Milford chronicle., 1885-11-06
MY PROPERTY

Aunt Fanny had just come to make
her usual summer visit and had
proudly 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, as she seated herself
in the easy-chair offered her "but did
you never regret giving those bonds to
your husband, May?'
"Most assuredly not, auntie. WhyY
because I thought it very unwise
and that some day you would bitterly
regret it. 1t was your poor fathers
property and should have been re-
tanned in your own name I am sure"
"Now, don't worry, auntie, please.
You came to have a pleasant visit
with us. Ella has been nearly frantic
with delight since 1 told her you were
coming"
1.-THE child, yes. She is dear little
thing, to besurel But do you know
that if your husband should die to-day
she would inherit the property you
gave him. If she were your own
child it would be different"
"But she is mine, all l have, certain
". 1 love her dearly, and hope to be
good mother to her, Notwithstanding
all the bitter things written and said
against step-mOthers."
Eyes, and you are a good mother to
her. But to suppose still farther. If
she, too, should be taken away then
your property would not revert toyou,
but go to her relatives, of whom you
know nothing, would that be rightY
"Perhaps not. But why do you say
these dreadful things? She and her
father are as likely to live as I. And
a wife is entitled to dover"
Eyes, the interest from one-third of
what her husband leaves. just the in
terest, mind you. And you gave him
the means to go into business. You
know he failed once, and may, posi-
bly,, again"
"But he paid up every penny, l
flashed back, proudly.
81 know, and it was right; but, con-
sequently you married poor man
with child as well as wife to sup
port on clerks salary"
"You forget, auntie, that he still
had this beautiful home when all his
creditors had been fully paid; the
nome in which Ella was born and
where his poor wife died"
81 forgot nothing and what 1 re-
member with the greatest bitterness is
your unadvised act of yielding up your
little patrimony, intrusted to me by
your dying father for you, and thai
you took no obligation for it what
ever"
"But," I replied, che invested it II
a business which supports us nicely
Besides, it was not his fault. He
wanted me to have interest-bear
n ties, or to be the company in thu
usiness, as if 1 would! and l told hin
never to mention the subject to mt
gain, and he never has"
'Then all have to say is you wer'
cry silly as well as imprudent."
But it was not all she had to say
even to telling me that certain
matchmaking mother had said tina
my husband would have preferred on
Of her daughters if she had held prop
erty in her own right as I did. Tha
he needed the money and married m
imply to obtain it.
'Don't, aunty, lease" said will
a little shiver.
''Nor would I, but to convince yo'
that he should have secured your littl
property to you, if only for the opinion
OF OJnerS.
"It is ell right just as it is. All
here comes Ella" and my dear oil
wo1dly wise aunt forget to lecture il
her delight at seeing the little fair
who nearly smothered her with kisses
But 1 had received a hurt that rank
led like a thorn in the flesh. And S
Mrs. Jones thought he married me 70
nv money? And perhaps others hav
the same opinion? OF course kne'
he did not, and said it over and owe
again to myself as helped our on
servant to prepare the evening meal.
And when my husband came wit
his hearty, CHEEKY welcome for Aun
Fanny looked wistfully in his fac
for an answer to my mental question
for question it would become in spit
Of my firm determination to ignore
rs such.
onea mora during Aunt Fanny