The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-04-21
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derstanding you.'
II doubt if you are"
"What was your meaning? Wasn't
It that If I'd do what you said you'd
marry me, and without delay?''
mot at all. 1t was that I'd instruct
Arthur Dabney to dismiss the proceed
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bear from starting others of which he
has been thinking"
he sank back in his chair. pale,
abject. Her look of scornful Iitiless-
ness exacerbated his every evil pas
sion. Both rose AS she moved from
him he started to follow. Turning,
with dilated eyes, she said:
"What do you mean?"
''Hannah! ! must can't live with
out your
His arms were lifted, and his look
was that of one with whom it is peril
Gus to woman to be alone. She
stepped briskly to the door, and called
loudly to Mimy, her cook.
sComin', Mis- Hannah" In another
minute, the woman, huge, sleeves rolled
up on her vast arms, appeared.
II don't know why you wanted to
call that Niger
''You can go back, Min1y. I only
wanted to know if you were there.
Keep where I can call you if ] need
you"
GIVE no answer" she said, turning to
him, ''to make to your last remark, ex-
cept to suggest to you not to repeat it.
Is there anything else on your mind to
say to me, on the line of our business?"
She was not quite ready to dismiss
him, having some other things to say.
Lifted somewhat from the deep of
the pit into which he had been cast,
anger and sense of the need of remov-
ing whatever suspicion she had that
his proposition had been made with
any apprehension of the consequence
of litigation over the will, with what
GOODNESS he could assume, he said:
"Well, Hannah, your conduct took
me so much by surprise that got lit
tie mis-put just now. I'm all right
again. OF course you don't expect me
to do anything about the property after
what's passed. AS for what Arthur Dab
ney is to do with what he's begun, and
what you hint he's thinking about be-
ginning, if he was better lawyer he'd
see that none of it, not thing of it,
can come to anything. don't deny,
and God knows don't want to deny,
but what you and your child are emit"
tied to your part in what land father
bought since the making of his will;
that you and he will get; but, as the
executor of the will, shall be the one
to attend to that"
II don't expect of you anything ex-
cept what you know you'll be driven
to do. Wiley ANDERSON, you are worse
than took you to be. ! had the no.
ton once that by Cancellation on the
part of Cullen and myself you might
be induced into a settlement which
would not be so grossly unfair that he
might not accede to it. He knew
better, because he had known you SO
long. / believed that my behavior to-
ward your father and you had done
much to remove the prejudice both of
you had against me when ! married
Cullen. ] didn't dream but that every
thing was ali right until after his
death, when you produced that will.
Then thought, foolish as it all was, to
conciliate again. hoping, but not fully
sure in my mind, that such action,
undertaken in the interest of my hus-
band and my child more than of myself,
was excusable. was well paid for it.
I knew you cared nothing for your
wife, but did not suspect you capable
of such conduct. am thankful that
my motives in what did were under
stood by Cullen and Julia, and that
had lost none of their affection. Poor
dear Julia did advise you to marry me,
but she died knowing it to be impos-
sible. She did not tell you her changed
views, because in the little time after
wards she felt that all her thoughts
must be occupied in preparing to meet
her God. How you could have stood
up before her and taken that advice,
knowing the motives for giving it,
only God can tell. Another thing
know. Your notion then was not to
marry me. That is recent, beginning
with last Tuesdays issue of the South
ern Recorder. If you had been true
man you would not have thought of
marriage to any woman in so short
while after your wife's death. Your
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