Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1907-04-04


ports that he was about to marry. The
name of Miss Evans had been men
toned in this connection. had heard
l1t spoken of in my family, and not,
Remembered, with much kindness.
Later | heard of her joining Sister
hood, and opening school somewhere
in the West.
P"And Miss Devereux4is7 she an
elderly nun, too?"
Il don't know how elderly she is,
but she Isn't a nun at present. Still,
she's very much alone in the world,
and she and Sister Theresa are very
intimate"
Pass the will again, Pickering,
while make sure grasp these divert
ing ideas. Sister Theresa isn't the
one 1 mustn't marry is she? It's the
other ecclesiastical embroidery artist,
the one with the tx" in her name,
suggesting the algebra of my vanish
ing youth"
read aloud this paragraph:
Provided, further, that in event
said John Glenarm aforesaid shall
marry the said Marian Devereux, or
in the event. of any promise or con-
tract of marriage between said per
sons,within five years from the date of
said John Glenarm's acceptance Of
the provisions of this will, the whole
estate shall become the property abso-
lutely of st. Agathas School, at An
Mandate, Wabana county, Indiana, a
corporation under the laws Of said
state"
For touch of comedy commend
me to my grandfather Pickering,
you always were a well-meaning fell
low,-I'lf turn over to you all my right,
interest and title in and to these an.
gelic Sisters. Marry! ! like the ideal.
1 suppose some one will try to marry
me for my money, Marriage, Picker
ing, is not embraced in my scheme Of
life!"
81 should hardly call you a. marry.
ing man." he observed.
Perfectly right, my friend Sister
Theresa was considered a possible
match for my grandfather in my
youth I'm quite out of it with her
And the other lady with the fascina-
4 ting algebraic climax to her name
she, too, is impossible; itseems that
can't get the money by marrying her.
I'd better let her take it. She's as
poor as the devil, | dare say"
81 imagine not. The Evanses are a
wealthy family,srin, spots. aud she
ought to have, some money of her own,
If her auntsaoesn't coax it out Of her
for Observation-Disclosures
"And{ where on. the map are these
lovely creatures to be found?"
"sister Theresa sbchsSsoi adibins your
preserye;. Miss Beyerenx has think.
some Of, your own weakness for travel.
Sister Theresa Is her nearest rela-
tive. and She occasionally visits st.
Agatha's--that's the school,"
II suppose, they ,emlhrnider altar
cloths together and otherwise labor
valiantly to bring confusion upon
satan and his cohorts Just the PEG.
I,le to pull the wool, overithe eyes of
my grandfather"
Pickering smiled at my resentment.
YOU'D better give them wide
berth; they might catch you in their
net. Sister Theresa is said to have
quite a winning way. She certainly
plucked your grandfather
Nuns in spectacles, the gentle edu.
Gators of youth and that sort of thing,
with good-natured old man for their
prey. None of them for mel"
81 rather thought So" remarked
I Pickering,-and he pulled his watch
i from his pocket and turned the stem
, with his heavy fingers. He was short
: thickset and sleek, with square jaw
hair already thin and close-clipped
4 mustache. Age, mentally reflected
: was not improving him.
: ITO BE CONTINJJEDO