Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1875-04-08

fines letter over sgain carefully, and,
inclosing Il in the official envelope, ad-
dressed 1t in bold, round hand to :" Miss
adelaide Braxton sB.aBotstourt, care
the Hon Bragg Tomkins, Washington,
u e." That spikes that wedding,
guess, said Misty $ but now! won't the
Ola man oancel As for this scoundrel
Gomez, shall have. TO wiring his neck,
suppose, or pay him no end of black
mail. He shAll not have Efine..'
The next day Themistocles was in
farls. His first care was to go to Chan
lilly TO visit his little Fifne at the board
ing-school where he had placed her six
years ago. He had only seen her once
since. The Spanish,American girl de-
veiopes precociously, and Fifne was
grown already into charming and love.
~ woman who, when she kissed him on
the mouth and both cheeks, made him
blush, and thereat she blushed likewise.
DIR. Ellicott was now married, and Misty
took Fifine of to Paris to be Mrs. Eli
cstt's question some days Mon papa"
was dropped by mutual consent-it was
q case Of love at first sight, and was de.
veloped with greater rapidity Than dip
lomatists are usually accustomed to con-
duct their negotiations. TAftH
One evsning DR.. Ellicott was sent for
to see new patient at the Hotel de
Louvre. Mrs. Ellicott was engaged about
some domestic matters, and Misty was
diligently counting Fifne, who never
tired of being courted, when the servant
showed In a visitor, 1t was Sancho Go.
mez. Both knew him at once, and rhine
involuntarily rushed into Tomkins' arms.
Gomez smiled sardonically. "Childl'
said he, have come for you. You are
the image of your mother. have taken
all the steps needed to secure possession
OF you, and it is useless TO resist me. If
you do will be compelled to resort. to
the law. Mr.. Tomkins here is too much
a diplomatist not to know the significance
of these documents And he handed
Misty papers, which showed that he had
taken. all the preliminary steps necessary
to regain the custody Of his child. 81
have. two police agents waiting below, :"
he added, as Misty looked threateningiy
toward him.
"This is a question Of money, l sup
pose, "said Misty '"what do you charge
to burn these papers and cease this pur-
suitt" As -
Gomez smiled. "Half a dozen pork
factories won't do it, Jose Rincon is
seventy-fve years old, is worth 49,.
900, 600 and she Is his only heir. !
. Let Jose Rncon, then, decide who is
to be her guardian" 10 ID, alRa. az
" He has already decided it." said Co
mez; here is his letter begging me to
bring her 10 him" 60.
q Fifine chung passionately to Misty,
passionately refused to 90 with her ia
ther, and the situation was growing very
painful when DR.. Ellicott suddenly re-
turned, accompanied by an old gentle
man with dark skim bald head and
black-velvet skullcaps on. This gentle
man no sooner saw Gomez than he
pounced upon him with avehemence one
would have thought impossible for his
years, took him by the throat and shook
him violently. !" Villain, liar, murderer
he cried, g. have found you out at last,
thanks to this good doctor" Then he
saw Fifine, trembled all over, and held
out his arms. & Image of my murdered
Carlotta, embrace meP' zEHa Hasr asE
TWAS Rincon himself, who all the time
had been paying money TO Gomez for
the support of the child and had finally
been persuaded TO come to Paris to
adopt her, 81 s-s.,..h hrfr.ss,-s5 s.az II
Gomez, seeing himself foiled in the
moment of the contamination of his
hopes, was desperate "I'll have the girl
anyhow" said he;" none of you can keep
her from me-" ~ I'D =
%" You lie! you scoundrel!" said Rincon.
I" You have no authority over her. She
is my daughters child You were not
married to her, though she thought you
were, because you had another wife
living at the time. am her natural
guardian and will be her perpetual one"
Gomez stole away. "Hold on, old
gentleman" said Misty. al object to
that clause. Perpetual guardianships
are like perpetual treaties, always termi-
nable At the pleasure Of the high con.
tracing parties Fifine, I'm getting dis
sipated and seedy-going to ruin for lack
OF wife. Will you marry mey" 49,,
And Fifine said she would h"
Two or three days later Misty received
a cable dispatch from Mr.. Bragg telling
him never to darken the paternal doors
again. .,sE.,..a - es.asf AZ a..a,sagH
Misty wrote back as follows: "Cable
dispatch received. Pat on your best bib
and tucker, old boy, and have the house
Strengthened up . bit. / am coming
home with my bride, Donna Fifine Teresa
Maria Gomez, daughter or Don Sancho
Gomez and granddaughter of Don
Manuel lgnacio, Jose Rincon de Palu-
bras, of Santo Palacio. Blue blood of
Spain, upseedutch grandee, and rich as
creaml" lg 43t" Aa& ,t7aA& q Aif
These tremendous names quite recon
ciled the Honorable Bragg for the slight
put upon Miss a. B. G. b. Botetourt and
when he heard of the Peruvian mines
and saw Don Jose's velvet skullcap he
swore that diplomacy, next to pork, was
the biggest thing on earth.--Nep Yoyb
World. ''s -.
lam say Good Pay. rr9 1919 20
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