The Sully County watchman., July 14, 1883, Image 6

About The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894

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Wlwn thp strawberry. rilwnfnK bluwlim.
To meet the swi^-i looks of the siid,
Tbe-i (ninth' th- fair lutiri-1 Muabe*
TIhti irnvb Of winds run
T' t«'ll. iip»n MIImiW* Hnl incaitow.
Tbt* coming o|' l«ti*ral days
While out from his n»-*t In the nbad*w
The hinl )«.ur hi* jubilant lay*.
Th«* jxwture lundit dimple with clover.
The buttercups itnr.zle and shine:
The wide Ileitis of viimiuer brim over
Willi dretiin^ of a |wrle*t divine
And f..rtli liie children, as merry
As hurvest«*r»- seeking for shearex.
With bright eyr* diwiTtiinc the berry,
A nibv 'mid enx-i-ald leavif.
Hm» u lmi.de«l. sun frecklet. th«*\ linger
Tent the swei-l ^lolx's while they pick
W'hat car«- they fur hlain n the linpec,
So rijH' the treasure, and thicks
I.ike muKii' their miim-cnt I m^hter
Kinc* out o t*r their frolic and haute.
Ah' never will berrii* h-n-aftw
Hold noctnr so rich to the (ante.
Hereafter, when shrill voice* err then),
liiwordant. through street* of the town.
And gravely they liargain and buy them.
Their value in silver p.iy (!wn.
Yet haplv ivmeiulH-riiigt'hildhi'Od.
They II .av. as at writing they eat
"The terri^s we found in the wildwood.
I'nsugared. wero surely more sweet."
And yet can the dear, evanescent.
Illusive, full charm of the fruit
lie know n to the children whine present
Suffice* unto themv Thenot
Of every (.'lad hour of pleasure
Musi grtiw. lii-ply struck, in tlie past:
And so is our berry a treasure
IJew prized at tlie first tliau at lattt.
For n w. ati the sh\ things an- bluahlng
I.ow !owr. 'mid tli'-ir leavi-s on the ground,
A* the ileiicale
laurels
are rlu-hinp
n hillock and meadow and tnoumS,—
We. working un.l weary with labor.
Shut in auiiitif: u-- In ick.
Hear sounds, as oi pij«- :wnl of tnlxir.
From Helds when tin- berries ar« thick
THE SERGEANTS WILL.
my
the rest of the set are occupied 11 am
talking of a time six months lmek» by
Serjeant Greathead,
Well, about the time I have men
tioned. I was obliged, no matter why
doing alone and at this time of night
in our chamlx-rs? As far as I re mem
ber I said at hist in a Ijewildered tone,
still holding the door handle:
"Yes, certainly, 1 am Mr. Warring
ten."
**You must le surprised to find me
here, I am Serjeant Gmithead's
niece."
"Oh, yw»!" I answered with a bow
and a vain attempt to indicate by my
tone that I thought this a jjerfeetly
satisfactory explanation of her pres
ence at i»:30 in his chambers: "Oh,
yes."
"He is rather unwell this evening,
and thought he would like t* have
gome pajiers to read, in case hr should
not sleep. I have volunteered to fetch
th**n---was it not lwld of me?—and
Hy cab is wailing in Fleet street."
"The Serjeant not well! I am very
sorry. Can I give you aay assist
tuc
1
Q.
C.,of the west­
ern circuit, whose large room in the
rear is the only comfortable and well-
furnished one. mv rooms leing as night, quiet as it was my visitor had
dingy and cheerless as most ground
floor apartments in the Temple. A
-perhaps because over my dinner at
1
ancef From die looks of the table Ml. Greathead. who was a good man
she must have undone most of th«- at bottom, took th« girl home. I
"Yes not only curious, Mr. War
jflngton. provoking also."
1 laughed and hastened to my room
111 a candle and drew some water from
the filter. There was a flavor of ro
mance about this, and yet handsome
aft she was. and singular as wen* the
eircumsniuccs, something rejielled me.
From Time 'the door, and I had just said. "With 1
"Mr. Warrington, I believe?" ph^ure," when a heavy footstep.
Simple words and true as far as that coming along the passage outside.
