The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1905-12-13
CHAPTER III.
4 IRIS. GRAY lived in Fortieth
MI street. For years Montgom-
cry Brewster had regarded her

cry Brewster had regarded her
1 / quiet. old fashioned home a.
his own. The house had once been her
grandfather's. and 1t was one Of tie
n,onears IN that mart u, tho toun 70
ve. tboro .bo was h,rn In ,ts ouoint
aid narlor she was married and ali her
oIrlhoo, her brief welded life and her
widowbood were connected with -
Mrs CRAY and Nontvomerv,u mother
had ha.n schoo,,n.tes and nlovmates
and their friendsh,n endured When
old Edwin peter brewster looked about
for q Mace To house his ornhaned grand.
son Mrs Cray hauyad him 70 lot nor
care for tho little fellow He was three
years older than her Margaret and the
children grew I'M "a brother and sis-
for Mr. Rrewster was generous IN
proyidinp for the how WHITE he was
awav at college spendIng money in a
manner that causes, the old gentleman
To marvel at his own liheralitv Mrs
GRAY was well paid for the unused but
well kent apartments and there never
was a murmur Of comnIaint from Ed.
win Peter brewster He was hard Int
he was not pigpardly.
II had been somethInp Of n strupele
for Mira. GRAY to make both ends meet
The property In Fortieth street was
her only poesession. But little money
had come to her at her husbands
death. and an unfortunate speculation
Of his had swept away all that had
fallen to her from her father. the late
Judge Merriweather For wears she
kept the old home Authenticated.
teaching French and English until
Margaret was well into her teens. The
girl was sent to one OF the good old
boarding schools on the Hudson and
came out well prepared to helm her
mother In the battle to keen the wolf
down and appearances up. MARGARET
was rich In friendships. and pride
alone stood between her and the ad.
yantaRes they offered. Good looking.
bright and cheerful. she knew no natu.
raj privatIons. With a heart as light
and Joyous as a Nav morning abe
faced adyersity as Though II were n
pleasure. and no one would have ans
pected that even for a moment her
courage wayered.
Now that Brewster had come into
his splendid fortune he could conceive
no greater delight than to share II
with them. To walk into the little
drawing room and serenely Law large
sums before them as their own seemed
such a natural proceeding that he re-.
fused to see an obstacle. But he knew
II was there. The prefer of such a
lift to Mira. Cray would mean a
wound to the pride inherited from
naughty generations of men suff,cient
unto themselves. There was a ANAL
but troublesome MORTGAGE m tho
house. a matter of two or three +hop.
sand dollars and Rrewster tr,ad n
evolve a plan nv which no couId M.
sumo the burden without giving doom
and lastinp of,ense A hnnareS wild
designs had come to him. hut thew
vere cu;cL,v r.,.....S - ~.
bean Of suhterru ses ana nrote,+s oo,,'
demned nv M. tendarno.. ,or Nh, ,,.,ao
Of these two women who MEAN az
much tn him
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electric car tn FOrtlafh atraof nnd
Bnoadwsv and then vailed -. o.r,r ~
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