Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-12-16
ROLLIN VESTS WILL.

swell, declared" said Miss CHR
rup in shrill whisper.
"Did you eVer?" replied Miss ChiIk
In another.
1t was Rollin Vests will that the
two were discussing 1t was very
brief and explicit
Il bequeath my entire estate, real
and personal, to my niece, Ruth
Morgan" with date, signature, and
attestation, was all there was Of it.
The Misses Chirrup and Chirk were
too distantly related to the testatOl
to have entertained any considerable
hopes on their own account
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 10 be
his favorite, took more than the
Misses Chirrup and Chirk by surprise.
Mr. West had been for many years
a widower His children had all
died in infancy, and a couple of or
phaned nieceS, cousins to each other
and reared under his roof, constituted
his household. That his large for
tune would be left to them equally
was point people took for granted;
but should any discrimination be
made between them nobody would
have hesitated to say it would he in
favor OF Mile Granger her uncle's
pet.
An elderly maiden aunt came to
live with the two young ladies, and
the household remained unbroken.
Except the changes caused by tho va
cancy in their home, the liv43 of
Ruth and Mile continued as before.
1t was not till the cousins had re-
sumed their place in society that
Mile began TO notice the difference
made by her altered prospects 1t
was Ruth now, and not herself, that
was the center of attraction.
To be rid of the common herd of
tops and to be no longer pestered by
their silly fiattery Mile felt was a
thing to be thankful for But when
Orville Ryors turned his back upon
her and Joined the ranks of her
cousins admirers she must have been
other than a woman not to feel the
slight.
Mr.. Ryors was the beau of Billing
dale. Handsome in person, accom-
plished in manners and of fascinat-
ing address, he was not one whose at
tentions were likely to prove distaste-
full in any quarter, and when they
were directed toward Mile Granger
u a manner sufficiently marked to
excite no small degree of envy we
need not be surprised if, instead of
repelling, she Just little encour-
aged them.
IL would have required a closer
analysis than Mile had ever made of
her feelings to show her how little
she really cared for Mr.. Ryors and
how much she really cared for Arthur
Warren, whom she mad known and
liked since they had PLAYED and some
times Quarreled together in child
hood.
But Arthur's determination had
gone deeper. He devotedly loved
Mile and knew it.
Having never spoken out, it may
be that Arthur Warren had no right
to feel aggrieved at the attentions
paid by Mr.. Ryors to Mile
But Arthur was not Reasonable.
He was not even candid. He quar-
relied with Mile on the score of Or
vile RyorS without a word of ex-
PLANTATION as to what concern it was
OF his il she married that gentleman
the next day.
Mile was a girl Of spirit; she not
ouly refused to decline Mr.. Ryor's at
tentions at Che unwarranted dicta-
tations of Arthur, but received them
With rather more encouragement
than before.
When Arthur Warren LETT his ma.
tive village without as much as call.
ing TO bid her good-by, Mile cried a
little, without well knowing why,
and that evening went to ball with
Orvllle RYorR and was among the
gayest Of the gay.
The grief that Mile felt at hel
uncle's death fer a season over.
Swallowed all other thoughts. But,
when time at length had so tempered
her sorrow that her life began again
TO flow In its accustomed channel il
was not without little chagrin that
she beheld the man whose attention:
had been lately so devoted to her that
people began to couple their name:
significantly turn aside and follow
her fortune instead ofsherself
Mile knew now how little she haG
ever cared for OrVille Ryczs, buI
would others undel stand it? WoulC
it NC bc said he had Tilted her;
The thought stung her past endur
ance.
She had been liberallv supplied
with money during her uGcIe's life