Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1908-01-03


read, Mr.. keene says"
Mr.. Keene seems to be undu1v inter-
ferlng-to be overstepping the bounds of
hls-ah Junction said Mrs. Yeames
tartly
Whereupon little Laure, with the cour-
age OF desperation, declared l was a dear
Old man, and wouldn't let cook be sent
away, or let any one be made unhappy.
Inc day of the funeral came-and a
sad day 1t is in my memory for even
a lawyer cannot bury an old friend with
out pang of regret for the past that
can never be renewed; a bitter yearn-
ing for the hand and the voice and the
eyes that never again one shall clasp,
and listen to, and look into!
L expected that Lynn Yeames would
be sufficiently we'll to come back for the
reading OF the will but he was not. How
| ever, Mrs. 1eames was there with a tele-
gram of regret from him (she had torn
Off the heading, but l found out after
! wards that it came from Monaco), and
herself prepared to stand as his repre-
sentative; and a fine monument of re-
| spectahility she was in her Grape To
her disgust, l had up all the servants
one whose name was in the will Dr.
Audrey was there, looking as if he were
going to have his head cut off, and Miss
Dalrymple, and little Laure.
| l opened the will, and in a dead ST
| lence | began to read it clearly and slow
| ly. You might have heard a pin drop
After the usual preamble, came the leg
acies to the servants, whom Mrs. Yeames
would have packed off with a months
wages, and then began the shifting and
signing and smotheled ordinations of
establishment and pleasure as they learn
ed that there were a hundred pounds and
a good suit of clothes to come to each
Of them out of the fortune of their kind
| old master. And when these were dis
posed of, | came to the Yeames bequest
ITO Mrs. Anna Maria Yeames, widow
of my brother, Joseph Flexmore, | give
| and beQueath the sum of FIVE pounds"
| l looked at her over the top of my
glasses as | read this. She folded her
arms, closed her eyes, and assumed a
look of injured dignity l would have
given as much as this bequest to have
been able to look round and see how the
servants managed to conceal their feel
ings. However, | contented myself with
reading on:
ITO my nephew, Lynn Yeamvs, stepson
of the aforesaid Joseph F'lexmore"--here
| turned over the page, and glancing at
Anna Maria, found her eyes open, and
her expression indicative of assured tri-
umph-'I give and bequeath the sum Of
| fifty pounds and my glass case of stuffed
BIRDS
Lowering the will and looking over my
glasses, l said to Mrs. Yeames Flick
more:
LAS your son is rot here, l will apprise
| him by letter of this bequest.'
THAT is not ALL | am sure. Read on,
| if you please" said the lady.
| l bowed, and proceeded to read out in
| full the clause in which Flexmore con-
| stituted John Howard Audrey, NJ. D.,
ETC., sole guardian of his beloved daugh-
ter, Laure Constance Flexmcre, and III
recognition and considerat ton of his ser
vice in the capacity of guardian and trus-
tee bequeathed to him the annual inter
est on such capital as remained after the
payment of the foregoing aforesaid leg
acies, life annuity to myself one hundred
| pounds, and all outstanding debts. until
the said beloved Laure Constance Flex-
more should attain the age of twenty one,
when the whole estate would revert to
| her.
| | paused here and again looked over
nv glasses at Mrs. Yeames. The woman
had risen to her feet she was white with
passion. l saw she wished to speak, and
waited. Her lip twitched convulsively :;
it was some moments before she could
articulate.
"Do-do-do | understand she fall
tered. that he has left nothing to my son
but fifty pounds?'
And a glass case of stuffed birds; that
is ALL" 1 said.
"All the property, in fact, goes to DR..
Awdrey?"
1.-The bulk of the property goes to DR..
Audrey. in trust for Laure Constance
Flexmore, who inherits when she is TWEEN
| +v-one wears of age. Until that time DR..
| Audrey will receive from me annual pay
ment of all interest accruing from the
estate in payment of service rendered as
Guardian of the child. There is a further
clause providing for the appointment Of
new guardian in the event of DR.. Aw-
drev's death, and the reversion of the
| whole estate 10 LIZ. IA"uACJ AZ >S'CC "
the child dying before coming Of age and
which l will now proceed to read"
Don't trouble yourself don't wish
to hear it," screamed rather than said
Mrs Yeames.
MADAM" said l, II am here to read
this will, not solely for your pleasure.
LET me look at the signature OF that
will" she cried, crossing quickly.
There is the signature duly witness
cd" l said, showing it and the date.
YOU see, is the fourth of September OF
last year"
| .Do YOU mean to tell me this Is the
will he made last year?" she asked
II do. madam. Have you any reason
to doubt it,"
~ have" she said, and then stopped
short. For how could she explain the
means by which her son had possessed
himself of a knowledge of the affair! she
would have liked to proclaim me scoun-
drel and forger, as | believe she tei'
| oonv;nced that l was, but she had Just