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The evils of the alternative offered by his brother were duly weighed by the Doctor and Ethel with an attempt to be impartial. Mr. Axworthy, though the mill was the centre of his business, was in fact a corn merchant of considerable wealth, and with opportunities of extending his connection much farther. Had his personal character been otherwise, Dr.
Davvit said she'd d'it hersel'. An' a' the time she's correspondin' wi' a yunger ane, an Axworthy tae, 'at she tells Marg'et she likes a hape better. Yer sister's sair affronted to think o' the w'y the fem'ly name's bein' cairted thro' the mire." Belle came out on the veranda, her broad hat in her hand, ready to walk down to the train with me.
Calling a cabriolet, he repaired to the police-station nearest to the scene of the contest, and there learnt that Axworthy had long been watched as a dangerous subject, full of turbulence, and with no visible means of maintenance. The officials had taken charge of the few personal effects in his miserable lodgings, and were endeavouring to secure the person who had struck the fatal blow.
Once a fortnight ago, just after that talk with Aubrey I knew he had been drinking, and watched, and came in upon them when there was no bearing it any longer. I was sworn at for my pains, and almost kicked out again; but after that Mr. Axworthy made me sit in the room, as if I were a protection; and I made up my mind to bear it as long as he lived.
After waiting two hours and a half for standing room on a suburban train, we reached the hotel at an early hour on July the 5th, dusty, smoke-stained, and powder-scented, like veterans from a field of battle. That was not by any means the last of Mr. Tom Axworthy.
'Ward came as assistant to old Axworthy, and married his daughter; he had no relations that his son knows of, except the old aunt who left Averil her L2000. 'There are some Axworthys still, said Ethel, 'but not very creditable people. 'You may say that, said Dr. May emphatically.
Axworthy, and arrived at seven o'clock A. M. Found him dead, from a fracture of the skull over the left temple, he should imagine, from a blow from a heavy blunt instrument, such as the stock of a gun. Death must have been instantaneous, and had probably taken place seven or eight hours before he was called in.
"So Axworthy didn't propose at the Fair?" said I, when we were out of earshot of the cottage. "No; and I think it's a crying shame, too, after the way he appropriated the girl all last winter, and in Chicago too." "A great relief to you! Well, I guess the whole town knows by this time that you made Mary write and ask his intentions." "This is too much! Has your mother "
He described how Mr. Axworthy, having spent the more active years of his life in foreign trade, had finally returned to pass his old age among his relatives; and had taken to assist him in his business a great-nephew, and latterly another youth in the same degree of relation, the son of his late niece the prisoner, who on leaving school had been taken into his uncle's office, lodged in the house, and became one of the family.
What's become of Axworthy?" As we approached the comfortable-looking pair, Mary bowed to us smilingly, and called the attention of her companion to her "father and mother" darn her impudence! The boat ride was spoiled for Belle and me, our white elephant having arisen to haunt us once more.
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