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

and so | am to understand that
you positively refuse to give up that
young fortune hunter, Marmaduke
M arly p
4 do positively refuse
Even after the bankruptcy which
has reduced him to beggary, you still
wish to fulfill your engagement p
Most certainly
Then hear me, and Captain Wych-
erly--a retired naval officer in the
United States Service-dashed his
stout cane upon the floor with an en-
phasis that made the glasses and de-
cauter jingle-'and mark what | say
Ir you persist in such obstinate disc
bedience 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 a living
for all | care. for I'll never help you
to penny
Josie's cheeks burned scarlet.
And | say she retorted, her blue
eyes ali atiame with honest indigna-
ton, that no consideration OF broad
acres or bank stock, or even the COM
manGs of tather'-here she choked
down rising sob-'can tempt Josie
Wycherly to break her word
Think said the father, 'of 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 yet you
deliberately choose such fate as
this =
Josie's heart quailed little, for,
like all refined women, she loved the
ease and luxury which wealth could
purchase, and which she all her lite
had enjoyed. But she loved Mar
maduke Marly and her own honor
more
'We plighted our troth with your
full consent and APPROVAL she ar
gued. IF he has been unfortunate,
it is p! ainly my duty to cling to and
comfort him. | have given my sa-
cred promise, and l shall keep it,
And her father, recognizing the
Wycherly ebstinacy, knew that fur
Their remonstrance was useless. But
being by nature despotic, and ex.
pectlng to receive at home the same
implicit Oh edience he had exacted on
board man-ot-war, he raved and
swore and scolded so continually al
being banked in his plans, that poor
Josie was glad to yield to her lovers
entreaties, and become his wife, to
escape persecution at home.
SO one morning they quietly walk
ed to the nearest church, and in the
presence of few friends, to whom
they had confded the circumstances
Josie Wycherly was, by a few brie
sentences, transformed into Mrs
Marty. Scarcely had the bridal par
ty left the church, when they were
J, confronted by Captain Wycherly, hi.
stout cane coming down emphatical
ly at every step, his eyes blazing
with wrath.
SO you have been Matching YOU
mutiny under my very roof, and hav,
outwitted the old man at last = b,
exclaimed, glaring on the trembling
bride, who stood surrounded bv he
fear-stricken friends. Hope you'll
find smooth sailing with Your brett,
y craft, young man for by the heath
eli gods, you'll never see the color O
old Mark Wycherly's money. III
dislnherit the ungratetul girl thi
very day !
J. And he meant to be as good as hi
word for he walked straight from
the church to the law office Of HIM
81 Ketchum, and astonished IN,
senior of that firm by requesting then
to draw up new will, leaving all hi
. effects, real and personal, to the Sea
mems Charitable Fund, and strikin,
out the name of his daughter Jose
phine from that important .documen
altogether.
But, my dear sir, it is impossibl
to execute the provisions of such
document replied the bland an
smiling Mr.. Hunt. Such will woul
be illegal, and consequently worth
y less
'Confound it = said the irate oil
sea dog do you mean to tell II
that man can not sail his own era
in any water he chooses p
And after several stormy Interrul
tons, the lawyer a. last made clei
to his wrathtul client, that, in ord,
to be legal, the will must contain I'll
y name of Miss Josephine as legate
lg be the sum ever so small
very well, since it must be so, r
piled Captain Wycherly, and he bel
his shaggy head to listen to the rea,
ing of the document that conveye
railroad shares, bank stock and farm
ing lands, amounting in all to half
million dollars, to the aforesaid cha
g. liable fund, and left to his daughte
MRS. Josephine Marty, the sum
i, two dollars, to buy stool of repen
ance, whereon she could sit and +
y fleet upon the ingratitude of her co
duct to an indulgent father
'And you may give said the o
man, with grim smile, the Wye
erly homestead to her portion, alst
The Wycherly homestead 7
re- peated Mr.. Hunt, Il cannot say tn
N | ever heard of it before.
sHa ha y roared Captain Wye