Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-08-20

| unuer wnlCn 1t was found. All four at
tached their signatures to the document,
and when Ezra kissed his love q tender
| good night and went home he hardly
| felt the paving stones under his feet,
for he had carefully tucked away in the
inside pocket of his vest, just over his
heart, the little soiled piece of paper
| which told him in unmistakable terms
that his fortune was made, and the
wedding ceremony pnce over that II was
beyond all chance Of change.
Before the discovery Of the new will.
while it was believed that Mrs. Brea
was an heiress and her credit good, she
md her husband had made use Of the
fact, and had incurred debts TO q large
amount. Brea got his wife to ipdorse his
note for $40 900, and he borrowed that
sum from the bankers, but as soon as
the true state Of the case was known
his creditors became clamorous and had
him arrested on civil suits. Unable to
| give bonds, he was locked up in Ludlow
Street Jail, and there he remained six
months, until, acting upon Ezra's adj
| vice, the sisters agreed to pay all his
debts and give him and his wife 81 900
| each II they would live west Of Chicago.
| This they were forced to accept and
went to Montana Brea opened saloon
| at Butte. City, but no never recovered
his spirits again. He became his own
| best customer, and that Of course meant
ruin, but what, after all, killed him
was the knowledge that he had been for
more than score Of days in full possess
sion Of that old house and had spent
scores of hours alone in the old library
and yet had not discovered and destroy
ed the now will lying there at his mercy.
The sheriff soon sold out his saloon,
while his wife eloped with his best
friend. Ruined in pocket, health and
character, poor old Brea was left bare to
every storm that blew. One morning, as
the sun was rising over the town, sur
prising hnlf dozen belnted gamblers in
| Ned Wright's saloon as they were get
ting up to leave, they found lying across
the threshold the body Of n man, rag
| ged, emncinted, furlorn. 1t was Brea
As soon as James had read the will
he insisted upon having 50, 900 from
Brea at once, and he got the money.
out "neh Una. thuhueroolu ul the now
VIII lelI On tho TWO men james sadly
| recognized that fortune and he would
shake hands no more, so far as this
| Wurlu Is cohcefheu' ana ne resolved 10
chance returning 70 London before the
"hole OF Tue So'oUo ne mad from Brea
was gone. To London he went He lived
few years in extreme poverty, driven
10 an manner Oh miserable SHIFTS, and at
last dled'
ms man died who ought to have
been buried III Westminster abbey, so
AIDING one more brilliant name to the
long ilne OF lllustrlous lord chancollors
from thulnas Beckett and Cardinal
"oisey down nut he, hating his own
soul TOOK the ilrst step III wrongdolng,
nnu lns'eau Oh resting IN the mighty
apoey ana bequeathlng his dust as a
| precious legacy to succeeding genera
lons perlshed torlorn and alone and
was buried Ill pauper' grave.
we an landed IN Liverpool in tho
mshest spirits and at once took tho
Tram lor london enjoying the novelty
vi eIerythlhB'
therefore, after completing certain
preparations which required skill and
considerable business knowledge, we
departed TO execute this new and Of
course last shuttle for fortune.
After we saw George off to Paris on
the Tram Mac and l walked up and
down the platform outside of the station,
star gazing Mac, with his brilliant
scholarship' elegant speech, logical force
ana merry enthusiasm, made most fas
clnatihg companion:
inc STUDY oil mankind is man, the old
proNern says; but, like many other prov
efos' there lsafull measure Of unreality
IN It, IL takes good amount of AFRO
cameo and conceit for one to fancy he is
gong tostudy and understand men. No
man can understand himself, and by no
amount OF experience or study will he
ever come to understand that subtle
thlnS he calls his mind or understand
the motives That sway him.
1 only wish one of those scientists
VINO study tho human mind could have
sat IN Macs brain that night, have
thought ms thoughts and heard his
speech while remaining ignorant of our
history and mission. Macs mind was
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