Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-12-19
CHATTER XI.

"And You really mustn't think us
such very big people, says Godfrey, IN
a deprecatiug tone. because we are
anything bHt that and. in fact, with
a sharp contraction of the brow that be
tokens inward gricf-''there is rather
cloud over us just now
"A cloud?n SAYS Mona. And | think
in her inmost heart she is rather glad
than otherwise that her lovers people
are not on the top rung of the ladder.
"Yes-in a regular hole, you know"
says Mr.. Rodney. 1t is rather com
plicatrd story, but the truth is, my
grandfather hated his eldest sonny
uncle who went to Australia-like poi
son, and when dying left all the proper
ty-none Of which was entailed-to his
second son. my father"
THAT was a little unfair, wasn't it,"
says Mona. "Why didn't he divide it?"
'Well, that's just it," returns he.
"But, you see, he didn't. He wiIled the
whole thing to my father. He had
long conversation with my mother the
very night before his death, in which
he mentioned this will, and where it
was locked up, and all about it; yet the
curious part of the whole matter is this.
tnaU on the morning after ms death,
when they made search for this will, it
"dS lloWiiVl' 10 pC l'"lit' W. ii'''o
we heard ldle or lldlllTS OF II ever since.
Though of the fact that it was duly
signed, sealed and delivered, there is no
doubt
How stranger says Mona. but
how then did YOU MANAGE"
"Weil, Just then it made little differ
enCe to us, as. shortly after my grand
father went off the hooks, we received
what we believed to be authenticated
tidingS OF my Qncle'S deaIh.
! eH; says Mona, VINO looks anu lS'
intensely interested.
Wen peileI' however SUIoIlS, SotS
SNORT way something's All UNCOMMON
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course ana are lo9 .1E HlGh ana low
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s,y. PndnSy tenJeiiy t.Wa hnIonm f.
o3nb ntLnr .nd ai,y,ys ebaI and tIat
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son if if ifr-' intnrr1,nts he .Is il
thai Won are afraid for yourself Re-
mG,pLnr tIrre is .br~~ary in the love
tL,t ,o1, Ln rnoI-ounI =,
ttTLot ~ t,,n :, ..,,., Mona. ..but II
d,o. ,',, .,,,I,. f. ma. mad - ~ fn, Won,
only fr.tr Lei ma sew inst this. I
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"f lilc nearest u'tit EilIS possible, DllI
VI CoUiSo IL 'ilIS atiI 'eIliiiateS III Ia
Nor Oh -. ne heSitaleS patpahly, then
say >, Ml,m an emoit COUSIN the
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,ft, ~ ~, nc Won oe ,eAdClly q GtIcu
IN '''"Ii YOU h'l0M' says hnodiley,
S""a DOWN "ot fo OH hi, Hl'n nft ~ VII VII ne
years.
"But do YOU mean to tell me that the
girl he loves will give him up lust be-
cause fortune is frowning on him."
asks Mona, slowly. Sure she couldn't
be SO mean as that"
at won't be her fault: but of course
her people will object. which amounts
to the same thing. She can't 20 against
her people, you know"
Il don't know says Mona, uucOn-
WINGED Il would 90 against all the
people in the world rather than he bad
To you. And to forSaka him, too, at the
very time when he will most want SYM
pathy, at the very hour of his great
trouble. Oh. that is shameful | shall
not like her, | think"
Il am sure you viii, notwithstanding.
She is the gayCSt creature Imaginable.
just such another as Yourself. You
may not get on we'll with Violet Man
Scrgh, who is somewhat reserved, but [
p know you Will be quite friends with
Doatie.n
II really wish Nick didn't like her so
much, continues Godfrey. sadly. at
will CUt him mn more than 'aII the resf
if he has To give her up.
"GtOtTrry saws Mona in = low topa
slippiur her hand into his in ~ n half
suahled I3Shioh, L nave live hundred
pounds OF my own; would lt-Would it
pe or any use 10 sir NlcholaS?'
Mooney Is deeply moved.
NO, darling, no; am afraid not, " he
SAYS, very gently. But for the poor
child'S tender earnestness and good
faith, he could almost have felt some
Ialnt amuSSement; but this offering of
treat her words as a jest is thought
lar from HIM.
1t Is growing dusk; the shades Of
night are falling fast. Down from the
mountain 5 top the shadows are creep
ing stealthily; all around is growing
dim, and vague, and mysterious, in the
uncertain light.
Slowly, hand in hand. they saunter
along, when i'll an instant TWO men. who
have evidently been hiding in ditch,
Jump up before them ana confront Rod
ney. Mona recognizes the two men
with whom she demonstrated on the
night elected for the Maxwell murder.
You, Ryan," SAYS Mona. with an
attemnt at uuconcern. but her tone i.
aoSVIuteIy frozen Win rear.
=, on see me, says the man, Sullenly:
"a an We may guess. my errand." He
fingers the trigger of his gun in a terri