
he answered not in words. He took a quill
pen and drew a thick ink line through the
entry, thereby giving Horace a morning’s
work in re-copying his elaborate statement
and altering the totals.
Nothing more was said. Herbert’s manner
of denial was more emphatic than words. His
brother knew that he would never have dis
puted a sixpence which he was justly liable to
pay. Horace did not apologize for his sus
picion ; he felt that having allowed Herbert to
blot and mutilate his fair balance sheet with
out a word of protest was more than enough
compensation, and no doubt Herbert thought
the same, for peace was restored, and the
matter never again mentioned.
The consequence was that, after the June
audit, even Horace was unable to frame any
theory to account for the way in which the
boy had appeared among them. He felt,
moreover, he had been rather taken in—that
his consent to the child’s remaining had been
won under false pretences, or, rather, because
he had deceived himself. However, it was
now too late to alter the course of events, and,
to tell the truth, Horace Talbert, in his own
grave, solemn way, petted the child almost as
much as Beatrice did.
[TO BE CONTINO ED. J
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Notice to Owners of Dogs.
CtTY OF SAVANNAH. )
Office Clerk of Council, v
May 11th, 1885. )
PERSONS owning dogs within the city
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Clerk of Council,
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