The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-28

the fortune. Her simple sense of right
 was outraged by the thought that
 WITS grandmother sh ould have been
 robbed of her inheritance merely be-
 cause she had married a poor man.
 Mir. Casaubon had answered her with
 the severe remark that he hoped she
 would not strive to interfere In mat
 ters that did not concern her. She lay
 awake that night. bitterly hurt. and
 did not suspect that her husband lay
 awake. too. with his parchment-like
 soul suffering some extremely un- scholarly emotions singularly like hate. After the house had been forbidden to Will his pride urged him to leave Middlemarch, but he told himself that
 1t was his duty to stay for MT. Brook e's sake. He did not tell himself, because he did not know it himself. that he
 wanted to be some where near Dorothea
 even though he could not see her.
 So these two young creatures, who did not love each other, began to think of each other more and more and all through the prim stratgy of
 the person who wished to keep them
 apart. Will thought of Dorothea as
 he might think of virgin in his pity
 that his cousin was a mohster to
 keep that fair. good thing in this gray prison. Dorothea thought of Will, pen
 niless, without prospects. yet so cheer
 full and courageous. and pitied him for the fate of his grandmother and mo- ther.
 Will spent most of his time at Dr..
 Lydgate's house. That. young man had
 come to Middlemarch with his head full of ideas for scientific treatment, and the old practitioners were all ar
 rayed against him. He was making
 good headway and was on the way to
 becoming famous, when he was fool
 ish enought to fall in love. Men of
 science are, not always men of sense. The object of his affections. Miss
 Rosamond Vicy. was empty headed and extravagant, and pr. Lydgate
 found himself more busy devising means and ways to discover new facts in medicine.
 Rosamond, without being a bit in clined to be wicked, loved to have ad- mirers, and she entertained Will so | agreeably that he was accounted a
 captive by herself and her circle, all
 though nobody was more ignorant of the Interesting fact than Will him self.
 When Mrs. Casaubon heard the gos- sip the image of Will which had been
 so clear to her until then seemed mys- teriously spoiled
 So a year went by. Then one day MT. Casaubon found out from Dr. Lyd- gate what was the mater with him. He did not take the news with the calmness of the spiritual person look ing forth to a light beyond. His pas
 sionate Iongings, poor man, clung low and mislike to every shadowy and earthly places
 one night he awoke Dorothea and said:
 Let me know whether, In case of
 my death you will carry out my wishes
 whether you will avoid doing that which I should deprecate and apply yourself to doing what 1 should de- sire"
 Dorothea was not taken by sur prise. Many incidents had led her to coniure that her husband was planning g
 to lay a yoke on her She asked him
 what he wished. He declined to tell her, but demanded her promise. She hePRed for time to think, and Casau- bon at last agreed to wait till the morning.
 She did not imagine that the power which he wished to establish over her future actions had ary relation eX-
 cept to his work. It was clear enough
 to her that he wanted her to devote
 her life to sift those sad heaps of use- less manuscript, and she pictured her self the days and months and years that would pass in the useless, dead work.
 Early the next morning he told her that he would ask for her answer as soon as he had taken his walk. That
 walk was his last; for they found the Reverend MT. Casaubon dead in the garden soon afterward.
 Dorothea fell Into wild. delirious
 fever during which she was tormented bv fancies that she had cheated and l robbed the dead. While she lay ill MT Brooke opened the will with Sir
 James Chettam, who had become one of the family by marrying Celia. When they had read it. Sir James
 was red with anger and his nose was
 wrintled with loathing. We must keen It from her as long as We can"
 said he. There was never a meaner more abominable action than this-to | compromise Dorothea by willing that l she should not have the estate if she
 marries Ladislaw. Why, 1t is an in-
 suit! Casaubon was not gentleman"
 Sir James had said the strongest | thing that he could think of when he ] said that. You must get rid of Laids-