New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-02-13

Now my sisters gone feel less like dying than
all the Justice need do; end don't want hand
some property TO be SPLIT np-that would Dc sort
pectation OF getting what 1 may have to leave.
whatever Others may. It's for the sake of the prop
erty that it must.go into one hand. And Mr. Lake,
the name choose. II was to ask you to write
the name in my will, should have to speak It to
you, and for aught l know the Count or the Major
may have bribed the nurse to listen at that very
door
'Writsi down for me. then here is the PEN
M Tn MIGHT ES qRopT'a the
isn't that uont trust ye. but ye might say it outn
| dream, and your wife might hear It,. and she
and then the Count or the Major would get at the
as hs Si that 1on
they'd be trying to got me shut up in madhouse,
and forging and numbering some one maybe any,
how thcre'd be no comfort in living am to Ii e
any more. I've thought Of way to keep OH all
danger, and to make it cvcrybodys interest to sup,
write the name myself in the will with my own
hand and then cover it over while ye write the rest
and ven give me your word of honor ye won't try
to sec what I've written till Pm dead and gone
The whim stupid one, thought tor tes-
tator who in other respects proving herself SO
harm in INDUCING her. But, said I, as you wish
to take such extreme precautions, does 1t not sIlke
you that 1t il easier for an expectant heir to over
haul will than for solicitor to break confidence
in dreamP
I've thought Of all that, said she. 'Ot course
they'll try to overhaul, and where there's q will
there's way-but there's moro ways of killing
dog than hanging him.. I'll manage so that II every
IN thew tns s aTss rs b IN iG
oil. SO I'll take the pen, If ye please and tho Will
give me dip of ink. and any scrap Of paper ye IND
handy
gave her all she asked for. She first of all, worry
slowly, wrote down upon the scrap OF paper what
was h ra, Oh w ons was S go the
document even yet more slowly, dwelling, as IL
seemed upon every letter.
made her first memorandum under her pillow, and
then carefully folded che will itself so that could
see nothing without deliberately beaking my word.
DR.. Krwan and myself were appointed executors
and the execution Of the will was witnessed by tho
nurse and neighbor: There was certainly nothing ing
remarkable abOut Miss Molloys will so far but inc
excessive care she had taken that its principal pro-
vision should not even be guessed ut until sho dieu.
body had expected. The Count and the Major,
finding protracted STAY at the Old Swan beyond
their means, had parted, deadly enemles-an, Inc
that both Mrs Steldl and Mrs. O'Birn had to bear,
at her husands hands, the burden OF punishment for
the sins of her brother-in-law But no viewer that
may be- the day came at last when heard from
DIR. Kirwan the long-expected news that my cieht'
Miss Bridgta MollOy, wac alive no more.
'She couldn't have lasted another week. said nc.
But all the same might have kent her going ior
It. but the obstinate old lady, only The night before
last gave her the slip and. weak as she was,
went all over the house to sec II everything was
queer old lady in ways-and the worst patent
In all the town-but I'm sorry she's gone 49,,
est t' mourning which Miss Moiloy. with oil her many
virtues and her singularly few weaknesses. was
good qualities out of public sight; and hardness of
manner, like charity. covers great deal, :.
To the last she had stuck to her VIII. II was
found under her pillow when she died. sealed M In
O largo blue envelope, and indorsed: MY VII
B. Nj own it was with some curiosity that !
opened il for she had made such mystery "i Mna'
that had some mispvings lest she should nave
dsinhcrted niece and nephew alike and made h heT
residuary legatoe. My own ,sympathies were with
Miss Lucis; my wifes with Lieutenant Firentz
Steldl. That was little matter Of human nature
as matter of reason We felt that they had equal
claims, and that twenty-five THOUSAND pounds
would have borne equal partition very we'll -,
So broke open the envelope, uDfolded the Will,
=. :. And all the residue Of my property.
whether real or personal, give, bcqueath. and de-
wise to @ hx wMDYBDo vJwDMInTID
Xxx!
ILL.,
That was the bequcst-as clear to the sight as IL
wac dark to the mind. Had been mistaken, anu
had bliss Moiloy been insane after ALI II that
were 30, every penny OF the hve-and,twenty mon
sand pounds would have to be divided between tho
Count and the Major. as the husbands OF her ncxt |
of kin. No, surely that insanity was impossible.
and round Those letters still obstinatoly remained |
az they were; tho alphabet, at any rate had gone
mad, unless it was who had gone insane. needed
some evidence OF my own senses, and carried inc |
will straight 10 my coexecutor, Dr. kirwan. IN
She was an odd old lady p said he at last 'But |
I'll bear witness in any court you ike that she was
as sane as any body that ever made WILL
But what's to be DONE t.,;o,p
All, what indeedf What's the effect OF this Will
I'm lust hanged If I know. The willis otherwise
without a flaw And in all my practice, and all |
made residuary legateo. don't like to say, with,
out consideration that there's no principle court
of equity would 70 upon but don't know OF one |
don't see even how 1t would come within tho doc
trne Of " Pres,
whats thatf
WIN that when the conditions OF n gift can't |
be literally carried out the Court Of Chancery will
decree some method confornable to the general OBJ
ect, and following tho intentions OF The donor as
Then said DR.. Kirwan, I should say the Court |
would apply the estate to the foundation OF a col
lege for the study OF c9nnndrums D1tf th on
velope; perhaps it's the answer lts lotter au- |
That also, was scaled. When l opened it, 1
III YOU are puzzled, lift mp the carpet in tho
drawing;roon In the corner between me hr'p'a'0
We went together straight to tho house OF tho |
late Miss Molloy. and according to our INSTRUCTIONS
turned up the carpet IN the corner OF tho drawing
room. Sure enough, we found another sealed note
Look we read, at page 173 in tho second vol,
ume of Gibbons Decline and Fall" IL Is Oh
shelf in the breakfast room.B, M ....;a
was too vexed at all this folly and mystihcation |
to smile. . ..,: .. |
connts fur that midnight Iamble over her house |
lust before she died. Sp was writing these notes
and hiding them. Poor old ladv-lts not an IN
common thing, though for people on their death,
beds to fancy themselves surrounded by spies anu
enemies. 1t isn't lunacy, though, en- ,,od
But it's the cause OF lunaoy III Others gruhoiou
l. well now for GlbbOn.'
And there, exactly on page l73 OF volume liz WIS
vet third sealed note for mo. Ana this ran
KEY behind wanscot three inches toward cup |
hoard from dressing room window.-B. M
a. iaatp coil I I was afraid We were going |