Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-11-18
OLYMPIA WASHINGTON TERRITORY, Friday NOVEMBER 49, 1881
deep in debt to yea" she began u c

night.
"DIn't Eent:ca IL" crio;; Della.
=" ii rather never zee ccat of !: than
have yGu take il to heart I0a aye
welcome 10 stay and .hare potlIic!z will
Us; you urc such company FOX Mctbtr
and me-
" Think yen, rIy dear. I've grown
IS fond Of you Us if yea were my Own
flesh and blood. There, turn down The
light, please. Draw the curtain, dear,
and put another stick cn the fi-e.
please. 1t grows chilly. doesn't ii ::
You might Kiss ME just once, if yon
wouldn't mind. It's hundred yeals
or 81 since any Que kissed rlc"
Ana next morning when ID .iia carried
up Mrs. Clements breakfast, her
boarler lay cold and stiff upon the
pillows.
Tue first shock over. Della wrote TO
the ia~yer of whom shc had heard Mrs.
Clement speak as having charge Of her
affairs. begRing him to notify that lady +
relatives. if she had any. In reply
Mr.. Willis wrote: "rhe lato Mrs.
Clement appears to have NJ near 1cla
uvea. SoIc distant cousins, who
have All abundance cf tliis world :
goods, ye. served her shabby
when she tested their generosity, as
She tried ours, afe all that rt main OF
her family. In tho meantime enclose
you copy Of her last will aud tesla
iaent. 10 pe'use ut your l,isE,c."
What interest dces Ee think take
in Mrs. Ciemeut's will. Though; Delia
but She read, nevertheless:
Bei0g Of sound mind, this 1G.h ,lny
OF June, 1S-. |. Della Eogerson C.em-
ent, do hereby leave one hundred dol
lars to each Of lay cousins; and be-
queath the residue of my property
VIZ, thirty thousand dollars invested in
the 1ngot Mining Company, fifty thou-
sand dollars in United States bonds
twenty thousand i'll the Fortune FIan-
rel Mills. ard my jewels, TO tic beloved
niGco Of lay first husband, John Il ger
son, Della Rogelson, Of CroftsborouaL
Maine
For L was stranger, and ye took
me in; hungry, and .e fca ne; sia,,
and We niinis!ered rDto me-
Goodness alive!' cried the neigh
bors, when tie facts reached their ears.
"What pr' titablo thing it is 20 take
boarders! Every body in town will be
tryltg it. VI course Steve Lapgdon
will come and marry her, if sLe we're
forty CID maids. You may stick PIN
in there!"
Della did not open her house to board
ers the rext season. She found enough
to do in looking after her money and
spending il; in replying to letters from
ildigeni people, Hho seemed to Increase
alarmingiy; in receiving OLD friends,
who suddenly found time to remember
her existence. And, sure enough,
among the rest, appeared Sieve Lang
don, and all the village said, 81 told
you So"
Its not my fault that you and / are
single yet, Della, he said.
Aud We are too old to think of it.
now. Steve"
"Nonsensel It's never too late to
mend. I'm not rich. Della, but I've
enough for TWO AID to spare
~ wouldn't be contented not TO
drive in my carriage urd have servants
under me now" laughed Della.
"1naeed! Tden. perhaps. you have
u better match in view. Captain Sey
mour asked me. by the way. if l had
come TO interfere with Squire Jones's
interests"
"Yes. 'sqnire Jones proposed to me
last week."
Nov. see here, Della. Have come
all the way from Melbourne on FOOLS
errand? There l vas growing used to
my misery and loneliness, when the
mail brings in letter in q strange
hand, which tells me that my dear
love, Della Kogersob, loves aud dreams
OF me still. is poor and alone, and needs
meme! And tho letter ia signed by
her aunt. Mrs. Clement, who ought to
know. IpacAed my household goods
and came"
I'm glad that you did"
"In order that may congratulate
Squire Jones?"
But l haven't accepted him. In
fact I've refused him-because-"
Because you will marry your OLD
love, like the lass in the soag, Dslia. 4"
In Crottsborough people are not yet
tired of telling how a woman made
money by taking boariers.