Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 26, 1914, Page 2

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KELLLY, Griffin Fla r Fresh Eggs Fresh Frunt\ Fresh Vegetables Fresh Meats FRESH BUTTER--In fact everything is Fresh at our Store except our accommodating force of Clerks We wish our Friends a Happy New Year and Solicit their Business Edmonson & Mills THE BIG!PURE FOOD STORE AND MARKET PHONE 93-279 THENORTON LEGAEY By PETER ROTHENBERG. (Conyrizht. 1914, by W. G. Chapman.) y Norton, seated in the big arm- chalr faced Charles Tremont calmly. “You mean to say, then, that I own nothing of my grandfather’s eshte"" she inquired quietly. “The use of this house and garden, and the income from his lands for a' year and a day,” replied the young lawyer. Then, hesitating, he added: *“No doubt your grandfather left every- thing to your cousin, Mervyn Ferrand, :’; the beliet that you would marry m.” The young lawyer felt uncomfort- able as he said this, for it is hard to speak of her torthcomlng marriage to a pretty girl, whom you yourself se- cretly adore. And Tremont and Lily had become very good friends of late. Everybody had expected that Lily and Mervyn would marry soon. Their engagement was believed to exist. And Tremont had other qualms on this subject, knowing, as he did, that Ferrand had been mixed up in some shady deals at college, and had not led an exemplary life even after his engagement, *“He inherits it unconditionally, I be- lieve?” asked the girl. “No,” replied Tremont. “It is sub- ject to a condition, but not even 1 know what that is. The sealed paper is not to be opened for a year after your grandfather’s death.” “Thank you,” replied the girl, and the lawyer, having no excuse for re- maining longer, took his departure. When he was gone Lily Norton sank back in her chair and gave way to passionate grief. Everyone who knew the quiet, self-restrained girl would have been amazed at the violence of her grief. She knew that Mervyn Ferrand meant to play false with her, now that he had obtained the legacy. He had deceived her into thinking he cared, with his soft-spoken ways and ele. gant manners. She had found out “No Doubt Your Grandfather Left Everything to Your Cousin.” that it was her prospective money he wanted; but before she could en- lighten her grandfather old Mr. Nor- ton had died suddenly, and the will was found to be based upon the beliet that Lily and Mervyn were to be mar- ried. The chivalrous old man was sup- posed to have feared that Mervyn would hesitate to ask a rich girl to marry him, when he himselt was pen- niless, As a matter of fact, old Mr, Norton had been slowly reading into Mervyn Ferrand's character. But the old man had hesitated to credit the stories that had come to his ears—and then he had died. Lily, disillusioned, had ceased to care for her cousin, but she shrank from the gossip of the small town that she knew would follow the breach of their engagement. Sheknew that Fer- rand was infatuated with a vaudeville actress of the neighboring city; let- ters had been placed before her, and, rather than tax Mervyn with their au- thorship, she had waited quietly. She could not tax a man whose de- votion to her had never actually taken the form of a marriage proposal. As the weeks went by Mervyn's vis. its became fewer in number and fre- quency. Lily ignored Mervyn more openly. She all but cut him on the street. He ceased to come to the house at last. And then it was that Charles Tremont began to be a fre- quent guest. “Miss Norton,” he said one day, “excuse me if I seem impertinent, but it is being said that an estrangement has arisen between you and Mr. Fer rand.” Lily bowed her head quietly. “Then do you intend to marry him?” asked the young lawyer. “Never,” said the girl impulsively. “In that case, Miss Norton,” pur sued Tremont, “I am privileged to speak to you in my professional ca-' pacity. As you know, your grandfa- ther was the soul of honor. He was certain that you and Mr. Ferrand meant to marry; otherwise he would undoubtedly have willed everything to you. Now—what will you do ‘when your year is ended? For then Mr. Ferrand will acquire the ownership of this house, you know, and all the income.” THE EVENING TELEGRAM LAKELAND, FLA. DEC. 26, 1914. “Subject to a condition,” suggested But that is probably merely a formality. I fancy your grandfa- ther had heard some things abcut him, and that the condition hinges upon the uu he makes of his share of the ! property during these 12 months.” “I