The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1895-01-03

lue present sUaue OF aHalfs improve
the feelings with which he viewed
life a tsthis moment.
de bad intended, during the tete-
a-tetel to which he looked forward,
with his uncle that evening, to have
broached the subject of his own
marriage with Elvira, and to have
asked Sir Louis what-the young
lady being willing--he would do for
him.
Sir Louis seemed so ill, however,
that Fierce began to fear he should
have to defer the conference; and
during the last hour or two, insti-
gated thereto by a slight feeling of
jealousy, he had begun to think it
were wise to WOO the rich daughter
OF int millionaire Delane.
He, however, was fully aware that
to sue in forma pauperis we're abso-
lutely vain. Money begets money,
and ola Delane was not the sort of a
man to allow his daughter to wed
one who had not a fair income of his
own, and this Pierce, from his work
at the bar, could scarcely be said to
be the possessor of.
While he was bordering over these
things and feeling very much in
clined to quarrel with fate for the
secondary place in life which was
acceded to him, the carriage rolled
quickly towards Aboyne Court and
worn out Sir Louis lay very quietly
and silently among his cushions.
AT last he gave a little gasp and
heaved a deep sigh, but Pierce
Vaughan took no notice, 80 absorbed
was he in his W gloomy contem-
plations. Nor was another word
uttered by either Of them until the
carriage drew up at the hall door.
Pierce Vaughan sprang out and
turned to assist his uncle, but Sir
Louis did not attempt to move.
"sir Louis is not very WE'LL" Pierce
said, and signed to the butler who
then came forward.
Another second and the two men
looked in each others faces with
CHASTITY CONSERVATION.
Sir Louis was dead.
They carried him into the house,
and laid him on a sofa in the Ii
brary, and sem for the doctor. But
of what avail, life could not be
recalled.
And as Pierce Vaughan stood there
on his dead uncle what mixed
emotions filed his soul.
IT ~as scarcely a~ffectionate regret
that he felt, but suppressed and
intense rage that death should have
come now.
Why not weeks before Aboyne
Court and its concomitant fortune
had been settled on his cousin or
weeks hence, when he himself had
had time and opportunity to get
some compensation for his terrible
disappointment And 30 angry was
this man, who had ever been Sir
favorite nephew, that he had
scarcely patience to speak civilly to
the doctor when he arrived: he
seemed SO impatient at the inoppor-
tune moment of the death that the
follower of Esculapius
his behavior most indecent,
and was considerably relieved when
Mr.. Pierce Vaughan retired to his
own room and left the mournful
details, which had to be arranged, to
himself and the servants.
''The will,n thought Pierce, as he
the door of his room. "If
could only Q that will before
arrives, for, Of course, they
will telegraph for him at once. But
What use will the reading of that
will be to me unless"
He did not finish the sentence, but
Is he glanced at his features in the
In front Of him he was scarcely
'urprissd to notice that they had
become liyid.
When Sir Louis Dunraven's will
vas proved would not serious COM
,licatiops and serious struggles arise
which none Of those Interested
we're now prepared.