The diamond drill. (Crystal Falls, Iron County, Mich.) 1887-1996, 1914-03-21

Of acres: woodland. meadowland.
beachland and hills. inserted between
the enyirons of New York city and
the rich towns up the coast Years
afterward he built commodlous sum-
mer home on the choicest point that
his property afforded. named IL South.
look. and transformed that particular
part OF his wilderness into a million.
aires paradise. where he could dawdle
and putter TO his hearts content,
where he could spend his time and his
money with a prodigality that came so
late in life 10 him that he made waste
OF both in his haste TO live down
rather parsimonious 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 IL had descended from we'll
worn and time-stained ancestors TO
Redmond Wrandall, and, with others
OF it's 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 a bitter contempt for the
other, though consolation was small
In comparison.
| II was in the wooded by-ways OF this
despised domain that Challis Wran-
dali and Sara, the earthly daughter OF
Midas. met and loved and defed all
things supernal, for matches are
made in heaven. Their marriage did
not open the gates of Nineveh. Sebas-
tian Goochs paradise was more COM
pletely ostracised than Il was before
the disaster. The Wrandalls spoke OF
II as q disaster.
Clearly the old merchant was not
over-pleased with his daughters
choice. conclusion permanently es-
tablished by the alteration he made
In his will year or two after the mar
riage. True, he left the vast estate to
his beloved daughter Sara, but he fast
ened stout string TO II, and with
this string her hands were tied. IL
must have occurred to him that Chal~
lis was q prohlgate In more ways than
one, for he deliberately stipulated In
his will that Sara was not TO sell a
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 maxi
ing OF his will, | am happy to relate,
TO find that he had made no mistake.
/ AS he preceded his son-in-law into the
great beyond by a scant three years,
II readily may be seen that he wrought
too we'll by far. Seventeen unneces-
sary years of prescription remained.
and he had not intended them for
Sara alone. He was not afraid OF
Sara, but for her.
When the viii was read and the con-
dition revealed, Challis Wrandall took
II In perfect good humor. He had the
grace TO proclaim in the bosom OF his
fathers family that the old gentleman
was a ltherin-aw TO be proud OF. "A
canny old boy" he had announced
with his most engaging smile. quite
free from rancor or resentment. Chal-
lis was well acquainted with himself.
And so the acres were strapped to-
gether snugly and firmly, without so
much as a town lot protruding.
So impressed was Challis by the far
eightedness OF his father-in-law that
he forthwith sat him down and made
n will OF his own. He would not have
II said that Sara's father did a whit
better by her than he would do. He
left everything he possessed TO his
wife, but put no string TO II, blandly
implying that all danger would be
past when she came into possession.
There was a sort OF grim humor in
the way he managed to present him
self TO view as the real and ready
source OF peril
Sara and Hetty did not stay long in
town. The newspapers announced the
return OF Challis Wrandall's widow
and reporters sought her out for inter-
views. The old interest was revived
and columns were printed about the
murder at Burtons inn, with sharp
editorial comments on the failure of
the police 10 clear up the mystery.
II ehall ask Leslie down for the
weekend" said Sara. the third day