Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1899-12-13
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his throat as if he were swallowing
something.
'tMiss Isidora,n he said, 81 can't %
4Can'tr repeated the lady.
Nothing could induce. me to eat
salt t.under this roof" said Mr.. Mar
shall, incoherently.
''Bless and save usl Is the man
mad ?" cried Miss Isidora Ives.
81 am, socially speaking, fraud, :"
said the stranger, ga forgery"
Miss Ives sat down on the sofa in a
helpless way and stared at him.
..But your sweet graciousness and
kindness have conquered me-" added
Mr. Marshall.
''What do you mean?", said Miss
Ives. :.
''Just this" said the stranger. 'I
am here on false pretenses. am
your cousin, the plaintiff. My name
isn't Marshall, but Gideon Marshall
Robinson" =
Ma'am," whispered the heartless
maid, who turned absolutely green on
hearing the name of the family enemy,
tshail I bring the kettle of boiling
water?".
"Rebecca," says Miss Ives, "hold
your tongue aud go out and feed the
young turkeys. 1 am fully competent
to manage this matter myself. ~
And Rebecca, feeling herself put
down, departed.
+ 81 came here" went on Mr.. Robin
son, ''to look into the f. IS of The case
myself. I have heard of your pre-
jndices against me-"
Eyes, 1 think SO, interposed Miss
Ives.
"And I do not blame you for them,"
said Mfr. Robinson. Now that am
personally acquainted with you, Miss
Ives, nothing could induce me to pro-
secnte this"
Ubiquitous claim!' interposed
Isidora.
Ubiquitous claimr acceded Mr..
Robinson, with a repetition of the
swallowing sound. ''Just what You
please to call it. Irespect you rs a
lady, but I appreciate you rs rela-
tive; but, of course, knowing who [
am, you cannot tolerate me any longer
as your friend. I will pack my bag
and depart at once. I can only feel
regretful that I have deceived you SO
long. feel myself 10 be hyprocrite
and swindlerr'
He waited meekly to receive the full
tide of Miss Isidora's curbed wrath.
She put out her plump little hanl,
with four dimples.in the. four joints.
Don't go!' she said in n low voice.
,...What!.' =, cried the incredulous
plaintiff. = - = -
"There's no reason why we
shouldn't be friends" id Miss Ives,
in her odd, brusque way. y Things
seem so very different, now that we
are acquainted with each other.
Couldn't we-compromise?"
'..Isidora," said Mr.. Robinson,
were. cousins, you know, twice re-
moved. Imay call you Isidora?"
''Oh, certainly" said Miss Ives.
''We are the two last seeming
heirs"
''Plaintiff and defendant, nodded
Isidora.
Exactly so. Now it has just oc-
Cured to mel mean, I've been
thinking of it for some time-that if
we were to unite our claims"
''To get married, do you mean?"'
said Isidora, bluntly.
"Yes, precisely. 1t would put an
end to all litigation" pleaded Mar
shall Robinson. Would you be will
ingto marry me?" said Mr.. Gideon
Marshall Robinson.
t'Y-yes!" said Isidora. ST think
should. I'm not young, but then six
and-thirty Is not absolutely old. y
You are a rose In full bloom"
said Mr.. Robinson, enthusiastically,
eand I myself am not a mere boy, it I
must be beremembered. .
and if people should laugh at us,
why Wen let them laugh" said Isl
dora.
..And we'll laugh, too" said the
middle-aged lover, cheerfully.
The fire was allowed to; go-~down,
the kettle cover taken of; the charges
drawn from the gun,- and the Tower
pronounced to be no longer in state
of siege.
And this-is the way in which the
famous case of Robinson vs. Ives,
which had promised to swell the fees
of lawyers innumerable for the next
ten years, was removed from the court
of records. And no one was so'rI
except the legal gentleman aforesaid.