Putnam patriot., 1909-08-06
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eould be nad ieu out ID her but she wondered al teraoon if be really ,ssant It. lt neS entered her head 10 vaader f Lady eppingham was old :, youps. pretty O ugly. bright or dull
 Iudse Garrett had d copy of the will h bis hand. He looked dubious, even dSmayed
 4It,s as sound as the rock of Gibral- .sre he announced dolefully.
 4you don't mean it.' gasped poor pobby. hopping his fine Harvard br,w his six feet of manhood shrink bc oereeptibly as he looked about for chair in which to collapse. ..C-can'f it be smashedT
 -It might be an easy matter to prove either of these old gentlemen to have bsen insane. but the two of them to- yether make it out of the question"
 @parned unreasonablei'
 What do you mean. sir?' indig- uantly
 "I mean-oh, you know what 1 mean
 tho conditions and all that. Why. the nd ehuups must have been trying to n-ovp theIf grandchildren insane when sbey made that will Nobody but inn beeiIes would marry people they'd nev CT seen. r.
 "Bat the will provides for six months ceurtship. Mr. Browne. Tn sorry to say Ton might learn to love person i'll less time and still retain Your mental balance. you know. espe- cIapy if she were pretty and an heir ess to half your own fortune. l dare say that is what they were thinking about"
 Thinking? They weren't thinking of anything at all They weren't ca pable. Why didn't they consider the possibility that things might turn out just as they have?''
 Possibly they did consider it, my boy. It looks to me as if they did not care a rap whether 1t went to their blood relatives or to the islanders. I fancy of the two they loved the is- landers more. At any rate. they left beautiful opening for the very com plieations which now conspire to give tbe 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 Deppfngham won't let the grass grow under her feet If I know any thing about the needs of English mo- bility. and m bet my hat she's pack Ing her trunks now for long stay in 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 mean ?'
 Well, it's possible that you may be- come a widower and she wid''-
 Good heaven, Judge Garrett. I'm possiblew gasped Bobby Browne. elutching the arms of his chair
 "Nothing Is impossible. my boy"
 Well if thar's what you're counting on you can coant me out won't speculate on my wife's death"
 But man. suppose that 1t did hap penr' roared the spdge jrascibly. .'Yo0 shoald be prepared for the best-l mean the worst Don't look like a sick dog. You e to the island at once. Take your wife along if you Ike. You'll find her tadyship there. and she'll need a zReman to tell her troubles to. l donx think we'll have any trouble getting the British heirs to join in the suit hs overthrow the will The only poiEk is this-the is- hnders must not have the advantage that your a absence from Iapat will give to them. Now. I'li"-
 But dont like the suggestion that ny wife will be obliged to die in arder''-
 Please leare all the details to me, Mr. Browne 1t may not be necessary fr her to die There are other alter natives in law. Give the lawyers a chance. All you have to de is to plaIf yourself on that island and stay there anul We tell you to get on."
 'Or the islanders push me e6. iugu- kiously.
 feung MT. Browne went away at dusk. hah reeling under the responsi- Dlry of existence. and eventually feached the side of the anxious young Woman uptown. He barred the facts and awaited the wall of dismay.
 T raank 1t will be perfectly toaig- she erssd instead and kissed him rap turouHiy.
 Over fhe .oppesite aide of the Az hnsic the excitement in certain circles vas eveA more iRfense than that pro oueed .a Boston Lord Deppingham heeded the money. Ant he was whole day in graspaag the fact that his wife could not have 1t and him at ebe same une- The beanftful and fashionable Lsoy DeppfasAam, once little Agnes Authven. came as nesr 10 having hys- 'ena as Engifsh women ever do. but .1e called in . lawyer Instead ~ accsor For three daye she neglsc1ed Der social duties tand they were manya- iehored her gallant admirers fand they were many) and hsrried back anl iorta between home and chaDbers So vigorously that his Ioedship was sei- aom closer than a day behind ia any fhing she did.
 There was a great rattiing Of trunks. T angiing of keys. a thousand good osS casto6 season, and the DepPinE- hans were racing away for the island H 'apat somewhere in the far south seax
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