Betrayed at Last.
knew ft gentleman who sottlod in tho South, vand beoamo so popular iu Ins neighbourhood that oven tho oounty families' oondusoended to visit him. ,-I could novel" disoover how ho had maao his money, but were satisfied by his solemn asmranoo that it was not in trade. Nothing BfT could oxoeud the ordinary gravity of demeanour, whloh indeed oacsed him to bo placed on the Commission of the Peace; but now and then, without any apparent £ revocation, ho would burst iuto such a iU«ll as no ono ever heitrd before oxoept ' in* ono plaoe. Where- they coulu have heard it puiiriod tho oounty families for flvo-nnd tweuty y«urs, but at last he was betrayed unoonaoiously by his own grandchild, who aftor a visit to a travellinfi oirouß, innocently grandpa laughs lilco tho olown 1 1
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3170, 3 April 1889, Page 3
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138Betrayed at Last. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3170, 3 April 1889, Page 3
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