The Prince George's enquirer and southern Maryland advertiser. (Upper Marlborough, Md.) 1882-1925, 1907-12-13
CHAPTER ".
Continued.


Don't be in hurry. There may be
will. The property can only be ours
IL there is no will, because Tom
would certainly have given it to that
girl"
Harriet sunk back in her chair.
81 thought, her husband continued,
"before he went away that there
would be no money, after all.''
.sNo money? Why? With all your
uncle's fortunew
Because it seemed atone time as
II there were liabilities that would
swallow up ALL Why should he make
a will when he had nothing to leave?
There was not even an insurance; there
is next to nothing in the bank; there
are his books, but what are they
worth?"
s'No will, you think, Tom? Then"
"No will, 1 am nearly sure. But for
the present we cannot be absolutely
certain. >"
But then he may not be dead, after
ALL. s.
'tFor my own part, 1 have been GER
tain from the beginning that he is
dead. The party were surrounded and
attacked. A few escaped. When the
place-,was visited again the other day
there was nothing but the skeletons
left. 1 have no doubt at all that he is
killed."
"Ohr' It was a long and rapturous
intcrjection. care you sure. Jem? Oh!
And no will! Can no one take the
property away from us?''
There is no will, Harriet. 1t will be
all minc' He spoke with an author
! ity which commanded faith.
'sHow: much is it, Jem? Oh, tell me
how much It is.'
There's house in Russell Square,
beautifully furnished, where my uncle
lived"
"Oh! but there's more than house."
''There is property of all kinds-free-
hold houses, lands, MISREPRESENTATION
come to, we'll say, fifteen hundred
year, f.dare say. Harriet, We'll go at
once and live in Russell Square,"
'We will, Jem."
ssWe1l give up this measly little
villa"
"We wili-oh! we will; and Jem-,
dear Jenl-promise me you won't play
ducks and brakes with this money as
you did witt your own"
mo, my dear, will not. I've done
with betting, don't you fear. It's all
over, Harriet. And I say, old girl.
we've had our little tiffs about the
money. and 1 own we've been hard up
once or twice.
"Once or twice only? 1t seems to
me that it's been nothing but a stand
up fight ever since we got married.
Hardly a day but I wished myself
back at my stall in Soho Bazaar. Once
Or twice! And you led me to believe
that you were so well off,"
''Well, Harriet, 1 was in love, you
know. But that's-all over, and what 1
wanted to say was that it's all to be
forgotten now, just as We shall sink
the stall when we go into society and
take our proper place.
"Poor Tom Addisonr' she sighed. 81
shall put on mourning for six months
not Grape, of course, because hate it
but half-mourning for six months.
Half-niourning is always becoming.
l.
ways be sorry that 1 never saw him.
could have grieved for him SO much
more truly if had ever known him."
'Oh! never mind that" said her hus-
band; brutally. '.Sit down and enjoy
a good. cry over him, just. as if you
had known him. You'd like him back
again. wouldn't you? Nothing we
should either of us like better
"Don't, Jem. Of course, it makes a
wonderful difference to us. But we
: may have our feelings, and there's a
proper way of talking about things"
'.Feel away" Jem grinned, ''and talk
as much as you like, but don't talk
him back again. Yes, you can talk, I
know, as well as the tinker who talked
off the donkey's hind Leg
'.Then there's that poor dear girl who
was engaged to him. What's become
of her? 1 wish I'd known her, too.
could have called upon her and con-
doled with her in black silk )
She is governess somewhere, 1
believe. It's rough On her, isn't it?
hope she'll get another lover :
Lovers are not to be had for the
asking, Jem. There's not enough to go
round, as everybody knows, and very
few girls get more than one chance;
unless, of course, they are more than
commonly Attractive" She smiled,
feeling herself to be one of the excep-
tions.
This conversation makes the resi-
dence of Mr.. and Mrs. James Rolfe in
Russell Square Ineligible. 1t also
= explains why Mr.. James Rolfe sat
every day in his uncle's Office in New
Square, Lincoln Inn, his own name be-
ing put up instead Of his uncle's, and
there carried on his business.
When James Rolfe was an articled
clerk there came to the Office once a
= quarter, to receive on each occasion
the sum of seventy-five pounds, in five
pound notes, a gentleman named Cap
tain Willoughby. He was an elderly
man of distinguished appearance and
excellent manners. The senior clerk
received him, gave him his money, and
took his receipt. The whole business,
did not take more than five minutes.
On the last quarter day of March, COM
monty called lady day, Captain Will
loughby had not called for his money.
James was in no hurry to find out
what had become Of this man and who
were his heirs. Indeed, he was at first
fully occupied mastering the details
Of Il complicated estate, and it must be
owned that he was not good at master
ing details. Presently, things beeom-
ing little clearer, he began to inquire
further into this matter, and he dis
covered several curious and interest
ing things, namely, first, that no mes
sage or intelligence had come to the
Office concerning Captain Willoughby;