Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1878-01-17

'Good-by for tho present, Mics
Miller he said. But tell your moth
er she need no. worry herself about
the mortgage. i, not Jupp, can
alone dispose of it. l used to know
your father when was q boy, and
down here and 1 shall ever respect
any one who bears his NAME
With this be lifted his hat again,
wheeled his horse and spurred after
the disccnfitted lawyer.
The whole village was in stir
the next day with the news that
young Wheatland, The heir of the
Wheatland's estate, had returned
from Europe, where he had been at
his uncle's death, had come down to
Shoperton the evening but one be.
fore had quarreled with his dis.
charged lawyer Jupp and had given
out that be intended to reside at
Wheatlsnd Hall, on the home farm,
thenceforth, and 10 look personally
after his affairs. But we anticipate.
How Edith got home from the
harvest field she never afterward
could tell. All she remembered was
that she had rushed into the house
and flung herself on her knees by
the side of the bed, and had sobbed
out wildly, ooh, mother, mother
dear, the cottage isn't going to be
sold. have his word for it
1t had been nearly an hour after
that before she could rally her daz-
zled faculties sufficiently to give her
mother coherent narrative of what
had transpired. She had scarcely
finished when there was knock at
the door, and boy from the store-
keeper brought in several parcels,
containing tea, coffee, sugar, biscuits,
and ham and various other edibles.
Master says as now be heard the
missus was ill., said the boy, sand
so he sent these things, reckoning as
how you was too tusy to come and
order 'em. You can pay for them
when times is better, and you can
have as much as you like after this
If Edith had suspicion that some
kind intercessor had caused this
credit to be given her, she had no
proof. She pondered over the prob.
lem as she prepared hasty meal for
her mother, and had just cleared the
table when there was knock at the
door, and opening it she saw a high
bred middle-aged lady, in a plain but
stylish walking costume, who asked
with q kind smile and voice the
very echo of young Mr.. Wristbands,
when 10 it's softer mood, il Mrs Mil
Ter lived there; and on being ans
wered in the affirmative said Il
know she is i'll, and don't see straDg-
ers, but tell her Judith Wheatland
is here, we used to know each
other well when we were both girls,
more than twenty years ago. How
much, my dear-this to Edith who
held the door open for her-you
look like your mother, when she was
of your age
Mr.. Miller at sight Of her old
friend seemed to be almost we'll
again. The two talked of former
and happier times, when the poor
invalid had been the belle of the viii
lage, and then the years Of separa.
ton, and the changes that had tax
en- place until the twilight fell, and
and Miss Wheailand herself rising, ,
said she must go Or she would be
beiated.
y had not heard Of you in ever so
long, you see,' she SAID, sand l was
too anxious to wait even till to-mor-
row. We went abroad when Cas-
ton WAS quite young, that he might
be educated in Germany, and we
have been there ever since. / d, MT
know but that we should have re-
manned there if uncle hadn't died,
and CASTOR heard things about his
lawyer here that made him think
we had better return. We arrived
here only last night, quite unexpect.
eddy, and my first inquiry was for
you
Our story is nearly told. Lawyer
Jupp, during the long illness of old
Squire Wheatland, that lasted for
years, had usurped the entire man.
agement ofthe Gresham property,
and had come to regard himself as
responsible to no one. So he had
given away to his natural love for
greed, extorting brides for forbear-
ance from all debtors who were be.
hind, and mercilessly running those
who could not bride him. When the
old Squire died, he reasoned that the
helr would remain in Europe, and 80
became more cruel and more exact
ing. 1t was rumor of this conduct
that brought young Mr.. Wheatland
home in the way we have seen.
II was not many months before
Edith became bride. Young Mr..
Wheatland never forgot that look
in the harvest field, it was case of
love at FIRST sight, and not with him
alone, for to Edith he was always
her 'red.oross knight Every one
said she made the most popular mis-
tress that had ever lived at Wheat
lands Hall The reason was that
she carried with her into her new
and envied position the same SIM
plicity of character, the same devo
ton to others, and the same noble
ness, which had characterized her in
her years Of poverty.