The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-02-13
PEN Bradsllawe.


"Very well, PEN"
Mr.. Give Soulard spoke very quietly,
and bent his handsome eyes on the girl
with an expression of mingled noncha
LANCE and amusement.
81 don't consider It very well, Mr..
Soulard,' she went on, nettled by his
qnietude. at may be well tor you, who
marry me for my money, and so get all
YOU want. It's bad, and wicked, and
cruel, and you know it.'
"Ah? Indeed, Pen, was not aware
that the advantages of this arrange
ment were not mutual. l am sure
supposed it purely business matter on
both sides"
s'To be sure but you have every
thing to gain, aud I everything to lose
The shadow OF flush arose in Give
Soulard's = cheek but it was gone before
Penelope BradsEawe saw it, and he
answered, in the light, careless tone he
had used all along:
elf You mean by gain that give up
poverty tor wealth, the mieeries of bach
elorhood for married blessedness, don't
know hut you'le right as TO tlat. but
even then what do | gain that you
don't +? You can have the money
without me more than can lave the
money without you and really, Pen.
it YOU arc lovely as a Peri, think |
lay some claim to the good looks OF
Antonio-eh, Pen? {" running. his
slender white fingers through the halo
of bronse-brovn curls that covered his
handsome head, and sending laughing
glance into the mirror opposite, that
reflected face beautiful almost as a
woman'S.
"Tush,'' tail Pen, co'oring with i'm
patierce, Il do,i't think that this is any
time to talk nonsense and make fun"
"Perhaps not" he replied, with
llopeicssly coinlcal sigh, "but | can't
help being jolly, dear; it isn't every
day one gets a fortune aud wife III
breath, and without tie trouble of ask
ing tor either"
s-You haven't got the wife yet, Give
Soularl, and il you were man you
wouldn't take her on such conditions"
'Conditions? l didn't know there
were any. It's the mol.ey IS condition
al, not the wife"
Poor Pen was ready to cry with vex-
alton. Tie handsome, provoking feI-
low only laughed at her, whatever she
said.
She might protest IS much as size
liked against the match which her uncle
had planned 50 arbitrarily, making the
inheritance of his money conditional Oh
these two marrying. Give Sonlard
only lausher. at her and made jcsting
responses to all her appeals.
Penelope Bra5shawe lad been
brought up as the adopted child and
heiress of her uncle, Reese Brad>hawe.
\ wear before this uncle had died, leav-
ing will which was not TO be opsned
till he had been dead twelve months.
That will, being read at the appoint
ed time, proved to contair the some
what arbitrary d,ctum that his beloved
neice should not lave his money with
ont she married his beloved cousin.
Give Soulard, the said Give being
still single at the opening of the will.
Pen Brad have wss an exceedingly
pretty girl, bat contrary, captlons and
selfwilled, as pretty girls are apt to be,
and she frowned in the mcst decided
manner upon the unexpected tenor OF
her uncle's WILL IT he had given Give
halt the property she wouldn't have
minded, but to force her to make her
choice between proverty and Clive-to
oblige a eancy little fiirt like ber TO
marry 9nybndy-was aboninab;e.
She forgot, even in her own mind, to
add to the sum of her grievances on tie
subject the tact that the provoking will
cut short the most delightful little FIR
tation Miss Pen lad ever indulged in.
She had known Give all her lite;
indeed, they were distant cousins, and.
Give had spent good share of his boy
hood and most of his vacations during
school and college days, at Uncle Brad
shawe's house, where pretty Pen alter
na,ely petted and plagued the life out
of him.
It was bad enough to be snubbed and
coaxed by SO pretty girl as Pen while
he was in jackets and she Il, pinafcres,
but to have such q state of things con-
tinue-7well it, was highly unpleasant
to Give Souiard that he could not con-
non1 his o1f0fian NJ alo3 A.,~s. x~ya.:ah