The Dolores star. [volume] (Dolores, Montezuma County, Colo.) 1901-current, 1915-01-01
CHAPTER VI.
Southlook.

Sara Wrandall's house In the coua
Ing the sound. II was rather remotely
located, so far Al 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 Tor
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. Ysars
afterward he buflt commodious sun
mer homo on the choicest point that
his property afforded, named II South
look. and transformed that particular
part Of his wilderness into a million
aires paradise. where he could dawdls
and putter to his hearts content
where he could spend his time and his
money with Q prodisality that came -
late In life to him that hs made waste
Of both In his haste to live down
rather parsimonlous past.
Two miles and half away, In ~
heart Of . scattered colony Of passs
proud New Workers. was the ceunts9
home Of tho Wrandalls. an imposing
place and older By far than 6outA
look II had descended from Ven
worn and tims-stained ancestors b
Redmond wrandall. and. with otAsn
Of it, kind. looked with no little SOON
upon the modern. mushroom strue
lures that sprouted from tho seeds q
trade. There was no frisndship -
tween the old and the new. Each had
recourse TO . bitter contempt for the
other. though consolation vas small
In comparison.
II was In the wooded by-ways d ibis
despised domain that Chsllis wraar
dali and Sara, the earthly daughter q
Midas, met and loved and dsaed al1
things supernal. for matches ars
madc In heaven. Their marriage 10
not open the gates Of Nineveh. 8sbae
tian Goochs paradise was more con-
pletely ostracised than Il was before
the disaster. The wrandalls spoks q
Il a. q disaster.
Clearly the old merchant wss ~
over pleased with his danghteTo
choice. . conclusion permanently -
tabiished by the alteration hs nals
In his will year or two after the mar
riage. True. he left the vest estate y
his beloved daughter Sara, but hs last
ened q stout string 70 u. and With
this string her hands we're tied. u
must have occurred 70 him that Chal
liz was . profligats In more ways thaa
ono. for he deliberately stipulated b
his viii that Sara vas not To ssil .
foot Of the ground until . psriod q
twenty yesrs had elapsed. 4 ven
polite way. Il would seem. Of mailing
hi Investment safe In the face Of 80
siderable odds.
He lived long enough AFTER the nab
Ing Of his viii. am happy TO rslasa.
to find that be had made no mistaks.
A. be preceded his son-in-isw Into ~
great beyond By . scant three yea1.
II readily may b seen that be wrought
too well BY far. 6svsntsss unneeee
sary years Of prescription remained.
and he had not intended them fps
Barn otOuo. ne ~ - 1ktoS9 -
Sara. but for her.
When the win vas rsaA and he CO.
dition revealed. Chaliis wrandali test
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grace 10 proclaim n The bosom Of ~
fathers family that ths old ssatlsnAn
was . fsthsrin-lav 70 ~. proud ol. -
canny old boy" - ha1 aanesnee1
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frss IRON raacos Or rsssatDsnl C1Ab
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b forthwith sas hin lovn - nale
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