Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1881-09-01

gave me, Tut L oiier you four or i've thou
sand 3 year-I entreat you 20 take IT,"
"AndI refuse TO take it! i am as proud
as you are. You don't like TO keep il
when you know my claim, and 1 don't
choose to be beholden to you! / must
beg TO Iut an end 10 this interview. You.
as a rich lady, will move in a sphere of So
siety wholly removed from mine-if we do
happen 20 meet. please be so good as to
leave me unnoticed. Before you 60, let
me thank you. though, for this offer that
you have made me"
"You might have accepted it! You
might have spoken as woman TO woman!
Why not receive what offer in the spirit
in which wish TO give itr'
II receive nothing from you! Whatev-
er came to me ought TO come from my
own brother-I wonder you do not see
that. can never forgive my brother!"
Miss Esther Moore groaned audibly-
"Not forgive dead manY'
Gould you forgive him yourself, mad
am7' said Mrs. Richmond, indignantly
turning to Aunt Esther. Gould you pa
tiently see your own fathers portrait,
your mothers, all the family plate, books,
jewels, and everything else which had in
terest for you taken from you and your
son, and handed over to child like your
niece there, for whom they have, and can
have, no value e2-your niece, who was al
most as much of stranger to the man
who heaped all this wealth on her as she
is to me whom she has deprived of it"
. "You shall have every picture you wish
to have" cried Lucy, starting to her feet
"you shall come yourself and take away
everything you see which ever belonged
to your family! 1 did not ask Mr.. Ken
rick to give these things to me, and do
not intend to keep them"
Mrs. Richmond shook her head-"A lit
tie more or little less, what does it mat
ter2-one thing is not more unjust than
another in this. What is done is done-I
must once more beg you to leave me. 1
am not young woman, and conversa-
tion like this is very trying to me"
"To Lincoln's Inn Fields" said Lncy to
the coachman, the moment she was once
more in her carriage.
"Where arc you going now9" inquired
Aunt Esther. "Dear Lucy, let us get
home. That dreadful old lady has quite
shaken my nerves."
II must see Mr.. Strachey."
Mr.. Strachey was Mr.. Kenricks lawyer.
"You are going to force your money on
woman who is determined not to have
itp
"No, I am going to have it made over
to her son."
"Lucy, you are a very odd mixture of
strength and weakness; sometimes you
let people turn you any way they like,
and at others you are perfectly head
strong"
"Only when l am sure am right" "mur-
INJURED Lucy and when Aunt Esther look
ed round she saw the poor girl was crying
quietly in the corner of the carriage. at
will make you happier to do this, you
think, darling?' asked the old lady, kind
ly.
"Yes, I shall be miserable until it is
DONE"
"Then let us have it done.h
But when they got to M. Strachey's
chambers he was as business-like and stiff
as his own parchments. "Resign FIVE
thousand year in favor of Mr.. Hugh
Kenrick Richmond Miss Clavering, you
do not seem to have studied the late Mr..
Kenlick's will. You are unable to alien
ate a penny. You can dispose of the prop
erty after your death, but not ALLEVIATE any
part of it. The testator was very anxious
that all should be kept as he left it. He
had his own ideas on this subject. and his
will expressly forbids you to part with
any books, pictures, plate, houses, lands,
or money either, except in the way of law
full and necessary outlay"
"And if transgress and get you to set
tie four or five thousand year on this
gentleman, who &c, has far better right to
at can't be done, madam. If you take
any step of this kind you forfeit your
claim to the whole of Mr.. Kenrick's es-
| tate"
sand what becomes of it"
at will be divided among various char
| table institutions-but this is out of the
question! You must renounce your gen
erous, and pardon me if add, most Quix-
| otic Intention
"Say what you like" cried the oppress-
ed Lucy; II have had worse things than
that said to me to-day. I have been with
Mrs. Richmond"
The lawyer smiled. He had heard de-
scription of that lady.
"You told me minute since that could
( not give away any pictures Or plate
Surely that does not apply to family pic
turesl may let Mrs. Richmond have
her fathers picture and her mothers, and
any family plate or jewels?"
"1ndeed, Miss Clavering you may not.
All these things come under the category
of property not to be alienated. You can
part with nothing. You can allow Mrs.
Richmond yearly income dependent on
your pleasure. You can make nothing
absolutely hers"
"Has Mrs. Richmond never read her
brothers willY" was Miss Moore's most
natural question. "Does she not know
the conditions he made2 She did not ap-
pear to do So"
"Her son saw the will, but 1 doubt if he
has impaired much of its contents to his
mother. He said he should not do so.-
The disappointment made her very i'll,
and am pretty sure that he has kept ev-
erything from her knowledge that he
could"
"Then syou give me no help whatever,
Mr.. Strachey2 You say must part with
no money, no pictures, no anything2"
"You can from time to time make her a
handsome present"