The Grangeville globe. [volume] (Grangeville, Idaho) 1907-1922, 1914-06-11
Restored to
His Rights
By LOUISE B. CUMMINGS

was nve years old. except being ca ross.
ed by woman who seemed tn lova
nlm very dearly, and even this Ia
scarcely memory with him. After
1hat ne became cognizant of being a
member Of a family A man whom ba
understood to be his father. a woman
whom he understood to be his mother
gave him what he needed, especially
clothes. which were much better than
those of the other children of tha
household. When Robert was eleven
years old he was sent to a boarding
school, There he associated with bovs
who were much more refined. much
better dressed, than those he had been
accustomed to. When he went home
at vacation ne became ashamed of his
parents and his brothers and sisters.
They were of IA different stamp from
those he had seen at school.
Bob did not go home again after that
during vacations. He preferred to re-.
main at school. His parents and broth
ers and sisters did not manifest much
affection for him. and he cared little
about them. 1t seemed as if he and
they were "A different kind of people.
And he wondered why this was so.
Why had he always been dressed like
a gentleman while they wore rough
clothes?
The school he attended was Of very
good class. but its principal was moro
interested in making money than in
the welfare of the boys. Robert was
constantly being punished for some
petty offense or for leading his school
mates to rebel against the tyranny OF
the principal The latter received
plenty of money for his pupils tuition
to warrant giving them every comfort,
including excellent food. but he skimp-
ed them in all possible ways.
One day when the food had become
so bad that the boys could stand it no
longer Bob led them into an old fash
toned barring out" such as at times
had occurred in English schools before
the middle Of the nineteenth century.
They bought provisions with spending
money procured from home, took pos
session of the schoolroom and locked
the doors. The rebellion did not last
long, for a door was broken down. The
principal entered and soon quoted the
meeting. He questioned the boys as
to their leader. but none Of them would
tell, and he proposed to punish all alike.
whereupOn Robert assumed the whole
responsibility and was expelled from
i the school
BY this time Robert was fifteen years
old, and rather than 60 back home he
j, resolved to make his own living. Be
tween a mercantile life and farming
he chose the latter. and since the sea-
son for planting was at hand he found
a place as a farm hand. He went to
lwork with a will, rejoicing in the
change from the tyrannies of the
school and his unpleasant home to a
life wherein he lived almost entirely
out of doors. attending to cattle. plant
ing and gathering in crops.
, This period Bob Wykoff remembers
! as the happiest of his life. for here was
; born a boys love for Molly Erskine'
little girl he one day saw trudging
along a road with some milk she was
/ going to deliver to a neighbor. He
, carried her milk for her and many an
other burden from that time forward
for three years. Then he was eight
cen years old and she was fifteen.
One day Bob was sitting on NOW
ing machine driving pair OF horses
over some rough ground when he saw
n man coming toward him. When ne
= came near enough Bob recognized his
father. He had been hunting the boy
for a month and had traced him from
e the school he had left long before. he
e fold Bob that he was not his rather
G Int that he came of wealthy stock and
] his grandfather had died and he was
heir TO several million dollars. Bot
] said that didn't make any difference
;, with his finishing his job and remained
n on his machine till 1t was time to quit
!. Rob then went to the farmhouse. bid
| goodby to his employers, found Molly
Erskine and told her of the great
;. change in his life. She cried when ne
. narted with her, but he assured net
p that he would come back to her.
= Rob's conductor told him on the way
: that he was the son of parents VINO
;, had been disowned by his mothers Ia
thor because they had married contra,
nv TO his will His father had oleo
soon after the marriage, and his tnoth
or. who had nothing to live on was
= taken back by her father on condition
that she come alone. Bob was then
mt under the care of persons wiz
: agreed for consideration to take care
of him. On the death of his granoia
: ther. being the only male descendant
he was made the old mans heir.
When Bob reached his home ne war
taken into the arms of the woman ut
n remembered as belonging to his paoy
u hood He had occupied an uhhalura
: nositiop for fourteen years ana "a'
now suddenly made the possessor o.
/ unbounded luxuries. an.
One day Molly Erskine was stanalhs
+ IN the door of her fathers farm whei
! a voung man drove up behind spahh
J. inc foam and. throwing the reins 10