The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1894-06-14

fin the circuInstanccs-it would be
proper to say to you what that reason
wasp
''Tell me, Cullen, tell me, dear
brother. think you know that I ask
only in the hope of rendering some
service to you, if that is possible.
But, besides the grief feel about this
matter, am haunted with fears Tell
me, dear, for all sa1es.''
'"Then will Father, when entire
ly possessed in understanding. said
that he had been kept from MAX
ing will by brother, who suggested
that he and l could settle the estate
between ourselves without need of
help from the courts
Eyes, that's what was sure Of
Cullen, I know what I owe to ysour
brother. What am going to say is
with full sense Of that obligation I
owe something to you, also, and there
are debts of yet higher, far higher
dignity. Cullen, my solemn convic-
ton is that your father believed he
had no will"
But, sister, Arthur Dabney, who is
a good lawyer, tells me that is not
what the law calls revocation of
once-existing will, and that any
amount of proof of such a belief would
have no effect-wouldn't be even
listened to by the court"
sis that SOP" she said, with profound
awe.
$50 Dabney says"
Rejecting awhile, evidently study
ing what words she should employ, she
said:
''But, Cullen, suppose-for instance,
suppose your father actually did de-
stroy paper which he took to be his
will? I merely ask for information"
Il doubt if that would affect the
case notably, sister, unless it could be
proved very clearly that the paper SO
DESTROYED had been fraudulently SUBJ
stituted."
81 don't suppose that could be DONE"
she said, in a low voice, looking down
upon the floor. Then suddenly she
spoke with animation:
but, Cullen dear, you know, at least
Mr.. ANDERSON says, that all the land
out here and the large tract on the
Oconcc were bought since the will, and
therefore didn't pass by it?''
81 am aware of that, sister," he
answered, with some retracting in
tone
She regarded him with much eager
ness.
"If 1 could so arrange it, as I'm sure
1 could, wouldn't you take both of
those places?-knowing without n
doubt" she quickly added, what your
father wished?"
Il couldn't take any more than what
it would be recognized universally
that was entitled to, sister,"
''Not for my salse?"
Not for yours, dear sister, nor for
anybody's, because such an act would
subtract from my self-rcspect, by seem
ing equivalent to q compromise with
brother, which have resolved not to
make
ooh, my Lord, what can be done in
| this case2 Are you, then, going to do
nothing to get at least some of your
rights? 1 don't know what to say or
| what to do!'
She looked around the room In de-
spair.
The case is in Dabney's hands, SIS
| ter; but he has my instructions not to
| move in it for the present, no matter
what grounds he may suspect he has"
| Her quick sense saw the tenderly
| compassionate motive of his breast,
| and, laying her head upon his shout
| der, she wept and wept. At length.
| lifting herself, she looked into his face
with much tenderness, saying:
my dear brother, 1 could not invent
words to express how much l admire
| your nobility and your gentle true
heartedness. 1 know that If Mr..
| Dabney should discover or should
believe himself to have discovered
| any grievous fraud in this un-
| happy affair, you will give me,
] if I then be alive, timely warning.
| And Cullen, won't ask you to come
to our house, but you won't forbid Han
nahs coming sometimes, will you, to
see me? For tell you, my brother,
am nearly gone"
"Why, surely not, sister. Hannah
ought to go to you sometimes, and I'm
sure she will wish to do so, unless she
| should find that brother objects"
| No, no; he will not object. I've
heard him say often that Hannah was
one of the finest women he knew"
He said nothing. After q moment,
she rose and said:
| ''Wen, 1 pray to God every day to
make some solution of this case that
| will be right for all I'll go out and
see Hannah a little while. There,
see her among her rose-bushes. Don't
/ come in, child" she cried; I'm COM
| ing. Hannah she said, when she had
reached the garden, "I've had some
| little chat with Cullen, not as satisfac-
| tory as l hoped. lie won't make any
compromise with his brother. Perhaps
| he may be right, at least for the pres
| ent, but l hope"
| II don't think Cullen Is right in that,
| Sister Julia, and he knows l don't OF
| course brother would make such an of
| fer as would be at least respectable,
and for Pearce's sake, if not mine nor
his own, but he doesn't wish me to
interfere, and don't intend to-"
/ A slight shrinking showed that
| Julia recognized the difference be-
tween the words and what she would
have expected. Then, after such com
,rting assurance as she could find to
bestow, and pressing solicitation fol
Hannah to visit her as before, She
went away. Immediately after her de
parture, Cullen put on his hat anc
went out to the field. The movement
hurt Hannah, even to some resent
inert. Perhaps he foresaw it, bu
thought we'll to hinder another discus
sion, knowing that now she would bt
further than before from according
with his views. Some of her behavior
in the. first year of their marriage hnf
not been such MS his sensitiycncss re
| garded as entirely becoming. 1t kaf
stung him somewhat several times tx
| yvitnacs vvha f. Seomed IN him her IN tho,