Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, December 31, 1914, Page 2

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Chapman.) | Lily Norton, seated in the big arm- | chair, faced Charles Tremont ‘calmly. | “You mean to say, then, that I own ' nothing of my grandfather’s estate?” | 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, in the belief that you would marry him.” The young lawyer felt uncomfort: able as he said this, for it is hard to! speak of her forthcoming 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 himself 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 storfes 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. She knew that Fer- rand was infatuated with a vaud -ille actress of the neighboring city 't- ters had been placed before her, a: rather than tax Mervyn with their a. 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.” - e —— o ———————————————————————— e < ettt , 80 into the hospital and study to be | e ————— “Subject to a condition,” suggested Lily. “Yes. But that is probably merely a formality. I fancy your grandfa- ther had heard some things about him, and that the condition hinges upon the use 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 1 1915 Looking Forward § Let’s be Boosters for the Comi Tell folks that you live in BEST TOWN, THE BEST STATE and BEST COUNTRY ON THE G BELIEVE IT TOO! IT’S SO! Become a Customer of the lives ware Store and you will sure a Booster for the Model Hardware ( Phone No. 340 C. E. TOZ .. MAIN ST. and FLORIDA AVE. \ 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. Itz 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 mis- 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- 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 said. 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, Lily, and the other legatees to small sums assembled at the young law- FOPREFFASDIOFUPOFTOPT SOPF PP POIIT IR AP U APOED SLPOE PO biid Do You " GROCERI We are at your service fo carried by an Up-to-datclil Phone orders glven prompililis W.S.REDE Lake Mirror Hotel $ MRS. H. M. COWLES, Prop. Under New Management. Refurnished and thoroughly renovated, and everything Clean, Comfortable and First-class. Dining Rcom| Seivice_Unexcelled. Rates Reasonable. Y cur,Patronage Cordially Invited. $ yer’s office and watched him break the g 4 seal. “The condition upon which the i aforesaid Mervyn Ferrand -becomes b my heir,” he read, “is that be mar- ries my granddaughter, Lily Norton, within one year from the date of my | Cut Roast Beef per pound ... . Prices || Sausage, 2 pounds for . death. Failing which the property.Whether lt:is Round Stesk, per pound ... E shall become the pnsslesslgn :)t my| k On All Loin Steak et pound P . said granddaughter, Lily Norton.” j s ceenas b For a moment Mervyn Ferrflnd'A Bound Boo Chuck Steak per pound ..... ¥ stared at Tremont incredulously. | Me.ts Stew Beef, per pound ........JK.. Then he snatched at the paper and Pork Chops, per pound ..... E... ! L read it. Suddenly an inspiration came ; iaml’hlet's ; Pork Ham, per pound to him. & Letter Heads R m;;\(lil;;n does the year end?” he de- Bill Heads Pork Stew, per pound ...... be % “At seven o'clock this evening,” an- & Envelopes Get my Prices on Groceries, Fruit, Vegetal swered Tremont. & Business Cards 1i “Then there's still time,” babbled Calling Cards T'hey a.re always fresh and best qomLy. Ferrand, and turning to Lily. “Will e Satisfaction D \ you—won't you—" he began. Invitations & | Guaranteed . . C eo b “Too late,” said Tremont quietly. Programs @ “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 Job Office from Hagliche Rundschau is one of the most amusing: 4 3 In a place where Scheffel once lived there was a lack of good drinking g Is o'ne of tfhe BEST water. One day a well driver in the .§: Equipped in the neighborhood proposed that the poet & State and will be glad allow him to drive a deep well for him. Scheffel accepted his offer, but to take your order. 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. 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