The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1894-10-17

Gle John ana tells the whereabouts oil
the debatable money"
"Really, Chris? Really? I don't
believe it,"
Listen to what the old gentleman
says: As have comfortable home
and am in no present need OF money,
shall put three thousand dollars in gold
at the bottom of the well Of Dancing
Damaris, which my half-brother is
now filling up. At my death, when
this paper will he found, the money
shall go To Christopher Schuyler. Sign
ed John Vandewater Schuyler The
spelling is phonetic. Can this lie au-
thentic? Winifred, is this hoax you
have arranged for my benefit?''
"I?' said Winifred, Indignantly.
'How can you say such a thing?"
"How absurd il would lie for me To
go hunting up well that disappeared
from sight fifty years ago"
''No maiter, you must do it," cried
Winifred. "But suppose there has been
"a house built over il All sorts of
things may have occurred since then -
'I happen to know that the site of
the old well is nearly if not quite in the
middle of old Mr.. Murphy's potato
patch"
''Dreadfuily unromantic ~ sighed
Winifred. "But, oh To relieve my
mind do, dear Chris, 90 and digr'
"To dig am ashamed, | must con-
fess, for such purpose in the nine
teenth century, but / shall never know
peace if | don't, for / shall always
think-there laid "A fortune to my hand
and | would not grasp it ~
''Oh, yes, of course you must investi-
gate ~
As side ISSUE the tale of Christie
piers dealings with Mr.. Murphy be-
came a standing joke with the young
couple. The astute son Of Erin, who
could neither read nor write, neyerthe-
less succeeded in obtaining double the
worth of his potato patch from the
young man, who deemed il best to pur-
chase the land before digging in it.
Then one day the daily papers relat-
ed romantic tale of the discovery Of
certain hidden treasures in an old un-
used well. The types set the amount
at very large sum, but Christopher
and Winifred knew il was neither
more nor less than the sum mentioned
by Uncle John Yet a not inconsidera-
ble addition to the income of he poor
storywright.
"Winifred," said to Christopher one
day, chow does it happen that you do
not inquire about the landscape you
wanted framed?''
II forgot it," confessed Winifred.
"When one becomes Unexpectedly pos
sessed of a fortune, one forgets lesser
things"
Chris took his wife by the hand, led
her to a sofa, sat down beside her with
his arm around herand with her head
on his shoulder let il not be forgotten,
a. some palliation of this conduct that,
they We're lately married thus related /:
when | took the landscape 10 be
framed the dealer asked various ques-
tions about it, and finally said he would
like To keep il a few weeks To show i'm
his window. | forgot all about il till
to-day, when | happened to think of it
and went after il. He then told me
this picture Is one of a set of twelve
the other eleven belong Ia a museum
in the city, and they are anxious To
complete the set, and will pay YOU Is
many hundreds a. Uncle John left
thousands. Now, darling, ii rests with
you. You shall have yoIr picture back
or the money-chOose ~
"What beautiful romantic things
happen to one when one marries, e.
pecially if one marries Schuyler"
said Winifred.
"And will you sell this picture,
dearie:e'
my poverty, but not my will, con-
sents," said she.
And what will you do with the
money and with Uncle Johns money,
you grasping little thing?"
''Since the old Schuyler house Of
your ancestors has passed away from
Us forever, let Us make the beginning
of a new Schuyler house, only on a
smaller scale
"And then perhaps we may he an
cestors ourselves some time" said Chris
refiectiveiy Y.