The Plymouth Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1869-1941, 1870-08-18
MISCELLANEOUS.
MYBROWE'S WILL.
BY "RUY."

On my way down to garden party at
Fulham one fine afternoon, with my
friend Charlie Twistleton, heard the fol-
lowing story of lady concerning whom
everybody was just then talking.
Wybrowe, Brazilian millionaire, atat,
severity. or thereabouts, marrIes Helen
Chetwynd, impecunious belle, etat. nine
teen, daughter of British diplomatic in
those parts and, after two years of con-
nubial felicity, CONSIDERABLY dies Wv
browe is jealous as Spaniard; and his
jealousy looks beyond his own life. SO
he leaves q terrible will behind him This
cunningly cOntrived document provides
that his widow, then Just twenty zone,
shall receive and enjoy sn income of some
$4,000 per annum so long-and only so
long-ss she shall remain unmarried.
That if she do marry again, she shall re-
eeiye absolutely nothing-the entire
estate of the deceased passing to two dis
tant relatives believed to be living in OBJ
scure poverty IN London.
Now comes the most curious part Of the
story.
A good many men besides old Wybrowe
went mad about Ia belle Helen out in Bra
Zil notably man who was thought to
be nearly as big as Cresus-a half Span
Smith. This hybrid was said to have the
temper of fiend, the face ef a baboon,
and the complex ion of jaundice patient.
The frantic vehe mence with which, when
at last he did speak, Smith pleaded his
case to her, nearly frightened Miss Chet-
wynd into Mysteries; the malignant black
scOwl that twisted his ugly face till it
grew absolutely awful in its hideousness
when she Internationally declined his
proposals and shrank away from him,
haunted her sleep for many night after
ward.
Alvarez Smith went away and thought
out his vengeance. This is how he took
it, after waiting patiently for three years
During Wybrowe's lifetime he kept
quiet, and made no sign. When the old
an was dead, Smith broke in upon the
widow and with fall knowledge of the
provisions of Wybrowe's will, renewed
his former propositions They were re-
jected agaia-this time with the addition
of certain words that Helen Wybrowe
would have been more prudent not to
have spoken to such man.
The same steamer which brought the
widow home TO England had among its
passen gers Alvarez Smith. He never
once spoke to her, or molested 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 rail-
way carriage at Southampton; met hers
as he got ont on the platform at Waterloo;
and, again, as the doors of her sister 3
house in Park lane closed upon her.
Every time she went abroad she met
them; sleeping and walking, Alvarez
Smith haunted her. 1t was intolerable
but what could she do! She left town /;
he followed her. She shut herself up in
the house for days; and the first person
she saw when, by day or by night, y
came out again was Smith; always Alva-
Smith. Mrs. WybrOwe grew nervous Anu
Ill under this implacable persecution,
which it was impossible to put an end to.
And tie worst of it was that she felt her
prosecutor was gaining a certain power
over her; that those terrible eyes of his
fascinated her like basilisk's She never
avOwed this feeling to Lady Oswestry, her
sister, but she couldn't help confessing it
to herself
In few weeks after her arrival in Lon
don, old Wy ybrowe's lawyer communicated
the following startling intelligence: A
person had bought up the reversionary
interest of her husbands two distant rela-
t'ves IN the income that had been left her,
subject to her remaining unmarried
Wybrowe's kinsmen, too poor to be
troubled with many scruples, and consid.
ering that it was barely likely woman
would give up fifteen thousand pounds a
year when she could keep it ON such easy
terms, had greedily accepted the offer that
had been made them had accordingly ex
ecuted the necessary legal documents
had received stipulated sum down, anC
had emigrated to Australia
HE DersOn who had tbua hOuUht tb ay,
out was, consequeI tly, the person who
would claim the heavy forfeit from Heller
Wybrowe in the event of her marryins
again And it was hardly needful to tel
her that PERSONS name. She guessed i
ns;inctively-Alvarez Smith.
This, then, was her position she mus
either, at one-and-twenty, condemn her
self to lifelong widowhood, or relin
quish magnificent income to the mai
she detested. True court of law Nigh,
as her lawyer told her, set the will aside
but how could woman petition such
court? Her woman's delicacy, at al
events, rendered that out of the question
in her case. Again, there might be me-
who would think land who could affor
TO think lightly of marrying a beggar
and among them there might ba on
whom she could love. But, wise in he
generation, Mrs Wybrowe built no castle
in the air of this sort. She accepted tn
situation telIe quelle etdit;; shut herself u
no longer; went among her kind eI
cOuntered her basilisk with an impassabl
visage, and tortured her tOrmen Cor by a
ingenl0usly arranged sequence OF flirts
ton with passed masters of the art
knew II. in that moment when Gu
eyes met. Iknew that /, Francis Drasdy
world worn, case hardened, poccoranti
cynic of seven and twenty, was to Low
this woman that / did love her already
Rather tall, graceful as Diana In he
statuesque summer draperies,
''Helen of the low-arch'd brow
And amber hair, and dewy violet eyes,
woman with a child's face stamped bt
fore its time with the mark of passion O
of pain, a little thinner and little pale
than it should have been, perhaps, bu
withal the stronger, subtler, attraction fo
me that it was so-tnis was Mrs. Wybrow
as saw her that day.
don't remember what she and talke
about when we were left alone, or no,
long we sat under the big beech.
Iknow she spoke, and that every mo-
and then the great violet eyes turne