I am Mr. Warrington but this I can *»««»«'»tself early heard even through
aasert. that never had words more
taken me by surprise, nor had my seconds as if going 110 further,
name ever been put to me under more il1*"1*.1* I'^w'^ded on and up the stairs
singular circumstances. That this
may 1** clear. I must explain. As
shortly as I can I will do so. for I dis
like explanation, and would have my
judge, when I am moving the court,
know leforehand, if possible, what mv
js prise of mv sudden entrance.
3 am a barrister, as vou guess, and '\U !.mrdl.v
chamlHM-s are in Hare Court it is «'. said with a foivet.
the most ancient, quiet and retired 1""^ Ending in\ eye* fixed ui»on he»
place in the Temple, just on vour right
if vou come in bv tiie arcliwav at the ,*\0, butthatw-as so like voui
bottom of Chancery I^ine. My num- »«^'^J^»t«tep that it did not alarm
ber is of no importance in fact, a bun- MH"
dant reasons Avil! ap{ear why 1 sl-.ould She did not smile as 1 expected. On
be reticent as to it. One reason, which the contrary, she helped to unfastei
will not appaar, but a very cogent one the outer door with almost ]*-tulant
nevertheless, being that solicitors are eagerness. Once in the open air slit
not fond of counsel who rush into breathed more frwly. but she liardlj
print, unless their lucubrations are spoke again except to thank me when
bound in calf. I have one room in I l'"t her into the cab.
which I sit myself, an-1 the undivided! "I hoje the Serjeant will sleep to
half of a clerk's room and a passage
Iiiiiififnim i n
night and not need his papers," wert
ni.v
place, evidently ready to go. am satisfied with my power of descrip
I have, thank vou," she answered tion.
lather thoughtfully perhaps you,
Would be good enough to escort me to faoo.
my cab. my nerves have hardly re-
OOveredyet."
She smiled bewitchinglv as she i
Moke what I took for badinage, but I
tne next instant I saw that it was tnu
enough. We wen' moving toward
l'j°
doors. It halted a couph
dt\
for
V
no
U.
hist words, which she only ac
kuowledged by a 1KW. as she threw
herself back. But I had cause, as will
be seen, to renieinljer them.
I did not get much work done tlial
unsettled me, I suppose. Twice 1
thought I heard someone in the Ker-
couple of doors shut us iij, but the oak jeant s room, and was foolish enough [|jm.
is only sported when the clerks leave
at 7. Then our chambers, not very
lively during the day time, are aban
doned to darkness, silence and the
mice. In a word they are merely offi
ces.
i
the Suffolk Street Club 1 discovered a Post apjieared this paragraph (it will
fallacy in the opinion to be sent out save me much explanation): We
the next morning—1 found myself regret to have to announce the sudden
obliged, for the first time for certainly death, at his residence, Gloucestei
a year, to go to my chambers after Road, of Mr. Serjeant Greathead. Q.
dinner. The clock at St. Clement C., of the Western Circuit. Recorder
Danes was striking the half hour after of Diddlehaui. His decease, which
nine as I turned into the lonesome took place very suddenly on Saturday
and echoing Temple. I o)eucd my evening, was caused by a heart com
outer door with my key, after aseer- plaint from which the learned gen de
taining that I had some matches in man had for some time suffered."
to take a light and go and see. Ol
course there was no one there soaftei
a short time 1 gave it up and went
home to bed.
The next day, be it observed, was
Sunday. I pass on as briefly as 1 Can
at breakfast on the Mondavi received
a more serious shock. Among the
items of intelligence in the morning
my pocket, and did the same to the "Umph," said I to myself, and be- about £f»o.uoo'say the latter and miss^•!his. How long Humphreys was
inner door, drawing the oak to behind ing a lawyer, began to think and to ing will gives lier £5,(K)li. But sup^-: I^'nng oyer it! At last he spoke, and
iilv sui
tween ti
me, and shutting it then I sUmn! still. put two together, not without now pose on# were—only
It was very odd!—all should have and again a little eerie feeling down were to turn up bet
been in darkness, but from the key- the small of my back. Mr. Serjeant give her nothing', eh
boh* of the Serjeant's door a bright ray Greathead died on Saturday evening. "No chance!" said the
of light shone steadily, and from with- On Saturday evening, before or after don't think I quite follow you
in came the familiar sound of rustling the event is not proved, a ladv is »c- "I can explain in two words.
