Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1890-10-31

and well he was aware of the adyan-
tages IN this respcct-"because YOU
are rich and | am poor, and have
registered a solemn vow upon the tab
lets Of my own soul, never to wed an
heiicssl"
La said Miss Price.
cor all men, said Major Monthill.',
81 am the least mercenary. A roof to
Shelter me from the driving storm, a
crust, glass of clear cold water from
the spling-that's all want. Money
] spurn, gold is my bugbear. And yet,
Dear Letit,a-nay, let me call you
thus for once-fate has decreed that |
Should hopelessly lose my heart to one
whois unfortunately rich"
Miss Price burst into tears and i'm
ru'sirely put her fat hand into the
mGio9s slender palm.
Don't talk that way, Marmaduke, :"
she sobbed, ''and don't look at me
with those mournful eyes, or you'll
break my heart"
"Letitia, do you then love me?'
eyes, yes, do" walled the heiress.
81 love you with all my soul"
"Ahsl" groned the major, "that
two such hearts as ours should be
parted by wall of gold"
"But they shan't be-" asserted Let
ty, her nose growing red and her eyes
twinkling in the enthusiasm of the
moment. '|No, Marmaduke, no!
Not if grandpapa was ten times as OBJ
stinate and pig-hcadcd rs he is"
'My Letitia!" sighed the major, in
voice honey sweet and low as sum
mer winds breathing Ger the twilight
sea.
Aud when he left the Price mansion
he had the satisfaction of knowing
that ahe was Miss Letty's accepted
over.
II plunged ruthlessly into more
debt ihe very next morning, to the
amount of two hundred dollars, to buy
a solit.'ire diamond ring to deck the
fat forcing of his affianccd
"ltwill be mere drop in the buck
et. BE said TO himself, 'when come
to han.lie her cash. hope the old
geR.1 an means to place it entirely at
her disposal, and I'll see 10 the rest. !"
And Major Monthill contracted for
a pair of cream colorcd horses, a
yacht and a cottage at Newport for the
summer season on the strength of his
known enga cement to old Zadoc Prices
granddaughter.
Just at this time-life, we all know,
is proverbialy uncertain-Mr. Zadac
Price took it into his venerable head
0 have stroke of apoplexy and de-
par this existence without the cere-
morial of more than two days illness.
"The most sensible thing the old
fudge could possibly have DONE"
thought his dutiful grand-son-in-law
ele.t. "Letty'll come into her fortune
now without any difficulty, and l
shall be a made individualP
lie stopped at hat store to get his
Lat draped in a suitable mourning
weed, and thought it very becoming
The third day after the funeral he
called on Lctitia.
Miss Price received him in her new
block suit. her nose swelled with much
~sspins, ana her eyeiids as pink as if
they had been painted all round with
red lead-pencll.
'Dcar Lefty" murmured the ma
ior, his voice attuned to the tenderest
sympathy, "do not mourn too deeply!
We must all die-and our departed
friend had lived out the three-score-
aad-ten-years allotted TO mans life
here below"
81 know itw shifted Lefty, taking
out her black -bordered poc&et-hand-
kerchie'.
"You are not bearing your grief all
alone?" he asked.
mo- Cousin Bethuah Jenkins and
her husband have been here for a
week, ," Lefty lugubriously answered.
Major Montlil pricked up hls ears.
Cousin Bethuah Jenkins! He had not
heretofore b en- aware that his lie itia
had any relatives save her grandsre.
However, the two hundred thousand
dollars would well bear a few rever-
sionary legacies, and this cousin Be
~ .>~3i--ss,s~ i--ss,~a.. Is doubtless an attached lela-
i've whom it would be scarcely credit
able for The Old gentleman to omit en-
tirely from his will.
"Thc only thing that Iregret in this
sudden and unlooked-for dispensation
of Providence. dearest Lefty" went
on our smooth-tongued Major, sis that
it makes an heiress of you-and be-
liero that have before expressed to
YOU my horror of the imputation of
wedding rich wife"
Don't .et that trouble you, Marmy,
dear!" cried Lefty, Historically. I
meant to have told you all about it
before, but somehow there never was
a real good opportunity"
@Told me all about what, Letitia?'
asked the major, in some surprise.
"About my quarrel with grandpapa
last month. lie said you were a for
.ae-Aunting miscreant -you, dear
Marmaduae.-and | never should have
4 csnt from him if | married y,u.