The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-01-01
THE DAllY CAIRO BULLErE SUNDAY MORNING. JANUARY

"Iou have got the place itself.' replied
Mrs. Richmond, bitterly, "Be content
with thatl My son does not paint for
youl"
'Lucys eyes began TO shine with a wa
terry brilliancy-still she persisted, "Mrs,
Richmond, l feel the truth OF what you
say--I think it most unjust that you
should have been thus treated by your
brother--I do not offer to resign all he
gave me, but offer you four or FIVE thou
sand year, entreat you to take it,"
Sand refuse to take it! lam as proud
as you are! You don't like to keep it
when you know my claim, and l don't
choose TO be behoden to you! ! must
beg to pus an end to this interview You,
as II rich lady, will move in a sphere Of So
siety wholly removed from mine-if we do
happen 10 meet, please be so good as to
leave me unnotced. Before you go, 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 tf'
81 receive nothing from you! Whatev-
er came to me ought to come from my
own brother-I wonder you do not see
that. l can never forgive my brother!"
Miss Esther Moore groaned audibly-
"Not forgive dead manP
Gould you forgive him yourself, mad
amW 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 value9-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 itr
"You shall have every picture you wish
10 have cried Lucy, starting to her feet;
"you shall come yourself and take away
everything you zee which ever belonged
to your family ! did not ask Mr.. Ken
rick to give these things to noe, and do
not intend TO keep them"
Mrs Richmond shook her hcad-"A lit
tie more or q little less, what does it mat
tert-one thing is not more unjust than
another in This. What is done is done--I
must once more beg you to leave me,
am not young woman, and a CONVERSE
finn like fiji, ia very tt.Z.in,r tO metz
oTo Lincolu's Inn Fields" said Lncy to
thccaqclma1. the moment She was once
moro in hen, carriaoa.
.Wbere oge vou roiuo now2" incurred
Amt E.tbor "Do,r Ircv. LEFT rs ret
home That dreadful old lodv has unite
shakon INV nerves"
~ must see Mr.. Strachov"
Nh >uachey was Mr.. Kemick's lawyer.
"You are going TO force your money on
n woman who is determined not to have
/ it?"
mo, am gong to have 1t made over
to her SON."
Lucy you are very odd mixture Of
strength ana weakness sometimes you
let people turn You any way they hke'
and at others you are perfectly mead
strnG'
'On.y when am sure am llght m'n-
INJURED Lucy and when Aunt Esther look
ed round she saw the poor girl was crying
| quietly IN the corner OF the carriage "lt
will make yon happier TO DO this, you
think, darling ~ asked the old lady'kind-
, ly
"les, l shall be miserable until 1t IS
done
"Then let MS have it done"
But when they got to Mr.. Stracheys
chambers be wasas husiness-like and stiti
as his own Umchments. "Rosign FIVE
] thousand year in favor OF Mr.. Hugh
, KenIick Richmond! Miss Clayerinr. you
, do not seem to have studied the late Mr.
I KcuieEs WILL You arc unable to alien
i ate penny. You can dispose Of the prop
cIty after youl death, but not ALLEVIATE any
part of The tcstator was very apxious
that all should he kept rs he left it. lie
! 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 outlaw"
Sand transgress and ret YOU to set
Gle four or five thousand a wear ON this
gentleman. who has far better right ia
il than baycw