Connecticut western news., 1883-02-07
The Skeleton In the Family.

The day had been set, and ere another moon should wax and wane, these two hearts would be welded together in the golden bonds of wedlock.
 How seraphic is love's young dream the dream of two afianced souls Thomas never tired of telling his dear Lucinda of the brave plans he had laid to make her the happiest little wife in Beanville. He had already engaged a room in an aristocratic quarter, in close proximity to the roof, whence, as he was fond of reminding her, she would have the grandest of views, including the church steeples, the roofs of all the houses within 8 radius of twenty feet, and chimneys almost without number. And he knew where he could purchase secondhand furniture on the installment plan, and her boudoir-his mother per sisted in calling it garret-should be furnished with an opulent splendor fit for the loveliest queen of Oriental romance. "And I, Lucie dearest, he would add as clincher, "I, Lucie, will forever be your faithful and devoted slave" And thus flowed on their happy lives in one broad, gladsome stream. But, alas true love never runs smooth, and why should theirs be the exception to prove the rule? @. It was not to be
 On the evening when our story opens, Lucinda's excited air, her flushed cheeks and shimmering eyes betokened un- wonted emotion. What was it that was burning at her hearts core, like funeral pyre? What could it be but secret?
 Yes, she had secret, and nobody neal | to share it.
 Presently the door-bell rang. It was | Thomas's ring she knew it instinctively She also knew it from the fact that she was~ peering through the blinds at the moment and saw who it was as he mounted the front steps, thirteen at z time.
 In another moment they were locked in each others arms.
 More rapidly than it takes to tell ii they were in the big arm- chair, and Lu cinda had said
 "Oh, Tom, I've got secret. I've sworr not to divulge it even to you"
 And then she told 1t to him.
 Pa had made his will, and had left hil entire property, old junk and all, tc Lucinda and Thomas, share and share alike.
 But instead of the joy that Lucinda had expected to see in the face of hel lover, Thomas turned deadly pale.
 He disengaged himself from the font embrace of his dear one, and rising hastily, and reaching for his hat, he mur mured in sepulchral cadence: l It must not be"
 "Oh, do not speak thusl" exclaimed the alarmed Lucinda. "Pray, Tom darling, what is the matter? You art not we'll ! Let me run for the catnip
 "Nay,' said Thomas sternly, graspins Lucinda by the arm s.nay, it is no that. Catnip cannot reach my case"
 Then, giving her searching glance he shouted:
 Lucinda, farewell ! love you tot well to make your life forever miserable l had thought that our lives might fov on together forever, and that no cloud should darken the heaven of our common bliss. But fate has determined it other wise. Know you not that this will is tn golden chalice that has poisoned ou hopes and killed our happiness? A vii is but another name for lawsuit, and un der the baneful influence of this legac. vanishes forever boudoir, secondhand furniture, roofs, chimney pots and thee I am accursed Farewell !''-Bosto, Transcript.