St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-02
After Weary Waiting Two Hearts Come
Together at Last.
SHE is NOW AN HEIRESS.
4 drs
Her Fathers Will Stands in the Way of
Miss Rand's Marriage to Col.
Burbank.


don't say it, or 1 shouldn't sleep wink
fora week"
Col. Augustus J. Burbank, the we'll
known real estate man, sat in a coy
back parlor at No. 1909 Wabash avenue
last night, calamity making love to
handsome and Sprightly Miss Susan
Rand, says the Chicago Times. And
this courtship of Col. Burbank and Miss
Rand was so romantic and so like the
cOurtship in modern society novel that
it was extremely interesting.
Miss Rand said if she sShOuld tell all
she knew about the case it would fur
nish material for at least dozen novels
better than ''Mr. Barnes, of New York"
or Mr.. Potter, of Texas"
Col. Burbank smiled grimly behind
his big, gold-rimmed spectacles, nerv..
ousIy patted the bald spot on the top OF
his head, and said that he didn't know
much about Mr.. Barnes or Mr.. Potter,
but what he didn't know about love-
making would not make much of
book.
Miles Standish was not sup" in the
art of winning a Woman'S heart and
hand. He, fOol-like, sent John Alden
to ''fiX'' things for him with Priscilla,
and got badly lef...
The colonel knew better than that.
He had studied the cart OF Love
Making" in cheap 25-cent edition to
some purpose.
Miss Rand had recently fallen heir to
some $4,000.
THE COLONEL KNEW THAT.
And he was on the ground.
He knew better than to make love by
proxy in case like this.
Col. Augustus j. Burbank is we'll and
favorably known in real estate circles
in this city. For eight years he has had
an off ce in the Tribune building. Last
Saturday he removed his headquarters
to a basement at No. 147 La Sale street.
He lives in bachelor apartments in fiat
at No. 373 Wabash avenue.
He is large, welldressed man, with
a fringe of white hair running round
his bald head and full, short white
beard. His upper lip is clean shaver.
He wears gold spectacles. His age is
within hailing distance OF seventy
years.
When he speaks it is with great de-
liberation, except when he chances to
be addressing Miss, Susie, and then he
becomes playful and almost bOylsh.
dark-eyed young woman of thirty-siX.
She bushes perceptibly when the
colonel makes his playful remarks. She
resides with her sister, Mrs. Laura Jane
Lawrence, whose age is fOrty-five. Both
the women formerly lived at Lyons,
where the late Robert w. Rand, their
father, was wealthy banker.
Col. Burbank was also resident OF
Lyons. There it was that he became
acquainted with Miss Susie, fell vic
tim to her charms, and began the long
and romantic courtship, which just now
seem to be passing through the sensa-
tional stage incident to a contract OF
Banker Rand's will.
Last night in coy little back parlor
Col. Burbank sat at one side OF a center
table in comfortable rocking-chalr,
and Miss Rand sat on the other side.
1t was exactly the favorable position
that Mr.. Bundle, the beadle, occupied
when he began his courtship of Mrs.
Corney. 1t will be remembered that
every time Mr.. Bundle 'hitched' his
chaira little round the table towards
Mrs Corney,, Mrs. Corney 'shitched"
her chair allttle toward Mr.. Bundle,
while pretending to get farther away.
1t is not known whether Col. Bur
bank adopted those tactics or not,
Mrs. Lawrence was i'll the room at least
part of the evening. Of course she
couldn't
UNDERTAKE TO SAY
what happened when she was not in the
room.
Miss Rand returned from Rochester.
n. Y, where her father died Oct. 81
last, and whittier she had gone to begin
a contest of the very peculiar will he
left behind.
Robert w. Rand had removed to
Rochester from Lyons, TO-. few years
before his death. He left an estate
valued at $4,000. The will is dated at
Lyons, Clinton county, To-, Nov. 3,
1880.
At that time the estate was valued at
100000. 1t had increased $4,000 during
the last eight years.
Omitting the legal verbiage, the will,
after designating Robert Nj. Rand and
James Tierney as trustees of the sum of
$4,000 set aside for the teStatOr'S daugh-
ters,s prescribeS that if at the expiration
of ten years from the time of the tesla
tors death neither of his daughters,
Laura Jane nor Susan, shall have mar
ried the man known as Col. A. j. Bur
bank, "a 500 is to be paid to the former
and $500 to the latter, and in case
neither of the said daughters shall have
married said Burbank within fifteen
years after the testatOr's death $4,000 is
to be paid Laura Jane and $500 to
Susan. If either of the daughters marry
any man within ten years from their
fathers death without the written con-
sent of either his wife, Mary g.. or
nephew, Robert n. Rand, she is to for
felt all money due from the estate. If
either or both marry within fifteen years
without the written consent of their
OH nt Ia fhnU u
unpaid halves of their legacies.
The remainder of the estate is be-
queathed to the testator's wife, Mary G.
Rand.
why did old Mr. Rand hold such an
antipathy against you marrying one of
his daughters?" was asked of Col. Bur
bank.
The colonel hesitated. Then cast a
furtive glance at Miss Susie. Miss Susie
blushed.
"Well, it was this way" the colonel
said at length, but with some embar-
raSSment: sit was hobby of the old
mans all his life that nobody was quite
good enough to marry one OF his daugh-
terS."
.s'Did he make objection when Laura
June was married."
'sDid he? Well. you can just bet he
did. Why, she was married to her pres
ent husband twenty-five years ago when
she was only twenty. Her husband is
still living, but is an invalid and is away
for his health. They have lived in Chi
cage ever since they were married. How
absurd of her father to make a prOvis-
ion against her marrying ME, or anybody
else, when she was already married and
her husband liviDgW
Eyes, but why did old Rand deal with
you so hard in bis Will?"
'.Well, I'll tell you how that is.
MoneMwas his god, and he imagined
that whoever wanted to marry a daugh-
ter of his did not want her for love but
for her money"
The colonel cast another furtive
glance at Miss Susie, and again the
maiden bluShed.