CHAPTER XIII.
SOCIETY.
Tradition declares that the family of Newt has been uniformly respectable but honest--so respectable, indeed, that Mr.Boniface Newt, the father of Abel, a celebrated New York merchant and a Tammany Sachem, had a crest.
He had even buttons for his coachman's coat with a stag's head engraved upon them.

The same device was upon his sealring.

It appeared upon his carriage door.

It figured on the edges of his dinner-service.

It was worked into the ground glass of the door that led from his dining-room to the back stairs.