The Red Cloud chief., 1901-01-11
CHAPTER ".

There was CONSERVATION at the MAN.
or and the Uplands; but when Frank
Dynevor's will was read, his brother
was amazed to find there was no mem
ton whatever OF his promise to secure
Harold's future. II had been made i'm
mediately after the birth OF little Lii
Ian, and It left everything in trust to
his wife for her daughter, and II the
child died before reaching the age OF
Il her mother Inherited everything,
with power to bequeath it TO whom
she pleased.
No wonder the Charles Dynevors
were aggrieved. They would not have
grudged the estate to Lillian; but that
II should revert to her mother, that a
girl who had never seen the old house
three years before should have power,
IL her child died, to leave 1t away from
the family who had owned it for
centuries--it was terrible!
Perhaps their sense Of injustice made
the Charles Dynevors keep aloof from
the young widow, and so they did not
realize how quickly her acquaintance
Will LSuoNdlt ihiuoi IlPNilVu ~ III
timacy: and II came on them like a
thunderbolt when, a year and a day
after her husbands death. Nina mar
ried the specious adventurer and went
abroad with him.
Very little news of her reached
Easthill. That she had a second child
another daughter-and that her
health failed so rapidly she was Obliged
to live always In the south Of France,
was all the Dynevors heard in the first
few years. Then there came a formal
letter from Eustace Lindon. acquaint-
ing them with his stepdaughter's
death; and, barely six months later,
another to that his wife had
passed away.
She will have left him all the ready
money; but she can't be so base as to
bequeath him the Manor" Charles
Dynevor said to his wife.
II don't know. She was perfectly
infatuated with him, and | suppose she
would think OF her child" replied Mrs
Dynevor.
But there was no mention of he
child in the will. Mr.. Dynevor pal,
half a guinea for a copy Of it. II hat
been made Immediately after the dealt
Of her f%rstborn, and it simply be
queathed "all property OF which | ma,
die possessed, real or personal. O
I, every description whatever, to my dea
husband, Eustace Lindon."
. 1t had been drawn up by an Englisl
, lawyer. and witnessed by the docto
and nurse who attended little Lillian
In her last illness. Everything wa
, perfectly in form. Mr.. Proctor, tn
/ leading solicitor OF Marion, who ha
been at school with Harold Dynevol
? and remained his close friend, sal
that to upset 1t would be quite i'm
I possible.
So Eustace Linden enjoyed his thou
a sands and the Dyneyors grew poore
every year. The father lived till hi
only Son was old enough to take u
q the burden he had borne so bravel,
8 His dying words charged Harold (
be good to his mother and Kitty, an
e never. IL he could help It, accept an
iuSoi NJ tic hhhuo VI cuoldCt IlUuOI
n 81 can't explain 1t TO you, my boy
e said the dying man. solemnly. but
have thought q great deal about tn
past since my illness began. woul
not say u word 10 your mother, lie.
e she should brood over it; but ! can
8 help feeling Linden did not pla
n straight. Your Aunt Nina was lit
more than a child when he Marie
her; but she vas singularly fran
q and true. Knowing as she did thi
= Dynevor Manor had been in our fan
IT lily for centuries, 7 can't believe 81
K, would have left It away from the O.
Ie name willingly"
4. DO you mean you think the will W;
a forgery" asked Harold.
ID mo; ] believe II was obtained fro
her by undue influence. When 81
le was very III he must have worked
1t her fears In some way or other.