pa**
•rs. It was very odd. I had known cupied all alone uiuotig Mr. Serjeant see—"
the Serjeant to say lie never worked at Great head's papers in his chambers, But as the two words lengthened
night, and certainly I had never heard and, though this I was not quite sure themselves to two hundred, as two al
of him coming to his chambers in the about, among the drawers of hispriv-, ways do, 1 need not go through any gra
evening. Very singular that we ate writing table. "L'nipli!" well, I more of our conversation. Its drift I his
should lioth le there on this partieular was never on very intimate terms will be guessed by, the sagacious read
night. At any rate, 1 would see if it I with the old gentleman, who wasthir
was all right. I opened his door and tv years my senior, and it is no par
walked in quietly, an ajnilogy on my tleular business of mine. It's all
lips. The room, as 1 have said, a spa- right, or will come so in the end,
ciotis one, was brilliantly lighted, the doubtless. And 1 nut on my boots
table was covered with papers and and coat and went down to chambers
books but no Sergeant Greathead was and discussed the old gentleman's
tkere! Some one was, though, with a death, with the due amount of sym- man's dying room in Gloucester Road clowd liehirid them, "I am almost
vengeance." pa thy, with his clerk, and forwarded to hear the will read. It may seem afraid to leave them together."
young
present woman hasn't
"Mr. Warrington. believe?" i a letter of condolence to the family, i odd that I should have been
With one hand renting upon the ta- 'of whom I knew nothing, applied to at this merely family matter, but the
kie and pressing some among the the treasurer of the Inner Temple to fact is that I." John Warrington of the
many papers which littered it, stood take on the Serjeant's chamlers, and Inner Temple, barristcr-at-law, was
the sjieaker, a lady! Apparently about did my usual work and lived mv usu- not. A silent and humble gentleman,
live-aiid-thirtv. she was tall and of a al life far four days. Then something with a ln-ard and glasses, with also a seen his doctor. She was first on the
good ligure, her dress handsome,
i our poor friend islike-
mother and the Serjeant did not get
on: a year ago the mother died, and
a little. I was prepared to find dark- one idea, which was. that on the night for the most part harmoniously
ncss and loneliness, but not to meet on which the old man died, his niece, 'over heads, "that the bulk of the
ally one. this "very nice girl," had come to his testator's estate would go to his cousin,
"If 1 have frightened you I do wish chambers, searched for the will. and. Miss ('hilling1, and a share, very much
I had staved away—which is unsel-, for her own advantage, abstracted smaller, but still considerable, to Miss
fish.'" 1 added gallantly 'but it is and destroyed it. I Lad done that, and Greathead. In one resjxtrt I very
curious that fate should have led me had. into trie bargain, startled me first much regret that my task does not
here to-night for the tirst time this,and fooled me afterward. But how iend with this will."
Vou
it he said emphatically.
Well, just during the second or tw if I've not left it. the verv thing you said, in hoarse low tones, holding out
that it halted at the door, I saw mj want. Oh, yes. here it is.'' And after one white hand imperatively. Mr.
companion's face—it had turned whitt fumbling in all his other pockets, Ford handed it to ber without a word,
again and had the same nervous, ex from his breast-pocket Mr. Ford, a lit- She took it to the window and exam
nectant expression 1 had first observed. Je red in the face, produced a neat ined it carefully. Wonderful as un
Her nerves had not recovered the sur- little Kussialeatlierca.se. He opened der the circumstances was her self
this and held the portrait within for command, tine could hear the paper
my inspection. rustle in her shaking hand. In a mo
"Well.'" he uttered impatiently, ment she faced us.
while with a critical eye I was exam- "You did not draw this will?*'
ining a very pretty, very youthful, "No Mr. Fowl answered nervous
wholly good face.
"Nose a little, just a little, too ae
£roi/jw I murmured
T„
who was occupied hereon Sat unlay
Ford. Now, who would
destruction of this will?
earlier one in existence?'
"Yes. There is a former will discov
ered in the serjeant's desk at home. It
was made In-fore Olive—I mean Miss
Greathead —came to live with him."'
"Its date?"
".I .Miliary, 1879."
"Well?'
