The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1894-05-19

the will?''
'.Ill make known your offer, Watson.
If it's not satisfactory as / hardly
think it will be-we'n submit propo-
sition of our own. =
After brief consultation with Ham
nah and Dabney. he rapidly wrote and
handed to Watson the following:
STATE OF GEORGIA: BALDWIN COUNTY
..In the inferior court Of said county, sitting
as court of ordinary:
II Hannah ANDERSON, cavaetrix, etc
Wiley Anderson. propounder cts.
.2 In the inferior court Of said county and
state:
n m'sr . !, zns's'' Case tor Islander.
Counsel for Mrs Hannah Anderson In the
above cases agree to dismiss them on the fol-
lowing conditions:
IL The defendant, Wiley Anderson, Is to sur.
render to this court the letters tes tamentary
granted him, and consent to the cancellation Of
the paper purporting and claimed by him to be
the last will and testament Of Pierce ANDERSON
late OF said county, deceased
''2 That besides the costs accrued In such
thur Dabney, counsel therein, his fee OF five
thousand dollars, and TO Seaborn Torrance his
Of twenty five hundz ed dollars. I
''ARTHUR DABNEY,
''SE4ABoRN TORRANCE
There, Watson" he said, that's
about what we think we can afford to
do for you"
Anderson. when he read the paper,
writhed in anger too fierce to admit
fear.
my God!' he gasped. "No! OF
course, no! I'll fight till die, first.
People mayn't like the will, but they
can't break it. I've done all can, Mr..
Watson"
There's your proposition, Torrance, =
said Watson, handing it back. ''You've
got to be a perfect cormorant in your
old age. YETI smiling, he added, ''you
are unexpectedly, even astonishingly,
modest in the valuation put on your
self, compared with your young assoc
ciate.''
Torrance, after half-glance towards
Dabney and Hannah, turned again to
Watson and smiled.
see: / see," said Watson.
- CHAPTER XXI
On the rendition Of the verdict in
the case just tried, the court announced
its readiness to sit in ordinary. After
some preliminary skirmishing, Tor
rance said to his associate: ~
"Will you open the case, Dabney?"
by no means, Mr.. Torrance. You
are the one to do that"
~ Ie
two over his eyes, he rose, and thus
began:
''May it please your honors, have
lived long enough to note many results
Of human actions done in secret whose
discovery seemed to me the orderingof
the Divine Being, who wills not that
certain among the special objects OF
his care shall long be outraged with
impunity. Your honors, some of whom,
I know-perhaps all-are more familiar
than I am with texts of Holy Scripture,
may recall some in which widows and
orphans are mentioned in terms of Pc
c11liarly tender commiseration. Some
times, not very often, yet sometimes,
in the strivings of this lower life. when
men are in conflict with men, equals
with equals, one more skillful or more
enduring or more fortunate in acci~
dental circumstances seems to be al
lowed to prevail without justice, while
the other is left to his hopes Of bet
ter day But when the battle is be-
tween the strong and the weak who
are fitted to WELD no sort of weapon
of warfare, and who can only stand
and be smitten, oftentimes interference
comes from sour1Es unforeseen, so sud-
denly unexpected and so abundantly
eficacio1ls that we think we can refer
them only to the omnipotent God"
His words in solemnest tones, and
his look, as; he lifted it with reverent
inquiry towards Heaven, inspired
everybody with awe. After moments
pause he continued:
''On this day, trust, signal mani
Hesitation of such interposition will ap-
pear, one which possibly may be as sur
prising to the spropounder of this al
legged will as to anyone else here pres
ent. A few minutes ago proposal
was submitted to that person for set
Element upon terms which promptly,
and apparently with angry disdain, he
declined. 1t therefore becomes the
duty Of the counsel for Mrs. Hannah
Anderson to present such showing as
may serve to convince him for the bal
ance of his life that it comes not with
in the limits of his powers to Cypress,
nor within that of his wariness to de-
fraud grossly, those whom the Creator
in specialist fondness styles his little
ones. May it please your honors, I
knew Pearce Anderson right well. AL
though firm, perhaps rather willful
man, had never suspected him of be-
ing unnatural in such affections as the
Creator, for purposes of protection to
the dependent young, has implanted In
the being of parents of every sort and
degree, nor, as believe, had any
among his acquaintance regarded him
as capable of adding to gross injus-
tice to one OF his own offspring gross
er duplicity. I was much surprised,
therefore, after his decease, when /
heard that in his last will and tesla
ment he had bequeathed we'll nigh all