Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1907-05-11
CHAPTER xvIII.-IContinued.l

nossessed, or might ultimately possess,
70 his daughter and sole child, Angelo
Wilbelmine. Your first name, Bsbe, was
given to you in memory of the girl who
nut for her untimely death, would have
been your fathers wife. was made his
executor, and guardian of the girl in
question, with strict injunctions that the
fact of his marriage, and the birth or ex-
istence of such Child, were to be kept a
profound secret until she reached the age
of 81.
"Your father wished you to be brought
ND with as much simplicity and freedom
as possible, go that you might acquire
sufficient habits of independence to be
able to act for yourself and take care of
yourself when the time came for you to
be called to a position of responsibility.
Further, he hoped that you might learn
the value of money by the want of it.
"eMy father is a man of 20 now he
said to me. 'Bebe is only Z. By the time
she is 81 he will, in all human probable
ity, have been in the grave for some
wears: and provided that the facts of my
marriage and her birth are not allowed to
transpire, he viii have seen no reason for
altering will by which, as it stands, his
new favorite viii inherit everything;
while my poor cousins widow and that
same precious son of hers viii on the
contrary be rejoicing in the full success
of her Ubiquitous schemes.
"Her soni The lad she did it fort
WHY, he will be man of 80 or more by
then, married perhaps, and enjoying the
home. peace, and happiness that might
have been mine If had not been robbed
of them. Well, he will have to yield
them all up. He and his wife and his
precious mother will have to go out into
the world, and live ON their own again, as
I have been content to do. And Angelo
GARNER shall be mistress in the old home
which my father swore no Angelo GARNER
should ever enter with his consent-an
Angelo GARNER shall cast out and dis
possess her who, rather than risk such
dispossession, comprised my Angeles
death. and cast her out. They will be re-
duced to BORROWING to and begging from
the new one; but have guarded against
that Not a rood of land. not a sixpence
of money shall she part with to her faith
er's enemies with my will; and if, when
she comes into her property, she rs sur
rounded-as she will be-by artery and
adulation and self interested worship,
what better thing for her than that she
should have had time and freedom, in the
years of her poverty and obscurity, to
make some real friends-to win some
liking and affection which she could aft
erwards feel was the need of her own
merits, and not of her money and po-
sitionf
"Ah, dreams, theories! But your faith
er was dreamer and a. theorist always
a man of fixed idea too, which is the
most dangerous thing in the world, more
especially when it so dominates the brain
that every other fact or change in life
must be made to fit in with it and be sub
servient to It, And to tAis one fixed idea
the punishment of those who had in
ficted that old brutal wrong on him and
the girl of his choice-all the most ordi-
nary possibilities and probabilities that
the future might bring to pass, such as
his fathers possible remarriage or a fresh
WILL your cousins death, or for that
matter your own-were things impossi-
Bile, and were not even to be suggested
without rousing him to a state of ex-
element which, at that stage of his i'll
ness, might have had fatal consequences.
well, he died, and had nothing to do
but to carry out his requests to the best
of my power. That is what / have done,
though it was by no means easy; and
might have been made much less so but
for the very fact that the real happenings
of life in no way conceded with his theo-
Ties of what they were going to be, seeing
that his father did not die, but is living
now in hale old age. and only too anx-
ious to welcome to his heart and home
the grandchild of whose existence / have
found it necessary under the present cir
cumstances to inform him. His pseudo
heir, whom you were to have busted,
ousted himself from home and decent So
ciety some years ago through his own
vices and extravaganza. Eli? What ?.
You don't believe itf'-Bebe had uttered
passionate little cry of denial. "Ah, he
has concealed that from you Of course;
and"
II beg your pardon, sir, 1 have con-
cealed nothing from her." said GARNER
coldly. at is for that reason perhaps
that it hurts her to hear it again from
you. Never mind, Bebe. What he says
is true enough, you know; and whether
what he's going 20 say is equally so or
not, you'd better hear him out to the
end"
That" said Mr.. Langley, "she will
certainly do, with or without your per-
mission. If I hurt you, child, remember
Nhe1b ~ 10 yOuI ONH ullSCOHuuCL anu III
discretion that has brought you into this
hole; but for your sake and your fathers
your father. whom this man has out
witted and is triumphing over after all
IT is better that you should know what
he is, and why he went out of his way to
make fool of you and marry you.
"It was partly my fault, of course.
thought you were pretty safe, you see;
things had gone on so TRANQUILITY for so
many years that forgot to guard
against one danger. forgot to take him
into my calculations. l knew of course
that he was leading a shady life some
where, among the gambling bells and race
courses on the continent; but it never
even occurred to me to suspect that while
there he would get the clue to your ex-
istence and place of residence; and that
seeing in an instant the immense profit
TO be derived from a union with you he
would follow you up, find some pretext
you know best what it was-for max