Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1863-09-02
GR3TI4'S FORTUNE.

CT . titEf cieSS manu- as ieF eye met mat one
line in the chastity list of q Killed and Wound
ed, and the blood receded from her cheek
leaving it winter than a marble statue
The morning sunshine lay on the purple Vi
olet wreaths OF the Administer carpet, anc
glimmered over the gilded chairs OF the
dainty little apartment where the Young
heire5s sat at bre aktast with her solemn Ole
goyerness. She was a slight, fragile little
thing with large, brilliant ewes, ana cheek.
just tinted with tremu!ous pink, like white
roses stained with sunset, and her dress. OF
snowy muslin, tied at the waist with simple
blue ribbons, seemed exactly adapted to her
pure childish loveliness.
Mrs. Allaire took up the paper and scanned
the columns through her gold spectacles.
'~Charless Everett-so it is, she muttered.
" Gone at last, poor fellow / wonder what
his wife and little ones viii do. You ought
to help them little, Gratia"
"Help them2 of course | will He was
my distant cousin, wasn't he, aunty she
asked, unconseiously using the pet name by
which she had known her goyerness for
years.
Mrs. Aliaire nodded he head
'4our cousin, child-and your rival for
years
. Ny rival, aunty? l DO not understand -
'SY our rival in the affections Of Old Colonel
Everett, my dear. All, you may well look
surprised-you have been heiress to this
property ever since you were Il child, and
never knew how it came to YOU
= Tell me about it, aunty, said Gratia, set
ting down the tiny Sevres chocolate-cup and
folding her little hands tightly together
There is not much to tell, Gratia, only
Charles was own nephew to Colonel Everett.
while you were but remote cousin And
when Charles displeased his uncle BY marry
ing poor young girl in open defiance of his
wishes, and the old man wilied all the prop
erty which was to have been his nephew's 10
you, babe in the cradle, there were plenty
to declare it an act Of gross injustice"
: 1t meS injustice, said Gratia, with burn
ing checks and compressed lip. why have
| never been told this before"
:" My dear, Colonel Everett had right to
bestow his property where and how he
pleased :"
: Had not Charles Everett been brought
up in expectation of beng his uncles herr:
Was ne not tue nearest blood relation, while
| am but distant connection :"
"4es, but"
4" More than this, has not Charles laid down
his life, under the crimsoned folds of his
countrys fag-are not his wife and children
III restitution, while | am rcyeling i, the
wealth that should have been theirs Great
Heaven, that this thing should have been for
years, and not to know OF IL -
Gratia had risen from her seat and was
walking up and down the room with strange
fire flashing III her humid dark eyes. Mrs
Allaire watched her with troubled face
suddenly She stopped.
''Auntv this injustice shall be repaired
this wrong shall be righted as far a. III ME
lies. viii give this money back to the wi
dow ana the tatherIcs7-alas, that it should
be too late to render restitution TO tine brave
man who lies on the red field of Gettys-
burg!'
,'Gratia, my child, are YOU insane ;"
No, aunty, l am only sane. Do not irri-
tate me with useless arguments and uu-
meaning sophistry-mv mind Is made ug} and
wish to lose no time. VIII you send tor !,
lawyer
For Sir Southally'
The sudden carminc blazed in the pearl
pure cheek-the cyelids dropped with mo-
mentary shyness, but it was but for a second.
For Mr.. Southall, if YOU like He has al
ways had charge Of nay affairs, and is per
haps the best person to consult III this emcr
gencv."
Very well, my dear, viii 10 as YOU de
sire; but | am quite convinced that he viii
think with me that this Is an absurd piece o
Quixotism."
He viii not, aunty," said Gratia softly
vet positively, 4 know that he viii not
on, dear, dear, groaued poor Mrs, ~
laire, IN a conflicting tempest of annoyance
and yeNation; IF 1 had only held my foolisl
tongue about Charles Everett and hi.
claims
But Gratla, wrapped in deep thought, Ia,
no ear for the poor old lady's lamentations
Ii was quaint old room that library. witt
is heavy Gothic furniture and nut brown
carpet sprinkled with scarlet and amber
CLEANS from the stained glass window, IL
whose deep recess stood the round oaken IA
be There was faint odor of Russia leath
or IN the apartment, and 2. strange sense o
quiet rested in every nook and corner
oratlA sat at the table, one round arm
whte a carved pearl and circled with pair
oand OF gotd, resting upon the piles of pa
wateh-chain, while her wistfJ,l eyes we're FIX
ed tglL upon " arren so"thails face.
70 Charles Everett's widow and children
az
= does' Mss Eierett.
ana IL takes eHect immediately
les.
pr4ua drew deep breath OF relief
oou VIII see that they receive the benefit
o' -. =. saoe4hent as soon a possible, Sir -
certainly. Il tou wish 1T. And now
,n,s;darat;o, ;, SUBJECT "ehano' your
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