New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-12-23
SQUIRREL.

aoa =, valow sunshine stood Aobots
Grange early one May afternoon, looking tns v.ry
picture of smiling ease ana collorI ps 6ndding
beds dotted about its slopng lawns p9auin ns
woods thick with bright blue hyaclnths shetsring
. Il carefully from northeast winds ana a s Sa
sweep of corncropped S Oro,eetigS shadow
Al ;ts gray gables and many Widowed 'front.' :.
But its seeming quietrde Was onE.% R nt old
suite correctly-brfck deep Wltmn inc GUAM oIo
ICONS of the dwelling a very peculiar turmoil was
going on; terrible upsetting OF thlhgs as NV
had been; amazed submission to lnlngS US ti, y,
now appeared to be; dlsmay ana piahh ule"u VI
For in the last week of chill, tickle April, MISS
Peasance Westbrook, spinster,mistress OF ADoqts
Grange had suddenly resigned control OF all her
worldly possessions. nlppng night frost, anu
firm refusal TO have fire in her bedroom because
the night date for such Injuries was pS' ~ ~ tour
score. A swift attack of bronchitis AFFORDED her
rapid and almost painless exit from mott seed d
turbance among survivors that began almosO as
soon as the last Amen" was said over her grave.
Then as one Of the carriages turned ouc q u IpS
Courts. Worcestershire the rich merchant-nephew
of the departed lady, TO her solicitor John roster
come in for pretty near everything of the old lady
don't they? Do you happen to know if she's paid
me the compliment of diamond ring or 9 silver 81
was va c3 ba answer ne give you
information at present My father had entire
management Of the Abbot's Grange business, and
But you stepped into his shoes, didn't youP"
"Only partly Miss Westbrook looked on me
as comparatively juvenile, fancy. though have
been in the firm the last five years She never
honored me with any confidential communications
and even took all private papers from our once,
the viii most likely among them - , g..
All then that elder girl yonder VIII know Its
yag,T S"sht so marry we'll f she's
of the old maids hoard Got any engagement do
No. Mr. Foster did not know. Perhaps the
question struck him as unreasonable, coming the
minute after the service where half the village
had been crying over the loss Of their kind II &C.
centric old friend. Anyhow, the young lawyer
gazed studiously out Of the carriage window as
they wound slowly up the hill, and turned CONVEX.
sation TO the beauty Of some noble oaks that
skirted the road right and left
All! ha good timber that commented Mr..
westbrook critically. I'D have it down il i was
cent Can't the good of trees standing suck
ing up the land any more than lazy horses eating
their heads off in the stable. My father, you
know-brother of the old lady, yonder,' with a
nod toward the church, only got as much as his
sister when his father dropped But he was WISE
Married into trade. Ny mothers people were IN
East India shipping He made mint OF money,
end turned High Courts, that he bought cheap into
regular show place: Pve stuck to the SAM line:
money, you bet 1 got a little extra nous from
my mother
And littlo something else" thought John
Foster, but aloud he said
Miss Westbrook's cousin, the grandmother Of
those young people she adopted married into some
county family, did she not ~
Mr. WestbrOok laughed. Exactly so. Country
gentleman III Norfolk of the good old style. Lived
up TO the knocler' and left about hall what ne
begun with Then his son must needs need go bo bon
for friend, and lost even that Whose hateth
suretyship,' say THAT'S how these young Ferrers
Miss Westbrooz was greatly attached to them,
Ali So I suppose. She was q sentimental
old conservative And their grandmother had
been brought up with her like an own sister, I've
heard. SO instead of letting them prog for them
selves AS / recommended her to do ten years ago,
the last time l saw her, she took them in and did
for them. Oh. here we are at the house again.
My train goes from Crowchester at d. sharp. 30
now for the will"
Mr.. W, stbrook might say Now for the viii !"
G S %ss oHe re
graceful, dark-eyed girl of one-and-twenty, now
in sore grief at losing the loving guardian OF hel
orphaned years. knew nothing OF the al[importan'
Did il matter much p' she said, YEARLY wher
the rector and John Foster sought her out IN the
library, where her sister and young brother wer'
trying TO comfort her. " 1t seemed horrible u
be troubling about money so soon after
And then she broke off, her sad eyes fun o.
tears, and the young lawyer felt how vivid wa
the contrast between her bearing and Mr. West
brooks. and how her present pathos suited tn
Girl even better than the bright manner which haC
rather turned his h ad when lately he had paiC
professional visits to the Grange
But though it went against the grain with hin
needfal t It was to try and find this win at once
Had Miss Westbrook never told Der WHERE
she had put i? Never mentioned its details e
know them before he left
The only Response TO this was that Olive wa
certain that Aunt Peasancse had never TentioneC
liked to speak Of This must have been one
Perhaps she had not made will at all
But. my dear young lady cried the rector
o farthing Miss WeSrbrcok would never have
done it,
sister Helen, delicate girl of fifteen, if she
could help it, But auntie i'll only such
httie time. Very likely she may have forgot
Forgotten it, repeated the clergyman in dis
may. my poor. dear child, don't suggest sucl
"Or, tell you what" said the youngest o
the adopted trio 1.-THE. clever-faced COY 0
twelve emerging from window curtain, wher
he had been trying to hide a tear-stained cOun
perhaps. You know 1 was with her the-th
last morning just when she turned worse, ant
she whispered: I want to tell Olive SO
forgotten everything. She could only look a
us puzzled-hke, and-and never spoke any more.
Then the lad burrowed back amons the cur
And the rector and lawyer left the room in thu
utmost perplexity
Every likely place was ransacked within 1 II,
hCp rSn s mistress
the late Mr. Fosters Office, some time last autumn
TO Barnby's Rank. and they took tan box II
the carriage with them OF to Barnbys BAN
went the coachman now, again, returning witt
the said deposltary, which the late Mr. Foster
son searched through with the deepest anxiety
Bonds were there of railways, and canals. and ga
comp nies. a mortgag, stock Of half dozer
kinds. but alas, no will. Mr.. Westbrook iele
graphed 10 his home that he should not be bacl
until further notice.
1T is desirable that I remain TO see thi
through" he said and ordered the butler TO have
room prepared for him for indefinite stay
The butler carried the command TO the house
keeper in high affront
"He speaks TO me as If I WAS boy in but
TONS said he. You and me amt used TO suci