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Home My WebLink AboutThe Huron Signal, 1882-09-22, Page 61` 6 ! Mias Camerou was a spiuster, and with oue companion, • young girl mooed Mary Belton, lived in the old farm house where her father had lived and died be- fore her. She Aad all her life saved snore than she had spout, and the result was, beside a well kept tarn, a snug twenty thousand dollars invested iu bonds and real estate, and likewise several impecunious relatives who wore wafting for her demise, ands share in the spoils thereof. None of them bore any love for the fair young girl, who was so great a favorite with the lonely old woman. As may be surmised there was a well grounded fear abroad Among them, andlthat was that no doubt a good- ly share, if not all, her property would be given this -"upstart" and,"baggage," unless some lucky chance should rid theta of her. Among the relatives in question was one nephew, who with never a are for his aunt's money, had been for some titre paying attention to Mary in the way of taking her to a con- cert or a country dance sometimes, to the intense disgust of his mother and sisters. "If 1 were you I would not run about with that girl in that way," sail Alice, the elder, to hili one day. "And why not ?" said the nephew, John by name. "And why not r mimicked Aline, "when she is just staying there to get Aunt Pant to give her money. Just by your rut:inns after her she will think you want to marry her, and Annt Cam will think so too, and thinking that, will go and will her everything, and ' littlittiOttAL, 27.1.1102. 011111010 TILT v.. Caatetun about *04i 's May load sought her thr.wgheat t hoots uneucoessfully, until reaching the dour of a little room adjoining the sitting room, where Miee Cameron kept her books, writing desk, etc., and which was yet called the study, the name ouming down from her father's time, Mary rap- ped on the door, and gettiafq no response rho gently ripened it sad looked in. What a sight met her •yea ffeattesed around the old writing desk were a number of papers, letters and legal -look- ing documents, as though thrown down in haste, and lying face downwards upon the floor was lila. Cameron, motionless and apparently dead. Hurriedly millirem help, Mary, assisted by others, took her up and laid her upon her own bed. A doctor was brought, an examination made, and with a sad shake of hie head he pronounced it apoplexy. "And will she not get better, doctor i asked Mary tremblingly. "I fear she :rill never recover," he answered. She nifty linver for days or weeks, but I think she will never become conscious enough to speak." "What could have brought it on 1" Mary sobbed. "She was so well yester- day.'' "Has she hat no shock or unusual ex- citement recently ?" the doctor asked. "None that I know of" Mary answer- ed then remembering the disorder of the letters and papers about the desk, she added: "Unless she received bad news by let- ter'." et- ter." An examination was made of the papers and desk,'but with the exception of the extreme disorder as if she had hooked them over in a hurry or in ex- citement, nothing wits found. The papers were all pertaining to nosiness and had evidently, before being scatter- ed about, been tied up in ordinary pack- ages with red tape. There was nothing to indicate anything unusual in that quarter, Mary thought, but to John it seemed significant tint something of an unusually disturbing nature had happen- ed, unknown to any but Miss Cameron herself, the shock of which had thrown her into the fit. "Oh,.th:t', i', -fid . �- t1• u, , . . You see it ..,, gi...„ _ ...y ..c: money, and I marry Mary, why, indirectly as 'twere, I U get it, won't I f You have given me an idea. I believel wintry it. Thanks for the suggestion," and'making a low View, he walked sway. And inwardly fuming, Alice saw him depart senses the fields towards Belinda Cameron's. Now Miss Belinda Cameron had long ago trade up her mind to make Mary Sexton her heiress. "I have saved all my own money,'' she reasoned. "I took the mortgaged farm for my 'share, while the rent took the other property, Thoy'ye wasted theirs and I've added to [nine year by year, besides helping them, and I have a right to do as I please. All the money I have outside the farm property I have saved myself by planning and hard work, and I shall give it to Mary." Arid in pursuance 4,r the above, Aunt Cam, as her loving neices called her, went o'tie day to the city, and when Abe returned she had with her a document which, after bequests to her several re- latives, gave the hulk of her -property to Mary Sexton. Now, not being used to keeping im- portant papers in the house, the matter weighed