have thought over the matter,” answered the girl, “and I intend to go into the hospital and study to be a nurse.” The thought of the girl losing every- thing emboldened the young man to make an appeal to Ferrand, hopeless ' as he knew the result likely to be. He sent him a letter asking him to call at his office. “Yes, it was lucky the old man left everything to me,” said Ferrand, after Tremont had brought up the matter of the will. “Lily won't have a penny, except what she has managed to save this year. It'c hard, but that's the way the world wags.” ’ “Mr. Ferrand,” said Tremont, ‘“has it ever occurred to you that you will inherit this property owing to a miis- | conception on the part of old Mr., Norton, and that it might be only fair to make a settlement on your cousin?”’ Ferrand laughed uneasily. “I'm no philanthropist,” he an- l swered. “No, sir. What I get I hold. Why, there isn’t a man in town would do such a crazy thing.” | “Perhaps—perhaps not,” answered Tremont. “However, since you take that point of view, there is no more to be sald. I wish you good day, sir.” The months sped by, and, before the year was ended, the day came when | Tremont asked Lily Norton to be his | wife, “I can't take care of you in the style to which you have been accus- tomed,” he said, “but I love you with | all my heart, and if you will be my wife I will love you all my life. And | later we will be rich— They were such dreams as lovers have, those visions that he recounted. And Lily, who had become as deeply attached to the young lawyer as he was to her, agreed to marry him on the day when the year came to a close. There was another formality to be gone through, and that was the open- ing of the sealed paper. Farrand, sums assembled at the young law- yer's office and watched him break the seal. “The condition upon which the aforesaid Mervyn Ferrand becomes my heir,” he read, “is that he mar- ries my granddaughter, Lily Norton, within one year from the date of my death, Failing which the property shall become the possession of my said granddaughter, Lily Norton.” For a moment Mervyn Ferrand stared at Tremont {incredulously. Then he snatched at the paper and read it. Suddenly an inspiration came to him. “When does the year end?” he de- manded. “At seven o'clock this evening,” swered Tremont. “Then there’'s still time,” babbled Ferrand, and turning to Lily. “Will you—won't you—" he began. “Too late,” saild Tremont quietly. “Miss Norton became my wife at ten o'clock this morning.” FURTHER TALK NOT NEEDED Poet, Defendant In Lawsuit, Pro. duced Seemingly Unanswer able Argument. Among the many anecdotes told of Joseph Viktor von Scheffel, the Ger- | man poet and novelist, the following from Hagliche Rundschau is one of; the most amusing: In a place where Scheffel once lived there was a lack of good drinklng| water. One day a well driver in the | neighborhood proposed that the poet allow him to drive a deep well for: him. Scheffel accepted his offer, but ! only on the condition that after the | water had been drawn it be found drinkable. The well driver completed | his work, but all that the pump would | deliver was a thick yellow liquid; so! the poet refused to pay for the work. Finally the matter was brought be- ! fore the court, and the poet and well | driver stood side by side before the judge to present their respective cases. Both argued their sides so well that the magistrate was plainly puzzled to know which was actually right in the matter. At length, weary of the affair, Schef- fel said: “Well, I'll give in, and pay for the well and the court expenses, too—but on one condition. My op- ponent shall, before our eyes, take a drink of the water from the well in question.” The poet then drew from his hip pocket a flask of dirty yellow water, and after extracting the cork, passed it over to the well driver. One' glance was enough. He thrust the bottle aside with a disgusted look, and strode out of the court room with an angry growl Lily, and the other legatees to small | Billiard Tables Rest on Rock. Billiard tables, supported on solid rock are among the novel features of a 36-room concrete residence located on one of the islands of the San Juan archipelago in Puget sound. Each ta- ble rests on a massive concrete base which extends through an opening in the floor and has its footing on bed- rock, and is therefore as solid and as free from vibration as if it were a part of the island itself.—Popular Me- chanics. 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