Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-08-19

make it convenient to come, | shall be
pleased
"Shall you go?" questioned Miriam, as
Julia sat with the open letter in her hand.
''Of course shall goi" asserted Julia.
at will be slaves life observed her
cousin.
"Granted but there is a golden reward
cleaning in the distance
"And we had agreed to pass month
so pleasantly with Cousin Sylvia, In New
York" added Miriam, regretfully.
"Cousin Sylvia has no money to leave"
laughed Julia, land | am bound to be
rich woman yet. Yes Marian, shall go
to Aunt Tryphosa at once and you might
have been the selected one, if you had on
ly shown little more policy while the old
lady was staying here. She can't live
long-and she has large fortune at her
own disposal"
"You are welcome TO it, so long as you
choose to endure her tyranny and capri
ces," said Marian. II, for my part,
would rather work for my daily bread, in
almost any other capacity than that of
monkey-tender"
Mariam had not been a month in New
York, when a black edged letter reached
her. Aunt Tryphosa Jennings had set
tied the great universal debt of nature,
and Marian, together with her few other
relations, was summoned TO attend the
funeral.
II suppose must CO." said Marian.
Poor Aunt Tryphosa-ii a pity she
couldn't have taken Prince with her. And
! suppose Julia will be an heiress now
well, don't Crude her the hard-w in
heritancew
So Miriam went to the funeral and
with her went a certain tall good-looking
young gentleman, whose heart had in
some way got entangled in the long
lashes of her blue eyes or the fossy
messhes of her sunny brown hair. For
while Julia was making her fortune in
Amt Tryphosa Jennings service, Miriam
had been engaged in precisely the same
business, but through quite a different
instrumentality; Miriam valued true love
more than she did gold, and she won
it!
Julia, in deep mourning robes, met her
cousin with hurried kiss.
"She is ~ be buried at II o'clock" said
she, land afterward Mr.. Darrell is to read
the will
And Miriam could feel Julia's hand
tremble nervously in her own hand as she
spoke.
Poor Julial 1t had been a very hard
winter for her, but the end was nigh at
last.
Miss Tryphosa Jennings had but few
relatives and fewer friends: vet all who
could be comprised under either head
were gathered in the close-smelling little
parlor when the dreary ceremonials of the
funeral were at last over, to hear the final
chapter of the strange old woman's life,
and there was a silence hushed as that of
the grave when the lawyer unsealed the
ponderous, tape-tied packet, where, be
meath many wrappers, lay the precious
kernel of Aunt Tryposa's last will and
testament.
The breathing of the assembled guests
could plainly be heard, as the old man,
after verbally wading through the appar-
emily endless preliminaries of legal form,
came to the words;
Il hereby bequeath to my dearly be-
loved niece, Julia Powers, my two par
rots, my hooking bird, and my monkey,
Prince.
n hereby bequeath all and singular of
my real and personal estate, not above
mentioned to the Slingenbad Asylum for
Aged and Indignant Maidens.n
And that was the way in which Miss
Tryphosa Jennings had left her much
talked of fortune!
Julia sat in her corner, pale, silent and
literally unable to speak, from a strange
combination of emotions.
my dear" Kissed a little withered old
lady, with sharp, rattle-snake-like eyes,
who had beheld, not without spite and
spleen, Miss Powers growing favor with
Aunt Tryphosa; ALLOW me to congratu-
late YOU For you were always so fond
of that dear monkey that of course you
are quite satisfied with your bequest?
should poison the brute if | were you
but peoples tastes differ,'
And that was all the reward that ulia
Powers ever received for her time-sevr-
ing duplicity She is not rich woman"
yet nor do the probabilities of her be
coming so seem very overwhelming.
And Miriam, now happy and bloom
ing wife, smiles roguishly to herself as
she repeats the well known old saw:
fr ie It4at OH,