The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1894-03-31

AN''' q NiSdi "AlIi li'
had laid on his desk when Miss Fewst
was announced.
Well (pu1,) Miss Fewse is Join
heir with (puf) her brother-hel
only brother, mind you Old Ben:
estate is estimated by his executor:
at sS,ooo,ooo. | don't know how
close that comes to the truth
don't take much stock in what cdr
not see with my own eyes-but thi:
much l do know.
Then the president clapped his
two pudgy hands upon Brixton':
knees, looked squarely into Brixton's
eyes and said in low, measured
monotone:
ohm Brixtvn know OF my owr
knowledge that Ada Fewse has ovel
one-million dollars-in good R. R
bonds right in my safe here. Nougt
said, eh?
Enough money, l should say, fol
an unmarried woman who DOM
look as if her tastes were expensive.
But, what have | to do with it2 You
said
Do with it? echoed the president
Why you donkey, make it you own.
| Marry the girl. She ism t a beauty,
| must admit, but she's respectable
and honest, and She d accept you in
a minute,
Upon my word, Builder, laughed
Brixton, you've been in business so
long that even women seem business
to you. Miss Fewse never saw me
until FIVE minutes ago.
| Perhaps not, but she's got her
fathers level head on her shoulders.
She's seen dozens of other men.
Scarcely month goes by without
some fellow offering himself to her
for the sake of her money Of course.
She doesn't object to marrying for
being a woman, she has a heart, but
she has enough character to want a
husband whom she can respect, and
none Of the fellows who have offered
themselves thus far has been of that
kind.
Upon my word, Budder said the
Younger man, never would have
taken you, good fellow though you
are, for a man whom an unmarried
woman would have selected as con-
fdent. 1t does you credit though
that she seems to have opened her
heart to you.
Oh, well, Ben and | have been in
many a speculation together, and
she knows he always trusted me.
Besides, there's no sentimental non
sense about her. She isn't afraid to
unload her ideas upon an old friend
of the family, so we have talked very
freely about it. By the way, she
has such a matter OF fact manner
that she looks older than she is. She
is really five years younger than you
/ Your fortunes made, poor boy,
unless you make fool of yourself in
some way.
Let me sound her about it. You
may count upon me to do it without
lack OF proper respect for either oi
you, and I'll bet the entire assets OF
the bank against a penny that you
may announce your engagement
within a week. Then you'll be hand
in glove with lot OF us fellows in a
business way as we'll as socially, and
we want you've really do.
Builder, said John Brixton, rising
from his chair, you've got heart as
big as an OK, and I'm heartily obliged
to you for your interest in me. You
must give me time to think of it,
though.
Time to -! calculated the pres
ident, firing his cigar butt at the
cuspidor with such energy that he
overshot the mark and elected q
howl Of anguish from the banks cat
as she mistook the missile for {
mouse when she opened her eyes
from a peaceful slumber. There are
some things that a fellow can't atforc
to think of. Do you stop to think
when a trout rises to your fly? Come
along to lunch and make up you
mind on the way.
But John Brixton wasn't able t.
, give a decisive answer over the
coffee and cigars. A million dollar
in good securities seemed we'll wortl
the taking by man who had worked
industriously tor IS or 20 years only
to reach salary of S5,cco or $1,000
and an appreciative wife thrown Il
| seemed like so much extra luck
for Johns mother and sister had TO
years warned him that wives wh'
= hold good husbands in proper re
gard are as scarce as model hus
bands.
r On the other hand, old Ben Fewse'
!, daughter, who looked as much llk
her father as woman could look lik
S man, would be strange companion
2 for a man who, in spite OF muc
u. attention to material things in tn
e way of business, had inherited man
foe tastes and sentiments which h
Y had kept in good, usa BILE condition
r Whoever he might marry ought t
e be fairly companionable to hi
i mother and sister-two women whor
v he could not imagine enjoying Mis-
r Fewse's society.
e But when John Brixton went 0
/, thinking and compromising an
II rejecting his own compromises ol
e Budder took the case in hand {
d earnestly as if it were promisln
d investment for his own bank. H