The weekly Oskaloosa herald. [volume] (Oskaloosa, Iowa) 1855-1885, 1871-07-20
JOSiE'S WEDDING GIFT

ana so l am to understand that
you positively refuse to give up tn at
young fortune hunter, aduke
Marty p
1 do positively refuse
Even after the bankruptcy which
has reduced him TO beggary, you still
wish to fulfill your engagement %
M ost certainly
'Ihen bear me, and Captain Wych-
erly-a retired naval officer in the
United States Service-dashed his
stout cane upon the floor with an en-
phasls that made the glasses and de-
canter jung leland mark what | say |!
If you persist in such obstinate disc.
bedlence to my wishes, by Jove I'll
disinherit you. The day that YOU
become his wife will find you home
less and penniless. And you may
both sweep the crossings for living
tor all | care. for I'll never help YOU
to penny
Josie's cheeks burned scarlet.
And | say she retorted, her blue
eyes ali afame with honest indigna-
ton, 'tha no consideration of broad
acres or bank stock, or even the COM
mands of tather'-here she choked
down rising sob-'can tempt Josie
Wycherly to break her word
Think, said the father, sof the
homes where grim want sits day after
day beside the hearthstone, where
children with pinched features and
hollow eyes beg vainly for the food
which is denied them and vet YOU
deliberately choose such a fate as
this =
Josie's heart quailed a little, for,
like all refined women, she loved the
ease and luxury which wealth could
purchase, and which she all her life
had enjoyed. But she loved Mar
naduke Marty and her own honor
lOre.
= we plighted our troth with your
Il consent and APPROVAL she ar
I'd. IF he has been unfortunate.
plainly my duty to cling to and
iort him. l have given my sa-
promise, and shall keep it,
VI her father, recognizing the
- THIRTY ebstlnacy, knew that fur
+ ben0nstrance was useless. But
- PEG nature despotic, and ex-
in,plo receive at home the same
boarb edience he had exacted on
L, sworean -ot-war, he raved and
being scolded so continually at
Josie we'd in his plans, that poor
entreatad to yield to her lovers
ESCAPE I'd become his wife, to
% So oneution at home.
Up ed to the they quietly walk
presence ct church, and in the
thew had CIV friends, to whom
Josie Wycfd the circumstances,
sentences, vas, by a few brief
=, Marty. ScRrmed into Mrs.
ty left the chhad the bridal par
-Ps, confronted byThen they were
stout cane comm Wycherly, his
ly at every stelwn emphatical-
kE with wrath. eyes blazing
so you have b
g mutiny under myatching your
outwitted the old pot, and have
exclaimed, glaringt last ? he
bride, who stood s. trembling
fear-stricken friendded by her !
Is find smooth sailing ppe you'll !
city craft, young man ; four pretty
eli gods, you'll neverhe heath l
old Mark Wycherly'a color of {
I'm disinherit the ungratey; III
NN very day = 5irl this s
L,D, And he meant to be & {
word for he walked 81 as his t
the church to the law of from
- q Ketchum, and astc Hunt /
u. senior of that firm by requ the v
to draw up new will, leahem Q
effects, real and personal, his s
mems Charitable Fund, area
out the name of his dangling il
phine from that important ,0e-
altogether. at "
But, my dear sir, it is inn a
to execute the provisions off t,
document replied the blan e
,u smiling Mr.. Hunt. Such will a
TH be illegal, and consequently Nv
'Ao' less n
'Confound it = said the irate.
z sea dog do you mean to tell
that man can not sail his own
in any water he chooses?'
And after several stormy inter
tons, the lawyer a. last made {
to his wrathtul client, that, in o
to be legal, the will must contain
.,oo,, name of Miss Josephine as leg,
pring be the sum ever so small.
very well, since it must be SO
piled Captain Wycherly, and he
i, his shaggy head to listen to the +
!, ing Of the document that conv'
railroad shares, bank stock and f
ing lands, amounting in all to ha
million dollars, to the aforesaid {
rices liable fund, and lett to his daugl
MRS. Josephine Marty, the sn
two dollars, to buy stool of rel
UN ance, whereon she could sit an
S"' fleet upon the ingratitude of her
duct to an indulgent father
'And you may give said tn,
man, with grim smile, the w
erly homestead to her portion, 9
The Wycherly homestead =
Gavors peated Mr.. Hunt, Il cannot say
atrOn- l ever heard of it before
'Ha ha = roared Captain w