Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1882-05-13
NO35.

but none can be found beside this.
I suppose he put the business of,
as SO many people do, until it was
too late. The property all goes to a
wealthy Lancashire manufacturer"
IsHow does Kate Miss Gerrow
take it 7"
"sAs quietly as you may guess.
Some girls would have been almost
killed by the disappointment, but not
shes You had better go up and see
her; she is not an heiress now. In
deed, she'll have barely enough to
live upon, unless this cousin does
something for her-which is doubt
ful.n' ~ a5p
Edgar took the advice, and went
up to the idesolate great house the
same afternoon. Some common
places passed !; and then the old, old
story burst forth which somehow
always seems to me far too sacred to
be written out in detail on any
authors scribbling paper. Edgar
made full confession, and not in
vain. s
"The saddest experiences of my
YOUTH" he said, "came through a
marriage for money and through mis-
placed confidence. Very early /
vowed that that mistake should in
no shape ever be mine T; that nobody
should ever throw fortune-hunting
of that kind in my teeth. And yet "
with a smile of infinite content
81 am not certain, Kate, after all,
whether love would not have beaten
me in the end. 7 ~ 5Ha 4ss,gu. -
gHIahope SO, the maiden answer
ed, shylysd bInoa Ys7sq silAieos
li8l9 ~ CHAPTER III. a7s4if 81
Thero was a sale at Brixby lodge,
and Undue course one Of the Lancas-
hire manufacturers sons, who had
recently married, came down and
was installed as his fathers repre-
sentative. saH &1't
Edgar Arnton bad arranged that
Kate Gerrow should reside in Lon
don with his sisters, until such an
interval had passed as etiquette
prescribed. At the sale he. was a
large purchaser, and, poor as, by
comparison, he had once styled him
self, the house he furnished was one
of 1.-THE best in the village.
Wedding and honeymoon were
both over. Edgar had just come in
fren his days round of visits, and
was standing with his wife at the
window, gazing out at the fast-fall-
ing snow flakes.
Suddenly there was a crash be-
hind that caused both to look round.
A Persian kitten, gamboling mis-
chievously on the top of an escritoire,
had knocked down the plaster figure
of an antique cup-bearer. The fragile
article ofvertu was broken into a
dozen fragments, amidst which a
tiny silver key revealed itself.
"That is where the key of uncle's
Japanese cabinet went to, them"
said Kate; "the hand and arm of
the image must have been hollow,
and the key, once put into the cup
slipped through into the interior"
"Odd, certainly" answered Edgar,
-" let us try if it is the one"
He went out and from the next
room fetched small, inlaid cabinet
of exquisite workmanship. The key
fitted at once.
81 was sure it would. / knew it
again at first sight," said the lady.
+" 1t is fortunate we waited and did
not trouble to force the box open I;
that would inevitably have spoilt it.
| don't suppose there is anything in
the casket, though"
ooh, but there is y said Edgar,
as at that instant he poised mp the
delicate lid and caught sight of
tight little roll of paper.
Kate watched i'll silent surprise !;
Edgar slowly undld the bundle, a
shrewd suspicion of what he had
found flashing upon him and making
his ordinary firm, white fingers hot
and bungling.
1t is your uncle's real will, his
last and legal will, l should say,
rather" said Edgar, with a gasp,
: found just where he might have
been expected to have placed it, and
where searchers might equally have
expected to miss it. Quite wonder
bought the cabinet''
And then he read slowly, till the
full moment of the discovery had
been realized by both brains, how
and, and houses and money snugly
invested in eonsols. had all been
livised, without either reservation
,r qualification, to Mr.. Gerrow's be-
owed niece, Kate, "the companion
Of his old age, and the faithful
guardian of his interests
Husband and wife gave each other
1 long, earnest look, which ended in
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