Mexico Missouri message., 1912-10-03
WHEN He MARRIES
Sense as Well as Sentiment
Necessary.
BY JEAN o. LoizEAux.


before him. But Jefferson went
straight ahead with his panegyric OF
Miss Rose Wentworths charms. Fin
ally Rivers grew tired OF It.
"Confound you, JEFF! Stop raving
and get to work on that probate case!
If the practice of law absorbed you as
girls do in year you'd be too famous
to live with. Can't you get into your
head that | am pursuing profession
and not a problematic wife? ! hate
fooling, and can't be serious until
am professionally and financially es-
tablished. ! want to offer a woman
something more than Just my sweet
self"
jefferson stared. astonished John
Rivers was man of few words. and
| outwardly of small sentiment But he
had been reused. He went on.
Let's finish this subject for good
| Jeff. No. | will not beau Miss Mamie
! Wiley about just to give you chance
with her guest In fact, ] hope Miss
Wentworth will turn you down cold.
1t would be your salvation. What
counting is done by this firm should
be for favor with judges and juries
and clients. Success comes from dig
ging, rather than by grace of an irish
temperament and talent for banjo
| playing. Sentiments all right, but
when q man marries, he needs sense
also A practical man chooses his
wife, instead of letting himself be
dragged to the altar by the first pref
ty thing that makes eyes at him.
quite a TRADE, old man." comment
ed Jeff bitterly. You wait! Your
time will come" Rivers was reopen
ing his book.
when 1t does | won't maunder tc
you about it. Going after those depo
sitions?" jeff departed.
Rivers so lost himself in study tina
five minutes later he did not hear {
slim, dark-eyed girl enter until she
spoke his name. She was delicate
and refined looking and-afraid. HI
sprang up.
"Mr. Rivers? You're a lawyer-ma!
] talk with your"
He bowed her before him into tn
private Office and closed the door
3 In a half hour he was ushering hi
graceful client into the outer hall as
she were a princess. Youth and beaut
have their spell. For all the TRACED
of her pale face and plain clothes sh
was like the spring. He gave her
last bit of advice as he opened tn
door
e Look again for the papers and r
: port soon. Well do all we can. Pc
- haps the hope will keep your moths
up bit longer. Keep up your cou
age. Good morning"
JEFF. just entering, grinned NAL
ciously.
q "A bad business" said his partne
y ignoring the grin. She Is Miss Al
I, ME Morrow John Morrow of Att
a was her father. He died some month
q ago and left things in queer shap
IT His widow, the girls mother, thougl
A. there was at least $4,000 for her
" the State bank here. Though vel
" close-mouthed, he had told her he WI
a. leaving her that sum. He was nut
N older than his wife, and there was
n son by a former marriage who b
ia never recognized his stepmother al
a half-sister. The father had provide
an amply for him in cash"
a JEFF was all professional intere
mo will?"
=, "~rhe girl saw him make and ST
=, one before witnesses which she C
- produce. But the will can't be four
- And at the bank they found or
:. about $500! The bank people tc
" her Morrow had withdrawn the r,
six months before his death. I
handbook showed this. He took I
81 money in very large bills, and there
~ no trace OF 1t. The son denies
y. knowledge of it, and has not chang
~ his mode of living. Now the girl So
w. that the funeral and her mothers
y; ness have eaten up all but about fl
~, dollars and she has gone to clerk
Vi at Atkinson's, at 81 a week. Her e
cation was ornamental. and she
p neither time nor money for b,
w ness course. She has to spend
spare hours with her mother"
"u II don't see how law can help"
= marked JEFF shortly.
W No But Miss Morrow wants me
en- hunt for hope! Her mother can't
best live long, and would go peacefr
~ II she was sure her girl would not
o. left penniless. I'll do what can
detective on the half-brother's tr
20 Meanwhile she says they ransacl
on every corner of the house they left
ien the will. They searched every pa
" and box for the bills or some acco
Yer of them. The old man was queer
.ei, had no lawyer, but l am Interest
Ieu Get those dispositions?
'eu After some days the detectives
ported the brothers status. Far Fl
paying extra money, he was in d
and borrowing. Annie came in,
her mother was weaker, and
neither will nor money had been fol
She wished Rivers himself to come
to the three rooms they had furnis
en' and search for himself among the d
Ia" mans effects.
VI One evening he went out. A
'a' that his task became almost an
lse' session. In the desk and papers
mo found only evidences of great neon