Morgan County democrat. (Versailles, Mo.) 1900-1906, 1906-06-01

to Kentucky 70 superintend the build.
Ing Of . railroad in which his father
was interested. There he met q blue
grass belle-beautiful Grace Mcleod.
win, barely turned 16.
The boys head was turned. It was
plainly love at first sight. There was
an ardent courtship, and the youthful
sutton won. That day there came to
the old man in Pittsburg this dis.
patch:
g.. 8. Brown, Plttsburg. Pa:
girl in the world. WILL.
That same day this wire went back
to Kentucky:
Plttsburg, Pa.
William Brown. Princeton. XVI.
Walt: ! am coming down that way
For an answer this came back:
Cam walt. WILL.
And this was the reply:
All right. Go ahead. God bless you
both. Bring her home. FATHER.
But 1t was not SO fated. Will
Brown, undisputed heir to the larger
share Of his fathers millions, did not
bring his bride home. She brought
him home-in q coffin. Almost the
next day he fell i'll and was dead
within a week. The bride-widow. al.
most i'll with her grief, met her IA
ther-in-law and went straight to his
heart.
"You must stay here with us, my
dear" said the millionaire, "and be
my daughter, too. | know Will would
have wished 1t so"
Old Mans Daughter Dead.
So the girl stayed along with the
old man, and year after year made
herself better loved by him. Then
came another blow-his only living
child. his daughter Nellie, died in
Italy.
Il am afraid my poor old heart will
break" said the old man, bowed UNI
der this added weight Of woe.
There was no one to turn to save his
daughter-in-law now. He called her to
him one day soon after the funeral,
and said:
Stay here with me, for I am left
alone. Be the head of my household.
and when I die you will be the same
in my will as if you were my W
daughter. And why not? Are you
not the wife Of my dead son, my only
boy?"
Everywhere 1t was understood that
the young widow was to be his heir.
ess. Folks were told that Mr.. Browns
life was insured for 100000 In her
favor.
Martha Lewis Appears.
Mrs. Browns sister married and
she went back to Kentucky with her
for a visit. That was the beginning
Of the end. When she returned she
found that Miss Lewis had been asked
to live at the Browns.
Grace" said the old millionaire, by
way of making clear how things stood,
"just take Marty and buy her some
things, and show her how to wear
them"
Marty" was what Mr.. Brown elect.
ed to call the pretty girl he had in.
stalled as his prOtege In the big house.
Young Mrs. Brown baked some, but
she did as she was told. But she
refused to introduce the girl to her
friends, and she still was Mr.. Browns
mentor when he wen to New York
on matters social.
Martha e. Lewis was the daughter
of a boat caulker employed by Mr.
Brown. When only a child in short
dresses the millionaire had taken t.
her because she reminded him of hi.
dead daughter when she was a tin,
girl. When she grew older he made
her his almoner in his many charities
and when she was out of her teen'
he had her made secretary OF the Sun
day school which he had endowed.
Apparently, however. the aged mil
~lionaire was still fond Of his SON
widow. She spent a part of the sea
son with Mr.. Brown last year and a
the Christmas holidays were approach
ing she received a hurried call to com
to the old mans bedside.
He was dying.
The young widow caught the frs
train. But as she sped through tn
, darkness another will was being mad
t In Pittsburg in the old Brown maj