The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-03-14

bled thsreupon. With . formal opening
and close. that this same Robert E
Cecil gave all his property to his
dearly-beloved daughter. Mabel Cecil.
and left the lady of the veil where the
law found her.
essBut such is the history of the
Worldi" concluded, solemnly, '4ever
such, and what gulf. deep. impassa-
BILE, between what ought to be and
what isl How should like to bridge
iboVerpa And buttoned up my coat,
and walking to the window, imagined
could see through the darkness
the coming OF the carriage of Mime.
Cecil.
The time dragged slowly. very
slowly, and never felt more genuine
relief than in hearing heavy wheels
grinding through the mud and slush.
| and knocking at the door to notify
me the carriage was ready.
/ sprang into the carriage, and away
| we dashed through such darkness that
| l could not for the life of me discover
| to what portion of the town we were
being driven. But in a very short
we came to sudden halt, and the car
rage door opened. The coachman
conducted me up the brown stone
steps, where the open door was already
awaiting me, and l stepped into a
dimly-lighted hall.
AS did SO lady. whose figure and
manners told me she was Nine.
Cecil, glided from a side room. and
with little plaintiye smile babe me
follow at once. But in that instant 1
read her face and. perhaps her charac-
ter. She might have been So, only
she didn't look it, with those brilliant
black eyes, pearly teeth and elegant
manners; but behind all there ! read
the positive force that, turned to good,
may save a country, but given over to
evil would sacrifice everything to sue
cess.
Noiselessly she glided over the heavy
carpets, and as silently l followed her.
She passed into the hbrary-as l in
stinctively felt-into the chamber OF
death; even elegant furniture and
costly paintings and embroidered
coverlets are not to overawe our des'
tiny:
she shortly said. as she stopped over
the emaciated face of a silver-haired
man.
"WhatP WhoP" as he started from
a seeming stupor, and looked won
derinSly at me from his sunken eyes
HE will read it to you now. Mr.
Cecil" adding in low tone: He il
sinking rapidly; fear that you mus
hasten"
1 felt that l must I seated mysel
: at his bedside, and as I did so l saw
his lips tremble, and l believed the.
were breathing name; I imagined
, | was. "Mabel.
Our boldest moves are born upon tn
, | spur of the moment.
| Ia Sna
glass of waterPn l asked, and l too
! out the will she had drawn.
/ ''Qaick, sir, quick?" said /, as / no
r ticed his sunken eyes watching he
Fastening footsteps. do you wan
= your daughter to have all your prop
t erty, save what the law gives you
e wifeP"
4 He started back from me as if h
/ could not trust his own senses, or wa
doubling whether to put confidence ii
me; but he seemed to feel the necessit
a of doing SO, and suddenly the dull eye
n frightened with a momentary CLEAR
9 of relief and joy as he clearly an;
]. wered:
Eyes, yes! And God bless your
v And I. too, was thanking heaven fC
g the within that had led me to write tw
wills so very like in Strength and al
6 pSdEducS, anu IL was Odly GhS WI N
n a moment to make the change, an
v just in time.
4 With Mrs. Cecil came the house
keeper and a man servant, and in the
q presence the dying man tremblingl
If signed his name to the second will, an
N they witnessed it.
o They had gone, and I started to g
g herself as we'll as her estate into IN
2, keeping; and as write this, after m
q COSY tea, and as Mabel leans on tn
back of my chair watching the rapi
: strokes of my pen, she declares that
=, did not praise myself at all in tn
; grand act of justice I did, and til
-. courage / showed at the revolver
!, mouth to sustain her rights.-AtbG'l
Evening Journal.