Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-05-30

and was determined to go to London in per.
son, that he might himself deliver il to Miss
Clyde, and discharge his conscience.
As Nesta read on, the Kanaka kept his
eyes fixed firmly upon her. When she had
finished, he held out the other paper du'
biously. "You Nesta Clyde?" he asked in
tone of half-formed suspicion.
'I'm Nesta Clyde" the girl answered,
trembling violently.
friendly nod, reassured by her manner.
Den take dam paper"
Nesta took it and read it. 1t was her un-
cle's will. As she took it in gradually, the
color came and went in her cheeks convul-
sively. Then he had remembered her, after
ALL On his dying day.! He hadn't forgot
ten her! That dear, good uncle!
'To my wife's niece, Nesta Clyde, gentle
woman, absolutely, and for her own sole
use and benefit.
In her joy that he hadn't forgotten her
she turned and took both the Kanal1a' s
hands in hers. The Kanaka let them drop,
and put one finger to his mouth. 'Dam
hungry" he said briefly, looking almost as
pleased as Nesta herself ''No care shakey
hands. Want grubl Want groggee''
Nesta burst into tears. 'It isn't SO much
the money, mamma" she cried to her
Uncle Thorold didn't mean to slight me-"
An hour later, while the Kanaka discussed
cold pie with Mariar Ann in the kitchen,
the briefess barrister, hastily summoned by
telegram, came up to share the good news
with the family. Nesta met him at the
door, now a conscious heiress. 1t was so
delightful to feel dear Will hadn't wanted
her for her money, of course; yet now she
would have money-oceans-world of it
to give him. She flung her arms around his
neck. "Oh, WILL" she cried, "I'm SO
happyp'
But Will, as becomes a member of the
utter bar, was more strictly business-like.
'fLet me see the document, darling" he
said, after few unprofessional remarks of
what the law would call pre-nuptial char
acter. And Nesta showed it him.
He took it in at glance. 1t was all plain
sailing enough-no doubt or obscurity-
Then he turned to the foot of the page for
the attestation. All at once his color
left him. He clutched at the chair
for support. 1t was terrible to be
obliged so to disillution that poor child.
'sNesta, darlingl" he gasped family, ''this
is no will at ALI It's only an unsigned draft.
You can't get anythingl Don't you see,
there are no names to it, either testator's or
witnesses'?"
1t was only too true. N eSta, In her lnnO-
cence, had overlooked that small detail
whether it had been duly executed. The
revulsion was terrible She was once more
penniless.
And now the problem arose, what to do
with the Kanaka- He had shown SO ex-
traordinary and unexpected devotion to
his own sense of duty, or of superstitious
awe, that it was clearly impossible to let
him shift for himself in this great, inhospita-
BILE, sordid, wealthy London. Indeed, to
say the truth, Ramaliraliro, accustomed to
the easy-going applied socialism of the
South Sea Islands, had no idea of quarter
ing himself anywhere else than on the per-
son for whose sake he had brought over that
precious, that worthless document. MANY
times over, with many strange expletives
and much gesticulation to exc out his scsnty
English, the Kanaka told them, half in
words half in dumb show, how the great
English chief who owAed the fireship, dying,
had made over this paper to the sailor
Howe; and how the sailor Howe, again.
dying in turn, had handed it as
a sacred deposit to himself, Ramaliraliro.
'sMe no>rest," the savage said, standing
there in his rough English jersey and coarse
white trousers-"me no rest, day or night,
till me bring dam ting to England. Find
out Missy Clyde Give dam paper in him
hand: Very good Do all well Go back
den Samoa"
It was cleary impossible he should stop at
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