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Fred A Hedberg John Daleen W Burnhelm cash paid on load gradei Total Total disbursements Total receipts to January 7 1901 Total disbursements Total leceipts DISBURSEMENTS & lu Cook hyH ester Kipp A Baiker estate I S Mudgett estate Mary E Chadbourne William Hendricks Jacob VanEhee A Pnns W Mitchell The Mille Lacs Lumber Citizens State Bank of Princeton Graves & Vinton Compan Total disbursements Total receipts Total disbursements Court house bonds RFoEIPTS Balance treasuiv Januarj lstl9J0 From tax co'lections '..&*, 5 Ih 10 00 150.00 Total $1012 70 RoadWoik ommissionei District No 4 S Cone E Cone $55 00 121 34 S176 84 $1,243 04 $1 255 14 1243 04 Balance in treasuiy January 7,1901 $7 10 PRIVATE REDEIlPTIOn FUND. RECEIPTS Balance in tieasury January 1st 1900 Max Kruschke Absalom Nelson Anfin Nelson John Nelson Chadboume adnnmstiator Andrew Negard James McHugh W W. ashburn jr Ohas Dutcher James Barnard Idella Cushman Nels Halvorson Gust Strand PaulW Goldsbuig Carrie Rutherford Jacob anRhee Howell W Young ana SAC lark OlofO Seaile O'Neal Bio-, Mrs E "\ledd by McMJlen Att Nels Peterson E Farnham Theo Koch Land Co Samuel Coo'v Alex Bostiom Frank Foltz McMillen $117 60 35 81 6S 49 7") 52 1 20 1 85 4 1,2 94 50 1 40 43 64 75 81 4 12 15 23 6 27 13 87 13 54 25 11 10 55 255 84 17 87 39 94 It 46 32 8j 63 59 $uo $34 81 87-9*0 17 90 17 91 4 12 15 23 5 b8 74 11 255 84 o9 94 11 4b 32 85 $597 75 $2 27 597 75 Balance in tieasuiy January7th 1901 $123- 52 INTEREST AND SINKING FUND. Raihoad bonds RECEIPTS Balance in treasury Januarj 1st, 1900$15,9ol 91 From tax collections 6,062 28 Total leceipts 5^2 024 13 DISBURSEMENTS First NafonalBank St Paul interest $1 500 00 Balance tieasun Janaai\ 7th 1301 $.20,524 19 33,622 93 3,301 79 Total leceipts $5 921 12 DISBURSEMENTS State tieasuier pure pal and interest 2 850 67 Balance in treasuiy Janiaij 7th 1901 $4,074 05 CURRENT SCHOOL FUND RECEIPTS Balance in treasury January is t"00 $5 00 State apportionment March 1 bb7 50 State apportionment Octobei 4 422 85 Fines -ii 00 Total receipts $6 333 35 DISBURSEMENT^ Apportioned to school jtricts Maieh $1 50 Apportioned to senool d'stnets Oct 4 4t 85 Total Uis'o i \e us W 36 35 Fininci.il Cou'lition of the Ooaa tj Jau- uarj 7 th, 1901. RESOURCES Cash in treasury January 7tu 1901 *29 719 22 Uncollected ta\es ot 1899 and prior eai 40 530 85 Tax lev\ of lli'O current funds 17 145 3b Acciued costs penalties ard interest 7 048 4 1 0 Total 5 jj 743 \i LIABILITIES Countj ordeis outstanding i' 3^3 19 Five per cent railroad bonds 30 000 CO Four per cent court house bonds 10 000 00 Foui per cent county funding bonds 10 000 00 Interest on ra'lroad oonds due July 1st 1 500 00 Interest on court house bonds due July 1st 400 00 Intel est on coum\ fund'ng oonds due July 1st 400 03 Due school districts Col 49 Due towns and Ulages 214 18 Due State of Minnesota 544 si Total Total resources Total liabilities $64,033 70 $94,743 53 $64,033 70 Excess of resources over liabilities $33,709 83 INVENTORY OF COUNTY Court house 1 block of land, books furniture and fixtures $31,000 00 The Gage house and lot 400 00 The NE of NE of Sec 9 37, 27 400 00 Test scales we'ghts and measures 405 50 Countj sur\eor outfit 90 00 Total !295 50 Taxable Y-se^eci Valuation of the County A. D. 1900. Real estate II 375 5.25 00 Personal propyl 233 490 CO ot il SI 338 ri5 03 Amount Levied for Each Fund. Statelevenue fund State school fund Interest on State loans For county purposes For township purposes For school district purposes 1 otai The roregomg $2 Osb lb 1 608 87 7,760 69 17 445 36 8 167 36 15,203 49 $52,211 62 statement piepared bv the County Auditor is approved by this board, and lespectfully submitted to the tax payeis of the county Dated at Princeton this bth day of January A 1901 S LlBBY, JOHN MCCOOL, NORTON, NE DS PETERS ON GEORGE DEA NS Attest Board of County Commissioners E E WHITNEY, [SEAL County Auditor School District Notice. Whereas a petition duly signed and the sig natures thereto duly acknowledged, has been duly presented to the board of county commis sioners of Mille Lacs county, Minnesota, at a session of said board held on the 20th day of February A 1901 asking for the formation of a new school district to be composed of the following described territory, to-wit The south half of section twenty-five (25), the south half of section thirty-five (35^ and all of sec tion thirty-six (36) township thirty-six (38), range twenty-six (26), in Mille Lacs county, and all of sections one (1) and two (2), and the east half of section three (3) township thirty five (35) range twenty-six (26^, in Sherburne county. Now therefore notice is hereby given, that a hearing of parties interested in