Before 1 returned to the country of my
birth, she, 100, had been gathered to
the land of shadows, leaving three chil
dren behind her. Ah met all this took
place so long ago. when I was young who
now am old.
Perhaps it may I terest the reader to
know tlie fate of Vr. Carson's property,
which should of course have gone to ins
grandson Harry. 1 wrote to England to
claim the estate on hi* behalf, but the
lawyer to whom the matter was submit
ted said that my marriage to thelia. not
having been celebrated uy an ordained
priest, was not legal according to English
law, and therefore Harry could not inher
it. Foolishly enough 1 acquiesced in tills,
ami the property passed to a cousin of my
father-in-law; hut since 1 have come to
live in England I have been informed that
this opinion is open to great suspicion, and
that there is every probability that the
courts would have declared the marriage
perfectly binding as having been solemnly
enterefi Into !n accordance with the cus
tom of the place where It was contracted.
But I am now so rich that it Is not worth
while to move in the matter. The cousin
Is dead, his sou is In possession, so let him
keep it.
