The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1891-01-09
those mournful eyes, or you'll break my

heart"
'Letitia, do you then love me?"
Eyes, yes, do" walled the heiress
II love you with all my soul"
"Alas!" groaned the major, that two
such hearts as ours should be parted by
a wall of gold"
But they sha'n't BET" asserted Lefty
her nose growing red and her eyes
twinkling in the enthusiasm of the mo-
ment. No, Marmaduke, no! Not il
grandpapa was ten times as obstinate
and pig headed as he is
my Letitia!" sighed the major, in a
voice honey sweet, and as low as summer
winds breathing DER the twilight sea
And when he left the Price mansion
he had the satisfaction of knowing that
he was Miss Letty's accepted lover
He plunged ruthlessly into more debt
the very next morning to the amount of
$500 to buy a solitaire diamond ring to
deck the fat forefnger of his affianced.
at will be Il mere drop in the bucket. +"
he said to himself, when | come to
handle her cash hope the old gentle
man means to place it entirely at her
disposal, and I'll see to the rest
And Maj. Monthill contracted for a
pair of cream colored horses, a yacht
and cottage at Newport for the sum-
mer season, on the strength of his known
engagement to old Zadoc Prices grand
daughter
just at this time-life, we all know, is
proverbially uncertain-Mr Zadoc Price
took it into his venerable head to have
stroke of apoplexy, and depart this exist
ence without the ceremonial of more
than two days illness.
1.-The most sensible thing the old fudge
could possibly have DONE" thought his
dutiful grandson-in-law elect "Lettv'll
come into her fortune now without any
difficulty, and | shall be a made lndi-
vidualr
He stopped at a hat store to get his hat
draped in a suitable mourning weed, and
thought it very becoming The third
day after the funeral he called on Letitia
Miss Price received him in her new
black suit, her nose swelled with much
weeping, and her eyelids as pink as if
they had been painted all round with a
red lead pencil
Dear Lefty" mur1mured the major
his voice attuned to the tenderest SYM
pathy, do not mourn too deeply! We
must all die-and our departed friend
had lived out the threescore and ten
years allotted to mans life here below"
Il know It'll" shifted Lefty, taking out
her black bordered pocket handkerchief.
"You are not bearing your grief all
alone?" he asked
mo: Cousin Bethuah Jenkins and her
husband have been here for week"
Lefty lugubriously answered
Maj. Monthill pricked up his ears.
Cousin Bethuah Jenkins? He had not
hitherto been aware that his Letitia had
any relatives save her grandsire How
ever, the 100000 would well bear few
reversionary legacies, and this Cousin
Bethuah was doubtless an attached rela-
tive whom it would be scarcely credita-
bic for the old gentleman to omit entirely
from his will.
"The only thing that regret in this
sudden and unlocked for dispensation of
Providence, dearest Lefty" went on our
tongued major, sis that it makes
an heiress of you-and | believed that
have before expressed to you my horror
of the imputation of wedding "a rich
wife"
Don't let that trouble you, Marmy
dear!' cried Lefty Historically. IL
meant to have told you all about it be-
fore, 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. He said you were fortune
hunting miscreant-you dear Marina
never should have cent
from him if married you. And then
to him the noble words you had
spoken, and he grandpapa always
lad an inelegant way of expressing him
he'd settle your hash for
you! And he called me fool, and we
lad an awful quarrel, and he made new
will, and left all his money to Cousin
Bethuah Jenkins: but | don't care
Marmy, darling, for | knew" cried the
1lsinherited damsel, with fresh burst
of tears, THAT you loved me for myself
alone, and not for mere filthy lucrew
And so speaking, Lefty Price flung her
67 solid pounds of dumpy humanity
ondly into the majors arms.
Marmaduke Monthill felt like the man
n the old tale who has sold his soul for
orty pieces Of gold, and finds the treas
Ire changed into dead leaves. He had
rot Lefty Price but not Lefty Prices
ortune
He went home, promising to call early
he next morning The next morning
anne, but not Maj. Monthill.
Miss Lefty Price is living, a disap-
'ointed damsel with her Cousin Bethuah,
Who is good natured soul, and does not
rudge the "bite and the sup" to the
oor girl whom she really thinks has
een used very i'll both by her grand
ather and the major. AS for the gallant
larmaduke, nobody knows what has be-
ONE Of him, not even his Jewish credi-
ors, who would certainly be the ones to
nd out, if any one could The diamond
olitaire is not yet paid for, and some
ody else is living in the cottage at New
ort this season.
But, after all, it is only one more illus
ration of the daily lesson we all read
ne mutability of human affairs. Helen
OrreSt Graves in New Work Waaklv
PhotographinG Clouds.
A good SDRrnStinn has hean thrnur