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"MR. STONE: Sir—My son Godfrey informs me that you have treated him in a very unjust manner, for which I find it impossible to account. I shall be glad if you can find time to call at my house this evening, in order that I may hear from your lips an explanation of the occurrence. Yours, in haste, "Lucinda Preston.""Preston," said Mr. Stone, after reading this note, "you may say to your mother that I will call this evening." He did not appear in the least disturbed by the contents of the note he had received from the richest and—in her own eyes—the most important lady in the village. In fact, he had a large share of self-respect and independence, and was not likely to submit to browbeating from anyone. He tried to be just in his treatment of the scholars under his charge, and if he ever failed, it was from misunderstanding or ignorance, not from design. In the present instance he felt that he had done right, and resolved to maintain the justice of his conduct. Nothing of importance occurred in the afternoon. Godfrey was very quiet and orderly. He felt that he could afford to wait. With malicious joy, he looked forward to the scolding Mr. Stone was to get from his mother. "He won't dare to talk to her," he said to himself. "I hope she'll make him apologize to me. He ought to do it before the school." Evidently Godfrey had a very inadequate idea of the teacher's pluck, if he thought such a thing possible. School was dismissed, and Godfrey went home. He dropped a hint to Ben Travers, that his mother was going "to haul Mr. Stone over the coals," as he expressed it. "Are you going to be there?" asked Ben, when Godfrey had finished. "Yes," said Godfrey. "It'll be my turn then." "Perhaps Mr. Stone will have something to say," said Ben, doubtfully. "He won't dare to," said Godfrey, confidently. "He knows my father could get him kicked out of school." "He's rather spunky, the master is," said Ben, who, toady as he was, understood the character of Mr. Stone considerably better than Godfrey did. "I'll tell you all about it to-morrow morning," said Godfrey. "All right." "I expect he'll apologize to me for what he did." "Maybe he will," answered Ben, but he thought it highly improbable. "Did you give my note to Mr. Stone?" asked his mother. "Yes." "What did he say?" "He said he'd come around." "How did he appear?" "He looked a little nervous," said Godfrey, speaking not according to facts, but according to his wishes. "I thought so," said Mrs. Preston, with a look of satisfaction. "He will find that he has made a mistake in treating you so outrageously." "Give it to him right and left, mother," said Godfrey, with more force than elegance. "You might express yourself more properly, my son," said Mrs. Preston. "I shall endeavor to impress upon his mind the impropriety of his conduct." At half-past seven, Mr. Stone rang the bell at Mrs. Preston's door, and was ushered in without delay. "Good-evening, Mrs. Preston," he said, bowing. "Your son brought me a note this afternoon, requesting me to call. I have complied with your request." "Be seated, Mr. Stone," said the lady frigidly, not offering her hand. "Thank you," said the teacher, with equal ceremony, and did as invited. "I suppose you can guess the object of my request," said Mrs. Preston. "I think you stated it in your note." "I desire an explanation of the manner in which you treated my son this forenoon, Mr. Stone." "Pardon me, madam; your son is in the room." "Well, sir?" "I decline discussing the matter before him." "I cannot understand why you should object to his presence." "I am his teacher, and he is subject to my authority. You apparently desire to find fault with the manner in which I have exercised that authority. It is improper that the discussion upon this point should take place before him." "May I stay in the room, mother?" asked Godfrey, who was alarmed lest he should miss the spectacle of Mr. Stone's humiliation. "I really don't see why not," returned his mother. "Madam," said Mr. Stone, rising, "I will bid you good-evening." "What, sir; before we have spoken on the subject?" "I distinctly decline to speak before your son, for the reasons already given." "This is very singular, sir. However, I will humor your whims. Godfrey, you may leave the room." "Can't I stay?" "I am compelled to send you out." Godfrey went out, though with a very ill grace. "Now, madam," said the teacher, "I have no objection to telling you that I first reprimanded your son for brutal treatment of a younger schoolmate, and then forcibly carried him back to his seat, when he endeavored to leave the schoolroom without my permission." It was Mrs. Preston's turn to be surprised. She had expected to overawe the teacher, and instead of that found him firmly and independently defending his course. "Mr. Stone," she said, "my son tells me that you praised an Irish boy in your school for a violent and brutal assault which he made upon him." "I did not praise him for that. I praised him for promptly interfering to prevent Godfrey from abusing a boy smaller and younger than himself." "Godfrey had good cause for punishing the boy you refer to. He acted in self-defense." "He has doubtless misrepresented the affair to you, madam, as he did to me." "You take this Andrew Burke's word against his?" "I form my judgment upon the testimony of an eyewitness, and from what I know of your son's character." "From your own statement, this low Irish boy——" "To whom do you refer, madam?" "To the Irish boy." "I have yet to learn that he is low." "Do you mean to compare him with my son?" "In wealth, no. Otherwise, you mustn't blame me for saying that I hold him entirely equal in respectability, and in some important points his superior." "Really, sir, your language is most extraordinary." At this moment there was an interruption. Godfrey had been listening at the keyhole, but finding that difficult, had opened the door slightly, but in his interest managed to stumble against it. The door flew open, and he fell forward upon his knees on the carpet of the sitting-room.
