Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-06-27

seH For the sake LOT making money
you have deprived yourse1 Of the great
ese blessingA You have abstained from
doing kind and generous acts, oonse-
queutly You hsve grown hard and self
ish. and have cheated yourself Of the
much Joy that comes to ono who en-
deayors to benefit his fellow-men; you
have not cultivated love for reading,
and have cheated yourself OF much in
teresting knowledge and intellectual
pleasure; you have not cultivated love
for the beautiful in art or nature. and
thus have cheated yourself of something
OF inestimable value that can be OBJ
tanned without money and without
price; you have not cultivated any
friendships, and You have cheated your
self of the satisfaction of knowing that
men regard you with affection and es-
TEEN, and, above all, you have never
known the Heavenly Joy experienced by
one who loves deeply and is loved IS
deeply in, return"
Laura forgot the fear of her grand
father which she customarily felt, and
spoke with enthusiasm.
The old man noticed her glowing
cheeks and sparkling eyes with q
troubled look in his face. Could it be
that he was impressed by what she had
said? Could it be that he acknowl-
edged to himself that the truth had
been spoken? Laura, who watched
him narrowly, began to experience
hope, but the next instance her spirits
were dashed.
Il have heard enough" he cried,
sternly. II am more than ever con-
WINGED that you lack good common
sense, and that it would be foolish for
me to leave my property to You. Your
father was just like you; he talked the
same way. He would persist in be-
coming an artist, and I told him that
he must leave me. He claimed that he
succeeded. His pictures were much
praised by the newspaper critics, but he
never made more than living. He
was like his mother. She never knew
the value of money, but if she had lived
I might finally have taught her some
thing. Well, your father and his wife
died. You were left without any one to
care for you. and out of pity I took you
and brought you up. hoped you
would be sensible. I believe you did
have little sense until you met this
young newspaper reporter Browning.
He read poetry to you and turned your
head. He does not know how to make
money or how to take care of it.
IF he does not know how to make
money. he does know how to make
love, and that is more than You can do,
cried Laura, thoroughly provoked.
"You are impudent and foolish. I
suppose Browning is still waiting for my
decision. If so, tell him to come in
and will soon make myself under
stood"
Laura went to the parlor and i'm
mediately returned with Browning. He
was strongly. built young fellow, with
q bright, intellectual face, and was
manly in his bearing.
II have sent for you" said Mr.. Pen
dergrass, looking at him scornfully, "in
order to tell you briefly and bluntly
just what the situation is. If you and
Laura marry shall not leave her
cent. I have arranged everything.
Several years ago I made q will in her
favor, but recently. having discovered
her foolish infatuation for you, I had
attorney Andrews draw up another
will, which provides that my property
shall be left to her only on the condi-
ton that she has not married you or
does not marry you, for if at any time
after receiving the property she shall
marry you, she shall forfeit all further
right to the possession of the property
and to its use. If she can not wisely
be intrusted with the property, then it
will 60 to the foreign missionary soci-
ETY.. As am religious man, I have
always taken q great interest in the
heather, and hope the money may
be the means of converting many of
them"
Il myself feel more interest in your
granddaughter than in the heather,
said Browning, gallantly, although he
was very pale, "and I certainly do not
wish to promote the missionary cause
at her expense. But I wish you and
her both to understand that I am no
fortune hunter. and that if she loves me
more than she does the money, love
her enough to marry her without it and
to rejoice then"
Spoken like my own true lover"
cried Laura, her heart swelling with
pride and affection.
She ran to Browning and he clasped
her in his arms.
"Mr. Pendergrass," the young man
cried, ahere is something money can
not buy, that is worth more than your
whole fortune. It is pure, disinterested
love"
The old man gazed at the young
couple in establishment
as it possible that you value what
you call love more than all of my money
and the power it would confer on the
possessor of ftp"
1T is" they cried together, and then
looked fondly at each other.
The old man at last was touched, and
the scales fell from his eyes. He real
lied the truth of what Laura had said
! in regard to hls having cheated himself