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Article BROTHERLY LOVE. ← Page 11 of 11 Article THE HEIR OF BENDERSLEIGH; OR, THE FREEMASON'S PROMISE. Page 1 of 13 →
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Brotherly Love.
The recluse heeded not Ms impassioned appeal , but retreated hastily into his hut , and Simon could hear him draw the bolt . He renewed Ms entreaty , but the recluse gave no response , and Simon despairing of inducing him to comply with his request , descended from the mount musing on the words of the mysterious bemg , _ and the knowledge he possessed respecting his present history and circumstances . ( To le continued . )
The Heir Of Bendersleigh; Or, The Freemason's Promise.
THE HEIR OF BENDERSLEIGH ; OR , THE FREEMASON'S PROMISE .
( A Tale for a Summer ' s Day or a Winter's Night ) . BY BROTHER C . J . COLLINS . PART THE SECOND .
CHAPTER I . —T HE FIRST U SE . THAT MR . AUGUSTUS RAKER MAKES OP THE POWER OF PROPERTY . MR Graino-er's office was situated in a rather obscure street in the neighbourhood of the busiest part of the large town that stood upon the the river Grainger a and therefore
banks of great . Mr . was conveyancer , he had little to do with that department of the legal profession , the chiet characteristic of which is wide spread chicanery , supported by those delightful agents , deceit , dishonesty , and spite . The furniture of Mr . Grainger ' s office was of ante-date , and had grown brown in a long service ot dei
silent usefulness . There were an outer and an inner ottice m me > « of which Mr . Grainger transacted his business , assisted by Henry itliiotson who usually occupied the opposite side of the office table which stood in the middle of the inner apartment . The other part of Mr . Gramger s offices was occupied by a little old man , who had been so long an inmate of the lace that he seemed almost to have a part of the low desk
p grown at which he sat , which desk in former days had been also occupied by vouno-er clerks , when Mr . Grainger did a large business , out of which he had made Ms fortune long ago . Mr . Grainger's little old clerk was known to all the neighbourhood round , and Ms good humoured face was ever met
. with welcome wherever he went . % Almost a sinecure now , was the office that Old Gabriel Hunter occupied under Mr . Grainger . But he ever made a show of being most busy and much occupied . He never could be brought to acknowledge that he had notMng to do . His business was his life , and public holidays , when they came , were nothing less than days of penance to him . So long had he o-one ' on in the same unvaried round of occupation , that it had indeed ^ i-own a second nature to Mm . In keeping with t ] ic place in wMch he
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Brotherly Love.
The recluse heeded not Ms impassioned appeal , but retreated hastily into his hut , and Simon could hear him draw the bolt . He renewed Ms entreaty , but the recluse gave no response , and Simon despairing of inducing him to comply with his request , descended from the mount musing on the words of the mysterious bemg , _ and the knowledge he possessed respecting his present history and circumstances . ( To le continued . )
The Heir Of Bendersleigh; Or, The Freemason's Promise.
THE HEIR OF BENDERSLEIGH ; OR , THE FREEMASON'S PROMISE .
( A Tale for a Summer ' s Day or a Winter's Night ) . BY BROTHER C . J . COLLINS . PART THE SECOND .
CHAPTER I . —T HE FIRST U SE . THAT MR . AUGUSTUS RAKER MAKES OP THE POWER OF PROPERTY . MR Graino-er's office was situated in a rather obscure street in the neighbourhood of the busiest part of the large town that stood upon the the river Grainger a and therefore
banks of great . Mr . was conveyancer , he had little to do with that department of the legal profession , the chiet characteristic of which is wide spread chicanery , supported by those delightful agents , deceit , dishonesty , and spite . The furniture of Mr . Grainger ' s office was of ante-date , and had grown brown in a long service ot dei
silent usefulness . There were an outer and an inner ottice m me > « of which Mr . Grainger transacted his business , assisted by Henry itliiotson who usually occupied the opposite side of the office table which stood in the middle of the inner apartment . The other part of Mr . Gramger s offices was occupied by a little old man , who had been so long an inmate of the lace that he seemed almost to have a part of the low desk
p grown at which he sat , which desk in former days had been also occupied by vouno-er clerks , when Mr . Grainger did a large business , out of which he had made Ms fortune long ago . Mr . Grainger's little old clerk was known to all the neighbourhood round , and Ms good humoured face was ever met
. with welcome wherever he went . % Almost a sinecure now , was the office that Old Gabriel Hunter occupied under Mr . Grainger . But he ever made a show of being most busy and much occupied . He never could be brought to acknowledge that he had notMng to do . His business was his life , and public holidays , when they came , were nothing less than days of penance to him . So long had he o-one ' on in the same unvaried round of occupation , that it had indeed ^ i-own a second nature to Mm . In keeping with t ] ic place in wMch he