| Show THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES by MEREDITH author ol of MAIN CHANCE ZELDA DAMERON 11 tic lop right ilki I 1 by it 11 t I 1 min M in to CHAPTER I 1 the will of john marshall marshal glenarm glenara ig picket ing s lette bringing bri n gin tit w if f my a death found nit me at al naples early in october lohn john marshall Gle glencairn nairn had bad died in line leaving a will which ravi gave nip mt hh hl prop erty conditionally bral and it was waa ness A ry for nie to I 1 r tum immediately to qualify an legal if 11 was by tit tin met cst it IK lc ic ili ib it ili IK if 1 iff came to mv hands tit nl if ill ro fo li it had been sn bent to constant I 1 in eat car t t c of f the consul dinst instill al ot of mn ins banker there atilt and it ft wat ith it it t pie PI I 1 i ing a gealt that lint lie oniel wile wan a fit fin lid acl of mine who ho kept truck track of sm nn w m indo ings inga and was as ahlf abl to burr UK the x LI tors tor a letter ili to io itah ahre I 1 hall had gono gone to dept nic pt an ail I 1 fenili tier cler who lad had I 1 was wan 1 d I money to spend on abilean I 1 am nn an I 1 a graduate of an ail amerlan institution known as the rech and at ah mn im funis wi we i running low I 1 to 0 o nin im profession for t nt hut but this letter idler chucked chunked my flans tons ail and the following day 1 I all abbed pik cilny of mv departure rul an I 1 was waa out ward bound on a steamer for new york founta Fo urta days later 1 I sat in picker in the tha alexis dulla ing an aej list listened cried intently while he read v m th much ponderous lim the pre islona of my mv grandfathers grandfather a will loi III lie ho concluded I 1 laughed lickei in was a seiloga man and I 1 was moo glad to see that my mv levity pained him blin I 1 h tit id for that matter always bein a B st irce of annoyance to him and hla his it 1 ot of and rebuke did not tio tic lle ble silo me in the least I 1 reached the table for tile the paper and I 1 i gave the arid be rib boned ropy copy of john mai NIn shall ishall glen aini aims a will into my illy hands bands I 1 read it through for myself foiling feling conscious meanwhile that ings cool kayo was bont bent inquiringly upon me these are the parag that nia me most moat I 1 give ghe and devise unto my said grandson john nie sometime a resident of tho city and state of new york and litter later a vagabond of parts unknown a certain known as olenard glenara house with the lands landa and thereunto pertaining and hemi hereinafter moie particularly do alit and all icis jelso onal nal effects goods aal an I 1 other that may bp be located in the pietr ilses and on the land herein dusci the said eald realty lying in the county ot of babana N abana in the state of indiana upon this condition faithfully and honestly hon itly chat said bald john glenara glenarm shill eh ill remain at ap of sald said glenarm glenara llouel and of my lands appin tenant thereto eto himself meanwhile in an ail and temperate manner should lie he fall fail at tiny any time timing dining said year to comply with this provision sold bald property shall at once to my illy general estate shall lit iacome corno with out reservation rud without for any procesa of liw tho the absolutely of defieux of tho county and state of new atell ft ell he striking his lands hands upon the sima nilus of his chair what do you think of III for the life of me ino I 1 rould could not help again theio was mag in ili tho lial first alae a irony la in tile the fact that I 1 should learn through win him of my giand grandfathers fathers s with re to myself picketing arid and I 1 had grown brown up tip in the same aume town in ili vet vei finont we me had attended the same name pie paia toly school hut but there had bad ban fiani boyhood bohrod a antagonism us its ile he had bad always aiwas mcce eded where I 1 failed which Is to say I 1 must admit that lie he hall had succo succeeded oded pitt frequently hen I 1 le to settle down to my illy hut but chose chobe to see something of tho the world alist rich pick ering gave himself to the tha law and chete vai mag I 1 know from the beginning no manner of chance that bo be would fall I 1 am not more or less than human and I 1 remembered m with ith joy that once I 1 had thrashed him soundly at the school for bullying a smaller boy hut but our from school laa daa