Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-10-14

rooted as IeHElpn, and one OF Lefty 5 young
ladies', who was unavoidably privy to the in
cident, cried out with refreshing satisfaction
that she had guessed the solution of Letty's
riddle.
LEFTY Browns travels were over, and her
single life with them. She was Lefty Brown
no more, but Lefty Ashe, one of the million;
| the poor clerks wife, with her narrow house
hold cares, and toilsome household drudgery.
Never mind, Lefty never looked handsomer
or happier than when she arranged the scan
" furniture, and made the markets III the
circumscribed fat, in the ugly, crowded man
uiactUring town. Lefty was such young
wife. so stately and so sweet, SO civil TO her
neighbors, so genuinely frank and kind to
old friends and above all, such a companion,
friend Mistress lady to George Ashe, though
she had worked as a factory girl once, and he
never likely to be more than the poor clerk
| to TIE end of the chapter, that it was good to
see her.
Lefty had been cooking her husbands din
ner, and was skillfully and pleasantly beauti-
fying his dwelling; she was busting the cage
with her tUrtle-a remembrance from the
land of turtIcs-and she was sitting out her
flowers, cheap primroses and reriwinkles, as
she used to deck her old Mile-end factory
loom, and with new, graceful ideas, brought
from the fragrant myItles and oleanders on
the affairs in old classic Roman lands, when
the postman's knock resounded, and she re-
ceived letter-a London letter-not for
Mrs. George Ashe, but for Lettie Brown.
Lefty was not little puzzled as she read
the address in an unfamiliar hand; she had
no friend that she knew in London but the
Bridgewaters, and they not only were appris-
ed # her marriage, but had loaded her with
wedding presents useful and commemorative
polished chiffOnnier, the embroidered table
cover, the fanciful cake-basket, Uetty would
surely eat cake sometimes were all from the
Bridgewatcrs.
Lefty did not open the letter instantly, and
reach the bottom of the mystery. She was
not cNcitable this Young woman, in her sound
sa-acitv; she was rather slow at adopting a
a fancy, though swift at making an
observation. She was engrossed with what
she was abOut-she had no pressing interests
apart from her own home. She put down the
letter, half determining not to open it till
George came home then she took it up
/ again, and burst the envelope, ant read, first
| a lawyers exceedingly civil preamble, sec
| ond, a copy of the substance Of the will OF
| the late Hugh William Annesley, Lieutenant
| Colonel In one Of Her Maicsty's dragoon regi
ments, devising and bequeathing TO Lettie
Brown, formerly of Moorfeld (he had acct
dentally, as it were, asked her the name OF
her native place tie very morning she took
| leave Of him. the bulk Of his fortune, and his
| house at Bayswater, with its plate and furni
| Jurc The tcsta.Or stated that his relations
i were distant ia degree, and III afiuent cir.
| cumstdnccs and that he made this disposition
| of his property, as being in sound mind as
proof of his respect and esteem for the said
| Icttic Brown, in further testimony of which
| he left the legacy without limitation or rescr-
| vation, beyond the further legacy duty, which
| the lawyer took the opportunity to apprise
| her II was her business TO pay.
Lefty read the communication three times
| before she admitted the Importance of It's
| contents, and laid them to heart and the
| first thing she did after she knew she was an
| hciress-a great hciress for Letty's anteccd-
| euts-and that George Ashe was rich and
| able TO lead life of leisure, and indulge his
/ tastes, was to sit down with the tears rolling
/ down her checks, making them wan in THEN
| palcHes--aud Lefty seldom cried-and to
| pray God that He would enable her and her
! husband to bear their unexpected and unex-
alnpled prosperity.
The eNultation, the triumph, the delirium
of pride and JOY were all for George Ashe,
when he arrived at last, and was gravely, al
most diffdcntlv informed of the Aladdin's
lamp that had been handed III at his door.
Il WAS not that George was mercenary but he