Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-05-17

10 him and his maiden sisters, Hetty
Prudence and Martha. three women who
walked as stiff as they talked, although
they never were known to discuss any sub
jet other than the Delury family.
When DaisY's proposition was made
known to them they tried TO faint, but were
TOO stiff 10 fall over and were obliged &c
content themselves with gasping out:
What, Daisy Dingcc marry our brother,
the head of the Dclury family?''
But il WAS the first idea that had ever
entered the brothers head, and he chung to
il with a parents affection for his first
born. In 4 few months Mr.. and Mrs. Mon
mouth Dclury set out for Paris with that
proyerbial speed with which Americans
betalie themselves TO the French capital
when occasion offers. They found it a
much plcasanter place than Bricksburg.
Dclury improved rapidly and Daisy fen
quite in love with him, made her will in
his favor, contracted the typhoid fever and
died.
widower sent for his three sisters to Join
him. They had out one objection togoing,
that was to part company with the dear old
homestead, but they ovcrcame it the day
after receiving MonmOuth'S letter. which
happened 10 be a Friday, and took the Sat
uriay's steamer
To confess the truth, the Delury's had
ilttl 81 ldllu- IOUT liIdt lItlE SPARE dTlS-
tocratc figures We're rather the result of
necessity than inclination. Six months of
Paris life under the benign protection of
DlngceS round million made different
women of them. II was wonderful what a
Inctamorphosis Partisan dressmakers and
TeStauranteurS effected in their figures.
They became round and plump. They
stopped talking about Bricksburg. signed
themselves the Misses Delury of New
York, enrolled themselves rs patrons of
art, gave elegant dinners, and i'll very
short time set up pretentiOnS TO being the
leaders Of the American colony.
But re?nOrSeleSS fate was at their heels.
Figaro unearthcd the secret of old Dipgec's
million and the Delury's suddenly found
themselves the sensation of Paris, the butt
of ridicur in the comic papers. Monmouth
had been in poor health for several months
and this killed him.
Diugce'S million was now. III the eyes Of
the .aH. divided up anon" his three sisters
but fate willCd it otherwise. for the follow
IN" wear Hetty. the eldest. died Of Roman
fever and six months later, Prudence fell
Il victim to rat poison in "a small hotel al
GrassC. a city of delightful ndors in The
south of France whittier she had gone in
search of balmy air for her sister Martha
Wno had suddenly developed symptoms of
consumption.
Left thus alone in the world with old
Dmgec'S million and an incUrable ailment.
Mstha'S only ambition WAS To reach Bricks
burg and die in the old white Delury man
sion. 1t seemed TO her that its great spa
riouS rooms would enable her to breathe
more easily and 10 fight death off possibly
another wear.
But il was not 10 be. She got as far as
Paris when old Dingee'S million again
changed hands. going this time by will to
Martha'S only relatives twin brothers,
f,l1u md AI-il1iar,
ers in Washington street New York
The will was Il peculiar one rs was TO be
expected: Il give, devise and bequeath all
The property popularity known rs the Din
gee Million 10 my cousins. John and Will
lam Wiullletip produce dealers of New
York rs Joint tenants for their lives and
The life of each of them. with remainder
over TO the eldest son of the survivor, his
heirs and assigns forever, provided that
said remainder man shall be of full age ut
he time of his fathers deceaSe and shall
ihcreupOn enter the ministry of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church and devote his life
and the income OF this estate 10 the encour-
agement of legislative enactment through
out the United States for the suppression
Of gambling and wager laying"
IN default of such male heir the Dingee
million was to be divided up among certain
religious and eleemoSynary institutions
When the cablegram from Paris inform
iur them OF their extraordinary luck
reached the Winkletip brothers they were
down in the cellar of the old tenement
which served as their place of business
with their long jean coats on, busily en-
gagged in sorting onions. As the Wrinkle
lips were only little past fifty and as
strong rs hickory knots, their families were
quite satisfied 10 get only life estate in
the Diugce million, for, barring accidents,
the rohers had twenty-five or thirty
Years 10 live yet
True, brother John had son, Cyrus, who
woL.C soon be of age, but he was q worth |
ess wight, whose normal condition was al |
,oholic Stupor. barely characterized with |
sufficient lucidity to enable him to distin- |
guish rotten vegetables from sound.
lie viii die years before his father, every +!
oue remarked. and then the rambler'S |
money viii 90 where it ought 10 go
There had been fire next door TO the |
y inkletlpS about the time the good news !
lad arrived from palS; huge warehouse |
lad burned down leaving a brick wall tow \
ring sixty feet above the old wooden tene- |
nent IN which the brothers did business. |
They had given notice TO the authorities, /
Tut The inspectors had pronounced the wall |
.erfectly safe. So the two brothers con-
inued to come and so, in their best Sunday |
iothes, however, for they were only en-
,aged in settling up the old business
Suddenly. without the slightest warning,
he huge wall fell with 4 terrific cash upon
he wooden tenement, crushing it like an
go shell When the two brothers were