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Updated: June 16, 2025
Around the hall might be traced the armorial bearings of the lord of the castle and the chief families with whom the lord of the castle was allied by blood the three water-budgets of De Roos; the three Katherine-wheels of Espec; the engrailed cross of De Vesci; the seven blackbirds of Merley; the lion argent of Dunbar in its field of gules; and the ruddy lion of Scotland, ramping in gold; while on the roof was depicted the castle itself, with gates, and battlements, and pinnacles, and towers; and there also, very conspicuous, was the form of a rose, and around it was inscribed in Gothic letters the legend
Russ, his mother, and his brother Billy always rapped in a characteristic manner. "It's me Dan Merley, and I want to see the old man!" was the answer. The girls drew together in fright, for they recognized by the thickness of the voice that the owner was not altogether himself.
DeVere glanced through it rapidly, looking for some item. Russ and the two girls watched him curiously. "Here it is!" cried the actor. "It is headed 'Brings Damage Suit for Ten Thousand Dollars. Listen, I'll just give you the main facts. It says Dan Merley had started an action in one of the courts demanding ten thousand dollars' damages for being hurt by a street car.
Of Morpeth Castle, built by a De Merley soon after the Conquest, only the gateway tower remains, but the outlines of the original boundary walls can be clearly traced. A company of five hundred Scots, whom Leslie had left as a garrison in 1644, held out here for three weeks against two thousand Royalists under Montrose.
"I don't care! He is, to make daddy pay twice!" "Yes, it is hard lines," sighed the veteran actor. "I have begged and pleaded with Merley, imploring him to try and remember that I paid him, but he is positive that I did not do so." "Do you suppose he really thinks so that he is honest in his belief that you never paid him?" asked Ruth.
"Yes, he was with two other men those who were with him when he was hurt by the street car." "Dan Merley up here?" mused Mr. DeVere. "I wonder what he can want? Can he be going to make trouble for me?" "We won't let him, Daddy!" cried Alice. "If he walks over here to ask for that five hundred dollars again, I'll " "You say he was walking around?" cried Mr. DeVere.
Miss Merley late in her forties, steel-eyed, thin-chested, flint-faced and with hair knotted so tightly back from her high stony brow that she had to take out two hairpins to wink Miss Merley might have done it but she had no kith or kin who could have done it for her, and certainly the hand that smoothed the coat buttoned the vest, and the hand that buttoned the vest put on the collar and tie, and as for the shirt
I am not a business man never was one. I trusted Dan Merley, and I should not have done so." "Why?" asked Ruth. "Because he came to me to-day, for the first time in several months, and demanded his five hundred dollars. I told him I had paid it, and tried to recall to him the circumstances. But, as I said, he was slightly intoxicated when I gave him the bills, and his mind was not clear.
"Well, there is nothing that hasn't its good side," remarked Ruth. "Emerson's idea of the law of compensation works out very nicely in this case." "Kindly translate, sister mine," invited Alice, laughingly. "Why, you know Emerson holds that one advantage makes up for each defect. In this case Merley has had an accident a defect.
A little later the two men went into the large cabin, and presently came out with their guns. There was no sign of Jagle. But Merley and Fripp started for the woods, and as soon as they were out of sight the four emerged from the small cabin, Russ carrying his camera that now contained the proof on the film. They hurried back to Elk Lodge. The last drama of the backwoods had been filmed.
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