The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1871-12-15

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tack of neuralgia pain. When she wa
suffering from this, Miss Brown iOrgav
her everything.
Thinking Of these sulierings now, sh
could forget all the crossness and rough
ness which they had caused. "PoOr wo
man poor Mrs Barkerl Well, she i
happier now, trust. / ought to think O
that" and she was wipiRg away tea
with her fine, clean pocket. handkerchief
forgetting its tineness, and that the prope
time for producing it in the worshiplu
company OF Well.dressed mourners wa
not come, when she heard a sudden clatte
and commotiOn in the street, and looking
out, what a carriage had stopped q
the door, and that Mrs, Lorimer, In the
richest and newest Of mourning, wa
sweeping into the house.
CHAPTER II.
Mrs, Lorimer, too, was on her way tc
attend the solemnity Of the day. ~
found 1t was rather early" she said, al
she came in, $50 l thought might a.
well come round and give you seat !;
and having taken one herself, as she
spoke, in her cousins parlor, 1t soon be-
came plain that she had come less fol
the purpose of saving her the five min
utes' walk TO the end Of the street, than
Of enjoying little preliminary gossip
which would have been out OF place in
the hourse of mourning, and for which
Miss Brown was not much more disposed
just then than she was TO make her
shabby dress and fearful eyes more con-
spicu0us by arriving in an ostentatious
carriage, instead OF upon her own hum
Bile feet. She could not, however decline
the offered seat, and, to her RELIEF. Mrs.
Lorimer noticed neither her dyed silk
nor her red eyelids, being too much oCcu-
pied with reflections on more important
subjects,
$50, there's Mrs. Barker gone! Well,
We must all die. It's mercy, poor old
woman, that she didn't last longer. Her
temper was something trightiul.h
"She had much to suffer-" said Miss
Brown, softly-so softly that Mrs. Lori
mer scarcely heard her,
II wonder how she has LEFT her money.
She was such curious woman, that, for
my part, shouldn't be surprised Il she
had made some extraordinary will. They
say she had no really confidential lawyer
"There must be some relations, l sup.
pose" said Miss Brown, who until this
moment, had scarcely thought of u will at
all.
mo" said Mrs Lorimer quickly. "Ive
reason To know, for Two made inquiries,
Tint oil hoI mn nnlaNinuu NJ oil ITnr h,a.
band had some, ! know, but they have
nothing to do with her. She might leave
her fortune 10 you or me II she liked. OF
course, Priscilla, she will have LEFT You a
remembrance; you were always very at.
tentive 10 her" .....
Miss Browns face flushed with n sud.
den, not unpleasant agitation ofhope. She
had nGVer thought OF possible legacy to
herself ahe had never gotta legacy In her
life. Surprising that she had been left a
remembrance, as Mrs. Lorimer called 1t.
A remembrance" she understood, gen.
orally meant "ten pounds tobuy a mourn.
ing ring" There was momentary strug.
Clio in her mind over tho mourning ring,
Would II DO necessary for her to spend
even part OF her ten pounds, II she got
them on such useless OrnamentP Would
not n mourning black silk dress, or now
shawl, be rs suitable u tribute TO the
memory of her irlendP Then, with an
instructive dread Of allowing herself to
entertain the hope Of such windfall,
she said: "Im sure don't expect any.
thing never thought Of IT,"
"Well, Gil l say Is, II will DO very odd
Il none of her friends here are remember
cd ; | am sure she has been trouble
enough to them. The times and times
I've felt 1t was just my duty to go and
sec what the old woman was doing, and
how she was. because really she seemed
to have no ono TO look after her Not
that expect to sec sixpence of her
money" Then Miss Brown perceived
that Mrs. Lorimer considered herself en-.
titled to n legacy too, and naturally she
could not help thinking OF the chances Of
her own, though she did 80 with thrill
Of contritioA at the unfeellngness Of such
calculations.
When they arrived at Mrs. Barkers
house, Mrs Lorimer kept her wits about
her, and had q sharp eye on the looks and
manners OF the other nourncrs, and reck-
oning up her own claims against what she
knew OF theirs, believed that she might
DO sure oil hundred pounds at least. Ten
pounds were o good deal more TO Miss
Brown than a hundred were to her cousin.
Yet she again forgot oil about her pos
siblc legacy while she stood, squeezed into
corner, thinking regretfully Of the even
ings she had spent with Mrs Barker In
this very room; and which, dreary
enough as they had been, would have
been still drearier to the solitary, morose
old lady, II Miss Brown had not tried to
cheer them.
[CoNrNuBD TOMORROW