The Harrison times. (Harrison, Boone Co., Ark) 1876-1938, 1878-12-21


woman knew how to reach EESS;.s hus
bands heart clean out ofawn o
another dav Legislature % was the
legal o. Herald. . Is usbard''
wealth. Sat, antutsr, mq
1t had nerowIl4p Or 20 MaurieC
Everfeld's miGG{ " IN making over
his property to his wife, he had rem
dered himself and daughter beggars
But, alas tho day came when he saw
his fearful mistake. He had, contra
ry 10 ! so4t Nectations, survived the
torrp. 1rt Ae' which sent hundreds OF
heavy - - 4ato the sP7ahing
foam of the awful abyss of destruction
And so, when the clouds had vanished,
and his financial horizon was again
brilliant and luminous, Maurice Ever
field appealed to his wife to surrender
to HIM the papers which had been
placed in her hands for the better
SAFETY OF his fortune.
The reader can better Judge of his
surprise when she positively refused
to comply with her husbands request,
than by anything my pen can portray.
"The property is NINE" she said,
"by every legal right, and shall hold
it and use it as | think proper :"
And thus Maurice Everfeld found
himself and daughter dependent upon
Il cold, heartless woman, and one, too,
whom he now knew had married him
for his wealth.
lie had not the courage to tell his
daughter of his fatal mistake, and thus
at the opening of our story his beloved
Blanche was still in ignorance of the
doplorable condition she was likely to
find herself in at the death of her IA
ther.
The heartbroken man tried to give
his daughter some idea of the state of
affairs, when he found himself falling,
but utterly failed to find words to OK
press himself.
81 had hoped" he said, one day
when Blanche was bonding over him,
bathing his burning temples--I had
hoped to have seen you the wife of
Ernest Baltimore, Blanche, darling,
peace p the a, invalid adj added, drawing
deep sigh.
Banche's only response was low
ing embrace. A few days more, and
Maurice Evortield breathed his last,
with his head resting upon his be-
loved daughters shoulder.
Tho funeral was over, and then, for
the first time, Blanche learned she
was penniess.
The shock, combined with the loss
of her father, was terrible one for
the poor girl. But she tried to con-
sole herself with the hopo that her
lover would not verify her fathers
prcphesy and desert her. And so,
when a few weeks had passed, and she
had slightly recovered from the dou-
BILE shock, she felt Just a little bitterly
still toward her father, for she knew
nothing of the circumstances which
led HIM to leave her upon the charity
of her step-mother, as of course that
lady did not deign to give any expla-
nations. Hence Blanche naturally
presumed tina: the act had been one,
on her fathers part, of intention and
elaboration.
Since her fathers death she had not
seen her lover, but had received a
letter of coincidence, and begging that
she would allow him to visit her as
soon as she could justify the act with
proprlety.
And SO one day she had said to her,
self, while reading for the twentieth
time her lovers epistle;
81 will write and bid him come
Mo- | had forgotten-I will first
write and tell him that am penniless
and then if he loves me still, be may
come"
And so she hurriedly scribbled a
delicately perfumod note, telling him
everything, and bidding him come il
the announcement had not altered his
mind. Then she read it over careful
! ly, and despatched aservant TO mail it
A day or two after, and Colone
Ralph Leichester's card was handed
her, with the glad tidings that the
gentleman was awaiting her pleasure
in The drawing-room.
"Blanehc, darling ~ said her lover
as she entered his presence, 81 was 50
delighted to receive your note I"
And he put his arm around thu
slight, girlsh form and imprinted