Page 68 - 1917 Hartridge

“ Tn the office where I was clerk— aiul a mighty poor one fU\[ y
met Susan Cory, a stenographer. The last I drew frorr , ,u at
the end of my gay year, has been largely spent on a honeymoon ^::i thi;; dearest wife man ever had. We’re out West now, on cnir ow We’re ‘awfully’ happy, and I’m going to d'uj, duj, duj for her.
“I say ‘Hang all that money of Uncle ^^’il^s!’ 1suppose he mt a; \\\’!
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d'here was more, but that is enough.
Lawyer Smith read it once, twice, and once again, d'hcn he .aeked
his mouth into a smile, and searching his soul for a laugh, foe tl out, dried hut intact, which he finally emitted from his smiling mou . ,\ stenographer, alarmed by the unusual sound, came in hearing a css .0
water, but Smith waved her away and continucLl his dry cackling.
He wrote of it to a friend,— another lawyer, hut still a frienc
“ And, my dear Ezekiel, imagine my increilulity as 1 read th nic;
but you can give it to ‘Long View’ without hurting my feelings in th
for, by a codicil of the will, William .Asquith Eenrose, Sr., prov a monthly allowance of $i,ooo, and an immediate payment of
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to go to W. A. P., Jr. live years after he luul married a woVkmgL
was also to receive the lump sum of $50,u(ju. I he codicil, ol con c
to remain unknown to the young man until he tullilled the condi himself. But he has been married onh six months, and since i four and a half years until he comes into his ovn, I shall remain
ingly quiet and let him dig!
Dear Ezekiel, it is one of the most amusing things that has(
mi tor i! still oceol
in my long and varied practice.’’
Meanwhile, W. A. P. Jr., was pro\'iding lor the “dearest
an addition to the family by raising alfalfa in an outlandish jilace sas. (Do they grow alfalfa in Kansas?) 1 le wore oxeralls and sombrero, and ate prodigiously of cabbage soup and the like.
But perhaps it was just as well.
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