Genevra turned her face aside.
"Why, that's her waterfall!" said the Judge.
Bumpo sank fainting to the floor.
The famous Pike chieftain never recovered from the deceit, and
refused to marry Genevra, who died, twenty years afterwards, of a
broken heart. Judge Tompkins lost his fortune in Wild Cat. The
stage passes twice a week the deserted cottage at Donner Lake.
Thus was the death of Muck-a-Muck avenged.
TERENCE DENVILLE.
BY CH--L--S L--V--R.
CHAPTER I.
MY HOME.
The little village of Pilwiddle is one of the smallest and
obscurest hamlets on the western coast of Ireland. On a lofty
crag, overlooking the hoarse Atlantic, stands "Denville's Shot
Tower"--a corruption by the peasantry of D'Enville's Chateau, so
called from my great-grandfather, Phelim St. Kemy d'Enville, who
assumed the name and title of a French heiress with whom he ran
away. To this fact my familiar knowledge and excellent
pronunciation of the French language may be attributed, as well as
many of the events which covered my after life.
The Denvilles were always passionately fond of field sports. At
the age of four, I was already the boldest rider and the best shot
in the country.
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