New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-07-10

| lently when the Dan0 playeu 1He VIII Ai'
Behind Mel" and murmured the young womans
name when he felt seasick, and then relapseo
into remembering the whole thing with sign
and a complacent smile. The young womans
recollection would have depended on her atu-
tude toward her husband. Till her nuspaho
occurred she would have practised recoliecuoh
but little.
Unfortunately the Angel Of Death with his
habtual disregard Of the fitness OF things dis
turbed the even course Of the affair The young
man had possessed a mercantile cousin ana the
cousin. having gone two or three days before,
to land where mercantile possessions are rigid
ly excluded, had left the whole Of his property
to the young man. His reasons for this unex-
pected act Of generosity were probably that he
had never met the young man, which. In view
of the old gentlemans temper was an advan-
tage and also that the latter cultivated martial
aspirations underneath his mercantile soul, even
to the extent Of being at one time captain or
volunteers and regarded the young man with
favor as being the only military specimen or
the family.
Therefore. when tho young man rose from his
brief sleep on the following morning, he found
solicitors letter informing him OF his good
! fortune At first, the information appeared TOO
good to be true. but the additional Information
that ne at liberty to draw on the hrm 1or
any reasonable amount put the truth peyohd
! question The fact that he was rich. porten-
| tously rich. at first filled him with an insane
desire to shout As silent relief to his men'ai
tension. he took his slippers of. and threw them
at the door Then he put them on again. ana III
pipe All his life the young man had peen
| in sraitcned circumstances. He had never had
| enough pocket money at school. or a satisfactory
allowance since. Now nc felt that he possessed
no single desire which he could not satisfy
Visions OF infinite possibilities rose before him.
He even looked at his pipe with contempt
And now he said to himself, triumphahty'
81 shall be able to marry Kitty"
Oddly enough. the young woman had not
stood in the forefront OF the possibilities He
noticed the fact with something Of start Ko-
nance was not at its strongest in his mind that
morning because the kind person who provided
the dance had also provided a pale pink cham
payne which punished even the most apst"m-
Gus with the after horrors Of excess
| Yes" h. insisted to himself. u shall marry
Kitty Not much fear Of being poor now.
Then his mind wandered away again to the
more inaniinatc possibilities Should he stay in
the service or not? on the whole. he thought
ne would for a while. but he would be inclined
TO exchang. into a cavalry regiment. few
racchorses? Yes He had just begun to con-
template himself leading in the Derby winner.
when he again returned to the young woman.
Yes" he said to himself "of course, that's
the best part OF it," As a matter Of TACT. ii was
not at all the best part Of it. Marriage. in "A
way means the end Of youth. and Tho young
man was lust entering on "A new world which
he had never known before. II is impossible to
he satisfactorily Young on "A limited income.