Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1885-06-17
AN AMERICAN HEIRESS.

Lady FRANCIS Trlmson was charm
ing. She was also clever, wonderfully
well preserved, had a natural COM
pleXlon, moderate iointure, a good
mllllner, was widow, and had only
one child-a son.
She had experienced little care or
sorrow, for her husband was an old
man when she married him, aud he
was gathered to his fathers before he
became very disagreeable. He was
the younger son of a Duke, and moder-
ately we'll off,
Lady Francis life, or at least, her
widowed life, had been strewn with
roses; and, although she could have
settled down comfortably again, she
preferred to retain, as she said, her
freedom.
ut is so nice to marry an old man;
you are widow quite young, YOU
know" she murmured to her dear
friend Clare Melton.
81 suppose it is, DEAR" sighed Clare,
whose husband was a young scamp.
Few ofus are perfectly content with
our lot, and Lady Francis had griev-
ance that marred sadly her happy
butterfly existence. Do what She
could, her son Jack would not marry.
"Dear Jack is SO poor and so ex-
travagant. [ wonder what will be his
end?" she sighed.
He will marry rich girl, ofcourse.''
said Clare
at is his duty to do so, as [ tell him;
but he only laughs at me-" sighed
Lady Francis.
HWhere is he now?"
shooting Indians or bufaloes. or
some other wild animals in America
''When do you expect him back?"
81 am sure [ don't KNOWN a
month or two, perhaps
Jack Trimson had been out west,
hunting buffaloes, shooting prairie
chickens, racing Mexican mustangs
and playing 'poker" with the miners.
He had a pleasant time of it, for he
liked America and the Americans. and
he was sorry to have to return so soon
to England.
But life IN America is expensive, and
Jack, who had extravaganza tastes and
and knack OF getting through mon
ey, had spent IN two months the sum
he calculated would have lasted four,
and he was IN the middle Of the Allan
tic, on board an Inman liner, when his
mother told her friend that he was
shooting Indians and buffaloes. The
passengers on board were chiefly Amer
leans who were going to Europe on a.
pleasure trip. There were one or two
pretty girls among them, and Jack.
who was q dangerous ladv's man,
commenced hot Irritation with one
OF them before he was two days at
sea.
Katie C. Brown was a nice girl. and
had pair Of soft brown eyes that AL
ways did great execution-when they
opened fire-and they did not open
upon Jack. The Brown party con-
sisted of three, for besides Katie G.
Brown, there was Mary L. Brown, a
fine, honest American girl, with no
pretense to beauty, but with look of
strength and character about her
homely face, and Samuel Washington
Brown, who had made money in FRS
GO in the good old days of gold mining
and wild speculation. He invested in
a part Of a silver mine in Nevada,
which turned out g. gigantic success,
and Samuel was now worth his good
five millions of dollars.
Jack TrlmsOn was pretty deep in
the lntrlcacles OF hard Irritation with
Katie c. Brown before he heard who
Samuel was. 1t was his friend, Gen.
G. Jones, who enlightened him.
81 guess, stranger, that girl has got
a heap" he said
ga heap of what?" asked Jack,
carelessly.
"a heap OF dollars. I calculate
Samuel W. Brown is worth million
OF your money. l always heard he had
only two chlldren-daughters. 'Spose
that brown-eyed friend of yours will
have her half-million of pounds?"
Jack Trimson was astonished.
BY Jovel if my mother heard of this
fortune she would go mad" he eiacu-
lated to himself. 'Fancy half a
million Of money Ye gods! what fun
l should have spending it,
The Brown party landed at Queens
town and went on to Killarney, while