The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-03-25

The FREMONT JOURNAL
Fook AND Jos
Printing Office,
JOURNAL BUILDING,
FRONT STREET, FREMONT
FRONT sTRBET. FRBMONT

4 am the gentleman on whom you
called to draft will.
! He turned pale, but said nothing
in reply.
/ saw a record Of that viii in the
SurrOgate's Office this morning. I
resumed, and
You speak Of my uncle's will he
interrupted
And yet L continued, you said it
was yours when you applied to have
it written. You represented yourself
as desirous o. executing such a do
cument preparatory to embarking on
a perilous voyage. The paper was
drawn in accordance with your in
structions, the date to be filed in at
the time Of signing. Your looks
were gray then, and you certainly
looked old enoug to have a marri-
ageable daughter, but your disguise
was not perfect, and pointed to his
mutilated finger.
What do you meanY he shouted
in ad efant tone springing to his feet.
Simply that your uncle's sigma
ture to that paper is a forgeryP I an
swered rising and confronting him.
He died on the 23d of December.
Your own telegram to that effect is
in existence. It was on the oath, the
day before Christmas, that you called
on me to prepare the paper now on
record as this will The inference is
plain, you undertook the manufac-
ture Of this spurious testament after
your uncle's death, wishing to clothe
your villainy is a legal form, you
procured from me the required draft.
You, or some one at your inssiga-
ton, simulated the signature of the
deceased-The witnesses who have
since procured themselves in some
manner best known 70 yourself
and
Enough sir! you have shown your
self possessed Of a secret the custo-
dy Of which may prove dangerous
to YOU
L am not unprepared for your
threat l replied. In the first place
1 did not come unarmed. in the next
place l have prepared a full statement
of the facts to which have alIud-
ed, with information, besides. of nv
present visit to yourself. This pa.
per viii be delivered to q friend to
whom it is directed, unless within
an hour l reclaim it from the mes
senger, who has been instructed for
that length Of time to retain it.
His face grew lived. His frame
quivered with mingled faer and rage.
What is your purposep he ex-
claimed.
To keep your secret while you
live, / answered 'on one condition.
Name it.
That you write instantly to Julia
Parsons, renouncing all pretensions
to her hand, and absolutely with
drawing your proposal of marriage
After moments pause he seated
himself at his desk, and hastily pen
ned brief note, which he submit
ted to my inspection it was quite
satisfactory.
BE so good as to seal and address
it. 1 said. He did so and handed it
to me.
i viii see it delivered Isaid, put
ting 1t it my pocket and bowing my
self out.
When I met George Dickson that
evening, his old college look had
came back. He had great news to
tell me. The next thing was to
take me to see Julia, and it needless
to tell what a happy evening we three
spent together, and what a happy
marriage followed not long after.
Eldridge Parsons l have Just learn
ed, joined one of the late Cuban ex-
peditions, and was. killed in a recent
encounter with the Spaniards,