The Opelousas courier., 1889-08-03
AN 9NDEPENDENT PAL
They Were Too Spirited % Marry
to Please Others.

tPhilip. said old John Briggs to his
son. ''you are twenty-eight years old
to-day"
so the family record says, father"
responded the elegant young gentle
man addressed. 81 am disposed to
place implicit reliance upon it and on
you.n
'sYou have done nothing since you
left college but kill time"
1T is only retaliation in advance,
sir. Some day or other the old chap
with the scalp-lock and scythe will kill
me-
tYou are too iippant Since your
Aunt Priscilla left you FIVE thousand a
year you have done nothing but spend
the money. Your income ought to be
enough for a single man, but you draw
on me. too.n {
.'T'll try to draw on you less, SIR"
1T is not that, Philip. You are
quite welcome to a check now and
then, for / know that you neither
game nor revel, and I don't mind your
horses, your club,4your natural history
craze, nor your luxurious tastes. But
still you spend more money and get
less for it than most young men of
your age--have too much, in fact"
81 don't find it too muchasir. In
fact. ] was thinking what agraceful
thing it would be if you would double
TIA mere triae to a gentleman of
your / have to use the most
pitiful economy, / sur YOU"
.tOh, that'sut, eh? Well, thtre is
a mode to increase it very much. You
have heard me speak of PLlander
Spriggs, OF New York;"
..Money-lender and skinfintp Ihave
heard of him." q
Nonsense. Philip. He is a quite
worthy as well very wealthy man;
and If he prefers to invest ready money
in short loans, what of thatp | lend
my money. or some of it sometim 49,
But not at cent per cent"
"No matter. | don't propose tRssS
you shall borrow of him. He has ans
only child. a daughter, who will in
herit all his vast property, just as you
will nine"
s'.Does she shave notes, father?"
stPhil. be kind enough not to indulge
in chaff. I have seen her and talked
with her. She is young. handsome
well educated, and has good taste "a
society gentlewoman with domestic
tastes"
.Well, father, you are not so old,
and since you admire her SO much, I
see no reason why 49,"
..St0p your nonsense and listen.
Spriggs and / had a talk over 1t when
l was in New York, and we have con
cluded. II you two come together, to
chip In equally and settle a half
million On you On your wedding day.
With what you have you'll do well
enough for awhile
but demurred Philip. II don't
like Spriggs for u father-in-law.n
.Stuff! you don't marry Spriggs."
Sand the name! Think of it!
Spr-r-iggs!"
What OF thatp With marriage the
name is changed. / don't think she'll
gain much by it. Spriggs-Briggs!
Six Of one and half d dozen OF the
other
I'D like to oblige you. father. /
suppose must marry some day; but
II will be some one / love; and then,
Philadelphia like, insist on a woman
OF good family
Some one you lovel How the
deuce do you know you'll not love her
till you see her? Good family! OF
coarse you're entitled to that. The
pecrage OF England is full OF Viscount
Briggses. The Briggses are found in
the Almanac Won Gotha among the
erlaucht families. Your grandfather
made $500. 900 in hides and tallow, and
y he had not invested ii la real estate
shas multiplied itself more than ten
aoad helore be died, / should have been
y me am business to-day, and you
q tas e0pntapgsopm or warehouse.