Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1895-10-11
CASH AND MARRIAGE.

1t was like clap of thunder from a
cloudless sky.
We were speaking of the failure Of Cos
hawk & Guldridge
Goshawk q Guldridge were firm of
bankers in Hobblegate, where their name
was a tower of credit. "Governments"
might decline and greenbacks fiuctuate,
but Goshawk & Guldridge were always at
par.
They might have gone bail for brace of
millions without ever being asked to "jus-
tify" There was something in the very
curve of Goshawk's nose and in the broad
folds of Guldridge's vest that savored Of
solvency.
Have you heard the news2'
"What news?"
"Goshawk g. Guldirdge''-
For heavens sake, speakp'
Smashed debts million-assets
neutrality-suspicious. absconded!"
Seth Dodge caught it in two directions.
The loss of his own money was bad
enough, but 1t was too provoking to see
Kate Orville's, on which he had long cast
tender glances, go the same luckless road.
He fairly cursed old Orville's stupidity in
trusting his niece's entire fortune In the
very hands in which he had himself trust
ed and lost the bulk of his own.
Seth had fallen in love with Kate at first
sight-of her grandfather will, which he
had read over for amusement in the pro.
bate office one day.
From that document he learned that she
was heiress to a cool hundred thousand,
in her own right which her uncle Walter
Orville, was appointed trustee to keep till
her marriage or majority. The money,
Seth knew, was snug in the vault Of Cos
hawk & Guldridge
He lost no time in declaring the state Of
his feelings, which Uncle Walter seemed
to reciprocate if Kate didn't. We wont
say positively that Archie Warham had
anything to do with the GOODNESS of Seth's
reception on her part. Apparently he
hadn't, for when Seth began his visits
Archies suddenly ceased, and Kate tossed
her pretty head and didn't seem to care.
What with Uncle Walters backing, his
own perseverance and Archie Variants
demoralized retreat, Seth felt his chances
were by no means desperate.
He could afford to wait He was not an
impatient lover. His own finances were
easy, and as long as Kates money was &C.
cure there was no need of haste.
But terrible awakening came that day
when men rushed to and fro, startling each
other with the announcements:
"Goshawk g. Guldridge have failed!
With the depletion Of his own pocket de-
parted all hope of Its repletion from Kate's.
To withdraw before acceptance matri-
monial offer, the Consideration" of which,
In legal parlance, had failed struck him as
the first thing to be done under the cir.
cumstances, and for that purpose Seth
presented himself without delay before
Uncle Walter whom he found at his office
looking as serene as If nothing had hap
pened-the imperturbable old stole!
II suppose you've heard the newsp" he
began
Uncle Walter had heard it,
But Seth never shirked duty-to him
self. With much circumlocution and by
WAYS that were Indirect he managed at LAST
to make himself understood by Uncle Wal,
ter.
The old gentleman didn't seem much
taken aback There was a touch of con.
tempt In his tone as he thanked his visitor
for the very unnecessary pains he had tax,
en-, and when he bowed Seth out the latter
felt considerably lower than before he en-
tered.
Uncle Walter got home early that even
ing. If he was angry at finding Archie
Warham there, he didn't show it, Kate
looked as happy as though she hadn't lost
penny, but had found instead treasure
worth all the world.
"Don't mind 1t, uncle" she cried.
"You see don't, and I've heard all about
it,"
ttAnd s,1nnosa vou,vo haard n toopO