Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1870-08-25
MISCELLANEOUS.
WYBROWE,S WILL.

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, @tat,
seventy. or thereabouts, marrles Helen
Ohetwynd, impecuRious belle, @tat. nine
teen, daughter.of British diplomake in
those parts and, after two years of con-
nubial felicity, considerably dies. Wy
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-one,
shall receive and enjoy an income of some
$4,000 per annum so long-and only so
long-as she shall remain unmarried.
That II she do marry again, she shall re-
oelve 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
I'll notably . man who was thought to
be nearly rs big as CrHsus-a hall. f.Span-
lard, hall, Eng lishman, By name Alvarez
Smith This hybrid was said to have the
temper of fiend, the face Of baboon,
and the complexion of q jaundice patient
The frantic Yehemence with which, when
at last he did speak, Smith pleaded his
case 70 her, nearly frightened Miss Chet-
Wynd into hysterics; the malignant black
scowl that twisted his ugly face till il
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
1t, after waiting patiently for three years.
During Wybrowe's lifetime he kept
quiet, and made no sign. When the old
man was dead, Smith broke in upon the
widow and with full knowledge of the
provisions Of Wybrowe's win, renewed
his former propositions. They were re-
jected again-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
passengers Alvarez Smith. He never
way during the voyage; but his hungry
black eyes would rest upon her in q way
that frightened her in spite of herself
Those eyes watched her into the rail-
way carriage at southampton; met hers
as he got out on the 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; sleeping and walking, Alvarez
Smith haunted her. It was intolerable
but what could she do? She left town !;
he followed her. She shut herself mp in
the house for days; and the first person
sne saw when, by day or by night, she
came out again was Smith; always Alvarez
Smitn. rs Wybrowe grew nervous and
nnnAR II
which 1t was impossible to put an end to.
And the worst of it was that ahe felt her
prosecutor was gaining o certain mower
over her; that those terrible eyes of his
fascinated her like besilisk's She never
ayowed this feeling 20 Lady Oswestry, her
sister, but she couldn't help confessing it
to herself
In few weeks after her arrival in Lon
donS old Wybrowe's lawyer communicated
the following startling intelligence: A
person had bought mp the reversionarJ
interest of her husbands two distant rela
tives in the income that had been left her
subject to her remaining unmarried
Wybrowe's kinsmen, too poor TO bt
troubled with many ecruples, and consid
ering that it was barely likely woman
would give up fifteen thousand pounds {
year when she could keep it on such easy
terms, had greedily accepted the offer thai
Ind been made them had accordingly ex
ecuted the necessary legal documents
haa received stipulated sum down, anC
had emigrated to Australia.
The person who had thus bought then
out was, consequently, the person whC
would claim the heavy forfeit from Heller
WybroWe in the event of her marrvinf
again. And it was hardly needful to tel
her that persons name. She guessed i
Observation-Disclosures Smith.
This, then, was her position; she mus
either, at one-and-twenty, condemn her
self to lifelong widowhood, or relin
qF1ish magnificent income 70 the ma