San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-07-14

QetlC1cy WHICH rdlSeSs MIN IN FRANK
estimation, secured from the latter a
promise that he would not influence
his sister at all, but would leave her
entirely free to follow the dictates of
her heart. One thing Frank insisted
on, both to his mother and to Paul
his sister should read for herself the
| letter from Robert Graham. Harrow
ing as the letter must be to her, it was
a letter addressed to her, and
she had right to know Its contents.
She had already recovered from the
first shock, and was asking to
see the letter. After midnight ner
mother carried 1t to her, having ex-
planned to her that it's contents would
be very painful. The girl nerved her.
self for its perusal and went through it,
so her mother reported later to Frank
and Paul, who were anxiously awaiting
the news, without uttering a sound.
When she had finished it, she simply
said: How cruel-what cruel world!
Poor young man! perhaps it is best as
it is"
How naturally things come about in
lis world on which we spend so much
anxious trouble and planning! If Paul
had known how easy the path of love
was to, end for him at the goal of
felicity, he would not have lain awake
the few hours left him for sleep after
the Conference with Frank was over.
Haggard and circle-syed, from
much tossing, he entered the private
parlor of the party to And Miss Lee
bourgeois there alone. Hardly know
ing what he said, in fact unconscious
of how great departure it was, he ex-
claimed, on the impulse of feeling:
"Oh, Louisa!" And She, equally gp.
conscious of what she was doing, ex-
claimed: "oh, Paulr' And Paul, need
ing no further invitation. took her in
his arms: After .hey had become
LITTLE used e the pew situation, Louisa
confessed that had he asked her at any
time during his visit to ouassapaug
island she must, pro, bly,, have given
her consent. The eyes Of the msdgag
saw farther and clearer than the syes
Of the lover. Soon Frank and Mrs
Lebourgeois came in, and added the
seal of their hearty approval
to the ambition of the young
man and the choice of the Young girl.
Despite the shadow of the suicide, it
was very happy party which sat down
at the family luncheon table.
The funeral of poor Robert Graham !
was attended by Frank and Paul and |
by large eoncourss of villagers. The
loved church Of his adoption had to re-
fuse him the last solemn rites forfeited |
by his act of suicide; but Father LATTE
and the village priest were on the out
skirts of the crowd, to testify as indi-
viduals to the high estem in which they
held him as a man, despite the final
tragedy. They laid him to rest under
a quaint oak, which divided with the
old chateau of his devotion the honor
of shadowing his grave. A simple
shaft bearing the date of his birth and
death was placed above the grave. The
will of Robert Graham was as he de-
scribed it. 1t left all his property to
Paul, WITHOUT, however, mentioning
any reason for selecting him as legatee
The language of the will was simply,
my friend, MIR. Paul Terry" Of
course Paul would not except the
money, except as a trust. 1t had been
too deeply tainted with tragedies for
that Eventually he turned it over to
the Roman Catholic church to found a
in the grounds Of the old
chateau, the only condition being that
The castle should be maintained for all
lime as Robert Graham had left it.
Visitors who now come to Trem blay
Ire shown over the venera BILE structure
by quiet-faced nuns, who tell almost
lnder their breath fragments of the
tory here first given TO the world as it
eally occurred.
Some two weeks after the funeral
here was the quietest sort Of we'd r
ing at the American chapel in Paris. I
The only persons present besides the :;
ride and the bridegroom, were Frank ~
nd his mother, and Archer, who had y
zen cabled for by Paul, The happy -
air went on a wedding trip to the .
Ioly Land. and later visited India and '.
hina. During a part of their travels -
hey were with a large owner of Lon ~
on Times stock, who took a great ~
incy to Paul. The result was that he .
ad hardly reached America again on &c
ne homeward trip, and had once more 20
assed the frowning lions heads guard '"
" the entrance of the old Lebourgeois
lansion in st. Louis, when a
tter came from the Englishman, of o'
ring Paul an editorial position on Ue
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