It leaves two-thirds of the estate
mm*
bundles in search of the right papers, i don't mind telling you that the miss- jceeds in more businesslike tones to vou much about \s far as
about this theory now? Cui bono. Then we all listen to another last
"I can make it out!" 1 said, slowly will and testament, and a fresh cur
nursing my chin. rent of conveyancer's Knglish, much
"Nor can I!"cried the other briskly, shorter than the last, however, islet
"Is the niece. Miss—Miss Great head, loose upon us. One person in the
of a very Quixotic sniritf at all likely room, 1 can wifely a^ «t. feels on the ,„an's
I had not got over the start she caused seventy thousand pounds, if you mean tier, her fortune of •IS.OOO is swept to avoid glancino- round the room
me jwrhaps. tliat. (»ood heavens, sir. what suggest- jaway as by a stroke of the pen. and ai "Thank vou "'she said sweetly "I
"Are you sure that you have got edsueh athingto you?" miserable i5iH) all that is given her am much obliged to vou. I am verv
What you wantf She had replaced 1 told him all that had ocoured on instead. Of the residue, after pav- i
the ]a]
x'fs and leart»d the table with ^he Saturday night, just as I had re- nient of certain legacies to the serv
wonderful deftness while I was away, fated it alnive. If mv i-eadei-s feel a auts. clerks and others, the whole is
She was standing n:w by the lire tithe of the wonder lie expressed, I given to Miss Greathead. "When he
had not told rue face to
sil%
1
wmlld not
svlJub]e t)f
have Iwlieved a
V,u'
1
to the cousin who then kept house for se-ssiiig follower,
him." "No," said Mi
tion." he cried
"And has destroyed the last will?"
"Pdoii't know* so much about that,"
he answered, slowly wiping his fore
head. "She did not burn it here, as
you say the tire was out. She might
suppose-—one
le two and
"I
You
happeiutd. Thomas, ihv boy, showed seedy coat and boots to match, and a scene, that's all a couple of hours be-
though simple. A veil obscured much in to me "our Mr. Ford." of Ford, habit of taking snuff surrentitiously fore any one else, 1 exjiect."
of her face, which wus toward me as Ford & Bittle, of Staple's Inn. whom yet with a certain amount of ostenta-} "What ff our plan doesn't work?
I entered. Either her complexion I knew to be the late Serjeant's solici-! tion. was present. But he was merely How long are we to keep it up?"
wa» naturally colorless, o agitation tors. "A new client," said I to my-: Mr. Ford's clerk, and if his figure and "A werk won't do us harm then if
had driven tlu» blood from her checks self, with much tfceitement. With a face urere not familiar siglfts the of-, nothing turns up we must find out vil 1
the latter, I conjectured, since her judicious mixture of courtesy and dig- fice of Messrs. Ford, Ford and Bittle. i something wrong with our previous ff Ford, Ford and Bittle conies to my
left hand was pressed to her side. I nity 1 waved him to a seat which was why Mr. Ford had a right to engagv document. But I don't think she is chambers in Hare Court, that 1 also
"UxkI dumbfounded, and at least twice all thrown away. a sjK*«ial clerk for business of so con- inclined to light." And the confiden i thinking of setting up a litth
this uuexjwcted apparition rejieated I "Now jierhaps you can help me, tidenlial a nature as this. There were tial clerk of Ford, Ford «S: Bittle link-'Rouble establislnnent at the West End
tho words I have set down. Who Mr. Warrington, lie said after a few not many present. The tall, gracious, el his arm with that of "our Mr. pFord and 1 soiuetimt
was she. and what on earth was she preliminary observations which suf- almost queenly wonuin sitting near' Ford" with an astonishing freedom *J"~
liciently enlightened me. "Have vou the fire with her bark to the lijrht and and an utfer forgetfulness of his seedy
auy idea whei-o
ly to have put
i
At parting. "It's rather a serious ing over the lire, with a face so much
thing, you kuow," said the lawyer older, as it seemed to us, than that
ruefully. I which had shone in the dusk behind
_"Ye«,'' I answered mischievously iher fluttering fan.
"it's live years. my honor," Ford whispered
a large black fan in her hand is Miss hat and lioot*.
his will?" Chilling, 'third cousin to the deceased,'! John Warrington, barrister-at-law,
as tli*1: newspajwrs would s iy. The waa sitting alone in my room next day
fair nurvice girl by the table is Miss when Thomas came in.
