Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-18

will, and destroyed all o;her wills. The
currents OF his nature had been turned
and soured; he chuckled as he made it.
1t was the second time a woman had
deceived him and shaken the founda-
tions OF his being. Then, at any rate,
he a youth left him; now he had moth
ing put age and sorrow. Yet what else
could be expected of a daughter of the
first Rose but her mothers treacheryp
He remembered that when he first saw
her ne had thought she was q cat. And
the lngratitude of it all! With any af-
lection for her benefactor, could she
have had this Joy come into her life
without contiding it to him? could she
nave taken such a momentous step with
out consulting him? and could she have
practlced such deceit, carrying an inno-
cent seeming, all these months? 1t was
a viper he had cherished, and to day it
seemed to him that as he had loved it,
so ne loathed it. Had longer time been
allowed him, his feelings might have
changed and the long love re-asserted
itself; but he was too old and feeble; as
he looked back and saw so much of his
IDEAL happiness slipping from his grasp
in this new revelation Of Rose, the world
seemed slipping away, too; he had no
wish and no strength to hold it as it
slipped by. One day he fell upon the
floor, and the next day he was dead.
1t was one of those radiant DAYS of
the late spring when everything wells
Its abundance in a mist of callow green,
the flowers hesitate just before full
bloom, shedding q heavenly atmos-
phere, and the whole armament seems
full of hope and Joy, that Mr.. De Fraun-
ceston came in with an early afternoon
paper.
"Our respected papa" he said to his
wife, ''has removed his headquarters to
another planet"
"He is dead?" whispered Rose, under
her breath.
EXACTLY that"
Rose felt as if she ought to cry; she
felt as if she really wanted to cry. She
was SO pleased to think she felt so that
she forgot to do so. "And he has left
his property" she began.
"All he had," said her husband.
"And he has lett his will, too, and here
it is given in the news OF the day, so
that he who runs may read, which l
propose to do at my ease. Let us see."
Two minutes more and a great oath
eXploded-a succession and not exactly
atcu de jole of oaths. Then he picked
up the fallen paper.
He has let you," cried Mr.. De
F~raunceston, ''ten thousand dollars
cash and the market garden in West
chester County, on which. he says-the
csr-by honest toll [ may support you
and my child. And that is all he has
lett you. 1t will not buy my gloves
ooh! OH" cried Rose, as If with
panes OF physical pain. 'And aftel
raising u hot es so with that check! ]
don't care what he has done with the
rest!"
"Half of the rest" sad the reader
sententiously and reprovingly, s.ht
seems to have left to indiv duals ant
societies; the other hall he has left K
your boy"
ITO baby?" she cried, joyorsly
%springing to the cradle. "Oh, then il
is all right! Half is a .principality; WI
don't want the whole. The littl,
M ltionaire!'
CAN right!!' responded her husband
"AH right, you imbtc lie! Wait till yo7
hear the whole. It is left to trustees
with power to renew their number, +
accumulate for the boy"
"Well, them"
"But he is not to take penny a OF j
in hand, principal or interest-do YOU
understandable he shall attain hi.
twentv-tirst birthday, and that onl,
und r the condition that if you or he, o
anybody acting for either Of you, apply
to the courts. or consult counsel in thu
matter, Or in any way endeavor t.
break or set aside the will, then til,
whole property shall go to the High
bridge Institut on for Idiots, which h
enioins to enforce it's rights. What dc
you think Of that? By the Lord! it's {
nice mess I've made OF it!'
"Dear," said his wife. timidly-anc
the tears were really flowing now-ti,
it is baby's. the trustees will have to al
low us a fitting support for baby anc
ourselves"
Support be hanged!" cried her hus
band. who saw vista of honest toll anc
a market-garden opening before him, O
else %disgraceful desertion of a wife
"NOG one ccuG VI IL! IIt Is uOG w tOlCl
a penny of it till his twenty-first birth
day, tell YOU"
aOh, it can't bet can't be-" crieG
his wife, wringing her hands. cit isn't
possible!"
"What isn't possible?" snarled hel
husband. ''Anythnngg was possible tc
that old shop-keeper. The only thing
that is possible to us is to borrow ou1
way along till that birthday, and rely
on the boys family feeling or sense o.
shame to pay up for u.s."
..Let me see myselfr cried Rose; and
she eagerly caught the paper. ''Hii
twenty-first birthday" she exclaimed,
as if an adder had stung her; and the
sheet tluttered out of her hand. sob,
great Heaven! Don't you see? Oh, we
never in our lives shall have one dollar
of those millions! He will be eighty-fou,
years old when his twenty-first birthday
comes. He was born on the 29th O
February."-Harl1et Prescott Spo0ord
in Harpey's Ba:Gr.
Funeral Expenses in the Olden Time
Ihave several bills Gas above) which