The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1913-02-07
CLAIM NOT VALID
-, Young Mans Scheme to
Nv, rorce Girl to Marry Him
Fails.
nv n. M. EGBERT.


CePnS' eccentric, philanthropic old
the T tont of Grand boulevard whose
perclan'd heen a synonym for integ'
name n@ Evansville for forty years
rty II .sa hi big store and the bank and
And 'n1 cradle pieces of real estate
the Innu had owned here and there in
that a9 capital had fallen to his
the '.a s1r'I nephew. Hamilton Hall.
n rrai,ton spent five days with ms $
haln' and at the end of that period
laT!si ,rad that one-fourth of Cephas'
dlsS sDts had been living rent free for
t8lan'' For much of the property was
year, noorer part of the city and
d 'n0 had never turned a poor ten
. VI MT of doors in his life.
'u1 y. rot all of Cephas' tenants had
DIV moor One of them, Miss Sido-
Dssr rrsvers, occupied the old Fravers
LID LION on Hurland Heights, which
liaI, nome to her on the death OF her
I aat S' twenty years previously. When
a'u' rood this name he whistled; and
n S, tbp lawyer told him that she,
VI. sn'I lived rent free, he whistled again.
w. Tou see, it's this way, Mr.. Hall,
=, Tho LAWYER, Miss Sidonia be-
n '@, that the property is hers. She's
~, not onIv tiny income of six dollars
nook outside it, and if she lost it
sbe3 be practically a beggar-she
and her niece, Mary Travers."
Mover mind about Mary; go on,
,.i5 Hamilton Hall, wetting his lips.
We'll, sir. the property isn't hers at
II The titles faulty. 1t belonged to
NJ Merritt. But he was an old friend
# hers-they say he was once her
snitor-and he'd have cut off his right
hond rather than let her know she
vas his tenant. If that old lady lost
Travprs house she'd not survive it
naDy weeks, Mr.. Hall. So all this time
shes lived in your uncle's house rent
free and thought it hers. And l
know he meant to deed it to her in
his will only he couldn't bear even to
lei her know the truth, and then he
expected to survive her"
Then | have the right to it," ex-
claimed Hamilton eagerly.
His lawyer looked him up and
down. He knew what was passing
through his mind. He knew the
story of Halls unsuccessful wooing
| Of Mary Travers and his hatred for
Vincent Blaine, her fiance. When her
aunt died Mary was to marry Blaine.
Till then she would not leave her.
And the lovers had been engaged five
years.
Better leave her alone, Mr.. Hail."
said the old lawyer. In his heart
smOuldered a contemptuous hatred
for the man; he would gladly have
dispensed with him for a client, for
he did not relish the sort of work he
would be called upon to do. But he
held his peace, knowing that, If nee
esSaTy, he could checkmate Halls
evil designs.
What is the value of Travers
house? asked Hamilton.
Easily twelve thousand dollars, in
us present state" the lawyer an
sVered' And, anticipating the next
question, he continued, cat a fair
rental it should bring a thousand dol
lars"
linen she owes me twenty thou
@ad dollars" thought Hall. But
Fnat he said was: MY uncle must
have been mad"
Md! Irayers was prettier than
S'eI' IN Halls eyes. When he saw
-'l enter the old-fashioned drawing
tuOm lame of jealousy of Blaine
turned in his heart.
Sit down, Miss Travers,'' he said.
nave something to say to you. You
iead?" NY on0io 10
les answered Mary. HE was a
s ouOu man and an old friend of my
D. l am sorry. Mr. Hall"
6ra "eI ILL.,, that's more than I am, by
r ~nS ODDS Hall answered. Don't
sra AIo# that I've fallen heir to
tbst ' u he had? Yes, and I find
AID s = IL worth a cool eight hundred
nat. my thousand at the lowest esti-
mn ,s, Now Mary, I want you to be
fatna. be my wife. Don't be in
po"a by that man Blaine. He's a
Ss va, honest toiler, no doubt, but he'll
I a,, De anything"
cspn N.Y. haA'' said Mary, rising. IT
~N Tnat you won't marry me now?"
frontir ,eF she cried angrily. con-
bate sas MIN with blazing eyes. 81
T Tb and despise you"
Blsin0 Tn why don't you marry
IS sbs ;, sneered Hamilton Hall. And
T Ut ald not reply, he continued:
ii voun a you why. You're waiting I'M
propert - aunt dies SO as to get her
tine M MY uncle owned it all the
The t hJs the conveyance was faulty.
don't NO.. ~ fraudulent. And If YOU
lie to marry lar newly, badly as I'D I'd
You Mis e' you stay, out she goes. and
tseptT l tk Mary, unless 1 get that
IN arres thousand dollars of rent that's
a similar s art of mind had produced
be stonnoi infirmity of speech. Now
nsrer day. day.; half frightened; he had
tones bs ateo address Mary in such