"Not the slight»*st. We are not
very intimate friends. Have vou
searched his cuplxierd and b^M^ks?',
"Carefully. Yet I fael sui-e that it
is here. The day he signed it lie said
tome, 'Here ytsfll find it when it's
wanted. Ford.' and lie tapped the ta
ble, so that I took it for grunted he
meant to lock it up there.^
"What family lnuhe left, Mr. Ford?" yer, softly, taking his seat at the end the frierjeanl's niece.
"He was never married. His niwe, 'of the table. 'flu? first is
a remarkably nice girl, has lived with tho second about a year back. A be spoken of. I have called to ask
him for a year. Except a distant third will was made within the hist, yea a question, Mr. Warrington, and
cousin, who ac
ted as a kind of house- six months, hut I regret to say that 11 am sure I may trust to your discre
keeper. she was his only connect ion.'' our poor friend must have destroyed tion."
"Was his niece a great favorite of I it, intending, of this I have no doubt,
his?" to aiakn another in its plaoe. In the
"Yes, of late, very mueh so. Her ftiidst of life, wo are-—yes, indeed."
Having uitered this in low but clear
tones Ike taken from me—I mean from
the elevrk, who produces them from
Olive Grcathoud: olrserve that her "A ladv to see you, sir." I was
nale face flushes a little as she shale us great ly surprised.
hands with 'our Mr. Ford.1 In the "Sl'ow her in. Good gracious! How
background are old Humphreys, the do you do? I*lease to takw a seat,
clerk, and several servants. iniss—ah, yes, Minn Greathead. Very
"I lmve two wills here which I sad things have Impaired since I saw
think I ought to read." says the law- you last." It was my former visitor,
date,
a s s e i
to burn the will to benefit some one rack, and Miss Chilli. ,!,' fan never the mat as I did so. She was still ap
else? [stays, but llutters, now slowly, now i paivntlv standing exactlv where I left
"She s not so mad as to throw away with a sudden impetus. And no won-, fHr. It »*-ost me all mv self-coiumaud
ceased, the woman at the fire rose
grandly to her full height.
"This is not the final arrangement
our friend intended to make so nine
I know it is a sad lesson of the dan
ger of procrastination even in the
wisest of us." Thus Mr. Ford, in a
low ajxdogetic tone, busy with the
'not a syllable!" ger of procrastination even in the
"Could vou"—after I had thought wisest of us." Thus Mr. Ford, in a ,'• tj tr -fi "e*note
v "urn iiu ainr 1 unu iiiouKui h»r, 1 *ent IJioiuas off with a
a minute or two—• 'could you procure j"
al Uu,,' 1)US'
"Well. I cmltl. r.Tha,» it wo«W he hand up«. lli^Mrr V »1...»I ever, wlu."v.
mort» satisfactory if vou s iw her-: der.
self.
"Not at all." What in tha world
made the man fidgi
"Then I think—1 have—somewhere, "The will: sh.JTv me the will! she
(ly.
,yon,lls U^J- is, evi'
w's nuu^'
hers.
ut
nmf bv the There was an uncomfortable silence
Ik there unv ^or
51
is mere anj jclV)KSod
roonii
with the
me a glimpse of Miss Greathead, or of jPai^i ^m. There 1 stood in the middle,
her photographOli, Kdith. 1 am very sorrj Miss i u
Our Mr. Fowl actually blushed, Greathead had risen. tw and put her
u I not oruelly.Vut o* i, ».,e were in .he
"he t«Hk, I sup]ose. other advice.
liie attesting witnesses are Mr. War-
Lh.'' shutting it up with an angry chambers—had, I should say—with -here
snap, the Serjeant, and the laundress, who
"But, however, that is not the lady
(JiotIt
s
m, tlar((.rf
aiX)Un ln(,
tier, liie servants were frling out.!* .i ,1 ,1.
\i- Mi ii- u i ii .i -i 1 oiK'iietf the drawers, cast mv eve
Miss Chilling pushed the other aside,
ringt«»n. who. you may le aware, has did not move, but sung out:
the cliam-
moment Then Miss Chilling
lhf, Jllul nng lke
e
"Is Mr. Humphreys still here?" she
said to the servant.