the matter of said petition will be granted at the next ses sion of said board commencing on the 17th day of April A 1901 at the office of the county auditor in the Village of Princeton, in said county By order of the board of county commission ers E E WHITNE Y, Clerk of the Board Taken this month keeps you well all summer. Greatest spring- tonic known. Rocky Mountain Tea, made by Madi son Medicine Co. 35c. C. A JACK. CHAPTER IV-Continued Brodnar looked steadily into the glad, bright fae of his friend, who was upon his feet in an instant and full of ex citement. "Will you report there?" "Will I I is the dream of my life, Brodnar!hutbutyou were say ing" "Nothing." I don't understand you, Prank." "No member of the family, Dick, you have entered, ever drew sword against Virginia You must choose between the woman and" "My country? I that it? How would you choose, Frank?" Brodnar was silent, looking away. "Take this message to her for me, my friend it is the last request, perhaps, I shall ever make to you" "Dick" "Say to her that Richard Somers passes out of her life to serve his coun try. His duty done, please God, and she needs his arm, he will follow her to the nd of the earth. Say that or mean then, farewell." The morning sun stnkingthrough the eastern window of a hotel room shone full upon the face of a oman lay sleeping there. She was dressed as for the street, but her hair was loose and fell about her shoulders in gleaming, gulden masses. Even in the trying light upon it her face was beautiful. Perfectly oval, it possessed a combi nation of dark shadings rarely found" in blonde types, and the even browa were as delicate as though penciled by an artist Upon her cheeks lay long, dark lashes. Sleeping, she seemed scarcely more than a girl in age, the few lines upon her face fading out of prominencean yet there was a wom anliness in her trim, settl ed figure that told of years not otherwise to be sus pected. The bell of a tower clock near at hand rang out loudly the hour. The sleeper stirred uneasily, open ed her eyes, and instantly, as full conscious ness returned, bounded from the bed to the floor I the quick look she gave to her surroundings terror was apparent. moment later she had pulled thj bell-cord and was waiting, her watch in hand, by the door. A ne gro servant knocked and was admitted. S he did not notice his old-fashioned and courteous salute "Whj was I not called for the six o'clock tram?" she began in great agi tation "We call free times, ma'amfree timesan you say 'all right' ev'y time, ma'am I answered "Ye s, ma'am An' we fink, ma'am, mebby you done change jo' min'." Something like despair came to her face. "The time now?" "Nineo'clock,ma'am. Clock des struck, ma'am. Gem'man downstairs sen' dis cyard, ma'am, an' say" The gen tleman in question passed the speaker, stepping across the threshold. "You may go," he said, curtly, and waited until the old servant had re tired and closed the door Then ha turned coolly towards the woman. "And now, madam, what does this mean?" "Raymond!" "Why have you left London?" The woman did not answer. S he had cried the name hysterically and started for wardthen suddenly, drawing her hair from her face, she shrank away from him, her gray eyes distended terror or the expectation of violence. I the presence of this pantomime, the man's face lo st its cynicism and stern ness was unmistakably astonished. "Well," he said, at length, "what is it?" "You here!" the exclamation was but a whisper. I thought" "Why should I not be here? Didn't you write, requesting me to come? I was not in the city yesterday, nor last night, and have but just receh ed your foolish letter. Are you mad, in deedthat you come to this citj that \ou follow me up in public' Nanne of Heaven, woman, what is the matter with jou?" "Not in the city last night! Not in the city! Thenthen" She caught a chair. "Oh, I am illill!" S he seemed about to fall, but her companion made no movement to assist her. "There is somemistake'" she whispered "Some awfulmistake!" "What are you talking about?" stood looking curiously upon her. -She turned suddenly, ran to him, and, falling upon her knees, clasped her arms about him, giving- way at the same time to a paroxysm of hysteria that swayed them both with its vio lence. stooped impatiently, brake her clasp with a violent effort, ami half pushed, Jhalf lifted her'into the chair. Burying her face in her hands, sihe gave way to violent weeping- while he stood by. The man was of medium height and fine figure, his faultless dress and his every motion revealing the fashiona ble world. His face might have been handsome at one time, but something had fled from it, and something had come to it since then. That which had come men usually