Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-10-09

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 an heiress if her identity could be
 proved, and Miss Wolcott would own
 her. He suddenly saw, with clearness,
 the plight of Miss Wolcott in this dis
 covery of her niece, and cold fear
 crept over him that there might be
 some difficulty in restoring to Eunice
 her inheritance. It would have been
 difficult enough if it had been attempt
 ed at the time this confession was
 made. But after all these years? He
 had been youth of eighteen when
 Miss Wolcott had come into her for
 tune, and he remembered well how it
 had changed her mode of living from a style of modest dignity to a luxuri-
 ous elegance. How, after all these years of lavishness, could she go back to simple habit of life? And then the hurt to her pride of race (which in
 the absence of anything more substan- tial to be proud of she had nourished and brooded upon almost morbidly) to have to own kinship with girl reared in such a sordid environment as that of this farm, with less knowledge of the world than any servant of her establishment. He had a tiresome memory of Miss Wolcott's motherly
 warnings to himself in his callow youth against dragging in the mire" his fine old family name by his lam entable lack of that "exclusiveness" which, she assured him, had charac- terized his mother of blessed memory and both his paternal and maternal grandmothers. It was on the occasion of his having brought home from col lege for the holidays that splendid fel- low, John Lowry, diamond in the rough, and in his pride in Lowry's friendship having taken him to call on Miss Wolcott, who, with her liter ary tastes and extensive travel, he was sure would appreciate his bril- liant college mate, instead of which he had brought on himself long philo- sophie homilies upon the duty incum- bent upon 'the old families" to pre- serve their exclusiveness and not to admit into their sacred circle any vul- gar new element. When, with youth full enthusiasm, he had rebutted her theories as narrow, old fashioned and so forth she had pinned him down to the fundamental question, DO you or do you not believe in blood, Peter Kinross"
 q do! The blood that makes true men and women, not the blood that makes snobsw With which parting shot he had left her, and the coolness between them thereafter had never been overcome.
 He remembered his cynical reflection at the time of her brothers death. Shell think the angels in heaven will feel honored at the arrival of Vol cottw
 Yet he found himself just now, per. haps, inconsistently batting himself on the head for his perspicacity in having recognized that Eunice was of no common stock.
 He himself had no doubt of the truth of the confession" and of Eu- nices identity with the stolen child. But while the moral evidence seemed clear and convincing. would it be suf- ficient without the legal proof which he recognized was lacking to persuade Miss Wolcott of her duty to give up fortune after nineteen years posses sion of it? Here would be test of the good blood" of which she was so proud.
 "It would be more than common hon. esty; it would be heroic. But if she takes after her niece she won't lack the herOfsm"'
 The fact that the communications to Miss Wolcott of Beatrice Daniels, the trained nurse. had been ignored did not promise well for Eunice's case just now.
 Kinross threw himself back on his pillow and clasped his hands under his head. No use to undress-he sleep. The thought of this girl, brought up as a servant to the Morn ingstars. her marriage to their son because her poverty made her mot good enough fur our Abe" her ignorance of life combined with her of books making her unique to the point of being pathetic-this young creature to suddenly find herself a great heiress. The speculatiOns which the situation gave rise to drove sleep far from his brain. Would she be good enough for tour Abe" when her story was known? He chuckled when he thought of old Morningstar's earnest endeavors to hang himself. metaphorieally speaking. by opposing his sons marriage to a great fortune.
 "She may imagine she's in love with hat fellow Abe. never having seen my other sort of men. but of course a few months in the world will cure ler."
 He wondered whether he would do we'll to tell her at once all that he Enew of her or to wait until he had seen Miss WOlcott and learned wheth- IT or not there was going to be diffi- .ulty about her coming into her own t would be cruel to raise her hopes .efOre there was some assurance of heir being realized He would do well Q put her o1 when they met tomOr- -Ow night in the haunted room with as title as would satisfy her for the time lefnz. He would then communicate at ace with Mss WOleOtt- If she was pending this sumner at her Newport 3 louse Ee would run on to see her fT1- i ue5isteiT. If she were abroad Tshe !