Connecticut western news., 1910-01-20
His Grandma
 Wife
How Man to Save Fortune Was Obliged to Wed His
 Grandmother.
By BRADFORD C. ALr1Y
Copyright, 1910, by American Press
 Association.

| OOOO OOOOOOOo 900 100000 1000 1 was in Switzerland and about to climb the Jungfrau when a bundle of letters and newspapers were handed me. While waiting for my guides l tore open the wrapper of the papers and, scanning one of the journals, no ticed a marked item stating that my grandfather, Sherman Wellesley, aged eiShtS-fve, had married and died the same day.
 In tWinkling was depOsed from a position of heir expectant to a great fortune to-I did not know what. My grandfather had bitterly opposed my propensity to travel and especially to climb mountains. l was his OIiy dc scendant, ard he had long endeavOred to induce me to settle down 10 the care of the millions which he had willed me. He lived ill constant terrCr lest l should male sip on one of my climbs, go several thousand feet down over d prcc; ;rice and the fortune that had been a. cumulating during his life time would go a-begging. In other words, it must be left to charity.
 ' to me. He could not have an heir .(other than myself), but he could have a wife. He had doubtless lost all pa Iience with me and at the last moment married some woman who would SUD- ply my place as all heir.
 l heGtated what to do, but, looking t1p at the Slittering top of the whi,e mountain, forgot for the time all about 1 tne fortune 1 had lost, and, my guides being ready. started on what proveI my last as cnt. On returning to my stalting point, Interlaken, I left for i home. As soon as 1 landed I wrote my new grandmother asking for informs ton as to L 2r husbands disposition of the property By return mail 1 receiv- cd this reply:
 Your grandfather, being taken suddenly l ill., concluded to destroy the will leaving you his sole heir, not having confidence that you would settle down and attend to inc property. Having but an hour or tM o to live, there was no time to make a de- f.tailed will. His brain, always quick to work solved the problem in this wise: Having great confidence in me, he mar ried me on his deathbed and signed will comprised in a few words leaving me all his property. He. however, eXacted promise from me that if you desired to snarry me l would take you for hus- band.
 Phew Marry my grandmother!
 Well, all depended upon what kind of a woman she was. A hope Sprang up in my breast that she might be of suitable age for me and passably good looking. 1 wrote her that would run
 
 sured her that if she was not favora- bly, impressed with me I would release her from the verbal condition by de- clining to marry her. This 1 fattered myself, was a very foxy way of put ting it, my real object being to decline to take a wife with a fortune if l didn't like her.
 I was doomed to a terrible disap- pointment. I found my grandmother a yeritable grandmother. She was six ty-five years old, fat, bald and not tooth in her head that was her own. I cursed myself for fCOl to have de- clined to comply with my grandfa- ther's wishes during his life, for now that the blow had fallen I realized my folly It was evident that to save the fortune 1 must marry an old woman, and even then she would own the property till her death, and I should have to ask her for every penny I spent.
 Having taken sufficient time to make up my mind what course to pursue, 1 sounded her as to whether could marry her, take an allowance and spend my time anywhere but with her. She said she would think it over, and I had hope. But the next day l was informed that such a course would not be carrying out her late husbands wishes. He had desired that 1 should take care of the property.
 The medium through whom I receiv- cd this answer was Agnes Dorchester, my grandmother's secretary, q young woman not quite my age. Indeed, I was obliged to transact everything through this girl, and it was not long before saw plainly that Mrs. Welles- ley was completely under her thumb. This added to my chagrin. Another had stepped ill between me and the fortune I had been brought up to ex- pect would be mine, and I was not even at liberty to deal directly with that person.
 Having discovered where the power lay, there was nothing for me to do but endeavOr to gain such points as wished to make through it's possessor. invited Miss Dorchester to q confer ence, ill which I played my best card in an attempt to induce her to per Guade her mistress to fulfill her prom iSe, allow me a stated income and per init me to live abroad.
 Mrs. Wellesley" she said in reply to this proposition, "would not have been intrusted with this matter were it not that she was to be implicitly trusted with carrying it out. Your Grardfather's object was to make a man of one who was wasting his tai entS in globe trotting."
 While I was disappointed, was i'm pro@@cl. Evcn this girl, wEOm I had D, ,:1n by disliIling, saw that I was not