Connecticut western news., 1873-10-10
THE SEALED WILL.

Do you suppose, mama, in case the money goes from me that it will be given to you?"
 "Dear child, how can I ever guess !? Your aunt, remember, is your fathers sister, not mine so it is scarcely likely she has thought of me. I am afraid the heir in the sealed will is John Garland. i" "MammaP
 "It is only guess work, dear"
 But he is so unfit to have the re- sponsibility of money a man known to be gambler and drinking man, if not an actual drunkard.
 "Very true. Yet he is the nearest relative your Aunt Jessie had, except ing only yourself. :"
 "I can scarcely think Aunt Jessie would leave him fifty thousand dollars. /"
 My dear, she has left it to you, her niece and namesake."
 @ "But upon the condition that I shall never marry. If I do, the sealed will in the hands of her lawyer is to be opened, and the money pass from me to the heir or heirs named therein. You must know me we'll enough to be sure that the money would never tempt me to break my engagement yet for your sake wish Oh, why did Aunt Jessie leave it to me at all"
 "Do not think of me. I can live as we have since your father died. But, Jessie, and Mrs. Markham's face looked grave and d,-"there is one view of the matter you do not take"
 "I dare say there are fifty. Remem- Der we have now had only an hour or two to think, since the letter came from the lawyer. But what is the view you mean?"
 "Charlie."
 "Charlie ?"
 Jessie's large brown eyes were opened to their widest extent as she repeated the name, adding: "Why, I haven't thought of anything but Charliep'
 But-I mean-dear me p said the mother, shrinking from uttering her own thoughts. "You know, dear, you have always been considered your aunt's heiress; and Charlie is young and only commencing the practice of his profession. It may be that he will"
 "Be false to me for the sake of money ?" interrupted Jessie, with the rosiest of cheeks and brightest of eyes. "We will soon test that" and she drew writing-table to her side. "I will send him 0 copy of the lawyers letter, and "-here her voice and eyes softened -" the assurance that Aunt Jessie's will makes no difference to me-"
 Mrs. Markham made no objection to this step; but after the letter was signed, sealed and dispatched to the village by Polly, the only servant of Mrs. Markham's household, she called Jessie again to her side.
 nyar fha Foi,. ,u,aok fooo of AI,o girl there had crept a shade of gravity lawyers letter, that clouded the brown eyes and gave the sensitive, mobile mouth firmer pressure than was quite natural. Life had been all sunshine fol Jessie Markham, yet hers was one oi the buoyant natures that find the silver lining for every cloud, and coax some sweetness from every bitter dose. He1 father had been dead six years, and his business affairs having been compli cated in some way not comprehensible to feminine intellect, his widow and child found themselves reduced to aI income that barely covered the neces saries of life. They left the city anG took small cottage in the pretty village of Merton, where Mrs. Markham soor procured class of music scholals, ano herself gave Jessie lessons in the high CT branches of English studies, Ger man, French, and music, till, at eigh teen, her daughter also procured few pupils in languages. They were very happy in their mutual affection, in tho love of their pupils, and the cares o1 their little household.
 It had been understood from the time Jessie was tiny baby that she would inherit the fortune of her maiden aunt for whom she was named, and who came from the city every summer tc spend month or two in the little cot tage, always bringing pretty presents to brighten the home of her brother widow, and lavishing the tenderest af fection upon her neice.
 .. Yet, though Jessie herself had know1 of her aunt's supposed intentions neither she nor her mother had eve