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Title: Volume 4 (1859-1860) Collection Type: Books and Periodicals Collection Name: Hutchings' Illustrated California Magazine Published: 1859-1860 # of Pages: 600 Download PDF: User Login Required Download OCR Text: User Login Required

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BE PUNCTUAL, 413 considerable period, and was then, for the first time, promulgated, although but little doubt could possibly have existed as to what it would be. Lieutenant Harrison was cashiered, and his name ordered to be stricken off the strength of the army. During the time he had been awaiting this result, the effects of his pleading guilty, together with his additional remarks, and the assertions and insinuations of Williams, began to work. Many seemed to think that he had aided in Emerson’s escape, and one by one his friends dropped from him, until only the friendship of Hartley remained. He had managed, by some means, twice to communicate with, and to hear from Agnes, and her replies were all he could hope for. That effected, his wish was to leave the country, and glad he was when the transport, in which he was ordered a passage, passed through the narrows on her way to England. On his arrival in London, he found his father absent from town, and his eldest brother also; but he received a letter from the former, refusing to see him, enclosing bank bills to the amount of two thousand pounds, which, at his father’s death he would be entitled to, and intimating that as he had disgraced a loyal name, he never wished to hear of him. A few lines from the latter informed him that if he could ever réestablish his character, he hoped he would doso; that with his best wishes for his future, he thought that at any rate England was no place for him, for there he was irretrievably lost; possibly he might get employment in the Russian service, which had lately engaged many English officers—he merely gave him this as an item of information, not from any desire to interfere with or advise in his future arrangements, of which he begged to wash his hands. ‘J will make a name that shall make them bow to me yet, if I live,” said George, on reading the last letter, from a brother who had always been, hitherto, sokind. ‘‘I did not think he could judge me so harshly.” Of his father, he had expected nothing better, for he knew the strength of his feelings and prejudices. “T will, in one thing,” pondered Harrison, “follow my brother’s hint; England is now no place for me; and now, this revolutionary war draws towards a close, so says everybody. Well, let me remember that even Pandora’s box had hope at the bottom of it.”’ Of the other parties, whom we have introduced to our readers, some will appear again. At present, we will only mention that Lord Edward Thynne never recovered ; he died in New York, shortly after Harrison’s departure, and, although he had refused to fulfill his promise to Major Williams, that worthy, on his death, discovered some letters, in a peculiar hand-writing, which once seen was not easily forgotten, that his father was none other than the noble duke, who was also the parent of Lord Edward. Other information he, in the same manner, gathered, which he determined to use for his own ends. Leaving Agnes Emerson at Bokelen, with her aunt, William having jomed the continental army, with a captain’s commission, we close our First Erocu. [Zo be continued.] BE PUNCTUAL. BY G. T. 8. ‘Don’? ask that man to be a bearer at my funeral,” said a very facetious, but punctual man, of one whom he knew to be slow and dilatory, “‘he always kept me waiting all my life, and I don’t wish to be served in the same way after I am dead.” Now, without pretending to excuse this somewhat irreverent remark, we do real-