heavily upon her mind. Put it where she would, in her private desk, in her room, the consciousness of its exist- enoe preyed upon her. And also, she knew if the disposition of her property were discovered by her relatives there would be no more peace of mind for her en earth. She was a large, strong w ..man, with a superabundance of blood, and the doctor had often warned her against any undue excitement, or giving away to sudden alarm. That afternoon, when John started across the fields to call at her house, that which his sister had prognosticated had already taken place two weeks be - f. are. He staid to supper, and in the even- ing played whilst with his aunt for part- ner, against Mary and a young neighbor, and at the close of a pleasant evening. somewhere abou) eleven o'clock, he went home, and after seeing everything safe for the night, aunt Cant and Mary ret ired. But lilies Cameron could . not, for sante time, sleep. Visions of the will which might be stolen, or if she was sick for a long time, might be destroyed by her relatives, floated through her Mind. She turned about in bed, and had Mary, who always slept with her, been less young and healthy, no doubt she would have beeu sadly disturbed. But youth, a clear conscience and good digestion, soon placed her beyond ordin- ary disturbances, and at last, Mia Cameron, toxo, slept, and for some time silence reigned in the farm house. Somewhere towards morning Mary, a hose first sleep was wearing "off, was awakened by some noise in the room. She started up in bed, and for a mo- ment, in the confusion of first awaken- ing, was horror-stricken at a sight of a tall, whitedraped figure standing in the middle of the room, holding a lamp. But in a mower.' she saw it was Miss Cameron, who. when she spoke to her, set the lamp c,pon the table. turned it down, put :1 out, and getting in bed mom both fell asleep again, and did not waken 'till morning, and Mary never thought of the cxeurrenre again till months afterwards it was suddenly brought to her mind. The next day a most dreadful thing happened Having neeaston to oonsnit Tse tears ba»au to drop fest as Mee Cameron aoatinued: "Of course, you aan't •inset us iu keep you now. Haying nothing about the mysterious disappearance of the will. theFe are other reasons why it would b4 unpleasant for you to retain here.' ' "But I knew nothing about the will," said Mary blushing deeply .4 the rude - nem of the insinuation, for it had been thrust at her so often that she waa be- coming sensitive about it. "Who said you did," answered Mrs. Cameron, "but for the good of all con- cerned, I would like you to go away as soon as possible. "Fox the good of all concerned, is it," and into the room from the hall stepped John Cameron, who had been engaged in taking off his coat and hanging it on the rack. "Well, mother, I am one of the all, I suppose, and it will never be for my good that Mary leaves." The angry woman looked at him scath- ingly, but before either could proceed further, Mary left the room. "We may as well understand each other, mother," John said, as he drew a chair near her and sat down. "What do you mean," she asked with an unpleasant forboding. "I mean this, when I first began to pay Mary Sexton the simple attention that any gentleman would pay any lady, I had no serious thoughts about her S'ie was pleasant company, a lady, and as kind to poor aunt Cameron as a daughter. Daily comparisons between her and my sisters, whom I think pretty good girls, at last caused me to think of her as more than a friend. Her patience under all the recent trying circumstan- ces, I n,nfess has strengthened my re- gard for her. She is hopeless if sent from here. I know if father was living it would never be so, for aunt Cameron intended to make Mary her heir, and so long as her intentions were known we should give Mary a home at least; and mother, if Mary can't stay here I shall feel it incumbent upon myself to hasten my own intentions in regard to her, for I intend to marry her." Nellie he was speaking his mother had From that time out Mary was neverI risen to her feet, and as he stopped she left alone iu the house. John's mother said: and sisters came over and took turns'` "You do, do you," "I do," he answered. "Do so then, and gratify your low tastes; but remember you cannot stay here." "I do not expect to," he said, "but mother is there nu way to reconcile you to Mary? I know she has no antipathy to you. Let us all be friends, for I can- not hear to leave you in anger,but I love Mary and cannot sacrifice her unjust- ly." aHe stopped before his mother, and looked at her entreatingly, but she only f.iowned and said: "Marry her if you will, John, but