Alaska sentinel., 1907-11-07
s. ~Ed K A Maid and
 $ $ a Motor
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The letter was handed to MarJofy at the breakfast table after the exterior had been severely scrutinized by the head of the household.
 Marjory, somewhat tenacious of her Individuality, was of course late, So the family looked up from Its respective plates with varying expressions of dis approval while Aunt Lavlnia sniffed obtrusiyely.
 Marjory opened her letter, and her pretty eyes grew round and bright as she mastered it's contents. How per fectly glorious" she exclaimed at last, "my godmother Is dead and has left me one thousand pounds."
 The family was with one accord thunderstruck. The godmother in question had quarreled violently with Marjory's parents and had ceased all communication with them ten years be- fore, the chief cause of her displeaSure being the rabld narrow mlndedness of Mir. and Mrs. Stanhope, who made point of "dsapproving" of everything they did not understand, or were not concerned in, and imagine the one and only spot of importance In the wide world was their own lvy-clad manor house, in a wee struggling village, six miles from the nearest railway station and telegraph office.
 Mir. and Mrs. Stanhope rarely left their own home and only at rare inter- yals drove to the nearest market town, from which excursion he returned in clustering passion at other peoples "dunderheadedness," and his wife with c violent headache; they always went together, and always returned with the same results.
 They owned with much reluctance that the one great mistake of their otherwise blameless and exemplary lives had been the sending of Marjory to school in London, the three younger girls and their brother being educated at home under the austere rule of fearsome, awesome fraulein of uncer tain age and doubtful accent.
 "Marjory," her mother would say pa thetically, "has been a sad dlsappoint- ment," by which might be inferred that the young woman in question had i'm bibed various sensible, up-to-date, and go-ahead doctrines and qualities, and used the frmness of will which she in herited from her paternal relative in a manner that ruffled the domestic peace of Stanhope Manor not a little.
 q think Marjory," said her mother, "'perfectly glorious is hardly the right term to apply to the lamented death of your godmother."
 Poor, dear Juliana," sobbed Aunt Lavinia, dabbing her. eyea She knew little and cared less about the defunct lady, but always made point of weep ing whenever occasion served.
 "What shall you owith the money?" inquired Marjory's sister Geraldine.
 "Golly! how fine," was the expres- sive remark of the son and heir, upon which he was requested by the twins mot 10 be vulgar"
 "I'm glad Juliana has recognized, even at the eleventh hour, that she did wrong to displease us," announced the head of the family pompously. Ut would have shown better taste to have left the small legacy to your mother or 10 me; still, regard it as a graceful act of reparatlon, and 1t will be a nice little income for you, MarJory, if in- vest 1t properly for you"
 '"rhis letter states" replied Mar jory. that the money Is left to me to spend exactly as I like in the purchase of anything I most want"
 "Then purchase some stock-I will consult my solicitor"
 "I don't want stock" said Marjory. "I want a motor car"
 Had she announced that she pro posed introducing a band of perform Ing alligators into the domestic circle, the astonishment and excitement could not have been more.
 Not only did MT. Stanhope strongly "dlsapprove" of automobiles, and con sidered 1t execrable taste to appear in public In anything more progressive than a victoria drawn by couple of fat, lazy bays, or his trap harnessed 70 . stubborn old mare, but his wife deemed woman capable of driving in such an ''infernal machine" as being wholly depraved and quite devoid of decency; . creature utterly and com