The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1881-08-23

carried up Mrs. Clements breakfast,
her bOarder lay cold and still upon
the pillow.
The first shock over, Della wrote
to the lawyer of whom she had heard
Mrs. Clement speak as having charge
Of her affairs, begging him to notify
that lady's relatives, If she had any.
In reply Mr.. Wills wrote: '"rhe late
Mrs. Clement appears to have no near
relatives. Some distant cousins, who
have an abundance of this worlds
goods, yet served her STABILITY when
she tested their generosity as she has
tried yours, are all that remain of her
family. In the meantime l enclose
you copy Of her last will and tesla.
ment. to peruse at your leisure"
"What interest does he think l take
in Mrs Clements will, thought Della;
but she read it, nevertheless.
BEING oi sound mind, this 10th day of
June. IS. /. Della Rogcr>on Clement. d.
hereby leave one hundred dollars to each
one Of my cousins; and | bequcath the
residue Of my property, viz: thirty thou
sand dollars invested in the Ingot Min
ing company, fifty thousand dollars i'm
United States bonds. twenty thousand I'm
the Fortune Flannel mills. and nv Jewels,
to the beloved niece Uf my first husband,
John ROgcr<on. Della ROgerson, If Croit,-
borough. Maine.
"FOr ! was - stranger and We took me
in; hungry, and We fed me: sick and We
ministercd unto me-"
Goodness alive !" cried the neigh
bOrs, when the facts reached their
ears. "What a profitable thing it is
to take bOarlers! Everybody in town
will he trying it. Of course Steve
Langdon will come and marry her, if
she were forty old maids. You NAV.
stick pin in there!"
Della did not open her house to
boarders the next season. She found
enough to do in looking after her
money and spending it; in replying
to letters from indignant people, who
seemed to increase alarmingly; in
receiving old friends, who suddenly
found time to remember her existence.
And sure enough. among the rest ap-
peared Steve Langdon. and all the
village said Il told YOU So"
1T is not nv fault that YOU and l
are single vet, Della" he said.
And We are too old to think Of it
now, Steve"
Nonsense! It's never too la;e to
mend. Pm not rich, Della. but I've
enough for two and to spare"
81 wouldn't be contented not to
drive in my carriage and have SER
wants under me now" laughed Della.
Indeed! Then perhaps YOU have
a better match in view. Capt. Sey-
mour asked me, by the way. If had
come to interfere with Squire Jones
interest.
Yes. Squire Jones proposed to
me last week."
"Now, see here, Della. Have l
come all the way from Melbourne on
a fools errandy There / was growing
used to my misery and loneliness,
when the mail brings me a letter in a
strange hand, which tells me that INV
dear love, Della Rogerson, loves and
dreams of me still. is poor and alone.
and needs meme. And the letter i
signed by her aunt, Mrs. Clement.
who ought to know. packed my
household goods and came"
I'm glad that you did"
"In order that may congratulate
Squire Jones ?"
but haven't accepted him. In
fact, I've refused him-because-"
because YOU will marry your old
love. like the lass in the song.
Delia?"
In Croftsborough the people are
not yet tired of telling how a woman
made money by taking boarders.-