The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1909-08-13


the conditions and all that. Why, the
old chumps must have been trying to
prove their grandchildren insane when
they made that will. Nobody but i'm
beetles would marry people they'd new
er seen. r.
"But the will provides for a six
months courtship, Mr.. Browne, I'm
sorry to say. You might learn to love
a person in less time and still retain
your mental balance. you know, espe-
cially If she were pretty and an neir-
ess to half your own fortune. 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 1t, my
boy. 1t 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
a beautiful opening for the very CON-
plications 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 l know any
thing about the needs of English no.
bility, and I'll 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
possible" gasped Bobby Browne.
clutching the arms of his chair.
Nothing is impossible. my boy"
swell. if that's what you're counting
on you can count me out won't
speculate on my wife's death"
But, man, suppose that it did hap
pen!" roGred the judge irascibly. 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. l 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
landers must not have the advantage
that your absence from Japat will give
to them. Now. IN"
But don't like the suggestion that
my wife will be obliged to die in
order
please leave all the details to me,
Mr.. Browne. 1t may not be necessary
for her to die. There are other alter
natives i'll law. Give the lawyers Il
chance. All you have to do is to plant
yourself on that island and stay there
until we tell you to get off"
"Or the islanders push me off," lugu-
briously.
Young Mr. Browne went away at
dusk. half Keeling under the RESPONSE
bility Of existence and eventually
reached the side of the anxious young
woman uptown. He barred the facts
and awaited the wall of dismay.
II think it will be perfectly jolly"
she cried instead and kissed him rap
turously..
Over the opposite side of the At
lantic the excitement in certain circles
was even more intense than that pro-
duced in Boston. Lord Deppingham
needed the money. but he was Il whole
day in grasping the fact that his wife
could not have it and him at the same
time. The beautiful and fashionable
Lady Deppingham, once little Agnes
Ruthyen. came as near to having hyS-
terra as Englishwomen ever do, but
she called in Il lawyer instead Of a
doctor. For three days she neglected
her social duties land they were many,
ignored her gallant admirers land they
were many and hurried back and
forth between home ara chambers so
vigorously that his lortIship was sell
dom closer than Il day behind in any
thing she did.
There was u great rafting of trunks.
a jangling Of keys. IA thousand good
bys. Il .castOff season. and the Doping
hams were racing away for the island
Of Japat. somewhere in the far south
seas