call the marks of dissipationtha which had fled they had no name fo r. KARirsnaw Copyright, 1899. by J. B. Lipjtfncott Company. All Bights [fesetred Hev &**rUR PJII^OETON %KIO:*m THUBSDAT^APRIL, ll^idOl.vg&^&r AR05 might have been genuinely in- dignant or playing a part, but he gazed sternly a few moments only upon the agitated woman, his black eye gleaming wickedlythen with a sneer and slight gesture of dismissal, turned away. Taking from his pocket a case, he proceeded calmly to select and light a cigarette, and walking un concernedly to the fireplace, tossed his match into it. Standing with his back towards her, he busied himself with a hunting scene above the mantel. And thus, presently, tire woman, ceasing to cry, found him She clasped her hands upon her chair-arm convulsive ly and lifted her head. With a few rapid motions she twist ed the fallen hair into position and arose to her feet "When you have finished with the picture," she said, "listen to me." Startled, he whirled and faced her. Her figure was now erect and head lifted The tenderness was gone from her ejes Wide open, they seemed to measure and threaten him. came slow ly forward, the sneer upon his fac e. "You gave me your promise to re main in London Until I returned," he said, "and you have broken it." "And you! you told me that you were here to wind up some estate matters and would return immediate ly'. You had no idea of returning You intended to desert me. You lied! Where is my child, sir?" The man's face flushed and grew deathly pale took two quick steps forward and hesitated. "It is useless, Raymond, to try to frighten me You were born a cowardand I was not. Look to your- self!" She dr ew from her bosom a letter and extended it towards him I found this after your departure it is from your mother His assumed indifferen ce vanished. Furious, he snatched the letter from her and raised his arm "Wretch!" "Take care," she said, coldly, slowly withdrawing her hand. "You are deal ing with a desperate woman You are welcome to your letter I know it by heart Tn it 1 am cal'ed by a vile nameand you are told that a bride and fortune await you at home You came." was silent "You do not deny it," she added. With a slight gesture he turned away and seated himself "There is no need to denv it now," he said "Sit down, Louise" She waited a moment, and, mo\ing a chair a few feet away, seated henelf facing him "We have both made mistakes," he said, coolly, preparing to light an other cigarette, "and I am willing- to admit that in all the matters between us I have been equally to blame, but," he added between puffs, as he smoked, "you have a full share to settle for jourself. I is, however, too late to discuss the beginning of this associ a tion W must consider its end, foi, as you evidently surmised, the time FURIOUS E SNATCHED THE LET- TER FROM HEFT to nd it has come." S he made no re^ pl j, but waited foi him to continue, hei clear gray ejes rueted upon his. "You have not behe\ed me, but it is true, nevertheless, that I am entirely dependent upon my mother My lit tle property has long snnce disap peared with jourssh holds the whip hand Ever since her second mar riage she has intended me for a young girl, her stepdaughter, in fact" "You have known this all along?' "Yesan while the child was grow ing up she has tolerated this life of mine Now she proposes! to end it. The question is, How may you and I settle it?" I see!V "You are practical enough to under stand that I am helpless If I should refuse the old lady, I could not live 24 hours without workno could you. If I yield, as I must, you will be provided forwith littleNanon." The woman gasped and pressed her hand to her throat, but with a des perate effort she controlled herself. "Where is she?" hesitated while he studied the blue smoke curling up from the ciga rette Shaking off the ashes, he said, at length: I have her in good hands." /Their eyes met. "And you mean or me to under stand, I suppose, that you will retain possession of her until I assent to your plafis?." Again he was silent or a moment. ^"Ye s, that is about the way the mat ter stands" There was a long and painful pause, during which the wom an seemed to struggle with some pow erful emotion. She arose and ap proached him, one hand in the bosom of her dress, the other clasped until her nails sank in~the flesh. "You told me that youto try and getyour mother interestedin her grandchild." Her voice was strained and barely audible. "Yes," said he, I think I did tell you that." "Well?" I lied! I took her only to control you. mother has never seen her and," he continued, slowly, "never w|Il, if I can prevent it." "Inhuman wretch!" The exclama tion was little more than a gasp. "From your standpointyes." "Ah," she