Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1904-01-23

head boldly. She was dark. thick.sct
/ woman rs unlike the hate Geoifley kayc
as it was possible to be. Yet, neverthe-
! loss, there seemed TO be not the slightest
/ DOUBT that she was his daughter. MIR.
tiecst. the solicitor, and old Dr.. Grey had
! tried to find some iiaw in her story. but
it seemed right enough.
I Twenty five years ago Mr.. Hayes wife
had deserted him, taking with her her
? ycar,old baby.
When Mr.. Kaye got his divorce she
. married again, only to plunge some years
later, when her second husband had run
through his fortune, into poverty deeper
still. Apparently it broke her heart for
she died leaving her child to the care of
her husband all adrenturer, swindler
and thief
How they had lived since her mothers
death Claudia Kaye did not care to say.
h.It she had come upon Trchcrnc Court
by accident $50 she informed theln). had
probably tried to blackmail Mr.. kayc.
and would no doubt have tried again had
he not met with the accident She had
seen him and spoken to him, she said,
and he had owned her as his daughter
Now she claimed the estate and both
Mr.. tucst and Dir. Gray were disheart-
tncd ami troubled. for the last will MIR.
Kaye had made has upset everything,
and played straight into the hands of the
woman before them. for he had distinctly
written his daughter" instead OF his
adopted daughter" as he had meant 10
do. His other wills each had adopted
prctiXcd, but this THAT strange
fancy to rcwrite his will had undcne
everything.
And it was so absolutely unneccssayv
-uI,'ess, indeed, the memory of the past
had affected him and made him wish to
reinstatc his own daughter.
Yet they could not believe thai, for
he had not mentioned had not even
limited at her existence before he died.
it was Alary's Eame which had been on
his lips.
Nell" said Mr. Guest to the claim
ant IF YOU can prove that YOU are i'm
deed Mr.. Hayes daughter / am afraid
Non will have clear ease But YOU
must prove il first"
a weel, later the news spread in tho
tcwn that Mary was an heiress no longer
Int a poor girl with her living to get.
I he Hon. Arthur Tenby could not real
re itcould not believe that such mis-
iotmc would ovcrtalc him, for Mary
va, the pretticst girl he knew, and it
WAS nard to give her up.
still he did it as gently as he could
in Mr. Grey's house, where she had cone
to live for a while
After he had gone Mary sat listlessIy
over the fire.
She was shaking with sons when the
door opened suddenly and Young man
entered. He was tall and straight, with
81 clean cut. handsome face
"Dl Grey said | should find YOU here"
he logan, and then stopped.
She got up hurriedly, trying to stop
her tears; and then an odd thing hap
fcned. considering She was a penniless
girl whom nobody seemed to want.
Dick Marlone went up to her and held
ont his hands.
You know what | want to say" he
cried. You know | love you and have
done so for long time. Now YOU are
poor aud Capt. Tenby has gone | can
speak YOU know Mary, YOU know /
love you. VIII YOU be my Wife,"
Mary looked up and gave little quick
sch of happiness.
"Oh Dick, l believe the will has done
me some good after all" she cried.
The odd part Of ii was that the woman
who called herself Claudia Kaye was not
Claudia Kaye at all. and that Mr. Kaye
had known it and had handed full proofs
ol the death of his child twenty two
years before TO Mir. Guest before he died
/ Then he had said. ii Capt. Tenby was the
fortune hunter DR.. Grey said he was it
would prove him and save Mary lot OF
unhaprincos.
And it did. 1t WAS dying mans
fancy, ana it was the wiScst thing he
could have doue.-Annie q. ribbits in
. lotla,,