The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1865-03-17

him, she had the property, 1 think.
Margery -Margery"-
"Margery WILDER, l think" said the
hwyer.
Eyes" said Hannah, II remember
now"
you are quiet people, not likely
to talk too much" said the lawyer
81 will tell You something. We have
found will among the effects of a
legal gentleman who died very sud-
denly in a fit of apoplexy. Don't
hope too much, mind A will in your
favor, as your fathers only child"
Hannah clutched her husbands
hand.
at is written by ono on his death
bed, dated the 10th of March, IT.,
and leaves all his property to your
father his grandson, then a boy
Hush don't hope too much. Mar
gerry WILDER or her heirs now hold
this property under will dated
March Is, IT"
GA later will, said Oliver. "Then,
of course, they are the rightful pos
SCISSORS. What need of all this {? the
latest will must stand"
"Not if it is forgery" said the
lawyer
Oliver laughed the bitter laugh of
care and disappointment.
"Who can prove that p he said
"No one, perhaps. Yet the record
of the old mans death might"
"A man whose dying hand signed a
will ON the 10th of March would
scarcely make another on the 18th.
We believe the will forgery, written
on old parchment, since the discovery
of the one 1 have spoken Of Margery
WILDER took possession with no legal
forms, for no one appeared to con
test her title. Where was your
great-grandfather buried q
Here said Hannah, "They say
he was brought down at his request
Mrs. WILDER as chief mourner, and
his son grandfather-no not even sent
for An old graveyard somewhere
Oh, Oliver, Oliver!"
She turned quite white, and uttered
cry. OLIVER, that must be the
graveyard on Gray's place that he
dug over last winter in the warm
spell.
"Then it is gone, said Oliver "And
our last hope with it. No, gentlemen,
good luck could never come to us.
Poverty means to cling to us to the
last. I wish you had better clients"
Oliver, divert" gasped Hannah,
tell me one thing. Zebulon was
great-grandfathers name. Zebulon is
spelled with z, isn't it? Oh, do
speak !"
81 think you are going mad, Han
nah; of course it is.
ooh, the big y, l remember it SO
well | knew it was z; and it would
have been broken to pieces before
now. Oliver, don't you remember my
doorstep that you were SO angry at
l believe it's my poor old great-grand-
fathers tombstone. And | not to
know it, when stared at the great z p
Oliver said nothing. He feared his
wife's brain had turned, and that
made him faint and cold as he fol-
lowed her into the garden, and there
watched while the others lifted at
the fiat slab
1t lay before them on the green
spring grass, black letters ON its
whiteness, and, bending over it, they
read aloud.
"Zebulon Burns. Born May.
Died March IA, IT" with eulogistic
verses, with long SIS underneath, as in
duty bound.
Its poor great-grandfather" said
Hannah. And the lawyer extended
his hands, grasping those of Oliver and
his wife.
THE proof is found" he said.
"The latest will is forgery, for it is
dated the day after the old mans
death Mrs Gneldt is heiress
to large property. l congratulate
you.
And Hannah, with her head on her
husbands shoulder, whispered, coli
yer, it wouldn't have been better to
have married Miss Lester after all y
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