The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1879-10-23
UNCLE's WILL.

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well, / declare Z said Miss CHR.
rnp in shrill whisper.
. Did you ever 2 replied Miss Chirk.
in another.
1t was Rollin Vests will that the
two were discussing.
It was very brief and explicit.
Il bequeath my entire estate, real
aud personal, to my neice, Ruth Nor
gan,' with date, signature and attesta-
tion, was all there was of it.
The Misses Chirrup and Chirk were
too distantly related to the testator to
have entertained any considerable
hopes on their own account.
A trifling reminder, in Difference to
family etiquette, was as much as eth
or had q 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 favorite, took more than the Misses
Chirrup and Chirk by surprise.
Mr.. West had been, for many years,
widower.
His children had all died in infancy,
and couple of orphan 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; but should any dis
elimination be made between them
nobody would have hesitated to say
it would be in favor of Millie Grang-
er, 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 auncle's death, and of
gratitude for his Kindness in bygone
years, to leave room for any feeling of
Feproach at his last unaccOuntable act'
which the Misses Chirrup and Chirk
80 earnestly protested against.
isl An elderly maiden aunt came to
live with the two young ladies, and
the household remained unbroken.
Except tho chances caused by the
vacancy in their home, the lives of
Ruth and MiIlie continued az before.
1t vas not until the cousins had re-
sumed their place in society that Mil
lie began to notice the difference made
by her altered prospects.
It was Ruth now, and not herself,
that was the center of attraction.
To be rid of the common herd of
fops, and to be no longer pestered by
their silly flattery, Millie felt was q
thing to be thankful for.
Bat when Orville Ryors turned his
back upon her, and joined the ranks
of her cousins admirers. che must
have been other than q woman not to
have felt the slight.
Mr.. Ryors was the pet beau of Bill.
liDgsdale.
Handsome in person, accomplished
in manners, and fascinating address,
he was not one whose attentions were
likely to prove distasteful in any quar-
ter, and when they were directed to.
ward Millie Granger in q manner suf-
ficiently marked to excite no small
degree o: envy, we need not be sur.
prised If, instead of repeiling, she just
little encouraged them.
1t would have required q closer an
alysis than Millie had ever made ol
her feelings to show her how little 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-examlnation had
gone deeper.
He devotedly loyed Millie, and he
knew it.
If he never said outright, it was
from motives of delicacy prompted by
the difference of their positions.
She was q prospective heiress; hi
was without fortune, and void of ex'
pectations, save those precarious ones
whose realization depended upon him
self. ,.,.......
Having never spoken out, it may bt
thSt Arthur Warren had no right tt
feel -aggrieved at the attentions paii
by Mr.. Ryors to ,Millie Granger.
He should have remembered tina
young gentlemen who have nothing
to say for themselves are not privil
.eged to stand in the way of others wht
thAve. 6.fsr is',- ,f7iEtt sIasfsT9r g.,
But Arthur was not responsible.
He was not even candid, f@
He quarreled with Millie on tn,
score OF Oryille Ryors, without wore
of explanation as TO what concern i
was of his if she married that gentle
man the next day.
Now Millie was girl of spirit. Sh
did not only refuse to decline Mr.. Ry
org attentions at the unwarrantabl
dictation of Arthur, but received them
with rather more encouragement thai
before. Wy ea-FT
People began to say It would be
4 3gnAteusdsns1pa It might hsve bee
Aedn0t AilM6Is Sacle died. So
For .Mn RyorA "A ,ws have said. We