"Yes, Miss."
"Ask him to come to me, if you
please."
"My clerk shall fetch him," cried
Mr. Ford, hastily, with a glance at i glued on th«
the servant and then at his unprepos- umes of
keep it to see how things would turn nervous and frightened, cowered in a We looked at one anoti
out. It gives her £*«.MXitoo." window seat. Mr. Ford looked stead-1 "Nothing wrong wi
"All, docs it? What a woman, ".v into the lire. I fancy he saw there i tions, is there?"
Does it really? Well, then, we can get i11
short
it hack by a bold stroke. I'm with matter of Charles Henry Ford, gen
you in this Mr. Ford It gets interest- tleinen. one, etc.. 'orit might be more
ing. The first will, which must be i shortly. "In the matter of a solicitor."
proved if the last be not found, gives 'h*rk, I can answer that no I
the housekeeping cousin two-thirds, ?11 room was going pit-a-pat
then with torturing slowness.
"Ah. that's his writing sure enough.
God bless him."
Then two of us drew such a sigh of
rel ief, as, well I am at a loss for a suf
ficiently strong metaphor, but at any
rate it was a very deep sigh.
Mr. Ford mutnured a few words of
condolence to the one lady and con
gratulations to the other and he and
clerk got tkcniKelves ont of the
room as well as tliey could. The last
seen of Miss Chilling, she was brtod-
We were assembled in the dead to his confidential clerk, as the door
"lNioh, vour
made a will."
"Why? what! you don't think she?"
—1 le stood still.
"The Serjeant? No, I don't I've
i 1879, "Yes, indeed tbay are too fresh to
Absolutely," I assented, warmly.
''Please do not think it an odd one.
I have a reason. lJo yoa remc.mher
witnessing my uncle's signature about
a year ago?"
"Well, I remember this much, that
his black bag. sain# papers, and pro- I did so. but I don't think I a»n lell Liverpool
4
1
there.
has been
led
v
in
the middle, and looked round with a
steady scrutinizing' gaze. "I will
leave you for a moment," said I, con
siderately, and half closing the door,
sfepped into my own room, and sat
down to finish theStatemcnt of Claim
in Iavy v lavy (—nothing of the
kind, but executed upon my hearth
rug a silent dance ot triumph that
would have gained for me a lucrative
Aqu
engagement at the Aquarium. After I
five minutes of this, I
face, and went back to the old gentle-
,.,...^0^1 and
om|o8ed
stumblingcarelesslv over
You will not mention
glad I came
my visit?"
"You may depend upon my retm
enee," I said, with a bow. in which I
flatter myself that a sincere personal
devotion and an overflowing apprecia
tion of her affection for her uncle ap- 't},^.
pea red to mingle. The moment, how-1
the floor, put the candle beside me,
as l-eturiHHl, and some with him. I
sung out:
I am come in, and
Ford!
shut the door."
"Then* has been a lady here, your
boy tells me!M
Yes, the lad v. She wished to see
her uncle's room once more. Sweetly
appropriate, wasn't it?"
"Yes. yes!"
Well, out of consideration for her
feelings—"
Bother her feelings!"
"1 left her alone—and look hem."
He was oil his knees in the twink
ling of an
of
Miss Chilling, impera-1 wli
Chancery. The layer
elsewhere lay in
"A tall. pale, dark-eved woman, de- tivelv. We all stood still and listen- smoothness, was here disturbed. blue or black and lias a jiair
eidedlv goml-lookingr to the clock ticking solemnly, till "The will is in Chancery, vou may u v'1'51,1' l1"'
"Yes. By jove. I see! She was your the old clerk appeared. depend upon it," I said, airilv. At *a I Knglisii lie-Its cif scarlet or white
visitor, and, with instinctive caution, "Humphreys. she said, with a sign from me Ford gingerly removed
gave Olive's name, or rather descrip- strange yearning in her tone, a sud- the books, and opened first one, and I
den softejling a.s it were, please to shook it—nothing. I won't swear
examine this signature, and tell me if: that our faces did not flush, as he
it is your late masters. opened the other and shook it—noth- i
He was her last hope. h»g! Theu he got up and used a'
The old mail slowly took out and nauglitv word. I examined the vol-i
put on his glasses. Miss Greathead, ume closely, with the same rcault.
itlier.
itli our calcula-!
law report, headed "In the
of dust,
uniform
"No under the missing will she
gets £5,(KK). That will disappears,
that she may get two-thirds of the
whole estate under the first when, lo,
up starts an intermediate will—a
devilish odd will—leaving her only
I £500, and good, as far as she knows,
until the missing one turns up. She's
no fool therefore it will turn up."
