Semi-weekly south Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1883-1889, 1885-11-20
MY PATRIM0NY.
How My Husband Removed an
"o Unjust Suspicion.

AOuJu5b tOu5plClOIls
Aunt Fanny had Just como 10 make
her usual summer visit and l had proud
ly taken her through the house to have
her admire the improvements made
since her last visit
at is all very nice and convenient,
dear she said us she seated herself in
the eaSy-chair offered her, 'but did
you never rtgret giving those bonds to
your husband, MayP"
t"Most assurcdly not. aunt.e. WhyT'
"Becausc ! thought it very unwise
aud that some day you would bitterly
regret it 1t was your poor fathers
property and should have been retained
In oar own name am sure"
Now, don't worry. auntie, please.
You came TO have pleasant visit with
u. Ella has b,en nearly frantic with
del ght since | told her YOU were com
ing. stg
The child, yos. She Is dear little
thing to be surel But do you know
that II your husband should die to-day
sho would inherit the property you gave
him, II she were your own child il
would be different"
But she Is mine, all have, certain.
ly. ! loVo her dearly, and hope to be
a good mother TO her, notwithstanding
all the bitter things written and said
against step-mothers"
Yes, and you are good mother to
her. But TO suppose still, farther. II
she, too, should be taken away then
your property would not revert to you,
but 60 TO her relatives. OF whom you
know nothing, would that be rlghtP'
Perhaps not. But why do you say
those dreadful thingsP She and her
father are as likely TO live as l. And
then wifo Is entitled 10 dover"
"Yes, the interest from one-thlrd OF
what her husband leaves. Just the in
terest mind you. And you gave him
the means to 60 into business. You
know he failed once, and may, possibly,
again"
rBut he paid up every penny" ]
flashed back, proudly.
"lknow, and it was right; but, con.
sequently you married poor man with
child as well as a wife to support on
u clerks salary"
i,-''You forget, auntie, that he still had
this beautiful home when all his credit.
ors had been fully paid; the home in
which Ella was born and where his poor
wife died" !.
IL forget nothing! and what l re-
member with the greatest bitterness is
your unadvised act of yielding up your
little patrimony, intrusted 70 me by
your dying father for you, and that you
took no obligation for 1t whatever.'
But" Ireplied, ''he invested 1t In
a business which supports US nicely.
Besides, it was not his fault He want
ed me 10 have interest-bearing notes, or
to be the company In the business, as if
would! and ! told him never to men
tion the subject to me again, and he
never has.
"Then all have to say is you were
very silly as well as imprudent"
But 1t was not all she had TO say.
even to telling me that certain match
making mother had said that my hus-
band would have preferred one Of her
daughters il she had held property in
her own right as did. That he need
ed the money and married me simply
10 obtain it.
Don't. aunty, please" l said with
little shiver.
''Nor would /, but 10 convince Won
that he should have secured your little
property to you, II only for the opinion
Of otherS."
I" II is all right just as it is. All!
hers comes Ella,n and my dear old
worldly wise aunt forgot to lecture in
her delight at seeing the little fairy who
nearly smothered her with kisses.
But had received a hurt that ranked
like n thorn in the flesh. And so Mrs.
Jones thought he married mo for my
money! And perhaps others have tho
same opinionp OF course l knew he
did not, and said It over and over again
10 myself as / helped our one servant
to prepare tho eveding meal.
Aud when my husband came with
his hearty, CHEEKY welcome for Aunt
Fanny looked wistfully in his face for
an answer to my mental question. for
question it would become in spite Of my
firm determination to ignore It as such.
Once more during Aunt Fanny's stay
did she attempt to renew the conversa-
ton interrupted by Elias entrance.
But only said: "Ifyou please, auntie,
would rather not say anything more
about that"
And she. who thought SIZE was only
striving for my interest, replied, coldiy:
Pardon me, May, shall not offend
again"
"0llend you, who have been father,
mother and auntie all in onep" and /
kissed her as | had ever done since she
drew ME away from her only brothers.
coffin, hiding hcr own grief to assuage
mine. ia'r sAl
''Do you remember, auntie. doar,
when used to have the sulks and you
would take me out hunting hunting
sunshine, you called itp" / often think
of itwhen things 90 wrong. as they
must occasionally, and wish you with
ME to 60 hunting sunshine. "
"Yes, remember. You were great
comfort 10 me. and am afraid have
never quite forgotten the man who
coaxed my brothers. only child away
from The lonely old maid"
"And the best friend awayward girl
ever had, :" / replied.
But somehow. after Adnt Fanny's
visit my thoughts and feelings were not
the same Had / boen unwise, as she
said, in, giving up everything to my
! hlisbandp And had he been too eager
to accept itP was fearful 1t was even