whispered, "the infamy! the infamy of it!" She hesitated a moment, turned, and, gliding to the door with a movement of incredible swiftness, locked it and placed the key in her pocket. "Now,"_ she said, returning towards him, her face trans figured by the intensity of her ex citement, "now, Raymond Holbin, what is the settlement you propose?" retained his position, a ha lf smile upon his face "You will have no trouble or the future," he said"yo belong to the tragic stage." "You trifle sir. The settlement! the settlement!" I propose to marry my mother's stepdaughter." he said, quietly. "Her father is on his last legs, and he will bequeath to her all of his property upon the condition that she accepts me as her husband on or before her twenty-first birthday. From this money I propose to provide liberally for you and your child, with the un derstanding that you are to remain abroad The fact is, I may run over to see you occasionall y, Louiseafter all, you are the only woman I ever cared for. This lily bride awaiting me is out of my class entirelyhigh flown, romantic and inexperienced. Imagine me with such a woman, Louise laughed lightly. "Really, if you are in search of revenge for fancied injuries, you will get it when you pic ture me in my new role." "And by this marriage," said the woman, standing ov er him, "you place it beyond your power to marry me, as you have promised during all these yearsyou abandon your child to a life of wretchedness." Her breath came hard and trembling "She need never knowno one need know. And where ignorance is bliss it is folly to be otherwise "Let me hear it all," she said"le me know the alternative If I go to this mother or to this lily bride, as you call her, and tell her of my child a nd my wrongs, what then?" **My mother would have the serv ants-put you out of the house, and my bride would probably have me put out But it would not avail you any thingnor her Under the will my mother would still be the heir The bride would lose her fortune and Her bridegroom, and youwould lose your child "That is all?" she asked"there is nothing more?" "Nothing Her mood seemed to change "Will you favor me with a cigarette?" laughed, evidently relieved. "Why, certainly' Getting into your old habits? Fact is, Louise, that is the only natural thing I have heard from you since I entered Come, now, light up and be sensible. You know what I think of you. All will work out right, and, as the stories say, 'we may be happy yet.' S he lit her cigarette by his, and, leaning against the center table, took one or two whiffs, letting the smoke esca pe slowly from between her curv ing lips "There is one fatal defect jour plan," she said, at length "Yes? What is that?" "Youdo not leavethe mother a chance You forget that I am a mother as well as a woman I do not understand "You will, though Either waj, as ou put it to me, child's life is for ever blastedthei is the defect looked somewhat curiously up in her face The smoke was now coming from her lips in rapid puffs she cast asidethecigarette "Ishallnotassent The words were a mere whisper She continued, with growing emotion: "Rajmond, I have been jour slave that is ended now From this moment, if jou live, you shall obey me!" "If Hive!" "If you live! Do jou suppose that I am to stand by a nd see my child 's life destroyed by you! I have listened to your excusesI have temporized, hop ing against hope that you would make good your promisesI have accepted your explanation or my child's sake and to-day I know you have lived a lie through it all that you had not then, nor ever have had, any intention to make me your wife. The time has come for me to act. Sit here by this table and address a note to the^clerk of the hotel directing him to register Raj' mond Holbin a nd wife in room 28! Here is pen, ink and paper!" "Are you insane?" he cried, rising, angry and amazed. "Yestotall so! Insane enough to kill you." Then she deliberately leveled a pistol at him. "Sit down a nd write! I leave this room with an acknowl edgment from you in the hands of a witness, a wifeor a murderess. I did it once RaymondI can do it again. killed a man or you last night!" As she uttered this confession her face grew pale as death, the pistol was low ered, and she stood shivering:in abject terror. "You have not heard of it?" she whispered.* "Are not the papers full of i&W Her form, \i fiich had been erect, seemed to Tshrink she looked over her shoulder towards the door, listening. The man strode forward and wrenched the weapon from her cold hand. Then her forced her into a chair. "Louis*e! Louise!" he groanedan then in awe he said: "Insane!" She made no resistance. A tide of memories had swept over the new issues.