Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1890-11-27

'Mias Mary, said the alcalde, kindly
have you anything to say7'
Mary raised her clear, grey eyes
and looked with yearning tenderness
into her brothers faces. David pretend
ed to be reading. George stoopeC
over and spoke to him. With a sigh
she turned to the alcslde.
ASK my brothers what they value
the homestead at
Two thousand dollars promptly
answered David.
Too much-too much, grumbled
all the jury.
Two thousand dollars, reassertec
David, and George added: Bare
value
Il will buy itat two thousand dol
lars. Will you ask my brothers il
they have any daughters, alcalde2'
Gentlemen, you hear2 Have you
any daughters?'
David said surlily that he had nc
children at all, and one of the jury
men muttered, with queer laugh, that
he was sorry-didn't see how his sir
was 'a.going to find him out
George said he had two daughters
ASK their name. alcalde.'
MARY and Nellie
The poor sisters eyes filed as she
looked in Georges face and said:
:Alcalde, give to my niece Mary
ten thousand dollars, and to my niece
Nellie ten thousand dollars, and hope
you and the good men present will al
low the gift to stand. l know my
brother David will never want a dol,
lar while there is one in the country
he lives in. George is extravagant,
and will have always ten dollar road
for FIVE dollar piece; but his boys
can learn his own or their uncle's
trade; there are plenty Of ways for
them. I would like to put the girls
beyond dependence and beyond the
necessity of marrying for living
David rose in fury and said he
would listen no longer to such nom
sense.
you forget, Mr.. Forsyth, that you
have put this case into our hands. /
think you will have more sense than
make enemies of thirteen of the best
men in the neighborhood. Gentlemen,
would you like to retire and consider
this matter2'
Not at all, a,calde. I am for CIV
ing Miss Forsyth all her father gave
her.
And l. And t. And L. cried the
whole twelve simultaneously.
i shall contest this before the
San Antonio Court, cried David, pas
slopately.
You'll think better of it, Mr.. For
syth. Do you mean to say you brought
twelve men here to help you rob your
sister sir?'
Il mean to say that that Mexican
Zavala has robbed me. ! shall call
MIN 10 account.
The doctor laughed good .naturedly,
and answered:
we have each our own weapons,
my friend. I cannot fight with any
other. Besides, marry me wife
next week.
And the doctor leaned pleasa ntly
on the alcalde's chair, and, with a
joke, bade friend after friend Good
bye
Mary Forsyth carried out her inten-
tions. She settled, strictly and care
fully, ten thousand dollars on each of
her neices, bought her homestead, and
then sat down to consider what she
should do with her eight thousand
dollars.
If I were Frenchwoman and San
Antonio were Paris she said; Il
would rent store and go to trading.
I know how to buy and sell by in
stinct; and if I were born farmer, l
could plant corn and cotton, and turn
them into gold; but ] am not farmer
Il never made garden and got a
decent meal out of it. I calculate
twill be best to get John Doyle for
head man, and put my money in cat
tle.'
Just as she came to this decision !;
Doctor Zavala drove hurriedly up to
the door,
Mary! Mary" he cried, come
quickly! There is an old friend of
yours in the timber too ill with the
dengue fever to move
what do you need, DoctorY
Need? l need you and couple
of men to carry him here. Do you
know that it is Will Morriston?
'Oh, Doctorl Doctor!'
Fact. Heard Of your fathers death
in Arizona, and come straight home
to look after you. Poor fellowl he's
pretty bad
Well, Mary did not need to hire
John Doyle as head man; for Will,
who had loved her faithfully for fif-
teen long years, was the finest stock
man in the State; and within three
months, the doctor and his beautiful
Dolores danced o fandango at Mary
and Wills wedding.
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