Arizona republican., 1898-11-10
4 GittIe 
 of Errors
BY s. s. MORTON.
(Continued From Yesterday.)

that is your prerogativc. Very well;
 will try to remember this hereafter
 No. no. Mrs. Maynard, you shall
 share all my prerOGativcs!!" cried North. in another ingenuoEs OptbCr5t of gal
 lantry; then a faint color crept sus-
 piciously over the fairness of cheek
 and brow cs he continued in a more
 b1SiDcss-lille tone:
 At least. l will answer the question
 that you have already asked. 1 have
 read this letter, and 1 intend tc make it
 tha-startinT point for all ny questions
 this morning. l wish, you see, to ana lyzc it very rlCch ;ts it would be ana 1 lyzosl in court if we should submit it for ! any purpose t:hatcrcr, and to ascertain
 just W hat cOnstruction 1t will best bear, 1 First of all, then. will consider the date; since, to bc' of any practical use
 to us. tho Icttcc must De proven to have
 been written while that genuine will in your favCl' was i'll existence. The orc, vou know. c0rruborattS the other. This letter hints Ut what t:ic will fulillS; and we must construc it according to that intent. What we wish tD c~tG biI5n by it is the attention of Mrs. Dunlllrl1 toward yourself. All uf this, you un- tcrstanti, would be of I.o advantage to Us if Ariiie Dupont sh0mid be dIscov- cred: but If she is not brought forward within q reasonable tune, we may as sunlc that 1t will fairly make Mlr ease Now. t..ri date. IiD d0Itbt, is accurate Do y0u r@collect when you received the lctter?''
 '-Oh! very distinctly We had re- turne:l froiu Europe t',e prcviol> week, and h;sl written her immediately up on our arrival in N".
 Yes. Now will read aloud her re- ply. The first sentence is lInuaatcLi':' Next: I am sorry to hear of yuur c, ..- cultics, but 1 am ia no position tp ,,.- visc you If you rrcclicvt. .:ll,;t ,,,.a the nature of those Gli,icuItles, Mrs. Maynar.l? Were they net. ;i, 1 infer from the context, of q peculiar - mean
 Not entirely, but pfincip@lIy." in tcrposrtl Mrs. Maynard. with q reflective air. 'co2ne2ta'!wit money matters"
 Non th slowly read ol
 "'Mr Maynard usc.g his discretion in the matter. anal his il:cht to do sp ID one can dispute. That you are dtsap- T,ointcd is. of course, natural: but why yon should feel so t!cspund.,.t il regard to your own future cannot under stand To what, if [ may inquire, Go .hosc two sentences rcfrr?"
 Why to Mr. Mayuar,l's will"
 ''th-to Mr. ATaynar,i's will, repeat cd North, ahscntIy, while he was tl,Iull- ing: What about the majors will. l must try to ascertain
 T told her about it in my letter." re- srincd Mrs. Maynard, 'an,I. l l,riirvc, complained rather bitterly of il i,S ull- just to me antl not at all what 1 had q right to expect"
 Had yo;l then discovered for the first time that he Ilad made thi5 wiIl?7
 Oh, no! I knew his intention iu re- gard to the matter long before this. Mr. Maynard t0lI nc plainly what he intended to lo, and I was present when the .vlll was drawn. There was no SC crct made of it, :Ssrrc ynu. The IHa- jar was only too anNi0us for me to know what k;:l been dctcrIaincd upon. that he rai2 ht triumph iI1 ny discorfiture.
 Her dark eyes flashed as sha spoke, and tiny spot of scarlet glnSvrd i'll her checks: but her tones sliI not wary for an instant from their cool sweetness nor her manner from it's gracious re- pose.
 Danger signals-thc domestic sllcle- ton at hani.'' thought North. rucfully; | nevertheless he did not swcrvc one de gree from his pclilotis Investigations.
 It may not be considered important. | or directly bearing on our c25t', he Ob- served in q Tlc.liiatIvc way as he glanced | up at Mrs. Maynard over his notes. still, if the inquiry were carried on in court apprchcnd that all these collat- cral questions Ivnuld be raised. and it 1 may bn cs well fer rn2 to b2 thoroughly 1 in fo1 med on this point. Will yoI please state briefly what were the conditions If that will? l will note them down as you DrOcccd.'
 The document itself was very brief ana to the point. With the exception If certain income tu be paid annually to me 50 long as ] I@s:.aincd q widow and continued to reside under this roof two distinctly tyrannigal conditions " hi1h In1lst be compiled with. both and sCvcEalty. cthcTW isc so far as EIr May 1ards wealth was concerned. I should be left pC1r.icas with the exception Of this conditionaIiy granted income, in of which my iglit of lower was set aside, all of NIr May lard's large fortunc was wllcl to his relatives. Thn'5 of it. Mr. North s,l-h ! sweeping GisrcSlrd of my lights! The undcrturrcnt of indignation lip oled the calm sulflcc now j.!,t for un instant as these words were warmly ut cred.
 ''Irepostcrous!" declared North, as he made few brief flashes in his note book while in lns mind a very trivial question l'crt repeating rsclf. Why Ices she soineli1: i1:3Cs call hlnl Mir May lard and sometimes tic ElaJo1?''
 "Ani this. y"u sec continued Mrs. Maynard. dellCate satire Ia her tones, was tie syra@o1h} that Mrs Dpni1lrk '1fereI ne -Mr Maynard use,l h1s own !iserctioo io the matter aDd lils right 0 de So n1 one can dispute II was not 'nlireiy hls own discretion, as l very vcu knew" ,"
 An! then there was undue iaGpcroc -.oTtcd to indr9e him to male h. wili?'