^ "No she moaned, "not yet. Would to God I were! You do not believe me, .Raymond. Listen. I fou nd out where you were stopping in the city. I found the street and number." I had de termined to go in a nd bring the horrid uncertainty to an end, for you had not answered my letteryou had not "come!" "But you did not go in!" he said, ter rified. "Surely, you did not" "No. I walked by again a nd again. I went around to the side street and looked into the gardenbu I said: I will see him first Raymond cannot mean to be so base!' Still you did not come. Will you believe it, I went back at night, hoping to see you? I could not staj here alone in this roomI slipped out! Two men entered that gate, and one of them I would have sworn was jou. I followed a nd saw them enter the wing room. While I waited there, wondering if you would appear againit was but a few min utes, I thinkone of the men came from the wing-room, passed me, and, going out, locked the gate. I was a prisoner, or the fence was tall with spikes of iron. Then I went and stood under the window, thinking the room was yours, a nd I might attract your attention and I heard your voice and a woman's in there" "It is a liea lie! the room belongs to Frances. I was not in the citj "Frances? Who is Frances? But no matter, they were there all nightan I, crazed and abandoned, wept a nd raged outside." "You are simplj daft, Louiseyo don't know what^you are saying." "They were there, I tell you. Once a match was struck, and I could hear a woman pleadingandther I was, lying upon the ground, the window just out of my reach Then I found myself climbing the ivy and clinging to the shuttersa nd I saw you sitting there, this woman with curly golden hair kneeling in her night dress before you, her hand upon your shoulder, saying good-by to her lover while she held a lighted match above his face" "Louise, this is unbearable!" Hol bin was beside himself. I thrust your pistol between the shutters, took aim at you and fired my aim was trueth man fell for ward into the darkness, and I back upon the wet grass. Look! See the stains of the crushed ivy! see the soil upon the gown! see the blistered hands! lo ok at your pistol! The ham mer is upon an empty shell! I got up and ran or the gate, but a man was entering and his carriage stood opposite Crouching in the shrubbery, I saw him come back"her voice sank to a, whisper"with a dead man in his arms. I got herehow, I do not knowand locked myself in. Wben you came I thought it was your spirit. What will they do with me? Will they lock me in gaol Will they hang me? Why don't you speak to me, Raymond? Why do you look at me, that way? Raymond! Raymond!I did not know what I was doing! I was insane, jealous! I had lo st childoh, they ought to know that, Raymond, before they judge me too harshly. Raymond, Raymond, answer meanswer!" mastered his emo tion by a powerful effort "You have had your revenge!" he said, hoarsely, his lips parting in a soundless laugh "The shot went to the mark!" sank in his chair by the table and gazed helplessly upon her agitated face, his thoughts else where. "But I do not understand," she said. "My revenge, if you were not the man" "Why, it is incredible!" he cried, an grily "Give me the key! the key! the key! Quick! the clock is striking tenthe key!" "You will not give me up, Raymond the mother of your child!you will not" "Ahno, no, Louise You are safe while I live Quick! the key!" S he gave it- to him, and, passing- out, he said, sternly: "Stay here! Don't let your f-ace be seen outside this door Change your (Tress, remove every stain upon it, and be ready to leave the city at a moment's notice. Courage! I will save ou if I can." A he stepped into the hallway he muttered to him self: "Now for the will! Long live the nightmare' and yet" added, pausing in doubt- "Suppose it were true?" unbreached the pistol "One cartridge is gone! the muzzle stains my finge r! Louise! Louise" turned, locked the door and van ished. "The woman in 28," he said to the clerk, "has escaped from an asylum. Keep a watch in her hall until I re turn, and let no one enter." "We thought so," said the function ary behind the desk CHAPTER V. Facing the sun on the same morn ing- which broke through the length ened slumbers of Louise in the Ric h mond hotel, an old man sat in an i n valid chair. Everything that wealth cou ld provide or his comfort, ever y thing demanded by convention, sur rounded him. N one would ever sa y, looking in upon the appointments of his house, that the sick man lacked anything that loving sympathy and tender solicitude cou ld suggest. The deep velvet carpet gave back no sound under the feet of those who moved aTound himcurtain of damask and lace softened the too. direct rays of light which entered the long windows across the baleonybit of landscape and color relieved the wide-expanse pf wallan flower* lent freshness ^'%!fl^^#|^^^1Ju^? mm pW?