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CHAPTER I. THE MAJOR AND HIS HOUSEHOLD.
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Laurence Jen was a retired1 major, a bachelor, and the proprietor2 of a small estate at Hurstleigh, in Surrey. On leaving the service, he decided--not unwisely--that it was better to be a Triton in the country than a minnow in town; and acting3 upon this theory he purchased "Ashantee" from a ruined squire4. Formerly5 the place had been called Sarbylands, after its original owners; but Jen had changed the name, in honor of the one campaign in which he had participated.
He had been present at the downfall of King Koffee; he had contracted during the expedition an ague which tormented6 him greatly during his later life, and he had received a wound and a medal. In gratitude7, it is to be presumed, for these gifts of fortune, the major, with some irony8, had converted the name Sarbylands into the barbaric appellation9 of a West African kingdom; and here, for many years, he lived with his two boys.
These lads, named respectively Maurice Alymer and David Sarby, were in no way related to the major, who, as has been stated before, was a bachelor; but they had entered into his life in rather an odd fashion. Alymer was the son of a beautiful girl with whom Jen had been passionately10 in love, but she did not return his affection, and married one of his brother officers, who was afterward11 killed in the Ashantee war. On returning to England Jen cherished a hope that she would reward his love by a second marriage, but the shock of her husband's death proved too much for the fragile widow. She died within a week after receiving the terrible news, and left behind her a
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