The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1886-12-17

ladies were waiting to have their hair
prepared for the night
Hastily concealing the paper, her
heart beating high with hope, she en-.
tered the house, and went Immediately
| to the room where they were waiting
for her to perform the mental task d
brushing their hair. Never did the
time seem so long to her, nor never
| did they seem to went more done
than on that night. No sooner had
she assisted them into their dressing.
gown, and put on their slippers than
she donned her cloak and hood, and
went with flying steps TO the villageto
see Mr.. Markley, the lawyer, who had
served her father for several years.
She arrived there out OF breath just
as he was about to leave.
"Oh sir, just one moment please
she managed to say breathlessly, Il
have something of great importance
to show you. Icould not sleep until
| you had seen it,"
"Why, Miss Evelyn, is it you. Come
in, my child; you should not be out
alone at this time of right"
Re.entering his Office. lighting the
lamp and seeing her comfortably seat
ed, he opened the paper and, after
glancing at it a moment, said:
al am indeed thankful, my child.
You are at last to be righted. This
is a will that | drew up for my client
long previous to his illness. / have
often wondered as to it's whereabouts,
but could do nothing to press its ex-
istence. But where did you find it?"
he asked in a puzzled way.
She told him all the story of the
broken tree.
81 think I understand, he resumed.
HE had long feared this stepbrother's
stealing it, and would not TRUST it out
OF his own hands, and did, no doubt,
put it there for safe-keeping, and
by Providence it has been given
to it's rightful owner. 1t b~equeaths
everything to my beloved daugh-
ter, Evelyn with the exception oil
a few hundred dollars to his brother.
/ will take steps the first thing in the
morning to have the rightful owner
installed, and permit me to say think
it will be a charming one. An1 now,
with your permission, / will drive you
home in my gig."
He was only to glad for the op-
portunity to do SO, for, although sew
eral years her senior, he had longsecret-
ly loved her, but he was waiting to
gain a name in his profession.
Evelyn slipped into the house I'M
noticed and she lay awake long that
night wondering how the women who
had nc pity for her would feel when
they knew they were no longer to reign
there. At first she felt only resent
ment and triumph, but her better ma
tufe asserted itself and she resolved
that they should not be wholly de.
prived of their present comfort.
With the first grey dawn of morning
she was up and went through her
usual routine of duties as though
nothing had happened.
About nine o'clock she was sum-
moned to the parlor, where were
seated Mr.. and Mrs. Hazelton, their
two daughters and two gentlemen in
the legal profession, besides Mr..
Markley.
At first there was only rage depicted
on the faces of the four people who
were SO soon to have all taken from
them, but when Evelyn in agentle way
told them that she would divide her
property with them, their rage was
turned to shame and each humbly
asked her forgiveness.
Evelyn has consented to become
Mrs. Marley as soon as she has laid
her mourning garments aside.