The Holly chieftain., 1910-10-28

my Doa4 0tr:-In answer to your
advertisement In The Saturday Re-
view, I wish to make some inquiries
concerning your genealogical work.
should like TO have my family traced
down to my grandfather. In his
fathers time, believe the records
were In the family. dating back to the
sixteenth CUutuFy In Scotland: but
party owing TO nre. partly owing to
indifference. these records have been
lost. I should like to restore them.
IF you will undertake this work
for me. let mo know your terms and
l will forward whatever information
I have. Very truly yours.
ANDREW Macpherson"
Celia Dale began to read this note
with the interest she always felt In .
possible order for work, but when she
came to the signature she exclaimed
In surprise:
Andrew NacPherson!" she said to
herself. IT that isn't queer! sha'nt
let him know who I am. though. OF
course. he's well to do or he wouldn't
have been at the mountains last sum-
mer. and II he knew worked"
Celia smiled.
She would have thought the Co
incidence still stranger If she had
known that Andrew Macpherson had
had her In mind when he answered
the noncommittal advertisement In
serted in the magazine BY "Geneal-
ogist. P. o. box f71."
Andrew was newspaper man.
The shiftlessness which made It SO
easy for his grandfather to lose track
OF family records. the fire which de-
stroyed thousands OF acres of lumber
land In Michigan when 1t burned his
srandfather's house and possessions.
were still heavy drain on the young
mans energy. His father, as ener-
getfc as Andrew. had devoted himself
body and soul TO his work as q back
woods Presbyterian minister, and
family pride and possessions had
dwindled even - the spiritual life Of
the community where he labored In
creased. Andrew. at thirty years Of
age. was still working to care for his
mother. to see younger brother
through college and to keep the Mich
fEan property until the new growth
OF timber was ready to cut.
Hence Andrew was poor Until tho
preceding summer he had not cared.
Then one day he had been sent to in
tervfew one of the big trust magnates
who was staying 1t fashionable
mountain resort, and there he had
met Celia Dale. He had seen her
three or four times in the course of
the following fortnight, for he thought
1t necessary to take unusual pains in
submitting the article he had written
rs the result Of the interview for the
capitalists approval.
For Andrew, connrrasd bachelor ~
he thought himself, had fallen IN
love. He tried to hnd out where
Celia would spend the winter. but
although she was friendly enough,
she grew cold and distant when he
pressed this point. But she told him
she would be in the mountains again
the following August, and, he deter
mined to live somehow through the
winter. work harder than ever before,
and then indulge himself at all costs
in . two weeks vacation the next
summer in Celias company.
Then It was that Andrews poverty
began to bother him. He was making
goOd income. to BE- sure, enough
even with his heavy expenses to sup
port wife simply. But Celia, who
was used to spending her summers at
ono Of the most fashionable noun
tain resorts in the country. could
never be expected to accommodate
herself to a flve-room apartment in
New York, with an occasional week
end out Of town and : fortnight's va.
cation each year spent quietly in the
country as diversion.
So Andrew. detected and helpless,
fell back on his family. In = rash
moment Of foolishness he chanced to
see Celia's advertisement.
TITS something to have family
that stretches back for centuries" he
said to himself III can't offer her
money can at least offer name
that she can be proud Of" And with
vague idea Of falling on his knees
and begging her to accept a typewrit-
ten account Of the lineage Of the Mac
Phersons fbrs generations back An
drew answered the advertisement.
Celia. 1t CHANGED. lived for eleven
months out Of the twelve In a small
room not far from Andrew. She was
an orphan. and although she had a
rich aunt. she insisted on supporting
herself, boarding with friends in the