The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-07-15

'tIt's as sound tho rock of GfbraJtdr." from her. and she can't get yours. We must combine against the natives. Come back tomorrow at 2.'' Promptly at 2 Browne appeared, eager eyed and nervous. He had left behind him at home @ miserable young woman with red eyes and choking breath who bemoaned the cruel con- viction that she stood between him and fortune.
 "But, hang it all, dearest, wouldn't marry that girl if I had the chance. I'd marry you all over again today if could" he had cried out to her, but she wondered all afternoon if he really meant it. It never entered her head to wonder if Lady Deppingham was old or young, pretty or ugly, bright or dull. fudge Garrett had copy of the will in his hand. He looked dubious, even dismayed.
 "Its as sound as the rock of Gibral- tar," he announced dolefully. You don't mean itr' gasped poor Bobby, mopping his fine Harvard | brow, his six feet of manhood shrink ing perceptibly as he looked about for chair in which to collapse. "C-can't | it be smashedf"
 'It might be an easy matter to prove | either of these old gentlemen to have been insane, but the two of them to- gether make it out of the question" | "Darned unreasonabier'
 "What do you mean, sirY' indig- nantly.
 "I mean-oh, you know what mean the conditions and all that. Why, the old chumps must have been trying to prove their grandchildren insane when 1 they made that will. Nobody but i'm beetles would marry people they'd nev- CT seen- P'-
 "But the will provides for a six months courtship, MT. Browne, I'm sorry to say. You might learn to love person in less time and still retain your mental balance. you know, espe- cially if she were pretty and an heir l ess to half your own fortune. I dare say that is what they were thinking about'
 Thinking? They weren't thinking Rpable. Why didn't they consider the possibility that things might turn out just as they havef"
 Possibly they did consider it, my boy. It looks to me as if they did not care a rap whether it went to their blood relatives or to the islanders. I fancy of the two they loved the is- flanders more. At any rate, they left a beautiful opening for the very con- p1ications which now conspire to give the natives their own, after all. It's necessary for both of you to be on the ground according to schedule. You must go to the island, wife or no wife, and there's not much time to be lost Lady Deppingham won't let the grass grow under her feet if I know any thing about the needs of English mo- bility, and I'll bet my hat she's pack | ing her trunks now for a long stay fin Japat. You have farther to go than she, but you must get over there in side of sixty days. You can't tell what may happen in the next six months''
 "What do you meanr
 "Well, it's possible that you may be come a widower and she a wid''-
 Good heaven, Judge Garretti Inn possiblev' gasped Bobby Browne, elutching the arms of his chair.
 Nothing is impossible, my boy"
 "Well, if that's what you're counting on you can count me out. I won't speculate on my wife's death"
 "But. man, suppose that it did hap penr' roared the judge irascfbly. "You should be prepared for the best-I mean the worst. Don't look like a sick dog. You go to the island at once. Take your wife along if you like. You'll find her ladyship there, and she'll need woman to tell her troubles to. I don't think we'll have any trouble getting the British heirs to join in the suit to overthrow the will. The only point is this-the is flanders must not have the advantage that your absence from Japat will give to them. Now, TIP
 "But don't like the suggestion that
 my wife will be obliged to die in order''-
 "Please leave all the details to me,
 MT. Browne. It may not be necessary
 for her to die. There are other alter natives in law. Give the lawyers a
 chance All you have to do is to plant
 yourself on that island and stay there I until we tell you to get off"
 .Or the islanders push me of" iugu-