The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1885-11-05
Browns SarsapariIIa
Hs0dby all Druggists Proprietor Bangor
" Londonderry by L. s. Rcardon Londonderry by H.
p. Chase and Smith e. TAYLOR

Mir. Fox, VINO had been appraised Of
the state of affairs by his partner and
friend, almost lost his senses with SOY;
still his excitement did not prevent him
investing some money in hatbands and
Grape, and looking as mourntul as If the
sorrows of the whole world rested upon
his shoulders. Miss Nelly. too, almost
melted away in tears, and could only be
comfortcd by her Jamie" as she now
called Mr.. Fox. But the latter seemed to
have turned quite dull with grief, He did
not'apPear to understand her at all. and
day by day as she became more demon
Srative he grew less atfectiDnate. The
afternoon before the funeral Miss Nelly
was extremely broken-hearted, and amid
her sobs remarked how comfortable and
happy she had been with her late dear
friend. To her astonishment Or. Fox at
tempted to comfort her by Saying with
cool civility. hope you may soon meet
again, with such happy home as you
have had here till now"
On hearing this Miss Nelly's tears sud
denly dried up, and with eyes dilated with
establishment and anger, she cried, g 1t is
you whom l expect to make me this happy
homer
Mr. Fox, however, simply shsugged his
shoulders, saying: g. do not deny that !
may have once had such ideas: bur OF late
i have grown wiser. EverytGnr alters in
this world; why then should oar opinions
not do the same? That is what we call
progress"
Upon this he bowed and left Miss Nelly
crying and fainting i'll an armchair.
He did not hear anything of her till
few days later, when gentleman called
upon him saying that he had been iGtrUst-
cd with Miss Nelly Browns auair', and
suggesting that perhaps Mr. FOX, efore
matters went further, would prefer max
ing some private arrangement about his
breach-of-promise of marriage with his
client.
" And what proof of that promise has
Miss Brown except her saying so?' asked
Mr.. Pox.
oh" answered the young man,
have seen box full of letters from you.
Have you read them ?' continued Mr..
Fox sarcastically.
" Not yet" replied the other: "but l
have seen the box"
Well. you had better goand read them
first before you take any further steps.
to Miss Brown, | am quite willing to let
her have ample damages without their
being awarded by a court Of law"
Their was something so di;.)Olical about
Mr., Fox that the young deferd der of limo
cence found it best to retire Tor the pres
ent, leaving his opponent to rub his hands
triumphantly and build castles in the air
carriages he was going TO buy III order to
dazzle Miss Laquerton, whom he felt jus.
titled in seriously thinking about ROW.
Miss Nelly had meanwhile b,en in.
formed of the conversation at .ir toys
office, and, with an Indignant exclamation
about such incredible antruths," she
went to fetch her letter-box There, sure
enough, were the letters, all in htLlo blue
packets, neatly tied up with blue and pink
ribbons; but strange to say she could not
see an address; and, oh, heavens when
she undid the packets they contained
nothing but paper-all white paper, with
out a single word on it. The willy lawyer
had evidently deceived her by some de-
moniacal trick.
The shock was SO great to The poor love
sick lady that she had scarcely he cour-
age to show herself when the viii Was to
be read; but she rallied at LAST, hoping
against hope that it might still be in her
favor when she could treat with $ orn
and contempt her faithless lover and his
paitry damages.
Mr.. Fox, although he considered him
self already master of the house and every
thing in it, felt considerably excited on
the morning OF the day appointed for the
reading of the will, and wcn Nr. plum-
ley, as chief executor. sat down and slow
ly got his sepctacles out, his junior part
ner came over so faint and his heart tlut-
his hopes and beautiful castles in the air
were crumbling as in dream. Why did
not his old friend at once read the docu-
ment? Why did he make the suspense
so unbearably long? Why did he CON
tinue to stare first at the paper in his
hand, then at those around him, and then
once more at the paper without utte;ink a
single word; and then at last, vixen he
did speak why did he stammer III do
not know | see nothing-in fact, 1t is the
same paper, butt"
Could it bey Yes, sure enough there
was the paper on which the will had been
made out, but there was nothing upon it
now it was merely II blank, white
sheet
Good heavens, With what ink did you
write out that will - burst out at last
Mr. Fox.
"With what ink ~ repeated the old
gentleman Indignantly, with your ink
As found the inkstand up stairs dry, and
the old lady was in such deadly hurry.
rushed down myself to get some, and see
ing your little bag in the hall, took from
1t the little inkstand which You always
carry about"
Mr.. Fox turned deadly pale, and with
out saying another word vanished, like
the ink, before anybody had found time
to ask for an explanation When the rest
OF the company had composed themselves
again, Mr.. Plumley said:
II know that the testatriX has destroyed
all former wills, so that there is none at
all in existence, and, by law, therefore the
property will go to the next of kin
know, also, that Mrs. johnson had no
relatives whatever except Miss Lizzie
ess."-LoadoH Truth.