Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1890-11-02

mixed herself up in his dreams, and his
slumbers we're disquieted.
Next morning, at breakfast, the Dean
seemed in hurry.
81 am off TO London to prove the
will" he said, in answer to his wife's
question. :,
"To prove the will?" she replied in
accents OF utter amazement why,
he is not buried yeti" The Dean
smiled.
al am aware that il is the convention
al custom 10 read the will after the
funeral and then prove it, but am un.
conventional, and shall prove 1t first and
read il aiterward."
But you can't get it done the fune-
raj is in four days"
81 shall try, lsy love, ;" said the Dean,
shutting up his black bag with snap.
Months before the Dean bad prepared
for this emergency. Through the long
winter evenings, while he sat over the
fire slipping his port, his excellent wife
used TO read 4" Wilhelm Meister in the
original. As she read German with
difficulty, and that classic work is some
what lengthy. it had already lasted sew
eral years. The Dean, she used to
think, was asleep, but in truth he was
projecting bis mind into the m'
ture and arranging plans to circum-
vent Parker. and how best to IN
vest his fortune when Uncle Tony was
no more. So when that event occurred
the Dean was AS we'll prepared for battle
as German general is on tho eve OF q
European war. He mad procured a hand.
book. How to Prove viii N Person.
He was sole executor and be had pre-
pared and filed up all the necessary
papers; everything was cut and dried,
ready to his hand in the little black bag.
al shall do in three days what law
YER would waste three weeks over, he
soliloquized as the express tram bore
him up 10 London.
The officials in the Office still have a
vivid recollection of Dean Thurlow. For
three days, you may say, he lived In
Somerset House. he permeated the en-
tire establishment, he interviewed regis
trars. clerks of the seals. and oil KINDS
Of high officials he was so urbane, 30
cordial and pleasant, that be talked over
everybody. BE gave two little luncheon
parties aud it is said he put several OF
the juniors on "good thing IoI
Kempton Park. Many forlorn Old
widows who dropped in there to prove
wills mistook bin for judge, at least,
and accosted him, and the worthy Dean
took them on hand and plotted them
through the difficulties OF probate prac-
tice. At4 o'clock the very day before
the funeral probate was granted to the
Dean. and he returned 20 his wife with
the precious document IN his band.
That evening he felt he had won the
first trick, but he owned TO Lis wife that
of course Parker might have the trumps
in her hand after oil.
Parker" he said. "may have got
him TO execute a will subsequent to
mine that will be annoying certainly,
but may upset it on the ground OF I'M
due influence but the thing | dread
most is she may have married him, and
that would revoke my will and leave her
in a splendid position" This indeed
WAS tremendous fly IN his pot Of ONT
ment.
why" asked his wife, "did you not
eearch the marriage registers
"Of course did" no growled back,
"but the last six months are never post
ed mp, and she may win the odd trick
yet"
prospect of such a thing. Then he went
to bed and prepared for the funeral
on the morrow.