Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1900-10-25
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self beaten, or that he would give in.
Much against his inclination he re-
mained, consumed with a desire to
see her. yet impelled to remain in stiff
recked pride, acting as avant courier
and escort for lot of wild-eyed, long
horned steers, all the while cursing
himself for fool. So he and the rest Of
the outfit did not have very much in
common together, and he grew more
and more unsociable and lonely.
Small wonder was it, then, that
when he received a letter from her, he
felt that his voluntary exile was brol'
en-his penance was done, and he wsa
free to return to civilization and Nelly.
"You can come ON, Jim, dear" the
letter said; that is, of course, il you
care to take a dowerlesS bride. I have
only enough left to bring me in three
hundred a year-exactly what you
had. 1 do not own another thing on
earth. have concluded that the mon.
ey without you is not worth having,
and as long as you are so stubborn
about it, saw that 1 must give in, 80
have done so, gladly. 1 have gotten
to be twenty-four, as you know, and
have absolute control of my property.
So, in order to get you, have given
away my fortune.
you have cost me nearly two hum
dred thousand dollars, so I'm of the
opinion you had better come on and de.
liver yourself up as victim. 1 d0n1
propose to tell you another thing about
1t, as you have no right to know, now.
After-after-oh, well, some time,
will tell you what 1 did with the rest
of the money, but just now it is no
affair of yours. You will simply have
to take my word for it. Come on, Jim,
I am anxious to see you"
So 1t was that Jim was happy. He
had only two more daye to wait, then
he would get his months wages. He
had four hundred dollars saved up, and
he reflected that he and Nell would
manage to get along nicely on that
for awhile. His pride was riding ram
pant, also, and his conscience was very
self-satisfed, indeed, for had he not
held out against the allurements of
beauty, wealth, position, ease-every-
thing? 1t was victory well worth re-
joicing over.
The ceremonw was over, the few in-
innate friends had taken. their depar-
ture, and Jim and Nell looked at each
other in bewildered sort of way.
81 think we ought totake trip, Jim.
I'm so deadly tired of this place don't
know what to do. Let's 60 to Europe.
I've always wanted to go there"
NELLY, are you daft? Ican't afford
a trip to Europe, and you know it-and
you haven't any money, either so how
are we to go?"
81 think it is very unkind for a per-
son of your wealth to be haunting me
with my poverty. For a man as rich as
you, think you are undoubtedly
close" Her eyes twinkled merrily.
81 want to go to Europe, and now I've
got you to go with me, you ought to be
glad of the opportunity
Nell, dear, if could afford 1t, you
know / would be delighted to take
you"
'Well, you can afford it,"
81 tell you I cannot"
II know better, you can. Why, just
look at these" and she handed him a
bundle of books and papers. He picked
up the first one and read from the in
side page; First national bank, in ac-
count with James NJ. Allyn. Depos-
tied May 1, $4,000; May 9, $4,000; May
IL, $4,000"
What does this mean, Nell?" he
asked, wonderingly, as he looked at
another book and read: Received May
9, bonds, mortgages, stocks and Secur-
tiles, duly transferred and assigned to
James NJ Allyn and aggregating $780,
900, and more particularly described as
follows: The Trust and Safe Deposit
company" Nelly was hugely enjoying
the situation She stated herself ON the
arm of his chair, and said:
"You dear old stupid, mulish, stub
born thing, 1 told you the truth, for
l reserved just enough to bring me
three hundred year"
"WeI, I'll be" she kissed him and
stopped the word. "Are we going to
Europe?" she asked.
"Yes, 1 think I'd enjoy the trip my
self; but don't you think you paid too
much for me?''
"Oh, don't know; not so long as you
are nice, as you are now. Come OH
let's get ready and catch the steamer
leaving tomorrow morning."-N o.
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