How free was all she wrote from repining or despondency--how full of Christian faith, hope, and patience! You could not read one of her letters without growing stronger for the right--without seeing the world as through a reversed telescope.
A time was fixed for hearing the case, which, now that it assumed this important shape, excited great interest among the people of S----.

When the matter came fairly into court, Mr.Wallingford presented his clearly arranged documentary evidence, in proof of Mrs.Montgomery's identity as the sister of Captain Allen, and claimed the property as hers.

He covered, in anticipation, every possible ground of objection; bringing forward, at the same time, such an array of precedents and decisions bearing upon the case, that it was clear to every one on which side the decision would lie.
At this important juncture a letter, post-marked in New York on the day before, was offered in court, and a demand, based on its contents, made for a stay of proceedings.

It came from the Spanish Consul, and was addressed to Abel Bigelow and John Floyd, executors of the late Captain Allen, and notified them that he had just received letters from San Juan De Porto Rico, containing information as to the existence of an heir to the estate in the person of a boy named Leon Garcia, nephew to the late Mrs.Allen.The case was immediately laid over until the next term of court.
In the meantime, steps were promptly taken to ascertain the truth of this assumption.

An agent was sent out to the island of Porto Rico, who brought back all the proofs needed to establish the claim, and also the lad himself, who was represented to be in his fourteenth year.