| Show woman W 0 man recluse leaves leave s fortune F more than and twenty one first mortgages on real estate most of it brooklyn property they will go eo according to mrs amy miss poppitz tta landlady and it bitne witness a to i her ber wil largely to tout tour 1 i I 1 T the por old lady bald sat d mrs ala guare had no 0 idea whether tier her cousins were allie alive or dead she mile ws wits that lonely in the way she ile lived miss poppitz was tall and MID and somewhat severe la in appearance she always worn wore black and never was fian in a dress drees that ft as of a style newer than that of the early awa site she had several dresses but none of them ever looked new so far 1111 as the memory of the neighborhood runs the mall mail carrier brought miss pop lop frequent letters hut but so far ns mrs maguire und and mrs anna hrandt wile who lives on the first farst floor cluid see tile the letters were as a severely ilk alko e as bliss poppitz herself and nasi of the them an mrs maguyre und brandt believe contained checks seldom sei dorn won went out bliss poppitz seldom went out ex capt to go to the bank or to tile the mike of her real estate broker or that ot of her attorney occasionally she read she had a 9 twelve volume biographical set pr print tilt ed in german and published in 10 1 18 ira auda and a german medical book published dished in were her favorites because cause ethey they were virtually ible when a physician made tile his 0 elret rs and last call on her when she was stricken with her fatal illness fou our months mouths ago miss bit poppies argued learnedly with alia upon pon his dink diagnosis basing her couten contentions thine upon s tale state ments in lb the gerand medical boo books its in the evening miss poppitz liked to go down to the basement and talk with mrs maguire not only was wag mrs maguire Magu lri affable and intelligent but BITS maguire always heated her rooms tn in cold we weather niber always had the gas burning after dark and always had a newspaper miss poppitz indulged in none of these extravagance if her gas IIII bill rose above 23 cents for a month aless poppitz took measures to reduce it to reasonable ren proportions portions sie seldom lind and a tire fire in tile the combination coal rouge and heater which she had substituted for her bee fireplace 1 I dont believe bald mrs hire maguire Magu lre that the poor soul burned two tons of coal tile the last ten years mrs maguire welcomed her lodgers calls is silo she liked oaie 4 peculiarity 86 MB 6 1 he curill ing ng to mrs airs augu was a a WOW der fully Inform in farmed informer eI woman she ahe was fully conversant with the events event a of the dayl day and with their significance had a wealth of business busina iff J information and above all was as well grounded as the social register in the actie ties and relationships of society |
