The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1914-07-25
CHAPTER VI.

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CHAPTER vi.
southIook.
Sara Wrandall's house In the coun-
try stood on wooded knoll overlook
ing the sound. It was rather remotely
located, 90 far a. neighbors were con-
cerned. Her father, Sebastian Gooch.
shrewdly foresaw the day when land
In this particular section of the sub
urban world would return dollars for
pennies, and wisely bought thousands
Of acres: woodland, meadowland.
beachland and hills, inserted between
the environs Of New York city and
the rich towns up the coast. Years
afterward he built commodious sum
mer home on the choicest point that
his property afforded. named 1t South
look, and transformed that particular
part of his wilderness into q million
aires paradise, where he could dawdle
and putter to his hearts content.
where he could spend his time and his
money with q prodigality that came %
late In life to him that he made waste
of both In his haste to live down .
rather parsimoniDus past.
Two miles and half away. In the
heart Of scattered colony Of purse
proud New Workers., was the country
home OF the Wrandalls. an imposing
place and older by far than South
look. It had descended from well.
worn and ume-stained ancestors to
Redmond Wrandall, and. with others
Of its kind. looked with no little scorn
upon the modern. mushroom struc-
lures that sprouted from the seeds OF
trade. There was no friendship be-
tween the old and the new. Each had
recourse to bitter contempt for the
other, though consolation was small
IN comparison.
1t was in the wooded by-ways of this
despised domain that Challis WraA-
dali and Sara, the earthly daughter OF
Midas, met and loved and defied all
things supernal, for matches arc
made in heaven. Their marriage did
not open the gates of Nineveh. Sebas
tan Gooch's paradise was more COM
pletely ostracised than It was before
the disaster. The Wrandalls spoke Of
It as q disaster.
Clearly the old merchant was not
over-pleased with his daughters
choice, a conclusion permanently es-
tablished by the alteration he made
| In his will year or two after the mar
rage. True, he left the vast estate to
his beloved daughter Sara. but he fast
ened q stout string to It, and with
| this string her hands were tied. II
must have occurred to him that Chal
| liz was profigate in more ways than
one. for he deliberately stipulated in
his will that Sara was not to sell .
foot OF the ground until period Of
twenty years had elapsed. A very
polite way. II would seem. Of making
| his Investment safe In the face Of con-
| siderable odds.
He lived long enough after the max
| ing Of his will, am happy TO relatA
| to find that he had made NO mistake.
Al he preceded his son-in-law into the
great beyond by scant three years.
| It readily may be seen that he wrought
| too well BY far. Seventeen unneces.
| sary years Of prescription remained.
and he had not intended them for
Sara alone. He was not afraid e
| Suss, but for her.
When the will was read and the conr
| dition revealed. Challis wrandall took
| It In perfect good humor. He had the
| grace to proclaim In the bosom OF his
| fathef's family that the old gentleman
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