Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1886-03-04
MY PR0PERTY.

Aunt Fannie had just come to make
her usual summer visit and I had
proudly taken her through the house
to have her admire the improvements
made since her last visit.
1T is all very nice and convenient
dear she said, as she seated herself
in the eaay chair / offered her "but
did you never regret giving those
bonds to yonr husband, May ?"
"Nost asauredly not auntie. Why r
Because I thought it very unwise
aud that some day you would bitterly
regret II IT was your poor fathers
property and should have been re-
tanned in your name I am sure"
Now don't worry, auntie, please.
You como to have . pleasant visit with
ne Ella has been nearly frantic with
delight since | told her you were
coming.
"T'he child, yes. sho is dear
litde thing to lie sure Bot do you
know that II your husband ehould die
to-day she would inherit the property
you gave hlm. II she were your own
child It would be different
But she Is mine, All ! have. GER
tainly / love her dearly and hope
to be o good mother to her, aotsith-
standing ali the bitter thing written
aud aaid against siep moiher
'Yes, and you are a good mother
10 her. But to suppose still farther,
n she, too. should DO taken away then
your property would not revert to you,
bat 20 to Der relatives, Of whom you
know nothing, would that be right 4
"Perhaps not. But Why do you
say these dreadial thiugs2 She and
her father are a. likely 70 live al /.
And wife is entitled to dover
Eyes, the interest from one.third Of
what her husband leaves. just the
interest, mind you. And you gave
him the means to 90 into business.
You know he failed once, and may
possibly, again"
But lie paid up every penny ]
hashed back, proudly,
u know, and il was right but,
consequently you married poor man
with child as well as a wife to sup.
port on a clerk salary
"You forget auntie, that be still had
this beautiful home when all bis cred.
itors had been fully paid the home
In which Ella was born and where Bic
poor wife died,
u forgot nothing and what I re-.
remember with the greatest bitterness
10 your unadyised act Of yielding up
your little patrimouy, intrustsd to ms
by your dying father for you, and
that you took no obligation for it
whatever"
"T3ut. replied, lie invested 1t ii
business which supports ua nicely.
Besides, II was not bis fault. lie
wanted me TO have interest bearing
notes, or TO be the company Ia the
business, as If I would and told him
never to mention the subject to me
again, and be never hae.
oThen all have to say il you were
very silly as we'll as imprudent."
But it was not all she had to Say,
even TO telling me that certain
match making mother had said that
my husband would have preferred
one Of her daughters If she had held
property in her own right as l did.
That he needed the money and mar.
ried nae simply to obtain II.
"'Dont aunty, please" I said with
little SILVER.
Nor would I, but to convince you
that he should have secured your lit.
tie property toyou, If only for the
opinion Of others.
ut Is all right just as II is. All
here BONES Ella, and my dear world.
" wise aunt forgot to lecture in hei
delight at seeing the little fairy, who
nearly smothered her with kisses.
But I had received hurt thai
ranked like d thorn in the hesh. And