The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-11-04
your own evidence given in 's3 shows

1T does not replied Magoon hotly
Your evidence says the estate wa
as large as when you first took charge,
said Fitch, flarins up a little.
Il didn't say anything of the kind"
Here's your sworn evidence
1T doesn't say anything about th'
debts of the estate, does it?"
| 4 always imagined you figure such
things in
The court allowed the question t.
stand. Then Magoon's pet Hagey cure
scheme was given a violent twist by
his ward.
You weren't drinking at that time
| because you had taken the dagey
cure?'' asked Magoon.
THAT had nothing to do with it.
hadn't been drinking at all. I took
| the Hagey cure because you wanted
me to-
1T wasn't because you had been
drinking so hard that your face became
flushed"
Huh, of course not"
You knew what the Hagey cure was
for?''
only what you told me- You said you
didn't want me to smell liquor, and that
if / took it L would get Disguised with
whiskey. 1t never did me a bit of good
The hundred dollars you spent on that
was spent foolishly. You said I a
spendthrift; you are spendthrift your
self
Didn't it save YOU more than hun
bred dollars by not buying whiskey?"
NO, not a bit of it; 1 only drink when
want to-
How much do you spend for liquor
daily?''
Sometimes quarter; sometimes my
friends treat me-
Wasn't you on a spree a few months
ago. and wasn't you taken to the station
for shooting a revolver?'
II wasn't full then. / threw the revoIV-
er under the bed and it went off. 1t had
been lying upon the dresser teasing me
all day
You We're pretty full that day, weren't
you?" asked Magoon. beseechingIy.
NO, l wasn't full responded Becky
Indignantly.
Weren't you so full that Mr.. Chilling
worth wanted to keep you at the station
until you sobered up?"
"Oh, get out; 1 wasn't drunk said the
witness, a little inelegantly, perhaps, but
none the less convincingly.
You weren't drunk, then?'s
No. sir; that's q lie. l was sober
Didn't you. while living on King
street, get so drunk that the neighbors
compIained?''
Il wasn't drunk then. 1 just danced
the hula. to make the neighbors mad.
They We're missionaries"
Didn't you leave there because you
didn't want to live next to the mission
aries ,"
mo, It was because there were only
two little rooms there-no cook house or
anything. Is that q place for a guardian
to make his ward live?"
You didn't want to live there. them"
"Of course not. I didn't want TO live
in that old shack. That wasn't any way
TO get another house you always said, !
bimeby.'"
You didn't want to leave because of |
the missionaries, them?
NO, missionaries couldn't do me any
good until 1 got bad"
Haven't you told me over and over |
again that you were glad 1 was your !
GUARDIAN"
Not over and over again.
We'll, as many as fifty times.
NO. sir very emphatically
Didn't you say that if it hadn't been
for me you would have nothing left of
your eState?"
"Oh, now you know you said that
said Magoon, pleadingIy.
I don't know that"
Didn't people tell you that I would
Job you and cheat you of all the money
YOU had. but you told them they We're
wrong, and you knew better than that?'
Yes, that is right; and they told me
hat | would find out about you yet, and
hat l would learn that what they said
vas true, and Then Becky hesitated, |
until Magoon came to the rescue, with
You did find out?''
Becky nodded assent.
Becky then gave an idea of what her
expenses We're, stating that they ran all
he way from dollar to three dollars
,er day
Becky, what do you intend to do with
our estate. if the Court discharges the
.uardian?' inquired Mr.. Magoon
First. l am going to get me a nice
ZONE, and furnish it. When that's all
'au. I'll put the rest where 1 can get a
egular income from it. With Bishop *
'o.'s bank significantly. where 1 can
ee what's coming in and what's going
ut. l want to live like lady and not
he way you made me live | have been 1
wing in that house like 1 was rubbls,,.''
That ended the examina ton for the I ;
resent. and the hearing went over until
ext Saturday. The estate is estimated
D be worth about $50, 900 of which there
a claim of $4,000 for property destroyed
y the plague fire.