The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1859-03-19

! I'lhe shortest way the best way = Tor yo'
TO send for Mr.. Norris and give your instruo
lions 10 him.
That Is the very thing eAnnat do she
said, 'she-Miss Dawkes-is keeping guard
over me, TO see that don't make one
Caroline, how can you have taken thes,
ideas In your head p he demonstrated. revert
log aRala - ths -dsahs DhstAsF hes nervous
state did not border on insanity. "A woman
with the immense property that you possess
IL bound.to make will
IL / die without one, everything goes to
my husband. Money, land and the Rock.
Everything goes 10 him.
'Of course IL you leave 70 will.'
Then do you not ser Why b, does not want
me TO make oHr why he will not permit me
to make onoi Why he puts his sister here to
watch over me that don't make one, while
he Is away, Of in pursuit Of his own pleas
ures p
i hope not Thomas Kage replied grave
ly. major Dawkes must feel that lac has lit
lie right 10 the whole fortune Of Mr. Canter-
bury
lie has no right to Il. and he shall not
have H. she vohemeatly broke forth. 'Oh
Thomas, Thomas, she continued, changing
her tone to one Of waiiing, why did not lie
ten to you, when you begged me not to suffer
the money 10 be 40 left-not 10 inherit It,
contingent on the death Of my ehildP
Hush, Caroline. DO not. say, recall the
past
What possessed Mr.. Canterbury to make
80 dangerous will what possessed my
mother and me to ineite him TO it'' she cried
again. j wish Il had been burnt wish the
money and the Rock had been sunk at the
bottom Of the sea-
i, was ON unjust viii, bordering, as think
upon iniquily but Why DO you coll il dan
gcrous one? do not understand the term,
as applied to Mr. Canterbury wil.'
DO you not understand itT she pointedly
asked. Il sit here, in my solitude, In my ter
rihle nervousness, end dwell on many things,
real and unreal, on the past and on the fu.
turei and ! have Gneied thai you foresaw
how it might become dangerous, that day
when you 80 earnestly warned me against
suffering il to stand when you seemed huri.
ed in visions Of time To comei and when l
asked what the visions wcrcJyou answered
that your thoughts had gone roaming without
leave
lie remembered i, well he did no choose
to LAY 80. we were speaking Of the real,
Caroline, not of the ideSl' he resumed. 4
am unable TO comprehend your position.
You are mistress Of this house and OF It's ser
,antsi why not act as you please in ii aud
be is mistress. Send for your mother here,
and
My mother interrupted Mrs. Dawkes,S
Don't you know that she is III She had
stroke OF paralysis in the summer, end lies in
her he'd childish. Little good has the money
brought to her. Il
Il am sorry to hear il,.he replied. But to
return to yourself II the presence OF Miss
Dawkes in unpleasant to you, politely request
her to terminate her visit. Try aud shake
1f this nervousness, my dear, for nervous
ness it is and nothing else.
II | only stirred in the matter. II only
said to her 60, it would bring himi they are
acting in concert
'Wba, il he did' ThSgSh he is your bus
band, he cannot take from you your freedom
of action. The house is yours, the money is
yours, and he has no legal control whatever
over either
But there would be dreadful scenes, say.
md they would shatter me ! and besides,' she
with a shudder Of horror looking
,gain apprehensively around, 4 might be poi
ioned'
oh Caroline
Tom was, YOU know she. continued, star
ng at him with her wild eyes. And l must
make the will first
Was she wandering now' Mr.. Knge won
Tered.
Il wish to leave this wretehed fortune -
rretched il has been to me and mine--to its
-ightful owners | wish to repair the injus-
ice that was committed on the Miss Canter-
,urys. VIII you not advise me whether Oh
We
i cannot advise you on the disposal of /.
rour money he interrupted, in voice of
alarm. Neither will inherit any of it, nei-
her will be the executor. Leave it as you
hink well yourself must decline all inter
'ercncc'
. Not advise me What can be your mo-
live for the refusal p
The motive is of no consequence, Caro-
ine'
TELL me the motive, the dwelling else, on
what may be, will worry me for days and
nights. Thomas, do tell me-
Il am engaged to Siillicent Canterbury,
he replied in very low, unwilling tone of
voice.
She locked down on her clasped hands,
and did not speak. But for the crimson that
rushed over her face and neck, he would
have thought that she did not hear.
We'll, be it So she ssid ut length. Il nm