San Marcos free press. [volume] (San Marcos, Tex.) 1877-1892, 1878-11-23


B.. turning pale, q Garcia, don't speak SO.
"Well, I'm delighted. and there's no
use pretending anything else. Come in
and hear the letter read t 9R Cd
SO they all went into the next room.
The lettcrihhd just arrived from, Penn
sylvania, where Aunt Bethia had lived
r.any years, though it was not her M
tive place. Her will had been left in
care of her lawyer who, upon her death,
which Ind been uncomplinHntedb by Wis.,
its at her request, had written toher de-
ceased brother's family, informing them
Of the doweries. The singularity was,
that while they were named, they were
not respectively presented. 'i .Ieo.
ave are to take our choice!" cried
Garcia o. sInqs u,,nl m lia .e.g.
"Stopla slid Mrs. Chetwynd, leaning
upon her pillows and reading the letter
with flushed face, while En- regarded
her anxiousiy. sit is recommended that
the eldest daughter take the unimprov-
ed Pennsylvania land. That's you,
Grace.Yo nc isdI i..1. qgaa ..oods o.
II Won't have it, cried Grace. 81 am
going TO have the Gothic cottage on the
Hudson .~.'' ..'' .". '..
Recommended" went on Mrs. Chef
wynd, reading, shat the next take the
Hudson River estate"
"Grace has that. am going to have
the prairie farm and new house out West.
I'd like to go West. Jack and Tom are
doing first-rat making fortune.
Lieutenant Egbert shall leave the army
and turn faimer--he was brought up on
farm and I'll keep house in the Vest
ern style, and you shall all come and
partake of my hospitality once year,"
cried Garcia, generously. r1. ...y
,"But the Western estate is recon-
mended to En-" hesitated Mrs. Chef
wynd. y, .r.r .p
sand those old marshy PENNSYLVANIA
lands left to me.'' cried Garcia, angrily.
"That is just as you and EN- can
agree" interposed Mrs. Chetwynd.
Don't get into q passion, Garcia"
They all looked at En-. She, rather
than the others, seemed quite suited to
be the mistress of a Western farmhouse;
and it certainly was home, and would
enable the owner to marry nicely; John
Melvin, too, preferred to go West for
practice. En- stood silent and pale.
"If En- wants it she must have it, 1
suppose" said Mrs. Chetwynd.
"Yes," cried Garcia, "and I be DOOM
ed to stay and die in this hole! Take it
En-, of course you will" .......
Elm had involuntarily looked up at
John Melvin. He felt the delicacy Of
interfering, but his momentary gaze
seemed to bid her hold her rights. But
at Garcia's stormy words she started,
and her patient eyes dilated with pain
as she looked at her sister .....|
"No, no, Garcia; it is harder for you
to stay here than for me. You shall
have the new house and be married.
John and l can wait while longer.
She looked up at him cheerfully, but
he turned white with bitter disappoint-
ment As for Garcia, she had not even
the graceto be thankful to her sister.
She only exclaimed, pettishly:
"Wait? could wait as well as you, if
there was anything to wait for. 1 am
not an old maidyet, if you are five years
the youngest, Emf ..... ....
Yes, that is the way they all took her
sacrifices. For Garcia, of course, took
the beautiful. highly cultivated West
ern home. and En- was left with the
marshes"
Grace and Garcia were married. Mel
ther of them offered. to assume the care
of their invalid mother, who would GER
tainly be an invalid all her days. They
considered that Ems work, without
doubt. ,....r.f-. ...-.. .-..,.
Well. the life at Strawberry Farm was
little easier after they were gone, GER
tainly: and often, while finding no bet
ter opening, John Melvin and EN- came
to think that it might do for home for
them both. though there were already
three doctors in the neighborhood.
At last they were married. ...-.