The Lamar register. [volume] (Lamar, Colo.) 1889-1952, 1917-05-16

( He remembered that as well as he re-
I membered anything. Tom had thrown
stone and 1t had gone smash through
window. Tom had hung his head
taxed with 1t, but had refused to
r. 7ad been wrong.
n picked up another. Der IA
ran. II am sorry that tor
= yestidday."
not remember that. Tom
must --Je to a good many pairs of
''trousis" in his boyhood.
"Dere father" another read, 81 adj
Ned patted her cheek indulgently.
Dear. you are going to marry me, and
you are going to do 1t soon," he said.
I'm going to get the license tomor-
row."
"Nedi" she cried. at is absurd to
talk in that way"
I'm going to-" answered Ned.
"What are you going to wear for go
ing away in, Nelllef'
Blue" sobbed Nellie, sinking into
her lovers arms.
Ned broke the news to Miss Lucinda
that evening. and whatever hopes Of
least she took the news philosophic-
ally.
"Humph, it's what might have e1-
pected of you" she muttered. 'Mr.
Jabez has provided for me-"
81 hope you won't be in hurry to
leave. Miss Burt" said Ned politely.
"T1l go when get ready" she
snapped.
mot till you've let my wife taste
one Of your apple pies" protested the
young man.
Barney Stone, 1 suppose" answered
Miss Lucinda.
She disappeared two days later. but
Ned did not care. for that was his
wedding day. and his wife, radiant In
blue. was in the Pullman with him
about the time that Miss Lucinda was
packing her trunks.
They came back two weeks later,
more In love with each other than ever
before, and settled down to the prob
lem Of housekeeping. The exchequer
had been exhausted by the trip. StIll,
love can make money stretch a long
way. In spite of the statements OF
cynics. But Just when things were
really looking black. Ned was sur
prised to receive communication
from the lawyer, inviting him and his
wife to call.
Seated in the office, scowling. was
Miss Lucinda Burt. Ned shook hands
with her and presented Nellie. Miss
Lucinda bowed as one might look for
a steel needle to bow.
"sit down. Mr.. Lewis" said the
lawyer cordially. "Mrs. Lewis, pray
take this chair. 1t is now my duty to
read to you the remaining clause of
your uncle's will. They amount, in
brief, to this: Three calendar months
after the testator's death the funds
which he willed, and has donated to
the Home for Incurable Horses, are
withdrawn from the trustees. Your
uncle felt that with the extension of
the good work Of the Society for Pre-
vention of Cruelty TO Animals. the
need for this organization lapses.
Consequently. the funds return into
your uncle's legacies. Half OF these
are to go to Miss Lucinda Burt. The
remainder. not being willed to any
body. go to yourself. under your clause
Of the testament. The sum is seventy
five thousand dollars. half to Miss
Burt and half to you"
II get thirty-seven thousand FIVE
hundred7" gasped Ned.
Eyes, in the event Of your not mar.
rying Miss Burt. Otherwise the
Home for Incurable Horses would re-
main endowed. think, to be frank,
that your uncle was perpetrating a
little joke on you, Mr.. Lewis. He
smiled when he dictated these
clauses"
HE nearly choked to death over
his apple pie when he read them to
me-" said Miss Burt, smiling.
And somehow the steel needle as
pect had so entirely disappeared that
Nellie ran to her and Rugged her.
you knew, you dear old thing" she
cried.
Eyes, knew" admitted Miss Burt
Mr.. Jabez wanted to get even with
Mr.. Ned for having quarreled with
him, and-and was married twenty
years ago. and I'd never take a sec.
ond, never, and-and TIL go home
with you and make you one of my