Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1921-12-28
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Fortunes
~ RI AIPE SMITH

HI By CLAIRE SMITH. iii
Copyright. 1921. Western Newspaper Union.
"Your uncle, Mr.. Daniel Trench.
wishes to do you full justice, Mr..
Denslow.''
II hope so. It is my DUE" observed
Vane DenslOW. .-.-.--
"Your uncle is glad to help you in
a business way" pursued his agent
and attorney, Mr.. Thacker-
HE has great future plans for you.
AS soon as you, get all your arrange
ments for going into business made, he
wants to have you shoot straight
ahead. See? In fact, he has you in
his eye gas a-what shall l say?
very promising party for his ward,
Miss Nellis. You've, heard of her?
Think of the vast mutual interests if
the Trench and Nellis fortunes could
be consolidated"
I'm other words,' broke in Vane
coldly, my uncle offers a bride TO
have me become puppet ia his
hands?"
mot at all-not at all" the willy
lawyer FASTENED to declare. He only
hopes you will see things in his way"
"Not in the matter of the selection
of wife," observed Vane. He had
better not try it! Does he know, sir,
that l am honorably engaged to
young lady here in Wilhy?"
"Just So Indeed not. Just men,
toned it. Ha, hum! Forget it. my
dear young friend. Good day"
In brief, the attorney had appeared
| to make Vane a proposition-to go to
| Meriden, fifty miles away, and enter
| into business. His uncle was about
| to retire, wealthy man. The eleva-
| tor he owned controlled a fine trade.
He offered to make a gift of it to his
nephew.
| Vane DensIow was proud, self-re-
liant young man, but he saw his way
| clearly to accept the gift. In his mind
! and in his uncle's mind and in the
minds of al. who knew a great deal,
but could not legally prove the same,
/ when Vane'S father died his brother
in-law had managed by a quirk of the
| law to get hold Of some valuable prop
| erty by all moral right belonging to
/ the Denslows.
| There was no doubt that old
| Trench's conscience as he got older
had urged him to a grudging restitu-
| ton, the way Vane figured it out.
LEONE, at Wildly, began to receive
some letters that nearly broke her
heart at the first, and Dale, at Meri-
| den, in turn received news concerning
|
ately he ran down to Wildly for an
! explanation.
at is all clear to me-" he said to
| LEONE. fSOme trouble maker has got
the news to you of my gay life at
Meriden, and to me of the numerous
beauX you are going around with, TO
separate u.s.. know who it is, and
! know why. LEONE. dear, we must out
wit these plOtters. Whisper, DEAR"
and the interview wound up in an ex-
cursion to a nearby city, and then
Vane went back. to his work.
I Vane was introduced to his uncle's
ward, Miss Dolly Nellis.
Dolly made sure that her guardian
was out of hearing as she sat down
on a rustic bench.
"Mr. Denslow," she whispered in a
fiuttering tone, "are we ALL all alone?'
81 think we are, Miss Nellis.'' re-
piled vane wonderingly.
"Can / tell you dreadful, dread
full secret?' she wavered.
81 shall be honored by your conf
dence," intimated Vane.
'"Then-then, OH dear! ! hope II
Il rf h11t m
engaged!''
81 must congratulate you.'
''Oh, l am so glad !" gushed the fair
Dolly.
81 will tell you a secret, too, dear
Miss Nellie" said Denslow. 81 am al.
ready married"
i 81 could almost kiss you for de-
light !" cried Dolly. 81 will your wife
when meet her. Oh, I am so happy p
i When old man Trench learned how
his nephew had Outwitted him through
a secret marriage to LEONE at the
time his emissary Thacker was plot
ting to separate them, he wrote an
awful letter to Vane.
In dignified way the latter in
formed him that the business he had
given him barely made up for what
he had robbed his father Of. If, how.
ever, Trench, Thacker & Co. felt that
they had in any way been circum.
vented, resulting In loss to theil
prospects, Vane would set aside 80
profits Of the business he had h.a,,-
aged to build up wonderfully. and
would restore the original Investment
to his money-loving relative.
Trench quieted down after this. Az
to Dolly and Reginald, they eloped un.
der the very nose Of the old man, SO
1t was dire retribution for. the crafty
schemers all around.
Shoestring Remedy for Colds.