If she has not destroyed it.
Exactly. How much time did
you give her?"
"Five minutes at least: and some
one has leen at these looks. Wait, a
minnte. what fools we have been!"
Two volumes of Be van's re|ort still lay
upon the floor side by side. I plunged
my hand into the orifice caused by
their absence from the shelf. I grop
ed, Fonl's eyes grew ]ereeptible big
ger. "What's this!" I cried, and
brought out a pa par.
"Right!" he shouted, as he liastil
istiiy
will?
The lost
glanced at it outside.
We've won!"
"No chance of 'five years with
eh, now Ford?" "drowned, "she knows she is,"and"she
"No, but upon my honor,
at
chat over the
Serjeant's three wills, and the last
time I dined with him 1 heard him
say, with singular empliasis, W his
guest on the right:
"You never forged a will, now, I
suppose. Sir John,
"I, sir" cried the Alderman, with
portentious dignity.
"Oh, no, of course not: but. do you
know, 1 dare say you've dined at the
same table with people who have."
The worthy merchant swelled and
swelled with isdignation until] Iquite
feared for him. And yet' do yow
know, I think Ford was right.',
A pilgrimage of over 100 French
Canadian ladies and gentlemen, under
ecclesiastical direction, will leave for
Our I^ady of I^ourden, in France, and
thence to Rome. A similar pilgrimage
was made l.%st year.
J. C. C.'isaatt and Mrs. Gaasatt, of
PhiiaAlelphia. will wail by the Aristaia
BEAl'TT IN THE 8UBP.
Coraeonal}" Attired F«lrtr nbo
^Beatifir 'Fanhlonable Hra Khore»*
,. I'afnt, Powder, I.«•••, Frlfjm and
I iiiIirolderfeoaMl'arfMol ihr^Swlm*
"nn-r'n" TollriN—wlio H'elgh
Hettf and Laugh na«k.
New York JonrnaL
Now is the season for sea-bathing,
and a visit to Long Branch, Newport
or Coney Island will show on these
warm, sultry days thousands of peo
ple enjoying a dip in the salty surf.
Men ami boys have not a variety of
ways of swimming or bathing like
women, probably because they are not
s.lfrai1
I11?.
soon
1
arn
t-
that I had got her out of the
11"*1
back into the Serieant's
Th»re was a melari
K
i. i »i
peeieu, liotinng. men pr
chair and a candle, and with a minute
ness that would have done credit to a
Fouche, I looked along the top of row
after row of the half-bound books.
that on three sides concealed the walls
from fl«Hr to ceiling. Two sides had
ljeen examined before I found what 1
had expected. Low down between
the fireplace and one of the windows
it was, almost within reach of the .i... ».i«... i
writing table. Then I sat down on
»•,!•'»nge l*hUy
,then
in anl then tliey make more of a
lastiine than women.
The water is still very cold, having a
temperature of sixty-three degrees.
Every tine bathes at l^ong Branch, the
morning leing the most fashionable
hour. Indies at the different hotels
miK't in the corriders at a stated hour
and go in a Inxly to the bathing
houses. If one is ready to go into
the water before the rest she sits calm
ly down on a bucket turned upside
fown or some other equally as com*
fortableseat and waits until fier braver
sisters (brave through nuniler8)
emerge from their bathing-houses. all
going into the water at one
busimiKS
)f th(
The bathing-houses are situ­
ated in long corridors and are very
private.
