Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-03-25
but he put the paper down and moved

toward her 4S she came In.
There is news that will distress you
In the STANDARD he said, Poor Ora
ham seems doomed TO misfortune as
the sparks fly upward.
Graham. Misfortune, Is he" she
could not say another word, but grew
white, even TO the lips.
mo, not lead" he said hurriedly
Like most men he feared that women
dreaded death before every other mis-
fortune for the men they love or have
loved. Not dead but ruined, poor
chap. Don't look like that, Patrice.
After ALL the poor fellow is not much
worse off than he was before he mar
ried the Barford money. LOOK! here
is the account
II cant read it, she said, and she
away from her.
We'll, briefly told, these are the
facts: Miss Barford Chats Mrs. Sholto
Graham, you know succeeded to the
400 900 of a great-uncle named EiIas
Barford, who died without will or
nearer heirs than lerself, as it was
believed 10 De proved. Now, a son of
this Elias Barford has turned up, who
had given himself out as dead ror
thirty years to spite his father and
family. He has his mothers marriage
certificate, the certificate OF his own
baptism, and an undeniable record.
at will kin Sholto Graham" Patrice
said, brokenly, and good fellow as he
was, Thorbuin could not help wishing
that she did not take the downfall G.
her old lover so desperately to heat.
81 must go and see Lady Gwenap %
morrow, Ned l mus. hear what is 20
be done for him and--his wife, she
gulped out, and then she added, gen
erous and ample apology beaming from
her eyes as she spoke; you know he
has nothing, absolutely nothing, Of his
own. He sacrificed his independ-
ence--"
When he sold himself for money
Yes, | know, Ned replied, and Patrice
grasped the fact that Ned was not sym
pathetic with her sympathy for Snolto
Graham.
1t was all too rue, too hideously true.
that sensational paragraph which had
appeared in the Standard and dozen
other papers. Poor Mrs. Sholto Graham
and her still poorer and more 10 be
pitied lord had been the fools OF cir
rumstances ana fate THE weH-at-
tested son of the cid millionaire. who
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proof the money bags on which his dis
tant cousin, Mrs SEoto Graham, had
reclined ungracefully for time, was
hard-fisted cosmopolitan. He had fought
for his life with the earth in every
quarter of the globe, in order to make
the mighty mother bring forth fruits.
He had died in his family, and written
much yerbiage in describing his own
death thirty years ago But when he
came back to England with family
of children and grandchildren, money
enough to leave them all well off, and
in very bad health. he grasped with
greed at the gold which he had only
just learned that his father had left.
He was ruthless to the Sholto Ora
hams, telling the young husband OPEN
ly, in the plainest English, that he was
disgrace to manhood for having sold
his youth, strength and good looks to
an old harridan for her money, at the
same time remarking freely to the mid
dle-aged wife that she "had been
greater fool to fancy that any young
man would have touched her with the
end Of barge -pole unless she gave
him a golden one for the purpose
He then suggested that they should
clear out of his house without delay,
and advised them to be prompt in re-
funding the money they had spent since
they had been in unlawful possession
of his property.
This meant utter ruin to them, and
Shoto Graham realized from the out
set that his wife's grasping cousin
would not move little finger or abate
one jot or title Of his rights to avert
that ruin from them. This gentleman
had led a hard life for more years than
he cared to count, and he had sue
Ceeded! He was remorseless hard and
unsympathetic TO all such as had led
hard lives-0nd failed!
Sholto Graham's first impulse was
to seek his sister, whom he had been
neglecting from mixed motives for the
last few weeks. The house was shut
up. Sir Andrew had been stricken down
with q seizure and had been hurried off
under the care OF his wife and the ply
stefan who Travelled with him to one Of
the German baths, At another time
he would have received this intelligence
unconceruedly enough but this day it
cut him to the heart to find that Maggie
had gone off in her luxurious anxiety
without giving a thought or, at any
rate. leaving a note fol him.
1t came upon him that 1t would be
rash 70 spend any of his little remain
ing ready money Oh hanson, so he
walked back 20 tho house that was no
longer his home, trying 20 shun the
Elances Of those whom he had known
during those spuriuUsly palmy days
which no had MT 90 iDyhI while they