The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1897-05-07
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because my mother loved my father better
than home, parents or wealth. s.
II marry and desert my mother entire.
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toward her support. Of, II she dies. ! am
te I haye my Graaafthers estate II none ll
five years already have passed since this
monstrous will made my mother a raving
MANIAC. She had built such strong hopes
that her reason could not bear til the shock
Of disappointment and anguish ,4.@
And we arc miserdbly, poor: It tqxtd my
e es ehaf sRe has sn see she
wear, and we often go to bed hungry.
I must cease writing. The town clock In
G. strikes II, and the sound comes to me
1t IL showing!
Morning. Maria has awakened hit to say
she A be F0S he eu snow has ee eosere Tn sr
footsteps and we cannot tell the route she
has chosen, send this to you, now, before
any time Is lost imRoring yon to 20 vt
come here. He Is the only friend to whom
can turn in my perplexity. go now
to seek my mother. IDA:
oetk E Apr sir Your " etter
announcing the death Of Mrs. George Dean
ard the circumstances cum under which it oe,
time received message from Miss Ida
Dean, my client and friend, telling me
that her mother was missing.
AS YOU have already seen Miss Dean and
placed her, as you inform me, In your sis
ter's care. 1t Is probably not necessary for
me to state to you what have been the
age and self-sacrlfce in meeting the de-
munds upon her.
But rs you write to me as her guardian
to tell you have long Loved her and ask
my duty to lay before you certain facts
with which Miss Dean herself is only i'm
perfectly acquainted.
wealthy merchant; q headstrong, vain girl,
who fancied herself IN love with man
against whom the record was terribly bad.
Gambling, drinking, low associations had
tleman, to which he was born, and no
father would, willingly have trusted a
daughter ga to his care. But Mrs. Deans
to disinherit his child If she married George
Dean,
The lovers eloped, defed paternal anger
vices and honestly tried to do his duty,
while his wife developed sweet, womanly
traits I've, we had On not thought she possessed;
happiness, George Dean died:
Then his Widows old friends; myself
among the number, tried to reconcile father
and refused to see her face
She lived upon the tritle her husband
had saved, her jewelry and little articles
of personal property that her father sent
to her after marriage, but her health broke
and Ida's childhood was one of hardship
and suffering.
Five years ago Mrs. Deans father died
and by the terms of his will his large es-
tate becomes Ida's only upon condition that
her mother has no share in it: Faithful to
ever to touch the money, but death has
made her present position plain. For my
consent you need not have written, as Ida
is Of age and mistress of her own actions.
But as the trustee Of her grandfather's es-
tate, permit me to say that i wish you
every happiness in your marriage. l knew
your father we'll, and it is a great joy to
me to think that Ida will be the wife of
his son.
There will be no difficulty is claiming
the estate-the sole condition being settled.
shall accept your invitation to the we'd
ding with great pleasure whenever you
write me the date. In the meantime have
arranged that proper witnesses, who knew
Mrs Dean in life, attend the funeral. Re-
spectfully, JOHN HARRINGTON.
New York Ledger