The iv|H)rter was informed that most
ladies don their bathing suits lefore
leaving their rooms in the hotel, as
they have a chance there to sew on a
button, or ribbon that mav have be-
1 i 'I I lllclL illfl llii
VuioKiy
t.ollH,
tin IVA
uiisnlaced, and then it
K
woman weal's stockings either of da2c
a
prt'
i
4
is so
much more comfortable than the small
bathing-houses. Over their bathing
costumes they put walking dresses and
carry their underclothing and dry
slipners and stockings done ui iu
Turkish towel by a shawl-strap. Manv
of them carry gossamer water-proofs
which they put on while going from
the bathing houses to the beach and
then drop suddenly on the sands, the
patient maid following after and
calmly picked it up. Then she awaits
the pleasure of her
V \7
and tMk out mv watch. ««'t she quickly wrap
Heve,, „,i„u^ before Thorn- gj1 Z
,,mslrss
S,,a
on
''f
,M'arh.-
"T1
when
The girl who can swim well enjoys
her bathing greatly. She does not
seem to mind having her hair wet
and runs quickly with a plunge into
the water and swims boidlv out where
the surf is not so strong. She weais a
light bathing suit of serge or half
flannel and cotton, made in a simple
fashion with very little trimming and
short sleeves. Her hair she twists
tightly on the top of her head and
sometimes wears an oil-skin cap but
more generally not anything 011 the
head.
of
,td,tlon lo a
san-
S
e ^am*'- make
bathing suit and
an* much worn.
In Initb of the watering places men
tioned above and also at C'onv Island,
Rockaway and Asbury Park'are hun
dreds of women who cannot swim,
and wh# actually go in the water
with their hair erimjied and theirfaees
painted and jM»wdeml. Thev attire
themselves in M'spl.-iident 'bathing
cost nines, some of them being of line
broad, cloth, lined with silk, with em
broidered stockings and real lace suf
lles about the nj'ck and sleeves, and a
dainty embroidered handkerchief stuck
in the belt to be near at hand in case
sach an awful thing as a drop of wa
ter should get on herearefully gotten
up face. She walks gingerly into the
water and stands in one sjs»t holding
on to the rope, and theu she walks
out again, and at luncheon she tells
everyone she had "such a delightful
bathe. The water was so lovely," etc.
The girls who are learning to swim
an* among the most interesting to
watch. Some kind teacher brings
them out into water up to their necks
and then tells them to "get into the
motion," while the teacher holds the
jmpil by two fingers under the chin,
flic poor pupil gets along nicely for
alsiut two seconds and then suddenly
PPinemliers that she is not on terra
hiiua, and immediately goes dovvn
and is up again struggling and gasp
injC "ud ^hysterical, screaming she is
one wuits to get out," etc. Many wise
time things looked awkward. girls gets no further than the sands
The five thousand }»mnds were
s't
promptly paid to Miss Chilling, and haps one t«e in the water, building
she was passed from our sight with ^"d houses like the children or play
that modest independence. She wasaj ing sea-weed and shells.
very clever w oman, and most certain- I he fat woman who dret«s iu ridicu
ly will get on in this world. I am '°us bathing dresses and laugh and
glad she never learned how she was throw water at each other give amuie
checkiautcd. Olive Greathead is now ment oftentimes to a whole licach full
the wife of "our Mr. Ford," a cozy, People. The larger they are. the
ple tsAnt resort is their house in Gren
place. So much of the busim
•ns
'Sn
up a ill
in picturesque groups with tMr-
mom good natured ftiey wvm t« be,
and they duck aitd dive in the wat»r
like big children.
Newport, girls are most fastidious
iilxHit their liatliin^ c(ik»tniuiks sind
new ones every two weeks, as the *dt
water soon takes the color out Manv
of tliem wear long tan mousquetain»
gloves.
All the ladies at the (Oriental aud
Manhattan Hotels are busy makingup
bathing suits like those, worn by Mrs.
Lantrtry. A'dry goods house'in this
city has sold so far this season 6,1 K)0
ha
tiling suits, so the pu*Unta promise*
to be very popular.
As an express train on the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio railway
wa* Hearing Cincinnati it struck a
wagon in which were a family of
1
mx
persons and a driver, and every one,
except William Bertseh, tlie drivei',
Was killed. The wagon was broken
to splintei-s. The family were that of
a huckster. Mr. Henry Kraeke, and
were going to their farm, seven miles
from Cincinnati. Th« nam.-*
of
the
killed are: Henrj' Krac'ke, his wife
and four children. John. ag*l lit
Jkunie. 16 Maggie. 13 ai^l Lissie. T.
The driver was .^nisly injured.