"MRS. PRESTON:— "Dear Madam: It gives me great pleasure to inform you that your husband is so far recovered that there is no danger now of infection. You can return with safety, and he will, doubtless, be glad to see you. He has been very ill, indeed—in danger of his life; but, thanks to the devotion of Mrs. Burke, who has proved an admirable nurse, he is now on the high road to recovery. Yours respectfully, "John Townley.""I think that will bring her," said the doctor. But he reckoned without his host. The next day he received the following letter, on scented paper:
"MY DEAR DOCTOR TOWNLEY: You cannot think how rejoiced I am to receive the tidings of my husband's convalescence. I have been so tortured with anxiety during the last four weeks! You cannot think how wretchedly anxious I have been. I could not have endured to stay away from his bedside but that my duty imperatively required it. I have lost flesh, and my anxiety has worn upon me. Now, how gladly will I resume my place at the bedside of my husband, restored by your skill. I am glad the nurse has proved faithful. It was a good chance for her, for she shall be liberally paid, and no doubt the money will be welcome. But don't you think it might be more prudent for me to defer my return until next week? It will be safer, I think, and I owe it to my boy to be very careful. You know, the contagion may still exist. It is hard for me to remain longer away, when I would fain fly to the bedside of Mr. Preston, but I feel that it is best. Say to him, with my love, that he may expect me next week. Accept my thanks for your attention to him. I shall never forget it; and believe me to be, my dear doctor, your obliged "Lucinda Preston."Dr. Townley threw down this letter with deep disgust. "Was ever any woman more disgustingly selfish?" he exclaimed. "Her husband might have died, so far as she was concerned." Of course, he had to show this letter to Colonel Preston. The latter read it, with grave face, and the doctor thought he heard a sigh. "My wife is very prudent," he said, with a touch of bitterness in his voice. "She will be here next week," said the doctor, having nothing else to answer. "I think she will run no risk then," said the sick man, cynically. But Mrs. Preston did not return in a week. It was a full week and a half before she arrived at her own house. The doctor was just coming out of the front door. "How is my husband?" she asked. "Not far from well. He is still weak, of course." "And are you sure," she said, anxiously, "that there is no danger of infection?" "Not the slightest, madam," said Dr. Townley, coldly. "I am so glad I can see him once more. You cannot imagine," she exclaimed, clasping her hands, "how much I have suffered in my suspense!" The doctor remained cool and unmoved. He didn't feel that he could respond fittingly, being absolutely incredulous. Mrs. Preston saw it, and was nettled. She knew that she was a hypocrite, but did not like to have the doctor, by his silence, imply his own conviction of it. "Mine has been a hard position," she continued. "Your husband has not had an easy time," said the doctor, significantly. "But he has had good care—Mrs. Burke was a good nurse?" "Admirable." "She must be paid well." "I offered her ten dollars a week." "Humph!" said Mrs. Preston, doubtfully, in whose eyes five dollars would have been liberal compensation. "It has been a good chance for her." "It is far from adequate," said the doctor, disgusted. "Money cannot pay for such service as hers, not to speak of the risk she ran, for cases have been known of persons being twice attacked by the disease." "You don't think my husband will have a relapse?" asked Mrs. Preston, with fresh alarm. "Not if he has the same care for a short time longer." "He shall have it. She must stay. Of course her duties are lighter now, and six dollars a week for the remainder of the time will be enough—don't you think so?" "No, I don't," said the doctor, bluntly; "and, moreover, I am quite sure your husband will not consent to reducing the wages of one whose faithful care has saved his life." "Oh, well, you know best," said Mrs. Preston, slowly. "I am quite willing that she should be well paid." Mrs. Preston went upstairs, and entered her husband's chamber. "Oh, my dear husband!" she exclaimed, theatrically, hurrying across the room, with affected emotion. "I am so glad to find you so much better!" "I am glad to see you back, Lucinda," said Colonel Preston; but he spoke coldly, and without the slightest affectation of sentimental joy. "I have passed through a good deal since you left me." "And so have I!" exclaimed his wife. "Oh, how my heart has been rent with anxiety, as I thought of you lying sick, while duty kept me from your side." "Is Godfrey well?" asked her husband, taking no notice of her last speech. "Yes, poor boy! He sends his love, and is so anxious to see you." "Let him come next Friday afternoon," said the sick man, who doubted this statement, yet wanted to believe it true. "He shall. I will write to him at once." So Mrs. Preston resumed her place in the house; but from that time there was a something she could not understand in her husband's manner. He was graver than formerly, and sometimes she saw him watching her intently, and, after a little, turn away, with a sigh. He had found her out in all her intense selfishness and want of feeling, and he could never again regard her as formerly, even though she tried hard at times, by a show of affection, to cover up her heartless neglect.
