The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1886-02-04
VAN PROPERTY.

AuhL ranny n2d 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
1t is all very nice and convenient.
DEAR she said, as she seated herself in
the easy-chair offered her, 6 but did YOU
never regret giving those bonds to Your
husband, May -
Most assuredly not, anntie. Why 2"
" because Thought it very unwse aud
that some day you would bitterly regret
| II. 1t was your poor fathers property
anil should have been retained in your
| own name am sure"
Now, don't worry, anntie, please
I"u came to have pleasant vsi; with
Us. Ella has been nearly frantic with de-
light since toldher you were coming"
"Fhe child, yes. Sbe is a dear little
thing. 30 be sure. But do vou know that
If your husband should die to-day she
woaid inherit the property YOU gave him
/ II she were yolr own chil it would be
| different"
"But she is mine, ali ! have, certain
! ". / love her dearly, and hope to be
a good mother to her. wthsjanding
all the bitter things written and said
against stcp-mothers.
. es, and You are a good mother to
her. But to snppose still further. If she,
too, should be taken away then your
/ property would not revert to you, but 90
to her relatives, Of whom YOU know moth
ing; would that be right:"
Z" perhaps not. But why do YOU say
IL Il, 4',,f / Il
cr are as likely to live as I. And wife is
entitled to DOVER
Eyes, the interest from one-third of
what her husband leaves. just the in
tercst, mind you. md you gave him the
means to go into business. You know he
failed once, and may, possibly, again"
9 But he paid up every penny, flashed
back, proudly.
Il know, and it.was right but, conse
quently you married = poor man with
/ child a we'll as wife to support on 4
clerks salary"
"You forget, auutie, that he still had
! this beautiful home when ali his creditors
/ hal been fully paid; the home in which
Ella was born and whore his poor wife
/ died"
81 forget nothing and what remem
Der with the greatest bitterness is your
unadvised act of yielding up your little
pairimonv, intrusted to me by your dying
father for YOU, and that YOU took no OBJ
li9ation for it whatever"
But" replied, 6 he invested it in a
business which supports us nicely. Be
sides, it was not his fault. He wanted
me to have interest-bearing notes, or to
be the company in the business, as if
would and told him never to mention
the subject to me agaia, and he never
has"
"Then ali have to say is you were
very silly as we'll as imprudent"
BIT il was all she had to say, even to
telling me that certain matchmaking
mother bad said that my husband would
have preferred one of her daughters if she
had held property i'll her own right as |
did That he needed the money and
married me simply to obtain it.
"Don't, auntic. please" / said with
a little shiver.
"Nor woald |, but to convince you
that he should have secured your little
property TO YOU, il only for the opinion
of others"
comes Ella" and my dear old worldly
wise aunt forgot her lecture in her delight
at seeing the little fairy who nearly smoth-
cred her with kisses.
But had received hurt that rankled
ike thorn in the flesh. And so Mrs.
Jones thought he married me for my mon
ey? And perhaps others have the same
opinion? OF course knew he did not,
and said it over and over again to myself
as helped our one servant to prepare
the evening meal.
And when my husband came with his
hearty, checry welcome for Aunt Fanny
looked wistfully in his face for All an
swer to my mental question, for question
it would become in spite of my firm de-
terminatian to ignore it az such
Once more during Aunt Fanny's stay
she did attempt to renew the conversation
interrupted by Elias entrance. But
only said ''If you please, auntie, would
rai her not say anything more about that y
And she who thought she was only
striving for my Interest, replied, coldly
Offend you, who have been father,
mother and auntie all in one p and kiss
ed her as had ever done since she drew
me away from her only brothers coffin,
hiding her own grief to assuage mine.
ADO YOU remember, auntie, dear, when
I used to have sulks and you would take
me out hunting-hunting sunshine, you
called it? / often think of it when
things go wrong, as they must OCCASION
ally, and wish you with me to go hun
ting sunshine"
@Yes, remember. You were great
comfort to me, and / arm afraid ! have
never quite forgotten the man who coax
ed my brothers. only child away from the
lonely old maid
sAnd the best friend wayward girl
ever had,"I replied.
But somehow, after Aunt Fanny's visit
my thoughts and feelings were not the
same. Had been unwise, as she said,
in giving up everything TO my husband
And had be been 70 eager 70 accept II I
vas fearful It was even 90. He should
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