Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1897-01-28

coming to the desert; not to place where
I should want dinner dresses | can't so
out much; / am in mourning"
Mourning, NONSENSE said her aunt;
'tyou have been in mourning how longg'
''Four MONTHS
'And old Admiral Fitzgerald was your
relation by marriage?'
ssHe was like a father TO me-" said
Anne, turning a little pale, and ceasing
to smooth out the dresses upon which she
had been engaged. II had lived FIVE
years in his house
"Now, Anne said Mrs. Dumaresq, II
am going to speak plainly to you. James
said I was to talk to you. We are the
only people you have to look after your
affairs and interests. You were eighteen
when your uncle, as you call him, took
YOU home with him after your mothers
death, and said you were to be his daugh-
ter, and all that sort Of thing. Now,
weren't you?'
II was"
"And you are twenty thee now. That
is to say, you let him new you up in
gloomy old house in London, where you
never went out or saw anybody from one
weeks end to another; and when he be-
came i'll you nursed him and tended him
like an angel-no, don't interrupt me; l
shall say what like-and We're scolded
and bulled and suspected all day long
until he died last July; and then of course
you fell i'll from overwork and over
anxiety; and we all said, Thank good
ness, that part of her life is over! T"
"Aunt Charlotte, | am sure you were
not so unfeelng! said Anne.
"And we also said,' continued Aunt
| Charlotte, regardless of the Interruption,
"'Now she will have her reward. The
old Admiral ought to have made her indie
pendent for life And at first we heard
| that he had left you his whole fortune;
and then we were told he had left You
| nothing; and then you wsote and said
YOU had two hundred a year. So now,
your Uncle James and I would like to
know what it al means, dear, 1t you don't
mind telling us; because we are your
| nearest relations, and we do hope that
you have got your rights.
Eyes, I got all my rights
'sDo. dear Anne, tell lac what hap
pened." said {A1rs. Dumaresq, persuasive
". 'How did he leave his money? He
had two thousand a year, 'now."
Anne hes;tated for 'foment. then
| looked uoT aunt oLCduliy III IAC A"SS
| said. ''He eft his money to me-"
"Well. what have you done with it?'
81 rave it away" Anne murmured,
alphabetically.
Mrs. Dumaresq rose from me- chair, and
drew herself to her full height. "Good
heavens. Anne she said In her most
enphltlc tones, "are you mai.'
81 hat is what Mrs. Haye used to ask
me-" sail! Anne 'She was angry with
me throughout the whole voyage. Dear
| Major Haye tried to be angry too, but
could rot manage it. He saw that it
was matter of right and Justice
'Right and justice! Fiddlesticksl
Who's got the money now, z should like
to know?"
ellis sister and nephews.'
"Who are they? / never heard Of them
before"
81 am sorry to say that [ had not heard
of them until lately. It seems that his
| sister married against his wishes. Her
husband died, and left her with half q
dozen boys and girls. Uncle Henry used
to allow them two hundred a year, but
made no provision for them in his will.
/ heard of her through my uncle's lawyer,
and found out the details of the quarrel
when the papers were opened. They had
the right to it, not I. For myself two
hundred year is ample"
"You might have helped them with ut
giving up your fortune"
81 did not consider it mine," replied
Anne quietly. ''The only thing that /
charged myself with doing was to see
| that the income should not all go to the
eldest son. There will be an equable
division of the property. My dear Aunt
| Charlotte, I have done very we'll for my
SELF" she said, looking at her aunt with
an assumption of innocent dignity. II
have kept four thousand pounds for my
own use and behoof, and feel rich upon
it,"
. To her surprise Mrs. DumaIesq sank
| into the easy-chair again, and began to
| cry. sit is too bad" she said sobbing.
| Here you have given up your youth-the
| five best years of your life-to that wicked
old man, and have got nothing by it but
paltry two hundred a year; and | have
been saying that you were an heiress-
and everybody is SO curious to see you.
I must tell your uncle the whole story.
because he is so very anxious about YOU
What he will say when he hears it sim
| ply cannot imagine"
| Mr.. Eastlake came to dinner, and with
him a Mr. Rolleston, and the Dumaresq's
eldest son, Harold who had been de-
| tanned all day by business in town. Har-
Old was bright-looking, boyish man Of
one-and twenty, with thick brown hair
| and sparkling blue eyes. Mr.. Eastlake
| was some years older than either Harold
| or Mr.. Rolleston, but seemed on very
| intimate terms with them, as indeed he
was with the whole family of the Du-
maresqs. He had known them well in
England, and was connected with them
by marriage in some distant degree. He
was almost as much at home in Mrs. Du-
maresq's house as in his own.
Mrs. Dumaresq was radiant in q COM
| bnation of blue and cream color; Anne
looked stately in her robes of clinging
| black cashmere; Michele was simply
dressed in white. A Miss Hilda Seaforth,
a friend Of Michelle's, had been asked at