MY WILL.Her heart beat as she opened it, and, though there was no need, for it was now past ten o'clock, and there was not likely to be a caller at that late hour, she looked cautiously about her, and even peered out of the window into the darkness, but could find no one whose observation she might fear. I am not about to recite at length the items in the will, which covered a page of foolscap. It is enough to quote two items, which Mrs. Preston read with anger and dissatisfaction. They are as follows:
"Item.—To my young friend, Andy Burke, son of the widow Burke, of this village, in consideration of a valuable service rendered to me on one occasion, and as a mark of my regard and interest, I give and bequeath the sum of five thousand dollars; and to his mother, as a token of gratitude for her faithful nursing when I was dangerously sick with the smallpox, I give and bequeath, free of all incumbrance, the cottage in which she at present resides. "Item.—To the town I give five thousand dollars, the interest to be annually appropriated to the purchase of books for a public library, for the benefit of all the citizens, provided the town will provide some suitable place in which to keep them."All the balance of the property was left to his wife and son, in equal proportions, his wife to be the guardian of Godfrey till he should have attained his majority. As Colonel Preston was well known to be rich, this seemed to be an adequate provision, but Mrs. Preston did not look upon it in that light. On the contrary, she was deeply incensed at the two legacies of which mention has been made above. ﹃Was ever anything more absurd than to waste five thousand dollars and a house upon that Irish boy and his mother?﹄she said to herself. "I don't suppose it was so much my husband's fault. That artful woman got around him, and wheedled him into it. I know now why she was so willing to come here and take care of him when he was sick. She wanted to wheedle him into leaving money to her low-lived boy. She is an artful and designing hussy, and I should like to tell her so to her face." The cold and usually impassible woman was deeply excited. Her selfish nature made her grudge any of her husband's estate to others, except, indeed, to Godfrey, who was the only person she cared for. As she thought over the unjust disposition, as she regarded it, which her husband had made of his property, a red spot glowed in her usually pale cheek. Then it was another grievance that money should have been left to the town. "What claim had the town on my husband," she thought, "that he should give it five thousand dollars? In doing it, he was robbing Godfrey and me. It was wrong. He had no right to do it. What do I care for these people? They are a set of common farmers and mechanics, with whom I condescend to associate because I have no one else here, except the minister's and the doctor's family, to speak to. Soon I shall be in the city, and then I don't care if I never set eyes on any of them again. In Boston I can find suitable society." The more Mrs. Preston thought of it, the more she felt aggravated by the thought that so large a share of her husband's property was to go to others. She fixed her eyes thoughtfully on the document which she held in her hand, and a strong temptation came to her. "If this should disappear," she said to herself, "the money would be all mine and Godfrey's, and no one would be the wiser. That Irish boy and his mother would stay where they belonged, and my Godfrey would have his own. Why should I not burn it? It would only be just." Deluding herself by this false view, she persuaded herself that it was right to suppress the will. With steady hand she held it to the flame of the lamp, and watched it as it was slowly consumed. Then, gathering up the fragments, she threw them away. "It is all ours now," she whispered, triumphantly, as she prepared to go to bed. "It was lucky I found the will."
