The Irish standard., 1894-03-31

straightfor' ard sort of a person, spite
O. some O. your ways, which everybody
that knows you, or them that cares
anything about you. or at least your
poor mother, they wish you'd quit,
You know I say that for nothing else
in this world but your own good"
Il know that, GUS" he answered.,
softly. you're the best friend I've
got, away from ma
'sThat'll do. Go on home, and don't
come up in town any more to-day; and
my advice is to you to let Wiley Amer
son take care of himself how he stand
in this community. ltdon't lay in you
to bolster him up"
CHAPTER VII
1t seemed good to Wiley ANDERSON,
instead of waiting the twelve months.
allowed by law. to pay over to his
brother now the money begueathed to
him. Besides, he wished to express
his qualification that SO considerable
a portion Of land belonging to- the es7
tate did not pass by the will, and to,
offer that his brother if he chose,
might have the greater share of it..
He was moved to this partly because
lens part and no threat. and partly for
another reason which he Rugged close
ly within his breast. So one day,
while returning from the plantation
beyond, he stopped at Cullen:s place,
and went in. armed with twenty one
hundred dollar bills. Hannah, who
now at twenty-one was prettier than
ever before, and looked as young ais
when she was a girl. received him with
accustomed cordiality, and at once
dispatched a messenger for her hns-
band, who was with the hands in one
of his fields.
You needn't have been in a hurry
to send for Cullen. Hannah. You do
look so we'll. I declare / wish Julia
could keep young like you do
'SThank you, brother Wiley. I am,
and almost always keep, very wellj
often wish Sister Julia could have
some of the health which have more
than enough. How is she to-day -
! s'Only $3.50. She doesn't complains
much; but since fathers death she's
taken on more than 7 think she ought
stopped to-day to turn over to Cullen
the money father left him. thought
I'd Just as well do thatnow as wait. Be
sides, | wanted to tell him of some al
lowances was willing to make him. I
just declare, you lool1-why, you look
frst-rate, Hannah .
''Cullen will be here presently"
J Yes he said, with a languor indie
alive of town manners. They chatted
on Indifferent themes until Cullen
came The older brother partially con-
cealed his embarrassment as he looked
upon that picture Of health and honest
rural simplicity,
:, How do, brother?" said Cullen, in
his usual way, butwithout extending
omission, Wiley said:
81 came out to look after things on
the place up the road before turning it
over to you, as made up my mind to
do. Then wanted to hand you the
two thousand dollars which suppose
you know father left you
Cullen looked at Hannah, and she re-
tired from the room, Then he said:
| "You can keep the money, brother.
Except this place and what is on it,
which father had given me before he
died, won't take anything by his will.
As it seems he saw fit to prefer you 50
far above me, you may have all that he
left. He said to me more than once
during his last sickness that he had in
tended to make will, but that you
had advised against it. don't know
if he had forgotten that he had made
one already. suppose you do
'sI'm sorry, Cullen. but I couldn't
I, help fathers preferences"
"Of course not. Inever expected you
! even to try to do it. You were too duti-
!, full a SON for such as that.
| 81 don't understand such talk. Gull
lem"
ssThen I'll explain. I don't like to
talk to q man in my own house as
plain as / m going to do now, You've
been hurting me in one way and an
other ever since was child have
let YOU do it for reasons you couldn't
understand, and wouldn't care for if
you could. But father is away now.
and I am thankful that before he died
I was restored to the place in his affec-
tions to which, at least equally with
you, was entitled. How he came to
forget making such will | don't know.
/ don't doubt you do. If I believed
that his wish was for you to have near
| Ill his estate would submit to your
Having It and enjoying it to the fill OF
such satisfaction as may be in such
things But do not 50 believe.
feel entirely convinced that after that
temporary arrangement, which was
lyour doing, it was not his wish; and,
/ 81 he hadn't been deluded by You in