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WYBROWE'S WILL.
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On my way down TO garden par
:ty at Fulham one one fine afternoon,
with my friend Charlie Twistleton, /
heard the following story Of lady
concerning whom everybody was just
then talking:
Wybrowe, brazilian millionaire,
@tat, seventy, or Whereabouts, marrics
Helen Chctwynd, impccunious belle,
:rtat, nineteen, daughter Of British
diplomat in those parts and, after
two years OF connubial felicity, con
sidoratcly dies. Wybrowc is Jealous
as 4 Spaniard.; and his jealousy looks
beyond his own life. So he leaves q
terrible will behind him. This cum
ningly contrivcd document provides
that his widow, then just twenty y-onc,
shall receive and enjoy an income of
El5,OOO per annum so long-as she
shall remain unmarried. That if she
do marry again, she shall receive alb
solutely nothing-thc entire estate Of
tho deceased passing TO two distant
relatives, believed to bc living i'll OBJ
scurc poverty in London.
Now comes the most curious part of
the story.
A good many men besides old Wy
out in Brazil; notably a man who
was thought to be nearly as big a
Cr@sus-a half Spainiard, halEEng-
lshman, by name Alvarez Smith.
This hybrid was said to have the tenn
per of o fcnd, the face Of Il baboon,
and the complexion Of a jaundiccd pa
ticnt. The frantic vchcmcucc with
which, when at last he did speak,
Smith pleaded his case to her, nearly
frightened Miss Chctwynd into hys
1crics; tho malignant black scowl
that twisted his ugly face till it grew
absolutely awful in it's hidcousness,
when she unconditionally declined
his proposals, and shrank ,away from
him, haunted her sleep for many q
night aftcrward.
Alvarez Smith went away and
thought out his vengeance. This is
how he took it, after waiting patient
ly for three yccrs.
During old Wybrowc's lifetime no
kept quiet and made no sign. When
tho old man was dead, Smith broke in
upon tho widow, and with full knowl-
edge Of tho provisions Of Wybrowc's
will, renewed his former propositions.
They were rejected again-this time
with tho addition of certain words
that Helen Wybrowe would havo
been more prudent MOTTO have spoken
TO such q man.
Tho same steamer which brought
tho widow home to England had
among It's passengers Alvarez Smith.
LILO never spoke once to her, or molest-
ed her in any way during the voyage
but his hungry black eyes would rest
upon her in way that frightened
her in spite Of herself:
Those eyes watched her into the
railway carriage. at Southampton
met hers as she got out on to tho
platform at Waterloo; and again, as
the doors Of her sisters house in Park
lane closed upon her. Every time
she went abroad she met them; sleep
ing and walking, Alvarez Smith haunt
ed her. It was intolerabls; but what
could sho do? She left town he fol
lowed her. She shut herself up ir
the house for days; and tho first per
son she saw when, by day or night
she came out again was-Smith oil
ways Alvarez Smith. Mrs. Wybrows
grew nervous and i'll under tho impla
cable prosecution, which it was i'm
possible to put an end to. And thu
worst Of it was that che felt her per
secutor was gaining certain. powe,
over her; that those terrible eyes o
his fascinated her like basilisk's
She never avowed this feeling to Lady
Oswestry, her sister, but she couldn'
help oonfcssihg-it to.hersef. y,zTgs
In few weeks after her arrival i,
London, old Wybrowe's lawyer com
municatcd to her the following start
ling intelligence IA person ha
bought up The reversionafy fnteres
.6f her husbands two distant relative
in the income that had been left hel
subject to her"romaining unmarried
'Wybrowes kinsmen, too poor to b
troubled with many scruples, aud cor