Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1873-10-22
ROLLIN VESTS WILL.
"Well, L declare J"
Miss Chirrup was alw

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in her idiom, was verb intransitive,
unless the note of admiration with
which she invariably followed il might
be taken to be its object.
''Well, L declare p said Miss CHR
rup. in shrill whisper. .-...
Did you erer - replied Miss Chirk.
IN another.
1t was Rollin Vests will that the two
were discussing. 1t was very brief and
explicit. II bequeath my entire estate,
real and personal, to my niece, Ruth
| Morgan, with date, signature, and
attestatien. was all there was of it.
The Misses Chirrup and Chirk were
too distantly related to the testator to
have entertained any considerable hope
ON their own account. A trifiing re-
minder. in Difference to family etiquette,
was as much as either had right to
expect But that Rollin West should
have left his whole fortune to one of
his nieces, to the exclusion of the other,
whom everybody had supposed to be
his fayorite, took more than the Misses
Chirrup and Chirk by surprise. .r
Mr.. West had been for many years /,
widower. His children had all died In
infancy, and a couple of orphaned nieces
cousins to each other, and reared under
his roof, constituted his household.
That his large fortune would be left to
them equally, was point people took
for granted; bnt should any discrimina-
ton be made between them, nobody
would have hesitated to say it would be
in favor of Millie Granger, her uncle's
pet. whose blithesome smiles he had
been wont to call the sunlight of his
life.
Miles loving heart was too full Of
sorrow at her uncle's death, and of
gratitude for his kindness in bygone
Years, to leave room for any feeling of
reproach ut his last unaccount4ible act,
which the Misses Chirrup and Chirk so
earnestly protested against.
An elderly maiden aunt came to live
with the two young ladies, and the
household remained unbroken. Except
the changes caused by the vacancy in
their home, the lives Of Ruth and Millie
continued as before.
1t was not till the cousins had resumed
their places in society that Millie began
to notice the difference made 10y her
altered prospects. II was Ruth now,
and not herself, that was the centre of
attraction. @
To be rid OF the common herb of fops,
and to be no longer pestered by their
silly fiattery, Mile felt was thing to
be thankful for. But when Orville
Ryors turned his back upon her. and
joined the ranks of her cousins admir-
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woman not to feel it. ....
Mr.. Ryors was the pet bean of Bill
lingdale. Handsome in person, accom-
plished in manners, and of fascinating
address, he was not one whose atten
tiops were likely to prove distasteful in
any quarter, and when they were directed
toward Millie Granger in a manner suf-
ticiently marked to excite no small de-
gree of envy, we need not be surprised
if. instead of repelling, she just little
encouraged them.
1t would have required closer analy-
sis than Millie had ever made of her
feelings to show her how little she really
cared for Mr.. Rogers, and how much
she cared for Arthur Warren, whom
she had known and liked since they had
played and, sometimes, quarreled to-
gether in childhood. But Arthur's self
examination had gone deeper. He de-
yotedly loved Millie, and kHeU it. If
he had never said so outright, it was
from motives of delicacy, prompted by
the difference of their positions. She
was prospective heiress he was with
out fortune, and void of expectations,
save those whose realization depended
on himself. - .-
Having never spoken out, it may be
that Arthur Warren had no right to feel
aggrieved by the attentions paid by Mr..
Ryors to Millie. He should have re-
meInbered that young gentlemen who
have nothing to say for themselves are
not privileged to stand in the way of
others who have.
But Arthur was not reasonable. He
was not even candid. He quarrrelled
with MilIe on the score of Orville
Ryors, without word of explanation
as to what concern it was of his If she
married that gentleman the next day.
Now Millie was a girl of spirit. She
not only refused to decline Mr.. Ryors'
attentions at the unwarrantable dicta-
ton of Arthur, but received them with
rather more encouragement than before.
People began to say it would be
match soon, and it might have been,
had not Miles uncle died. For Mr..
Ryors, as we have said, was a very at
tractive person, and Mille had not suffi
ciently scrutinized her heart to be aware
that her chief interest in him sprang
from the pleasure of having triumphed
where SO many others had failed, and
disposition to assert her own will.
When Arthur Warren left his native
village without SO much as calling to
bid her goodbye, Millie cried a little,
without well knowing why, and that
evening went to ball with Orville
Ryors, and was among the gayest of the
gay. 1t is very likely she would then
and there have accepted Mr.. Ryors,
had he said the word, Just to show how
little she cared for Arthur Warren.
The grief that Millle felt at her uncle's
death for a season overshadowed all
other thoughts. But when time at
length had so tempered her sorrow that
her life began again to flow in its accus-
toned channel, it was not with little
chagrin that she beheld the man whose
attentions had been lately so devoted
to her that people began to couple their
names significantly, turn and follow her
fortune instead of herself.
Millie knew now how little she had
ever cared for Orville Ryors but would
others understand it? The thought
stung her past endurance. And the
meanness of him who thus Inundated
her scarce exceeded in her eyes that of
her cousin Ruth, who permitted, in
stead of spurning his advances.
In the bitterness of her heart, Millie
resolved to quit her cousins abode, and
make her way to the great city. trusting
that where so many live there must be
many ways of getting living, some OF
which would be open to her.
She had been literally supplied with
money during her uncle's lifetime, and
had husbanded enough to meet the ex-
penses of her journey, and, for time,
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