The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-06-09

try, and pretty poor stuff it is. Well, ]
stepped up to him and says I, Good
evening, Mr.. - giving him his name,
you understand for am told that you
are that gentleman He looked up at
me, and said to myself that had made
no mistake. He had on a Mexican
serape and wide brimmed hat; but his
figure and face answered well enough to
my description of him, though instead
of side whiskers he had mustache and
chin beard, as if he meant to be Mexi-
can through and through.
Yes says he, looking up at me:
and have you any business with me?'
well says l, 4 think l may say
have, since I've come some fifteen thou
sand miles to find you. He stopped d
bit and then said, From England.
Obj You are right, sir said l.;
but before | so further. and to be
sure there's no mistake, / must
ask you to be kind enough to give
me an account of yourself-your family
and so forth-so that l may know you
are the man I'm sent to see, and no
other And what if refuse?' said he.
Then said l, all Iii have to do is to 90
back where came from; though l may
tell you that if you are the gentleman in
question it will be your loss, and n big
loss, too, not to let me know it.
"'As to that, he says. i don't know
that you can give me anything care to
have, whatever you may lave brought;
but if you want to know my history l
always carry my papers about with me,
and I've no objection to your looking
them over And with that he took a
wallet out of his pocket, and handed it
to me. Iopened it and examined the
papers one after the other. They seem
all right, sir, said, and l suppose
may as well take it that everything is
correct and regular so then l went on
and told him what had happened, how
his brother was dead, and he the heir of
the property. He heard it all with q
sort of strange look on his face; and
when got through at first he said
nothing at all. He got up and took
turn up and down, smoking his cigar;
but at last he comes back, and says he,
Who's the next heir after me?
81 didn't see just what that had to do
with it; but l said 1 supposed it would be
his cousin or whatever relative was near
est his own blood. We'll, says he, chuck
ing away his cigar, whoever he is, he
may have it. I'm very well satisfied as
l am, and l won't have anything to do
with it. Those were his very words, and
you may suppose was bit surprised.
You won't have anything to do with a
hundred and fifty thousand pounds?
says l. Not with that hundred and
fifty thousand, at any rate said he
But what are you going to do
about it?' says L; the property is
yours, and it's entailed, and you can't
get rid of it. ooh, don't trouble yourself
about that said he, with laugh. 1T
won't be buried in the ground. And if
the worst comes to the worst how do
you know that am the right man after
all? l have got the papers and am
called by that name; but you yourself
said that you never saw me before; and
you could not swear that am not some
body else. 1 should have to go to Eng
land in any case to prove my identity.
But prefer to stay here, and that's the
end of it,
sit was the queerest case ever heard
of, and l didn't know what to make of
it. L sat there and talked and argued
with him for an hour and more, but
nothing could say made a bit of diff
ference. He wouldn't have the property
at any price, and he didn't care what
came of it. gave it over, at last, for
the time being, and passed the night in |
the hut; the next morning l tried him
again, but he was as obstinate as ever.
Well, didn't believe yet that he meant |
all he said, SO | made up my mind to
give him bit more rope. told him l |
was going to stay in Mexico q week or
two, and let him understand that if he |
wanted to change his mind he'd have an
opportunity; and then 1 said good day
and rode of. l went back to Mexico,
and put up at the hotel, and thought it
all over; but the more thought about
it the less l could make it out If he |
was the right man (and everything about
him showed he was) it didn't seem in
human nature to refuse the property;
and if he was an impostor, who had
somehow managed to get hold of the
right mans papers, and to personate him
why, then, what on earth could his
object be if not to get the property? If
that would be the strangest
case of the two.
Il had been back from Pachuca lust a
week when was told that there was
lady in the house-an English lady-that
to see me. Thinks /, Now, what
does this meanY brushed myself up
bit and went down to find out. She was
sitting at table in the patio. with cup
Of tea in front of her. She was a good
looking woman, and as judged might
be something under 80 years old.
Il made my bow, and she asked me to
DO seated. After little talk. says she,
1 hear you have been inquiring after Mr..
alentine-giving his full name, you
told her that had. Did
you find hinlT asked she. 1 did, said l.
She seemed bit excited or anxious, and
began to have my own ideas; but /
wasn't prepared for what she said next.
/ wish you to know that am his WIFE
she said, and whatever is his business is
nine also. 4 am bound to inform you,
madam ] said at last, that his family
has no knowledge Of his marriage; they