The National tribune., 1901-03-07

pride. 1t was then, when everything
seemed to intensity the long-standiug feud,
that the village awoke to the fact that
the heirs of the two irreconcilable women
were lovers. TE> suggestion met with
universal approval. Under all the mar
rowness and pettiness of New England
lie Is strong romantic tendency, and
suddenly everyone found that he was sick
TO death OF quarrel and eounter-uuarrei
mat permeated all the village thought.
Before this MIR. BcttsOn alone had made
some movement toward reconciliation with
the Keeps, but as he was credited with
some Interior motives, his action had little
ieaYening power.
20 Ihen Lucy Greenlee died. Hardly past
~, she was known as ''old Miss Green
lee or poor Miss Greenlee," according TO
Mhat partisan was speaking. Some even
appled the adjective mean to her as
wen as to her sharp-tongued neighbor.
ANA the brabble was fiercer than ever over
the ioheiy grave, for in defiance of her
Hlothers express command, Margaret
heep, Just back from college after grad
nating with distinguished honor. had sat
beside the stricken woman's death-bed.
ana Albert Sears, the boy Miss Green
zee nad ilted out of the gutter, as it were,
mace no answer to kilograms sent to him
ut Cambridge, either during her short i'll
ness nor after her death. The funeral
coftege had already left the house when
he drove furiously up in q grocer's wagon
Whlch mad happened to be the only con
Feyahce at the station when he had
sprHHS OUT OF the englne-cab of a fast
freight that had slowed up at the Snnl
lnerdale switch few moments before
one arm was in 4 sling, his face was pale
and worn, and his clothing soiled almost
dsreputable. Faint and weak, he was
assigned to the only carriage in the long
iine M nor already filled-the elegant Ian
dau OF the Hulberts, which, to the aston
hearse. ~ 'oe
On arriving at the church the mourners
were treated to the strange and nitifpI
SIGHT OF the heir OF the Greeniee rniIIions
st4Sgering to the grave, supported ON one
side by the family physician and on tbs
9ther by the child of the dead woman's
gnlteIest g. enemy. There Were not many
dfy eyes, when, leaning against tbs pood
doctors shoulder at the head Of the grave
ne showed a grief that under other cir
cuhiStanccs would have been considered in
very bad taste. As people dispersed af,nr
the funeral they told not a few toles of
the young mans affection for the woman
who showed to him whatever of tendor-
ness was left in her siiliyeled heart Wb;io
there was good deal of comment as In
the condition IN which he appeared, no
one doubted his ability to give immediata
and sufficient explanation.
II week went by before he was able to
be out. In the meantime some startling
things had come to light. 1t was rvb;s'
pered that Sears had been expelled from
the university some six months before and
Tor the most fagrant causes; that his ount
had not only disinherited him, but left her
entire fortune to James Bettson, her at
torney, ana giving the latter as authority
Tor the report that the young mans plight
at the funeral was nothing more or iess
than intoxication.
ON the heels of this came the undoubted
truth that Mrs. Keep had for the last time
told Margaret, that wilful duplicate of
herself, TO break entirely with the unfor-
tunate young man on penalty of imme-
date disherison. When he finally ap-
peared on the street, Sears would give no
explanation. and invited no discussion of
his affairs, past or future, and therefore