was mas riot not without tallies on oil hla his side aide ile he was vas basill the better scholar I 1 grant hini him that and he was shrewd and plausible you nover never quite linew knew the extent of hla his powers and resources and ho he had I 1 always the most amazing rood good uck luck as witness the tact fact thit johir marshall glenard glenarm lad had taken a file adly interest Inte iest in him it was wholly like my grandfather who was a man of many whims to five his into pickering a keep ing and I 1 could not complain for foe I 1 had missed my own chance with him it was I 1 know knew readily enough part of my lay punishment tor for having succeeded so signally in incurring in mi grand fathers fat tiers displeasure that ho he had nado mado it necessary for me to with arthur pickering Pickert ng in this la matter tatter of the will and picketing was enjoins ag the situation tion to I 1 be fill tull I 1 vt was as something not wholly ji bonese honest in my f mii th for my illy bond condict let during their th ree preceding y years yara ara had becort JB 1 had used my sti fibik ld parents died when bell I 1 was a hili hi id and he had cabied lot fut me as aa tui tai bark back at ah in memory ran ile he had Huff red pred ni me to spend the foi foe time dine N 1 fi I 1 by m ari father without re III hi had expected much of me and I 1 had bad grio dai him it was ahli h hop that thai I 1 hould devote myself to if II 11 tor for which ti if 1 li 11 at ai i admira tion alon wl ul 1 I in 1 pd I on i hine i I 1 am I 1 1 l p 1 11 1 n HN life hill ani I 1 h t i at r nu nil are ni int lii abr id at ai fill alx lx nd lid A 1 l i III at ai r h mid ali liv I 1 quinan aill art conf bonnan an it mi it utin tane let t tint t int off w III ih 11 it in ii I 1 at ai of ad v n 1 I 1 nil iol r i i pus abl it 0 1 1 I be b ino to uj ui off it if I 1 did the ninni lih spent in lIsi nely follow in th I 1 the tron ron late faira I 1 a irenc tic bonoan alwang alwa with 1114 ni v hill w urged the 11 akers and inn ifill loaf foat to all mann i cr cf sedition a io well that hat ehn wi we ami am out into tile the black sea foi 01 burthe inkila lid did it 11 the honor bonor to 1 h 11 p a sm tit at our hals I 1 should like foi in own at leant to itt it down an account of rt tin off if I 1 I 1 in a wh felt we ere con c rd rard at but without larry a i m nl I 1 arn not t at ai libil to do so BO ir r 1 I 1 ih ani j m hete to detic ilbe mi all ti iv 1 I i 1 arfa lious our study ir UK tit clas mountain daras won us in he noi 1101 ia mention tv bv tile the I 1 ihn hn looneal lh WK wet mv but to alt d i I 1 lat in ili aithan krings Pic alne B onic in III UK tile t w ring alexis alella building con bious n it if aln ib muffled loar of aroid wn wan tit UK of my grandfather m s will with a man whom choin I 1 d as heartily as it la Is are afe im foi one man mail to dislike another ill ice fix had askco me a question and I 1 was waa suddenly aware that hla his I 1 y L well what do you think of it eyes were fixed upon me ine and that h awaited my lily answer what 1 1 1 I think of it I 1 repeated I 1 don t linow inow that it makes any dif fei c lice what I 1 think but III tell you it if you want mant to know that I 1 call it in famous outrageous that a man lave kave a rill culous will ill ot of that sort bo be hind him all tilt ho old money who mho i tile lie up ill fortunes foi tunes magnify the im of thir gonei I 1 hey tin aone that every evry every erdl nary conr tsy shown them la Is a bt bi I 1 for a 11 slice of I 1 the lie cake I 1 am ni dis in my grandfather giand father lie ile a splendid old man mail though god lie ho had lik auter m ways aye I 1 it II bet a thou sand collais riol laia it I 1 have base so much in the woi I 1 d that this scheme Is yours pickering and not his it smacks 0 bour our ancient indict I 1 genss und and marshall glenarm glenara had nune of that his blood that stipulation about out cut theio Is Pinta I 1 dont have to be a lawyer lawer to know that hat and no doubt I 1 could beretic will I 1 ve a good notion to tay kiy t any how low to be sure you can tie ile up the state tor for it a halt half dozen 3 ears if ou on like he n piled coolly lie he did not took look upon me ine as likely to become a formidable litigant my staying itla had been proved weak long ago as pickering knew well enough no doubt aou ou would mould like that