The Wolf Point herald. (Wolf Point, Mont.) 1913-1940, 1924-02-21
CHAPTER vi

If. In the birth of a trust fund, 1t is
devoted to the care and protection of
n particular person, then too, under
the certain limits which always govern
its existence, it can pass away and
leave it's all to still another. If the
''use and enjoyment" of the great es-
tate of Daniel Gorgam went to his
daughter for her life, and at her death
TO her surviving offspring, then in case
she died and there was no direct heir,
1t could be and in fact it was specified
that it should pass to the next of kin
"the son of my deceased brother,
Stanford Gorgam, who bears his ia
Tiers name"
1t was, too, far from essential to the
happiness of the younger Gorgam that
this fortune should ever come to him.
There was sufficient, many would have
said more than sufficient, already pro-
vided for the use and enjoyment of
Stanford GOrgam in his own fathers
will-even though but a minor frac-
ton of sixty millions.
It was, too, far from essential to
the happiness of Jasper Haig, the
manager of the Trust, or of Has
brouck Rutherford, the husband of
Adelaide GOrgam, that he should ever
receive this property, or in fact have
been named in the first place as the
possible legatee. Indeed, few things
about Stan Gorgam's eminently pleas
ant life and living were essential to
the happiness of Hasbrouck Ruther-
ford. Even when they were both in
Yale-both members of the university
football team-their disregard for one
another approached often to the verge
of physical disaster; in fact had done
81 once, the disaster, as it happened,
occurring to the heavier, and some
had thought, the stronger man, Hask
RutherfOrd-so well known in his
time as the great Yale center.
Always after that he had said, in
his blunt, downright way, that if there
were any pleasure in the world which
he craved especially, it was the at
tendance upon the funeral of Stan
ford Gorgam. This old and carefully
nursed fire of resentment kept ever
burning in the heavy and substantial
temperament of his old Dutch ances-
tors. 1t was not decreased in the
slightest after his very fortunate mar
rage with Adelaide, the cousin of his
enemy; and then the creation, at the
death of her great father, of the ia
nous Gorgam Trust, quite evidently
so many persons were not Slow in say
ing-to keep the great power of his
fortune always out of the hands of
his quite VIGOROUSLY dlssipated sOn-in-
law.
Stan Gorgam remembered her al
ways as she was before her unhappi-
ness, her twin misfortune of marriage
and insanity. He had gone always, as
q matter of course, to see her when
she was i'll, and at longer and longer
intervals as the poor girl grew worse.
Like many a woman under marital
conditions like hers, her one persistent
desire was for the one great essential
of life she still lacked-persOnal kind
illness and affection-for herself and
not her money,sa desire preserved and
exaggerated in a rather pathetic way
in her mental illness. But finally,
even before his absence in uniform in
France, young Gorgam had given up
his visits there almost entirely. She
had not changed physically so much
but mentally it was too painful.
"Adelaide not insane !" he said to
himself when he was in his rooms
that night-for long before this, while