"MY DEAR FRIEND, DR. TOWNLEY: This is the duplicate of a will executed recently, and expresses my well-considered wishes as to the disposition of my property. The original will may have been found and executed before you open this envelope. In that case, of course, this will be of no value, and you can destroy it. But I am aware that valuable papers are liable to loss or injury, and, therefore, I deem it prudent to place this duplicate in your possession, that, if the other be lost, you may see it carried into execution. I have named you my executor, and am sure, out of regard to me, you will accept the trust, and fulfill it to the best of your ability. I have always felt the utmost confidence in your friendship, and this will account for my troubling you on the present occasion. "Your friend, "Anthony Preston."From this letter Dr. Townley turned to the perusal of the will. The contents filled him with equal surprise and pleasure. "Five thousand dollars to Andy Burke!" he repeated. "That is capital! It will start the boy in life, and with his good habits it will make him sure of a competence by and by. With half of it he can buy an interest in Graves' store, and the balance will, if well invested, give him a handsome addition to his income. Then there's the bequest for the town library—a capital idea, that! It will do a great deal to make the town attractive, and be a powerful agency for refining and educating the people." Just then Mrs. Townley, who knew what her husband was about, came into the room. "Well, Henry," she said, "is the paper important?" "I should say it was. It is Colonel Preston's last will and testatment." "Is it possible? How does he leave his property?" "He leaves five thousand dollars for a town library." "Does he remember Andy Burke?" "He leaves him five thousand dollars, and gives his mother the house they used to live in." "That's splendid! But what will Mrs. Preston say?" "Well, that remains to be seen," said the doctor, laughing.
"GRAVES & BURKE."Andy's eyes sparkled with proud anticipation. It was so far above any dream he had ever formed. "It's what I'd like above all things," he said. "Oh, what will mother say? I must go and tell her." "Go, by all means, Andy, and when you have told her, come back, and I'll go over with you to Mr. Graves' store, and we'll talk over the arrangements with him." Mrs. Burke's delight at her own success and that of Andy may be imagined. She, too, had been getting despondent, and it seemed almost like a fairy tale to find herself the owner of a house, and her boy likely to be taken into partnership with the principal trader in the village. She invoked blessings on the memory of Colonel Preston, through whose large-hearted generosity this had come to pass, but could not help speculating on what Mrs. Preston would say. She understood very well that she would be very angry. Mrs. Preston did not dispute the will. She might have done so, but for her fear that her own criminal act would be brought to light. Godfrey, who was even more disturbed than she was at the success of "that low Irish boy," begged her to do it, but in this case she did not yield to his entreaties. She had never dared to take him into confidence respecting her destruction of the other will. While we are upon this subject, we may as well trace out the future career of Mrs. Preston. Some years later she was induced, by the expectation of aiding her social standing, to marry an adventurer who appeared to be doing a flourishing business as a State Street broker. By spurious representations, he managed to get hold of her property, and to be appointed Godfrey's guardian. The result may be foreseen. He managed to spend or waste the whole and when Godfrey was twenty-one, he and his mother were penniless. Andy, who was now sole representative of the firm of Graves & Burke, and in receipt of an excellent income, heard of the misfortunes of his old enemy, and out of regard to the memory of his old benefactor voluntarily offered Mrs. Preston an allowance of five hundred dollars. It cost her pride a great deal to accept this favor from the boy she had looked down upon as "only an Irish boy," but her necessity was greater than her pride, and she saw no other way of escaping the poorhouse. So she ungraciously accepted. But Andy did not care for thanks. He felt that he was doing his duty, and he asked no other reward than that consciousness. Mrs. Preston was allowed to make her home, rent free, in Mrs. Burke's old house, Andy having built a better and more commodious one, in which he had installed his mother as mistress. Mrs. Preston grew old fast, in appearance, and fretted without ceasing for the fortune and position which she had lost. Her husband left her, and has not since been heard of. As for Godfrey, Andy secured him a passage to California, where he led a disreputable life. There is a rumor that he was killed in a drunken brawl at Sacramento not long since, but I have not been able to learn whether this is true or not. His loss of fortune had something to do with his going to the bad, but I am afraid, with his character and tendencies, that neither in prosperity nor in adversity would he have built up a good character, or led an honorable career. His course had been, in all respects, far different from that of our hero, who, already prosperous, seems likely to go on adding to his wealth, and growing in the esteem of the best portion of the community. His success, aided, indeed, by good fortune, has served to demonstrate the favorable effects of honesty, industry, and good principles, upon individual success. He is not the first, nor will he be the last, to achieve prosperity and the respect of the community, though beginning life as "only an Irish boy."
Transcriber's comments: Spelling has been left as in the original book. Specifically, the dialect and typographical errors have been left unchanged.
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