The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-04-27

LIE PROJECT IalieQ, ana Mf.s dTay,
after writing heart broken letter to
his wife explaining all the circum-
stances, and another to his firm, in
which he stated that he would in time
make good the loss he had caused
them. had left the city, and from that
day no word had been heard from him.
His firm refused to take from Mrs.
Gray the little money that she had, or
even accept from her the deeds of her
homestead, which stood in her name.
and said they were willing to wait Mr..
Gray's own time for settlement.
In all these years no word had come
from her father. They had lived as
economically as they could, had let
the upper floor of the cottage to ten
ant, and still they had to encroach on
their small boarding. The mothers
health was broken and she became q
confirmed invalid which added another
drain. Eunice, who was but sixteen
at the time of her fathers flight, saw
but one way out Of the difficulty. She
must 60 to work. Through her own
exertions she secured work in the
-bindery where she now was, and
was earning fair wages, and there her
story ended.
.Oh! Mr.. Grayson,' she added. 'if
only mother could get strong, and
father would return, / would be q
happy girl again, and she broke down
with burst of tears.
comforted her as best / could, and
asked her how long her mother had
been so ill. She said she had her first
suffusion of blood in the early spring,
but since then they had been rather FREE
quent, and sometimes alarming, but
the medicine the doctor had prescribed
had always checked them.
When I left her that night, told her:
81 always want to be your friend, and
if l can be Of any service in any way,
and do not SEQ it myself, you win, I
know, point it out to me-. And then
we said our first "good night"
Early next morning told my mother
the entire story of our acquaintance,
and begged her to call on Mrs. Gray
and see if any thing could be done to
relieve her in any way, which she
promised to do Eunice had told me
when we parted at night that she might
be late in going over, but could call
the next evening if | would to see how
her mother was. so I did not wait at
the bridge, and took a lonely ride.
When l reached home that night
found note from mother asking me
to come at once to Mrs. Gray's. l ar
rived there only to find my worst fears
realized. The poor woman had had a
return of the hemorrhage shortly after
my mothers arrival, the physician had
been unable to stop it, and her life had
ebbed away.
There is no need to tell of the quiet
funeral, or of the drive back from the
family plot to our own home, where
mother insisted Eunice should stay for
few days, until she had learned bet
ter to bear her grief. The days grew
to weeks, and, every time mention
was made by the poor girl of the nee
essity of her going home and back to
her work, mother said: "Not yet.
What use is there to tell how they two
grew to love each other, or of the state
of my own heart, for I was well aware
that Eunice knew, even if had not
spoken.
One night as we sat by the fire in
our snug parlor, it was shortly be-
fore Easter year ago, mother said,
gently:
"Eunice, dear, you have no mother,
I have no daughter. I will gladly be
your mother if you will be my child"
/ knelt at her feet and said: "For my
sake"
And SO she staid. The cottage where
her mother died was rented entire,
and brought her in enough means to
obviate any daily toll, and when June
of last year was brightest she really
became my mothers daughter and my
wife.
There is very little romance in all
this, you say, and that, no doubt, is
the fact, and here is where it comes
| in. About a month ago, as l was
looking over the exchanges in the Of
flee. picked up the Leadville Chroni-
! Gle and read the following short para
graph:
"As Mr.. Robert Graydon, the owner OF the
| famous Holy Cross mine, was descending the
shaft in the second level, the bucket-rope part
| ed when near the bottom and he was thrown
violently to the bottom of the shaft, sustaining
| injuries which 1t is feared are fatal. DR.. Wis
ner who was called in, told the injured man IL
he had any directions to give as to the disposal
| OF his effects he had better do SO at once. He
said his will and letter of instruction were in
Counselor Peters hands, and shortly after be-
came unconscious. He is not expected to live
| through the night
In the next issue was this:
| "Mr Graydon, of the Holy Cross mine, died
shortly after midnight, Counsellor Peters,
who held the letter of instructions in his hands,
which was in an envelope indorsed: ITO be
| opened only after my DEATH says that he
opened 1t in the presence of witnesses, and that
| the only instructions it contained we're a re-
quest to find if a Mrs. Elinor Gray and her
daughter Eun1ce were living at No. - Clermont
| avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y, and in that event, to
| notify them OF his death, as they were his
widow and daughter, and that his real name
was Robert Gray. His will leaves that after
the payment of his just debts, the property re-
verts to the mother for her natural life, and at
her death to go solely to the daughter. Mr.
Graydon or rather Gray, had just sold half
| interest in his mine to ST. Louis syndicate for
10000, and the transfer of the deeds was to
have taken place next Saturday.
gave myself my own assignment
for that and many succeeding days.
Eunice and I made the trip to Gum
nison armed with the proper proof Of
her identity, and carried out the terms
of her fathers contract. The mine
pays her about four thousand dollars
monthly; the firm Of which Mr.. Gray
was a member has been paid in full
with interest, and no longer fear the
frown Of the city editor. but rather
patronize him when drop in on him
and take him over to the Astor House
| for luncheon. - Walter Coo9,e,. s,,