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Updated: June 29, 2025
The war-steamer Niagara came up the Mersey a few days since, and day before yesterday Captain Hudson called at my office, a somewhat meagre, elderly gentleman, of simple and hearty manners and address, having his purser, Mr. Eldredge, with him, who, I think, rather prides himself upon having a Napoleonic profile. The captain is an old acquaintance of Mrs.
Mary's Hall, and Eldredge, startled at meeting the vagrant, as he deemed him, under such a character, remembers the hints of some secret knowledge of the family history, which Middleton had thrown out.
Eldredge, moreover, had resided long on the Continent; long in Italy; and had come back with habits that little accorded with those of the gentry of the neighborhood; so that, in fact, he was almost as much of a stranger, and perhaps quite as little of a real Englishman, as Middleton himself.
If "Big Jim" had appeared and hailed me with another offer for the land I should not have dodged. I was ready for him. But neither he, or any one else, appeared and I walked on. At the Corners, Sim Eldredge shouted to me from the platform of his store. "Hi, Ros!" he shouted. "You! Ros Paine! come here a minute, will you?" I did not want to see him.
And me livin' right in the house with you! By time! "There, there, Lute! don't cry. I'll tell you all about it when I come home for dinner." "Yes, I should think you might do that much. Treatin' your own family like why did you tell Sim Eldredge?" "Sim asked me and so I told him, that was all. Don't stand there fidgeting. Run along home, there's a good fellow. Mr.
It is very possible probable, indeed that there may have been some ground for this remarkable legend; not that it is to be credited that the family of Eldredge, being reckoned among sane men, would seriously have sought, years and generations after the fact, for the first track of those bloody footsteps which the first rain of drippy England must have washed away; to say nothing of the leaves that had fallen and the growth and decay of so many seasons, that covered all traces of them since.
As Middleton's pretensions to birth are not publicly known, there will be no reason why, at his sudden death, suspicion should fix on Eldredge as the murderer; and it shall be his object so to contrive his death as that it shall appear the result of accident.
I thought of my "popularity" and the admiration of my "public spirit" as manifested in the attentions of Captain Jed and Eldredge and their followers, and I turned my head away so that she might not see my face. "And I am glad you are going to the strawberry festival. I can't remember when you attended such a function before. Boy " "Yes, Mother."
But this infamy of his previous character must be foreboded from the first by the manner in which Eldredge is introduced; and it must make his evil designs on Middleton appear natural and probable.
Eldredge live here ALL alone?" asked Emily. "Yup. And died all alone, too. Course I don't mean he was alone all the time he was sick. Most of that time he was out of his head and folks could stay with him, but he came to himself occasional and when he did he'd fire 'em out because feedin' 'em cost money. He wa'n't what you'd call generous, Laban wa'n't."
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