The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-07-01
ave Got Just One Living Relative.

ave Got Just One Living Relative
family in the handsome old McCord
place. Then he had died very suddenly
and when his affairs were settled his
widow and daughter had found the
big house was all that was left to
them. Then Holly, the daughter, had
secured employment with the Ware
Yantis firm and her mother had filled
the house with boarders.
When Holly came back to the office
from her lunch, her soft cheeks glow
ing, her hands full of yellow daffodils
that she knew the junior partner loved
of all flowers, Yantis rose courteously
to open the door for her, but the
especial smile for her that for month
had been in his gray-blue eyes was
gone.
That evening Terrill managed to
iOvertake the girl and walk with her
on her way home. Before they reached
her mothers gate the wondering hurt
in her eyes had partly disappeared and
,cheerfulness
Terry, you've made fair start"
he congratulated himself. cord won't
pay her any more attention if he once
gets it in his hard head she's as rot
tenly selfish as 1 made her out-and
if he lets her alone / fancy / can get
her heart turned In my direction and
the ceremony safely over before that
occurs"
THAT" meant an old mans death.
1t had been a month since Terrill had
saved Josiah Barnett, old and feeble,
from the onslaught Of a reckless chauf,
feur In city half days journey from
Bromley. Terrill had given the old
gentleman his name and address, but
the incident had almost passed out of
| his mind, until a few days before when
Barnett had sent for him.
"Fve got just one living relative, !"
he told Terrill Her father, my cousin.
died a year or so ago. l can't remem-
Der where, but / want you to hunt up
the daughter / can't live more than
three months, the doctors say, and
though never saw the girl, she'd just
as well have the forty thousand I've
got to leave as anybody else. I've
made my will, and If you don't find
her before I'm. gone, keep up the
search afterward until you dor
All the way home that evening the
click of the rails sung in Terrill's ears,
IT have bequeathed my property to
my cousin Holly Sladei"
AS the spring days passed Yantis
grew pallid and thin, and, to old
Wares wondering CONSERVATION, If.
ritable.
To add to the anguish of believing
the girl he still loved, heartless and un-
worthy, Yantis came to realize that
Terrill intended to marry her. He won
| dered amid his pain. Gene was not Q
man who would marry poor girl.
Then, late in April, Charlotte Den
tier, seventeen years old and plain ant
reputed heiress to 100000, came t
visit her cousin Mrs. Theodore Ole
want.
Holly did not think 1t was necessnr!
for Gene to go autoriding every morn
ing and every evening with the homel!
Charlotte, but somehow she did no
care. She had not cared very mucl
for anything all spring. She had givei
a listless consent when Gene had asket
ner, with fervent protestations of love
to marry him, but she had not beer
moved
1T does not NATTER" she told hin
! when he asked her to keep the engage
ment secret. Nothing mattered
One sultry evening. near the end o
| the third week Of Charlotte's visit, Van
tbs moodily strolllng In the towns par
came suddenly upon couple of youn
people sitting on the soft turf In
secluded corner They did not see hin
and he was backing softly away whe
he heard Gene Terrill's persuasiv
voice.
away and marry me tomorrow evening
Charlotte dear? You'll not fail mC
| sweetheart"
"Oh, I'll not fail you, Gene darling
the girl answered.
| Yantis caught his breath. Had Gen
been playing fast and loose with Holly
1t was Yantis evening for hearin