New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-05-30

had some work of my own to keep
| inc busy that night, so devoted no
thought to Frances Holiday and her
affairs, but they were recalled to me
| with renewed force next morning.
did you get Miss Holidays sig
nature to that eonveyance?" Mr.. Ora
ham CHANGED to ask his partner in the
course of the morning.
no, sir. answered Mr. Royce, with
just trace of embarrassment Il
called at the house last night. but she
sent down word that she was too i'll
to see me or to transact any business
| Nothing serious, hope: asked the
other quickly.
No, sir. think not Just a trace
of nervousness. probably"
/ But when he called again at the
/ house that evening he received sim
liar message, supplemented with the
news impaired by the butler, a servant
of many years standing in the family,
] that Miss Holiday had suddenly de
| cided to leave the city and open her
1 ElidSC ol1 Lung, IL w DIS
only the end Of March, and so a full
/ two months and more ahead of the
season. But she was feeling very i'll,
was not able to leave her room, indeed,
and believed the fresh air and quiet
Of the country would do more than
anything else to restore her shattered
nerves. So the whole household, with
Il -
house girl and underbutler, were to
leave the city next day in order to get
the country house ready at once
/ Il don't wonder she needs a little
toning up remarked our chief sym
! pathetieally. ..she has gone through
a nerve trying ordeal, especially for.
a girl reared as she has been. Two
or three months of quiet will do her
good. When does she expect to leave?"
In about a week, think The time
j hasn't been definitely set It will, de-
pend upon how the arrangements go
forward. It won't be necessary, will
! it, to bother her with any details of
business? That conveyance, for in
stance
] can wait till she gets back. No, we
won't bother her at ALL
But it seemed that she had either i'm
proved or changed her mind, for two
days later note, which her maid had
written for her, came to Mr. Graham
asking him to call upon her in the
course of the next twenty-four hours,
as she wished to talk over some mat
tiers of business with him. It struck
me as singular that she should ask for
Mr.. Graham, but our senior called a
cab and started off at once without
comment. An hour later the door open
ed and he entered the Office with a
most peculiar expression of counte-
nance.
/ 'sWell, that beats met' he exclaimed
as he dropped into his chair.
! Our junior wheeled around toward
him without speaking, but his anxiety
was plain enough.
ITO think that a girl as level headed
as Frances Holiday has always been
should suddenly develop such whimsi-
calities. Yet couldn't but admire her
! grasp Of things. Here have l been
thinking she didn't know anything
I. about her business and didn't care, but
she seems to have kept her eyes open"
'Well?'' asked Mr.. Royce as the 9TH
er paused.
well, she started out by reminding
me that her property had been left to
her absolutely, to do as she pleased
with, point which I, of course, con-
ceded She then went on to say that
she knew of a number of requests her
father had intended to make before his
death, and which he would have made
If he had not been cut off SO suddenly;
that the requests We're of such ma
ture that he did not wish his name to
appear in them, and that she was going
to undertake to carry them out anony
mously.''
'Well!'' asked our junior again.
''Well,' said Mr.. Graham slowly, 'tshe
asked me to dispose at once of such of
her securities as I thought best in Or
der that might place in her hands by
tomorrow night 100000 in cash-a
cool hundred thousand.'