Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1897-03-30


necessary documents without delay. He
must decide at once. ne feels. lest his
! resolution should cool.
As the business is far too important to
Doe trusted 10 subordinate, it is Mr.. Glib
| himself who is seated. next morning bag
/ 10y his side After a few commonplaces he
} comes TO business.
] Here, DR.. Ringwood," he says. hand
/ ing over a foOlscap envelope with some
/ enclosures. Here are the documents you
have already seen. Better assure yourself
that they are all right. And this. again.
] is the formal notice 70 quit these premises
I az Lady Day. which requires your sigma
! ture. by way Of acceptance. As you are
aware, "A clause I'm the deeds Of the lease
! hold provides for its termination At any
! time in this manner
Poor Ringwood soon satisfies himself
/ that the papers are in order. He pauses
/ meditatively. however \ strong tempta-
/ tiOn asails him at that moment TO sieze
| he papers and eXpel their rascally pos
/ SCISSOR on the spot. But he restraints him
self
At this moment his wife comes into the
room. with the slightest Of bows in Mr..
Gibbs direction.
You don't mind me. do YOU. Maurice?"
she asks shrinkingly.
Certainly not. love" answers her hus-
I band. SO she leans over his chair. While
I he is looking over the other papers she
I absently toys with the notice 10 quit
/ which lies upon the table. Whether her
I nand trembles as sic fingers it. or whoth-
4 er "a slight breeze from the open easement
( causes it 20 fan from the table no one
\ can tell. but the paper nutters for q mo-
; meut in the air. then falls on the blaz-
/ ms fire.
80. what have I done?" cries Dot. dis
+ tractejly.
/ DON'T put yourself about ma'am." in
{ terroses the solicitor. blandly; its of no
; consequence whatever-ouly simple no.
tice which can easily be replaced
/ I'm ordinary circumstances he would at
once have returned 10 his Office and have
a fresh notice written out. Blu, delay in
/ this instance may be dangerous. DR..
I Ringwood seems 10 be in a hesitating hui
NOR. Better, then, TO strike while the
! iron is hot.
IF YOU Will ob,ge me with a sheet of
. paper ma am he continues, Il will draft
. a fresh notice a mere memorandum will
serve" he adds turning TO RinSwood;
land. if YOU wish. it can ue extended after
wards"
Dot silently pushes q stationary case to-
/ wards him. from which he extracts a sheet
/ of note paper. II is headed, THE Cedars,
! Rockingham" and a ruled space is left un-
/ derneath for the date. He rapidly drafts
\ q notice 10 quit. "as at Lady day next en-
4 suing after date hereof" appending the
! usual form of acceptance. 10 be signed by
. tho tenant.
/ The surgeon looks over the paper handed
I him with "a mist before mis- eyts-his hand
I trembles as he writes his signature "Maur-
! fee Ringwood"
silently the surgeon locks the documents
I in drawer. AT last he says 10 him
/ self-"at last. but 40 what q price,
/ This is your birthday. Maurice says
/ his wife az The breakfast table next morn
/ ing. so here is your cadeau,"
! She laughingly hands him an oblong
4 packet. He opens it. Nothing within but
. -1odly number OF Quires OF notepaper.
. printed with the familiar heading of The
I C,llrs."
He looks up inqUiriugly. why. what
/ is this darling?"
/ You foolish boy. YOU haven't looked at
! it. Read the heading"
/ The Codars. Nottingham" he begins.
/ "Why. what is this? The date line is
I printed for next century, 10, What does
it meau?"
Gust this, Maurice. I found lot of this
\ paper i'm the old escritorie upstairs. You
| know YOU told me once that your father
used 20 buy enormous quantities of sta
I tlorary-sufHcient 10 last for years. 1t is
/ plain that he did so-there are reams upon
realms Of it upstairs and. do You know.
/ he actually made provision for the coming
century by storing zap paper headed ike
this. "a. Now. don't YOU ses?'
Ell confess I'm rather dull, he begins.
"Why. love. don't you see that our notice
10 leave is written on this very paper by
Glib himself. and he never noticed the
printed date figures. but just added ~?
! So perhaps. after all. we won't have 10
leave till "a pretty distant date comes
around say a century from this; 1897 is
what the notice says. anyway
And you-you-?" ne stammo"s.
'I took good care. of course, that the
original notice feu i'm the fire on the
chance of his using this paper instead.
had put a lot of it in the stationery case,
Just I'm fun-but the idea struck ne the
moment I came into the room. You are
not angry with me, Maurice, are you?'
The Ringwoods are still at The Cedars.
very prettily laid scheme having been
! frustrated by q woman's strdtagem. Al
though the surgeon had his doubts at first,
they were soon put 10 flight, for the Lon
don lawyers affirmed that Dot was right.
The notice 20 quit was duly written out by
enc of the ground owners Of the property,
was duly signed by him and by Dr. Ring
wood and the signatures were not disput-
cd. Ii was. therefore. a perfectly legal in
strument and the date could not he
amended. IL was a valid notice 70 quit,
indeed but only at Lady day, a century
hence. certainly not before.-Lordon Even