I will never give you my consent. I de- test her. She is a wishy, washy thing. and she must leave this house this night." "Very well," John said, and turning he went from the room thinking time would perhaps soften his mother's heart. Mary went that night, so likewise did John. In the evening at the house of a friend they had a talk, and the result was at the end of a week they were mar- ried. John had a little money saved, and with it he purposed to live through the winter and in the spring, he thought he would be able to goon some land which belonged to him and , make the beginning of a home. mounting guard over her and she was not allowed to be alone with Miss Cam- eron any time. But there was small use in that, for after lingering for two weeks in a stupor or partially so, poor Miss Cameron was not, for she died, and with the most magnificent funeral which had been seen thereabouts for many years, she was buried beside her parents, and then came the settling up of her affairs and distribution of the spoils. - Her lawyer "came out from the city, her papers were looked over, and all her business affairs found in a prosperous condition. But search high and low, as they would, no will was found. "She surely made a will,' Lawyer Brown said, "I, myself, drew it up, but where is it ?" Then as it could not be found. insti- gated by the jealotta.relations, suspicion fell upon poor Mary. "No doubt she knows where it is," they said, "no good ever came of poor Aunt Came keeping her, to the detri- ment of her honest relatives " "And now John, do keep away from her," his mother said, one morning as he stood by the window in her room, "don't run after her any more. We, of course, will come into the money. She has nothing and now more then ever you don't want her for a wife. She play go out to work, now, where she belongs. We will move into the house next week and I shall make several changes, which would have been made long ago, if I had the management of things." As she finished speaking, John turn- ed slowly around, yawned and then with a look towards her, wbich she could not fathom, he walked out of the room and was seen at home no more that Lay. He went over to the home of him late aunt, where his sisters were staying with Mary, and remained the afternoon, and to the intense disgust of the fernier paid much attention to the latter, and in the evening talked in tonus too low for them to hear, after which lie betook himself home. Thos natters progressed for a week, at the end o.f which time the family moved over and took position of their inheritance according to, Jew, as being next of kin to the deceased. A day or two after, as Mary was in the sitting room, John a mother, Mrs. Cameron, said to her: "Well, I suppose you will i* looking about Inc • place pretty moon, Mint Mel- ton 1" "For a place '• echoed Mary, startled at first at s, suddenly having the di.- agree.ble necessity forced upon her. "A place 1" repeated Mn. Cameron, unbendingly. "cafe yes," said Mary, with a sicken- ing feeling 4.1 deeelutien as she remem bored:how little alis knew Owen 'I, -,k. ing' for moat a thing; and enupkd with that came an overwhelming genes of grief as she thought of the still term un- der the sod and the dear (see of her *frond mother as .he hart last seen it The winter wore away quickly for the happy pair, and spring drew on apace. Over at the farm as soon as the weather permitted,"the old house was to be over- hauled and rebuilt, and one pleasant day rpanind there John saw men engaged in pulling the roof off the wing,preparatory to building it a story higher. A garret was situated there John knew and he had a vague remembrance of all the odds and ends therein. The old spinning wheel and loom used by his grandmother, the reel, old fash- ioned chairs and tables, chests, trunks, and everything usually found in ancient farm house garrets of New England. ()ver all he also remembered, was spread spiders' webs, emblematical of all the misty years that hung around them. Many a pleasant day had he spent up there, and many a time had he unex- pectedly found long missing articles of more or less value in its corners, for his aunt had been a somnambulist, and the garret was her traditionary hiding plane for everything in her nocturnal perigrin- ations. Thus John mused to himself riding past the old house that day, little knnw- ing how near his thoughts had wandered to the solving of a recent mystery. But in the press of other things he thought no more of the matter until re- minded of it unexpectedly. Two men were engaged upon the roof The shingles were all off a portion of the hoards had been removed, letting in a flood of light, which penetrated every corner. Most of the furniture and de- bris had been removed, only broken pieewe and bite of paper and rags remain- ing. frying nn • boars near the eaves one of the men noticed the ooilier of a clean r•eoentl folded paper pwetrnding. He took holt�o1 it and pulling it out. op- ened it. and lo' Aunt Camelot .