The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1875-03-12
IDTFNG THE MONEY!, NOT
THE MN.


" Uncle Coleman, I'm going to marry
Luc.a Frothia@ham.
Eli: What"
Uncle Coleman put down his Jews
pap, pushed his spcctacles mp on his
forehead, and gIared al his nephew.
Going to marry Lucy Buckingham /"
he cried, attor ga~pinG awhile III sheer
disIAay. Won idiot
"TIanks," WAS the cool reply. q
know you do not like the lady, but
where there IS 4 strong mutual love-"
"Strong mutual fiddlcsticks". inter
Yuptrt Uncle Coleman, contcmptuously.
"i'o1 may love hey she is pretty and
fascinating, but what she loves is your
bank account, my boy. knew it would
be so when Aunt Jennie left you Il cool
hundred thousand. But boys Will be
boy. Only for goodness sake, wait a
year or two before you saddle yourself
VIII, 4 wife -
liam twenty-one, sir" with an i'm
mcnsc air of dignity.
am si~xty-foUr. Now, Frank, do
hear reason. Lucia buckingham is a
fascinating conan, touching the thirties,
if not already over the line-a finished
tiirt, and as mercenary as she is pretty.
! know her, and | tell you her affection
is conferred Upon Aunt Jennie's legacy,
and the half million ii prospective ut my
Bankers"
"UncIe Coleman" cried his nephew,
jotly, "Inever thought of it, much less
spoke OF it,"
don't suppose you ever did. Hav-
ing always had IN independent income,
| don't think you ever counted on a dead
mans shoes. But Miss rockingham
WIS educated in the hard school of gen.
tel poverty, and q rich husband is the
prize for which she has studied and
toiied. for well, say ten years. She
was i'll society before you were done
playing with tops and marbles"
"Uncle Coleman, you are speaking of
my batrothed wife, remember"
Hem"
Years are of no consequence where
ttl"re is true love"
Hem"
"And | love Lucia As she loves me.
Not bit of it."
"To-morrow she goes to Saratoga,
and if you can spare me | will go, too.
"And the business i'll Hartford: l
should advise You to attend to al matters
belonging &c your aunt's estate as soon
as possible, Frank"
"It may keep me in Hartford a
month" said Frank, di~sconsolately.
Coleman Burke looked with a pitIing
affection at his Young relative, such =
boy yet il nnay matters, though he had
reached "man's estate"
A montll That MAJ settle your whoie
i~orttuc," he sail. "Remember, men DO
not fail heir to a hundred thousand dol
lars more than once in u lifetime
y suppose l must go"
at viii he best. Besides" added
Uncle Coleman, dryly, cit will be a
good test of your lady loves constancy ~
"Iamn not afraid Of her forgetting me-"
said Frank, loftily.
"You are actually engaged?'
Certainly! [ bought a diamond
ring at IS yesterday, and put it on
her taper finger last evening""
"Hem. Well, the fool-killer hasn't
been here lately, that's certain. There,
be off, and let me finish my paper in
peace. You VIII so to Hartford
Yes"
But after his nephew left him Cole
man Burke let his paper lie idle upon
his lap, while he fell into a fit Of musing,
often interrupted by impatient e~jacrla-
tons. He was a man, as he said, of past
sixty and had been Il childless widower
for thirty years, while four little graves
beside that of his wife recorded the heart
history of his life.
When he had lived lonely and a SIN