The Clio messenger. (Clio, Mich.) 1907-current, 1907-02-21

as '"The Tech" and as my funds were
running low l naturally turned to my
profession for employment.
But this letter changed my plans,
spd the following day ] cabled Pick
ering OF my departure and was out
ward bound on a steamer for New
York. Fourteen days later I sat in
chickering's Office in the Alexis Build
ing and listened intently while he
read. with much ponderous emphasis.
the provisions of my grandfather's
will. When he concluded l laughed.
Pickering was a serious man, and
was glad to see that my levity panied
him. / had for that matter, always
been source of annoyance to him,
and his look Of distrust and rebuke
did not trouble me in the least
| reached across the table for the
paper. and he gave the sealed and be-
jbboned copy of John Marshall Glen
ms will into my hands. l read it
(pugh for myself, feeling conscious
awhile that chickering's cool gaze
bent inquiringly upon me. -c1Sfo
|Se paragraphs that tsrested me
(.sysna s.<'.s.,o my said
6Shn Glenarm. sometime a
pr the city and state of New
rild later a vagabon6 of parts
Town, certain property known as
larm House, with the lands and
ditaments thereunto pertaining
hereinafter more particularly de-
lbed, and all personal effects. goods
other property that may be
ated In the premises and on the
nd herein described,-the said realty
ing in the county. OF Wabana in the
state of na,-upon this condition,
faithfully and honestly performed:
THAT said John Glenarm shall re-
main an occupant of said Glenarm
House and of my lands appurtenant
thereto, demeaning himself meanwhile
in an orderly and temperate manner.
Should he fail at any time during said
year to comply with this provision,
said property shall at once revert to
my general estate. shall become, with
out reservation and without necessity
Cor any process of law the property,
absolutely, of Marian Devereux. OF the
county and state Of New York"
well" he demanded, striking his
hands upon the arms of his chair,
what do you think of it?"
For the life Of me | could not help
laughing again. There was. in the
first place, a delicious irony in the
fact that | should learn through him
of my grandfather's wishes with re.
spect to myself Pickering and l had
grown up in the same town in Yer
mont; we had attended the same pre-
paratory school, but there had been
from boyhood certain antagonism
between us. He had always succeeded
where failed, which Is to say, must
admit, that he had succeeded pretty
frequently. When I refused to settle
down to my profession, but chose to
see something of the world first. Pick
ering gave himself seriously to the
law, and there was, knew from the
beginning, no manner of chance that
he would fail
l am not more or less than human,
and l remembered with JOY that once
/ had thrashed him soundly at the
prep school for bullying smaller boy,
but our score from school days was
not without tallies on his side. He
was easily the better scholar grant
him that; and he was shrewd and
plausible You never quite knew the
extent OF his powers and resources.
and he had. / always maintained, the
most amazing good luck.-as witness
the fact that John Marshall Glenarm
had taken friendly interest in him.
1t was wholly like my grandfather,
who was a man of many whims. to
give his affairs into chickering's keep
ing; and I could not complain. for /
mad missed my own chance with him.
II was, knew readily enough, part OF
my punishment for having succeeded
80 signally in mourning my grand
fathers d'spleasure that he had made
1t necessary for me to treat with
Arthur Pickering in this matter of the
will: and Pickering was enjoying the
=. .uation to the full.
But there was something not wholly
honest In my mirth, for my conduct
during the three preceding years had
been reprehensible. l had used my