|!^tK' and fragrance to the soft spring' air sparingly admitted. The old man was haggard from loss of rest and from apprehension. His once florid face was pallid and the cheeks sunken. His eyes shone with an unnatural brilliancy. One need not have been a skilled physi cian to have detected "the fact that death's seal was upon that pale face and shrunken frame. The tiny spark of life might glimmer in its socket for days, weeks, even monthsi would never again send up a clear and steady blaze. Within the same room several peo ple had gathered, controlled by varied sentiments. Dr. BrodnaF- was there, his massive frame bent above the sick man, his eyes everywhere. Pulse, respiration, temperature, were pa tiently ascertained, and with unsat isfactory results, evidently, for the doctor's face was a tell-tale. Once or twice his eyes rested upon a tall woman in black who moved slowly about the invalid, touching his hands -and forehead, admonishing him gen tl y, and keeping watch upon the physician's actions with a singular in tentnes3. This woman was of marked per sonality. Her iron-gray hair was brushed back smoothly from a broad, low forehead, her black eyes were well sunk under dark brows and lashes, but flashed indolently from time to time when she was speak- I AM AT LOSS, MADAM, TO ACCOUNT^ FOR HIS LACK O IMPROVEMENT." ing. The small, straight, relentless mouth and aquiline nose gave a note of severity to her face. Her charm, it is likely, had existed in the co n tour and coloring of that face, and in a certain easy self-relianc e, or consciousness of power. Just now her face was inscrutably placid. She spoke only in tones so low as to be audible but a short distance. Across the room a girl stood looking idly, dreamily, from a casement win dow into the trees. She was slender, with a mass of reddish, golden curls gathered back and fallen over her shoulders. The profile revealed birth and refinement, and suggested nobil ity, high" purpose and innate purity. There was a wistful tenderness about her mouth and a soft radiance in her blue-gray eyes when from time to time she turned towards the group gath ered about the sick man. I am at a loss, madam," the doctor was saying, "to account foj his lack of improvement. There seems to be nothing organically wrong, and yet the nerve centers are totally inactive." picked up several medicine bottles and examined them, testing their con tents by smell and sijjht. The tall woman's eyes met his. "Hepassed a restless night," she said, laying her hands upon the sick man's forehead. "There was considerable confusion in the city, and some one just before daylight fired a pistol near the house This gave him a fearful shock." "There is much excitement in Rich mond over the secession movement," said Brodnar, "and the police are far too few for these times What have you given him during the night?" I want my daughter to be present," said the sick man, fretfully" I want* her to hear the will read before I sign it, doctor I am here, papa," said the gir l, com ing slowly forw ard and s+anding quiet ly near him He looked into her face long and intently, his own softening I would suggest," said the doctor, rising and addressing the elder wom an, "that we leave them alone for a few moments he seems a trifle bright just now." S he fixed her black eyes upon him steadilj and a slight smile moved the hard lines of her mouth "It would not do. Frances is excit able, and excitement is contagious "But I am sure, madam!" "It is useless, sir. relies upon me, a nd is nervous if I leave him or even a minute Her white hand fell in rhyth mic monotony upon the invalid 's fore head. Presently he reached up impa tiently and pushed it awaj but, wai t ing a moment, she resumed her caress ings, a nd he made no further resist ance. I want my daughter to hear it ead," he said, querulously, reverting to thought unspoken. "Oh, I would not let her do that, sir," said BrodnaF. "You will not permit that, madam!" "She shall hear it," said the woman. "It pleases himan he has a good ob ject in it, I am sure A professional man who had been writing at a side table now came for ward and read the dying man's will, a notary standing near. The latter x changed glances with Brodnar and looked awaj', a half smile upon his lips. The document, after the usual recita tions and the naming of numerous, small legacies or family servants*and others, proceeded as follows: "And the-residue of my property, my wife, Annette, having been amply pro vided lor by deed of gift during my life, I bequeath to my daughter, Fran ces Brookin, upon condition that she