St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-14

honoring his wife and advertising him.
h self by magnificent funeral, he had
4 settled down to concentrating just as
? before. What did surprise everybody
was that. after privately and reverently
burying her remains. he should have
withdrawn from Wall street, secluded
himself in his great brOWn-Stone man.
! sion, and delivered himself up to pas
, sionate and unavailiDg grief. When
his amazed business friends and ac-
quaintances heard of this they agreed
I that there was something in old SilaS
that none of them had ever suspected.
/ Most people, however, thought that
before long he would return to his old
ways; but here again they were mis-
taken in their man. Old Silas, after
three months of Seclusion and grief,
suddenly resolved to leave New York
with all its associations and all its in
terestS. and betake himself to Europe;
/ he hoped in new scenes and among new
faces to forget his great sorrow. Be-
fore setting out he made will, which.
after giving a few legacies to some of
| his friends (he had nota single relative),
left all his immense fortune to various
public charities.
Mr.. Fisher had arranged everything
for his departure when an intense
yearning came suddenly upon him to
| visit for a last time his old home
away in Peony county, where long
| years ago he had first met little Kate
Bluebelle and had made love to her
| among the green fields and by the rush
4 ing streams. He could not resist it.
With this musing spirit upon him he
! directed his steps down the quiet lane
which led to the house from which,
thirty-fve years before, he had taken his
| young bride. AS he approached it the
| past came back even more strongly
upon him. 1t was just as it was then
the same green trees, the same old
walls. the same roses and gay sunfiow-
ers. He stood before it. lost in reverie
| over the things that had been, and then,
with a sudden start, wondered whether
| he was sleeping or waking, for in the
doorway appeared a young girl who was
| the very image of what his wife was
| thirty-five years ago.
AS she left the house she glanced
rather curously at the elderly stranger
who was gazing so intentlv at her, and
| then hurried away. Mr.. Fisher stood
| for a moment looking after her. and
wondering who she could be. Was it
possible that she was a relative of his
late wife's? He thought all her people
had long disappeared from that neigh
borhood. Could it be that he was mis-
taken?
Entering the house, he asked if any
people of the name of Bluebelle lived
in the neighborbOod.
''JeSt one. as far as | know" said the
lady of the house, land she amt left
here five minutes"
Startled and excited. Silas Fisher
made further inquiries, and soon
4 ~, ,I,o1N tn
lady whom he had seen was the daugh
ter of cousin of his late wife's and She
was an orphan living with an uncle on
her mothers side.
Silas Fisher was thorough business
man. and in moment he had made UP
his mind how, in the light of this dis
covery, he should act. He resolved to
adopt this new Kate Bluebelle and to
provide for her. He felt that such was
his duty, and he felt, moreover. that in
his old age to have such being about
him would be comfort and a happi-
ness.
1t is not necessary to trace all his steps
in carrying out this resolve: Sufficient
to say that he soon accomplished it (the
young girl was delighted to go with
him, and her uncle was pleased to be
relieved Of her support), and within
way to England.
If his little prOtege resembled his late
wife in appearance, old SilaS Fisher
soon discovered that she resembled her
still more in mind and heart. There
we're the same patience and forethOught,
the same remembrance of others, the
same forgetfulness of self, the same
truthfulnesS and affection, which-far
more than any mere charm of face or
manner-had made Silas Fishers late
helpmate as the very apple of his eye.
And soon the deep affection which the
former Kate Bluebelle inspired in his
breast began to glow in it for the new
one.
The shock of his wife'S sudden death
had greatly injured Mr.. Fishers health.
and his sorrow and dependency had
added to the injury. The change of
scene and the attention and devotion of
little Kate had for time seemed to re-
store him to his former nOt-tOO-rObuSt
condition; but the improvement was
only temporary. Mr.. Fisher and Kate
had not been quite year in England
when their medical adviser urged on
the former the absolute necessity, for
his health's sake, of spending the then
approaching winter i'll the south of
France.
AS has been said, Mr.. Fisher, before
leaving America, had made Will be-
queathing all his immense property to
certain charities. That will was exc
cuted before he had met little Kate.
His adoption of her had led to great
this change he determined, before leav-
ing for France. to execute a new will.
The solicitor he, by friends advice,
called in was Runner Hatch. MIR.
Hatch was man of the highest re-
speciality in the profession. His
practice lay largely. if not entirely,
among people of good position. Still,
Mr.. Fisher did not altogether like his
look. The old Wall street man was
Shrewd judge of character, and to his
mind there was something shifty in
Mr.. Hatch's way of doing business that
argued no good. However, be the law
yer what he might. it mattered little to
Mr.. Fisher. When he had drawn the
will he would receive his fees, and
there was an end of all relations be-
tween him and the American.
The instructions Mr.. Hatch received
were to draw a will revoking the pre-
yious one, and giving Miss Kate Blue
belle first charge of S3,000.O00 on Silas
Fishers estate. Whatever remained
after that was satisfied was to be dis
+ posed of much in the same way as the
whole estate had previously been left.
sH Mr.. Hatch understood his business
| thoroughly. He drew up the will en-
tirely to Mr.. Fishers satisfaction, but
otherwise he conducted himself very
much to Mr.. Fishers dissatisfaction.
He was continually trying to gain in
formation as to the American million
aires private affairs and future move
ments, and, by dint of assiduous pump
|. ing, he contrived to learn more than the
American desired him to know.
In due course Mr.. Fisher and Miss
Kate Bluebelle set out for Paris, where
they intended to stop week or so on
their way to the South. They travelled
via Folkestone and Boulogne, passing
the night before crossing the Channel
at the Pavilion hotel. Several other
persons who had been staying at the
Pavilion travelled by the same boat.
Among these was young fellow of dis
tinguished appearance, who seemed to
ba moro or 1aSS attracted nv Miss Kata'S