d him. But he was affectionate to his children, and anxious above
all things for their welfare, or rather happiness. Some marvellous
stories were told as to his income, which arose chiefly from the
Tretton delf-works and from the town of Tretton, which had been built
chiefly on his very park, in consequence of the nature of the clay and
the quality of the water. As a fact, the original four thousand a year,
to which his father had been born, had grown to twenty thousand by
nature of the operations which had taken place. But the whole of this,
whether four thousand or twenty thousand, was strictly entailed, and Mr.
Scarborough had been very anxious, since his second son was born, to
create for him also something which might amount to opulence. But they
who knew him best knew that of all things he hated most the entail.

The boys were both educated at Eton, and the elder went into the Guards,
having been allowed an intermediate year in order to learn languages on
the Continent. He had then become a cornet in the Coldstreams, and had,
from that time, lived a life of reckless expenditure. His brother
Augustus had in the mean time gone to Cambridge and become a barrister.
He had been called but two years when the story was made known of his
father's singular assertion. As from that time it became unnecessary for
him to practise his profession, no more was heard of him as a lawyer. But
they who had known the young man in the chambers of that great luminary,
Mr. Rugby, declared that a very eminent advocate was now spoiled by a
freak of fortune.

Of his brother Mountjoy,--or Captain Scarborough, as he came to be known
at an early period of his life,--the stories which were told in the world
at large were much too remarkable to be altogether true. But it was only
too true that he lived as though the wealth at his command were without
limit. For some few years his father bore with him patiently, doubling
his allowance, and paying his bills for him again and again. He made up
his mind,--with many regrets,--that enough had been done for his younger
son, who would surely by his intellect be able to do much for himself.
But then it became necessary to encroach on the funds already put by,
and at last there came the final blow, when he discovered that Captain
Scarborough had raised large sums on post-obits from the Jews. The Jews
simply requested the father to pay the money or some portion of it,
which if at once paid would satisfy th