Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-06-17

Il have not time TO sit. Young man,
you are lawyer; are you good for any
thingP
My insulted dignity was controlled by
an effort. and / answered that Hatiered
myself lha, l possessed some talent for
my profession, or L shonld not have chos-
en- il.
well, well, no gas; can you draw
paperr
Here again | ventured remark, that it
depended somewhat on its nature, but
saw from her impatient manner that she
wanted no trifling. Before finished the
sentence, she interrupted me with fierce,
ness of manner exceeding her former
rough one, saying:
Iwan, will drawn; quick hurried
ly but so strong that all the furies in
HI can't undo il! Can you do it p and
she fairly glared at me with impotence
for my answer.
Now you know, Harry, that my legal
education was obtained entirely in sur
rogate's office, and you may presume that
on law and forms of last wills and tesla
men,s l felt myself sufficiently posted up.
l therefore assured her that could d-a a
will which, although could not warrant
it to pass the ordeal she mentioned. would
| was sure, be proof against al the law.
yers in Christendom:
And now her manner changed from the
fierce and bold to the anxious and hurried
Come, then, quick quick young
man, and. you shall pocket one thousand
dollars for your nights work ! she ex.
claimed.
And, amazed and bewildered as was,
found myself at the neighboring corner,
stepping into hack, before the startling
but comfortable words, 'One thousand
dollar for your nights work! = had ceased
to ring in my ears. My conductress
followed, and without orders we were rats
tied furiously along the street 10 the
House, then the largest hotel in the city.
My visions of one thousand bright dollars
kept my tongue brided, and was led in
silence up two flights Of stairs into suite
of rooms comprising parlor and two bed
rooms. The parlor, however, was occu-
pied by bed, in which lay an old and ev-
:dently dying man. A servant who was
with him, but he lef', upon a motion
from the hand OF my companion, who ap.
preached the bed and said:
Il have an attorney here, sir; shull he
proceed?
The old mans eyes frightened up. and,
after glaring on me for a moment, he
spoke:
IF you can draw a will, do it: quick,
now, for must save my breath
turned to the table where l found pa
per, pen, ink and everything necessary;
and by the light of two sperm candles in
heavy silver candle sticks, l was was soon
busily engaged in the will.
I will not trouble you with the deta lis,
nor, in fact, do | remember them; but it
is enough to say that large amount OF
property, real and personal, bonds, mort.
cages, ETC., were left, in the words of the
will, to my good and faithful housekeep.
er, Angeline -, as token of graft.
tude for her long, faithful, and meri.ori.
Gus services But the concluding words
of the will shall never forget; they were
written from his own mouth, and made
me shudder as I wrote them. There was
something--yet devilish--in thus de iber-
ately recording, in what purports to the
last written wish, curse upon your own
offspring. And I felt, as | wrote it. an
involuntary desire to tear the paper into
fragments, and 10 rush from the room, but
the thousand dollars were like SO many
anchors, and staid and wrote:
Il leaveto my daughter Dora all the
satisfaction she can obtain from my hear
ty curse. When rags whip her about in
her only home, the street, and dogs share
with her the refuse Of the gutter, she may
regret that she disobeyed him who once
loved her, hut who, dying, cursed her.
There was something like cbuckle in
the direction of old Angelne as the dying
wretch dictated these fearful words; but
looked and saw the stern face as rigid as
marble, concluded that must have been
mistaken. l could not, however, divest
myself Of a certain feeling that all was
wrong. A rich old man, accompanied by
an old housekeeper, and dying in strange
city; her anxiety 10 have this will so
strong; the curse on his daughter, and the
large fee, all conspiried 10 make me feel
that was being instrumental in the &C.
complishment of some villainous object.
Again meditated the destruction Of the
paper, and again my fee and my wants
conquered. The will was finished, and
| read over aloud, the old man groaning,
and the old woman looking an occasional
assent: but when read the terrible curse
new actor appeared on the scene
'Oh! tear it Z! tear it Oh God you
know not what you dot
| The plaintive tone of the voice touched
my heart, even before my eyes beheld its
owner; but when l saw her, heavens and
earth what an angel she was The Ian
guage is yet undiscovered, that is compe
tent 10 give you description Of that face
the eyes dancing with excitement, ye
liquid with tears: the mouth proud as Ju,
nos, yet compressed with anguish. Bu