The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-03-25
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who inherited it from her mother, her
father being her guardian"
BY jingo!" cried the sailor, I" I've
got soundings now"
Eth 2" asked the shopman, in sur
prise. "Oh, see how it is" he con-
tinued, "you've heard something of
this before--or, may be, you've been
away a long time at sea, and don't
know what has happened while you've
been gone.''
Just so," answered the sailor, anx-
GUS to wipe away the impression of the
unguarded exclamation into which he
had been betrayed.
It's quite little romance" contin-
ued the shopman, who was only too
anxious to tell all he knew. Judge
Farrell, you must know, was one of our
richest men in fact, that very estate
had been in his family since the first set
tlement of the country-or rather since
we came over and conquered the Dutch
men, who had it first, you know--and
he was very proud of it. They say he
took it much to heart when his two
sons died, one after the other, leaving
only puny girl to inherit the family
acres. She was the apple of the Judges
eye-he fairly doated on her, and spoiIt
her, as it always happens in such cases.
She was beauty-Miss Lillian is not a
bit like her, strange to say-it has often
been remarked-though she is as hand
some as her mother was; but then it is
different style of beauty. Lillian Far
reil-mother and daughter both named
alike, you see-was queenly, proud and
naughty, with gray eyes and dark brown
hair, while Lillian Waldron is-n
"I've seen her." interpolated the
sailor.
All ! then 1 needn't tell you what
| she is like. Lillian Farrell had suitors
in wealthy ones, too = but
with the capriciousness of her nature,
and contrary to her fathers wishes, she
| passed them all to bestow her hand up
on John Waldron, who was then only
poor clerk in brokers' office-but he
was splendid looking fellow, a fine
looking man to this day, sir, and she
loved him, and wouldn't have anybody
else, and so the old Judge was at last
obliged to give his consent; he couldn't
refuse her anything but it went very
much against his grain, though, and he
did 1T very reluctantly. He always had
the idea, and he never got over it to his
dying day, sir, that Waldron had taken
advantage of his good looks to win his
daughters heart, not for herself, but for
her money but L think the old Judge
wronged him there, for there never was
a more devoted or better husband than
he made.
The old Judge made his will and set
tied the estate upon Lillian and her chill
dren, and tied it up in such a way that
Waldron could never get hold of it,even
If his wife wished to pass it over to
him but for all his doubts, he set him
up in business and took him home, for
he could not bear the idea of being sep
arated from his daughter. They had a
happy household, and the old man must
have seen that his daughter never re-
GREETED her choice; but he was quite old
going on to seventy-and only two years
after the marriage-just long enough to
fondle his gTandchild q little.
They do say, but L will not vouch
for the truth of this, that when he was
sinking fast, he called Mr.. Waldron to
his bedside and thus addressed him:
"' 1t may be, John, that 1 have
wronged you'll am going now where
all will be made clear to me. Wealth is
a great temptation men will do most
anything for money. Treat her well for
without her you will have nothing. 1t
all goes to Lillian and her children
$50 the old man died with his preu-
dice against Waldron unchanged. -
Concluded next week.