Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1890-05-24

osDut you see he was not KILLED"
mother said, in q gentle tone; "but
Is well and strong again.
And then, motioning me TO Keep
silent, mother told the widow OF the
child's injuries and recovery, Of his
winning ways, and our love for him;
81 must tell you first who | am,
our visitor said. IL am the widow
of Carol West, who died of cholera
in Liverpool two weeks ago.
"When heard he was i'll went TO
him at once, leaving my boy with my
husbands mother and sister. l knew
they were not very fond of him, but
had no choice. | found my hus-
band very i'll, but he was recovering,
when he had a relapse, During all
his illness heard only twice of Fred
die--once that he WIS well, once that
he had been killed in the street.
II came home only two days ago,
and they would tell me nothing OF
where my boy was buried-nothing
but the bare fact of his death. II
oh, do nou blame NEIL was on my
way to the river to end it all, when !
met Freddie. +"
1t would he tedious to tell in detail
all the long conversation that fol
lowed, but authorized by Mrs. West,
| called upon her husbands lawyer,
and there heard her story.
II think, said the lawyer, conf
dentially, "that the Vests are the
proudest people ever knew-proud
of their family, their money and
their beauty. Carroll West was
the only son. Lucy the only daugh.
ter when the old man died. He
lett a considerable fortune, but Car
roll has increased his share of II Ia
immense wealth. His mother was
very DESTROYS OF having him make q
great match, and proportionately
/ furious when he married little dark
eyed seamstress, of no family in par
ticular, and working for living,
Carroll" continued the lawyer
chad sufficient good sense TO keepuI
his own establishment until he wen
into heavy cotton speculation thai
called him to Liverpool Then h,
lett his wife and child under his moth
er's care, and before he went mad
his will. NOW, Doctor" said tn
lawyer, speaking very slowly, On,
with marked emphasis, that vii
leaves hall his fortune to his wife
half to his child. but in case OF tn
death OF the child, the half that /
his goes TO Mrs. West and her daugh
ter Lucy. II the mother dies al
goes to the child, to revert again q
the Vests, il he dies without direc
| heirs"
We could never tell whether th
unnatural grandmother and aun
would have risked a legal IN
yestigation. The recognition b
tween mother and child was con
plete, and the clothing we had car,
fully preserved was fully identified
Mrs. West did not return TO he
mother-in-law. For some week
she was my mothers guest and pc
tient, being Frustrated with To-
nervous fever, and then she took Ii
house next to our own, her own clair
and Freddie's to Carroll West
property being undisputed. "
were warm friends for two years an
Mrs. West senior, with the beautifl
blonde, were occasional visitors d
the widows house; but when II
violet and white took the place
Grape and bombazine, | ventured I
ask Adelaide West II a second Low,
could comfort her for the ones she hh
lost, and my mother became Freddie
grandmother in truth, when h
"pretty mamma became my wife.
Mrs. West IL dead, and Lucy ma
ried to titled italian, who admire
her blonde beauty, but unlike mar
Of his compatriots, finds the love
lady fully able to take care Of her &
terests and guard her money again
too proiuse expenditure-Evenir
World.