I 1 one anaw ered I 1 nut but I 1 m not going to give lou ou the pleasure I 1 abide by the term of the will ill my grandfather was a fine old gentleman I 1 shant drag his name nama through the courts court snot not even to please you arthur pickering I 1 declared hotly I 1 labe sentiment to Is ot of a good man glenarm glenara Gl ha be rejoined but this woman who Is to succeed to my i aghta 1 I don dont t seem to i lemein em ern bet ber her I 1 it la Is not surprising that you never heard of her then she ahas a not ft a connection of the martilly no long lest cousin whom I 1 ought to remember janosh JN no oSh she was a late acquaintance of our grandfather lie he met her through an old friend of his miss evans known a thercsa bliss dover aux in ili 11 ister theresa a niece I 1 whistled I 1 had a dim recollection that during my grandfather giand father along wad there were occasional rl re boits that he was about to marry the name of bliss ailsa evans evana had been men tinned in this connection I 1 had bad heard it spoken ot of in n rny my family and not 1 11 rpm rab td id with much kindness latr I 1 heard of bar joining a hood flood and of 0 ening a school somewhere in the abt Is and aless devereux la fa she ar elderly nun too I 1 don t know liow how elderly she Is but she fall t a win nun at ili besent still boa very verv much alone in the and she bhe and slater sister Ili ciesa are ven intimate pass the will again pickering while I 1 make sure I 1 grasp these diperi ing ideas slated sheresa isn t tn tit ono one I 1 austri t mariy many Is she 9 its ts th other embroidery artist the ono one with the x in her name suggesting the of my vanish ing auth I 1 real aloud this paragraph paia pain graph provided faither that in event said john Gle olenard narni aforesaid shall marev the said ald marian oy or in ili the anent of any promise or ton con tract tr act of mal matlage ilage between said bald per sons within five ina ais bioni the date of said john a acceptance ot of the of this will the whole estate shall become the property pio perty abao lately of st gelhaa 9 school at an inan ivandale dale wabana babana banty indiana a corporation under the laws of 0 said eald state foi a touch of comedy commend cogmond me to my pic pirn tt ring you always were a well meaning fel fe low turn over to von all my right interest and title in and to these an gelle sistelia many I 1 like the ideal I 1 suppose some one will try to marry me 1110 for my money marriage picket ing Is id not embra embraced ocel in my scheme of life I 1 call you a marry ink ing man lie he observed perfectly light my friend theresa esa aas is a possible match foi mv lily grandfather in my illy 3 bouth auth I 1 tit in qute out of it with hei bet and the other lady with the cascina ting algi algebraic brale climax to her name silo ehe too j impossible it seems that I 1 cant get the money by ma dairing mairing mairl iring ng lur I 1 id it better kt itt her take it she shea a ite as poor as the devil I 1 flare dare I 1 imagine not 1 ilie he evansek are a wealthy family in spots and she ought to have some home money of her own it her aunt anat doean coesta t coax it out of her for educational schemes I 1 knit nd where on the adap are these lovicy cicat mea to bo be found sister theresa esa a school adjoins 3 our pre seive miss has I 1 think some of our own weakness for wivel travel sister theresa Is her nearest rela alve and she oc occasionally visits st agati agatia a s that a 8 the school I 1 suppose they embroider altar clotha together and otherwise labor valiantly to bring upon satan and hla his cohorts the peo pie to pull the wool avei the eyes of my gi and father I 1 pickering smiled at my resentment better give them a wide berth they might catch you in their net t SI slater t r arera no resa Is said to have I 1 quite quite a W winning inning way she certainly i plucked yow your grandfather nuns in spectacles the gentle ed I 1 catora of south and that bolt of thing with a good natu ed old man tor for their prey none of them for mel me 1 I rather thought so ro remarked marked pickering and he pulled hla his watch from his pocket and turned the stelia with his heavy fingers angers ile he was short thickset and a ad sleek with a square jaw hair already thin and a close clipped mustache age I 1 mentally reflected was not improving ini proving him TC etc BE |
