Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-03-17

| all l Salu. but am IN torment 4,
you! Will you give me some Fl
medicine l had from you last lima
II l,dve no doubt / shall be ahl.
give you relief, at all events" said
doctor smoothly, land l suppose n,
take it that you will oblige me n N
little matter l spoke Off"
The lawyer glared at him for n.
ment or two in silence, then point.
to a long blue envelope that lay Al
table nearby, he said: open that ps
haps you may gather from what Il
find inside anything you wish
| know"
The envelope was addressed "a N,
Denyer, and without hesitation thedm
tor opened 1t. 1t contained M
from Miss Prendergast, inclosinQ ~
will 1t was not signed-she wlsbs
some minor alterations to be made
it. But it was the will itself that
terested the doctor.
He hastily ran his eye over it Al
found that to his surprise Miss Prem
dergast was leaving nearly all "a
money to medical charities, and DON
thy was to receive an annuity Of bun
dred and twenty pounds a year.
The Wills not signed, the docta
muttered to himself, land If 1t was
new will can be made any day. Fo
that matter, the day she is married
is so much waste paper
He quietly replaced the will and Iii
ter in the envelope, and turned 10 h,
patient The medicines he sent
were as effectual as they had alwar
proved, and in less than a week Law
yer Denyer, as the country people cali
ed him, was as well as ever.
Some months passed and not wed
went by without Harry Lawreno
pressing his sweetheart to throw plt
dence to the winds and marry him ou
of hand.
During that period, also, the atlen
tons paid to the aunt by his proies
sional rival became rather marked, bu
everybody thought the idea of a mate
between them too ridiculous to be wof
thy of serious consideration.
Harry at last became so importunah
that Dolly yielded; only she stipulated
that, as she could not hope to obtain
her aunt's consent the marriage mus
be as private as circumstances weuh
permit To this, of course, the young
man readily assented.
1t was a quarter to eight on q cod
winters morning when Dolly Slipped
out of her room and paused at the door
Of her aunt's bedroom, with the inteEl
ton of slipping in and bidding her 4
silent adieu.
To her surprise the room was empty.
Yet the bed had been slept in, and
there was nothing that suggested that
anything unusual or disastrous had o.
Cured. Dolly would have stayed to hi
vestigate, but she heard the Impatient
footsteps Of her lover on the grave
outside, and she fastened to join him
'Oh, she will be all right" said
Harry. wen see about her after
ward. l hope to goodness, though, che
hasn't gone to the church to try to stop
our wedding"
On the way they met no one, but
the low stone building was lighted Up,
and in the church porch they met Miss
Matilda Prendergast, with DR.. Maloney
by her side.
The four stared at one another ioi
some seconds in silence Then the ED.
er lady, with pretty shyness, adyanc
ed her withered cheek to her niece
saying: kiss me, my dear, and wish
me joy. We have just been married
Just then an urgent message arrived
from the vicar, who was both cold and
hungry, and the junior pair proceeded
into the church and walked up to The
altar.
In less than a month both c0uples
had returned from their RESPECTIVE
honeymoons, and then Lawyer Denyci
had the satisfaction of firing bomb
shell which had the effect of destroy
ing DR.. MalOney's matrimonial happ-
ness forever.
Miss Prendergast, he said, derived
her property from a will of her fathei
made many years before, when she
then giddy young thing Of romantic
tendencies, was in danger of making
an extremely undesirable match. i
provided that his daughter should ln
merit his property, subject to the pro
vision that If she should at any TINE
marry without the consent of certall
trustees the property should go to shl
children of his brother Stephen, o.
whom only Dorothy now survived.
AS the trustees were all long sine
dead 1t had not occurred to the elderly
bride that she ran any risk Of loslnl
her money by marrying without legal
advice. But fresh trustees had beeI
appointed, and their consent, 1t seemed
was absolutely necessary. If the condl
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