% Oak "Jerusaletwt" ha in to 'soaping steam vitiates', "1'.e found it " "Found whati' said the other Iwo. ''Old Mica Cameron'. will that there's been such a fuss about. How do you 'epees it *reit got therer jI "I'd 'no,' said the other man. "What will you do with it." "Why. I should think it uughter p De lawyer that made it oat, shouldn't you. Brown you know he'll see its all right. You're a witness as to where 1 found it, and if I take it to hits why Wen everything would be straight and right." And with some further consultation, the man, making some excuse to Mrs. Cameron for leaving his work for that day, went away, and after some little preparation went to the city. Presenting himself at Lawyer Brown's ottioe his busineas was soon made known. and the long missing document handed over. "You see," he said, "I was afraid to give it to the old woman for fear it would be put out of the way again. when I saw how it read, and then I thought may be it wouldn't be the thing to /give it to her son, so to be safe, I came to you who node it init." "You did right," said the lawyer,"aad I will see that you are paid all trouble and expense as soon as this business is properly settled. I suppose you are willing, if called upon, to make affidavit as to where you found it, with the other can e. witness." "Yes air, I will du it,if necessary." "AI! right," .aid the lawyer, and the two parted. Great was the consternation in Mrs. Cameron's household, when a letter caine from Lawyer Brown announcing the discovery of the missing will. But it was greater when the contents became known, and the despised Mary, John's unwelcome wife, was found to be the heiress of nearly everything. Then John remembered, as all his family knew, his aunt's habit of sleep- walking, and Mary remembered that night before Miss Cameron's fatal attack when she had awakened and found her standing in the middle of the room." "No doubt," said John, "she got lip in the night and hid the will she was w axxious about. The next day she miss- ed it, searched for it everywhere, as her disordered papers indicated, and at last, the conviction that it was stolen, gave her each a shock, that it brought on the fit; poor Aunt Cam," and John sighed. There was no trouble about proving the validity of the will, and so angry was John's mother, despite his possess- ion of a comparatively rich wife, as she had always wished, that she immediately moved out of the house. Nothing could induce her to stay or accept any of the money, though the girls both took their share gladly, and made the best of the inevitable. But John and Mary both hoped it would be all right at last, for the girls were friendly and often visited them. And sure enough, when at last Alice was married, and Mary's baby was born, and named for her, the lonely woman could hold out no longer. One morning when Mary was sitting up and holding het little Rose for the first time, sooute one knocked gently up- on the door and tben stepped in. Sit- ting with her hack to the door Mary could not see who it was till some one stepped to her side, and looking up she saw her mother-in-law. "Mary," she said, "I have eorae to see you and the baby. I can't stay sway any leniter. "And oh: I am so glad,' Mary said joyfully, though there were tears in her eyes; "and John will be so happy. Take our baby, mother, and see hew beauti- ful it is. With the plesent word "mother" all barriers were broken down,and although the lurid little Rose was not beautiful, 'yet to the happy grandma she seemod so as well as the proud mother. In the middle of it all John walked in, and such a welcome as he gave his mother in his joy was never seen. Not many weeks afterward. Mrs Cam- eron left her lonely home and came to live with John and Mary, in rooms fur- nished by herself. Several years have passed since, and Mary has never had a regret that het mother -in law came to livo with her, for a kindlier woman never lived than Mn. Cameron senior, once her affections are enlisted. Strong in her likes as well as her dislikes, she says now that she is glad that Belinda Cameron left her for - time to just whom she did. Bannon lost his strength with his hair. Thousands of men and women loose their beauty with theirs, and very large numbers restore the ravages of time by using the famous Cingalese Hai rRestorer. 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