Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1911-04-14

tried to reassure him.
mo" he persisted. I'm going to die
and wish to speak to you about
Edith / must take steps to secure to
her my property, which is about $50.
COO. | don't know anything of the laws
covering cases where the parties are
Americans in foreign land. do your
mo"
How shhll manage itT
l thought few moments, then told
him that the safest way | could sug
gest was marriage.
He took to the idea so quickly 1t was
evident to me that marriage was what
he wished me to suggest. He asked
me to go at once to the girl, break the
news to her that he had given up all
hope and suggest to her the plan by
which she should inherit his property.
did not see how could refuse any
thing to my dying friend and promised
him would do so.
Miss Hubhell was much shocked at
hearing the news. Death coming be-
tween two betrothed or married per-
sons when young is best described as
shock. 1t is not the prolonged suf-
fering of later years. | delicately hint
ed that 1t would be comfort to Ber-
nard IL he could be united to her before
his death. saying nothing about the in
herltance. She acquiesced at once, ana
/ had the satisfaction of telling him
that she knew nothing of the marriage
giving her fortune.
N. ,v-tn nd, 90
it was over Bernard signitied that he
wished to see me alone. His young
wife went sorrowfully away. and as
soon as the door was closed behind
her he asked me to reach under his
pillow and take out what l would find
there. l found sealed letter address,
ed to his wife.
Keep it." he said. for six months
without mentioning 1t to her. then give
it to her"
/ made the promise and at his re-
Guest left him. since he said that after
the excitement he had passed through
lie must rest.
Bernard died that night. l suggested
to his widow that she remain abroad.
where she might the sooner recover
from her sad experience, and l took
the body of my friend to America. Be
fore leaving | told her that the mar
riage was partly plan to insure her
Inheritance of Bernard's property. She
was overwhelmed with the kindly act
of the man who had loved her so well.
My trip to join Bernard Carey was
] my first visit to Europe, and, since it
I had been very short and circumscribed,
after having remained at home few
months concluded to return there.
had interested myself in the settlement
| of his estate, and, since it was neces-
sary either that his widow should re-
turn to sign certain papers, that she
might be put in possession of her in
! heritance. or that she should sign them
abroad. l arranged with the attorneys
in the case to take them to her. In
deed. if she signed them abroad it was
necessary that some one should in
struct her in the matter
| My stay at Thun had been during
the autumn. and now February had
| come. Mrs. Carey was at Naples
/ where Americans gather in great mum
bers during the early months of the
| year. So took steamer for that
| port via the Atlantic ocean and the
| Mediterranean. On reaching Naples
| learned that my quest was at Sorrento
! on the southern part of the bay. and in
couple of hours l was at her hotel
| 1t was built ON the edge of the cliff
overhanging the beautiful waters and
in the center of an orange grove.
There are stories the principal part
| of which is left out So 1t is with this
one. But it is time for me to admit
that my return abroad was rather to
| see Mrs. Carey than to see Europe.
The bay of Naples is beautiful. but
my eyes did not view it with the same
| pleasure as that with which / looked
upon the face and figure of Edith
Carey. There was so much about us
that was beautiful that we enjoyed it.
she acting as my pilot before settling
down to dry legal documents. She
knew that had the papers pertaining
to her inheritance with me. but she
did not speak of them. and when did
she asked If tomorrow would not do
! as well. i assured her that 1t would.
and she informed me that. not being
with party. she had no one to go
about with her and longed to see some
of the attractive sights near at hand.
| So we went to Paestum and Amalfi
and Capri-indeed, any place that we
could reach and return the same day.
We were both young and had largely
recovered from our melancholy expert
ence at Thun.
why" remarked to her one day
while sitting on the steps of the rIin-
ed temple of Jupiter in the forum at
Pompeii, SHOULD we be long moved by
the death of single person when the
many who were formerly hurrying
about in the open space before us all
passed away eighteen centuries agoT
1t was nearly seven months from the
day of Carey's death that sat down
beside his widow with the inheritance