Show THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES by MEREDITH NICHOLSON NICHOL SON author of B TUB THE MAIN CHANCE ZELDA DAMERON etc elc t 1100 by benl 1 la CHAPTER I 1 continued til I 1 hid no intention anten on of al allowing loing him hill to see that tit I 1 was as it mitat d I 1 diew di em out my cigar cigarette tt case and passed it across L the table after A after fter you I 1 the re made quite specially special Y for me in madrid you forget that I 1 never use tobacco tol iacco in any form you always did miss a good deal of 0 the joy of living I 1 I 1 absei observed ved throwing my smoking match into his waste maste paper basket to ills his obvious annoy ance NN well ell I 1 in the bad boy of the storybooks story bools books but blit I 1 m icalla sorry my inheritance has a string tied to it I 1 m about out of money I 1 suppose youl you t advance nd vance me a few thousands thou gands on my exi petition not a cent he declared with quite unnecessary vigor and I 1 laughed again remembering that in my old of him generosity had bad not been represented in large figures fl gires its not in keeping milli lour grand I 1 fathers wishes that I 1 should do so fco j you must have spent a good bit of money in your tiger hunting exploits he added I 1 have spent all I 1 had I 1 replied amiably chank god I 1 m not a clam I 1 lie ve seen the world and paid for it add I 1 ask nothing of you you edly share my grandfathers giand fathers idea of me that im a wild man who mho cant sit still or 01 lead an order orderly ay decent life but I 1 in going to give ou oil a terrible disappointment what 9 the size of the estate state ci 9 pickering eyed nic me un uneasily casily I 1 thought and began playing mith ft ath a penell pencil I 1 never liked Piche pickering rings s hands they were thick and white an and better kept than I 1 like to bee a man hands I 1 fear its going to be disappointing in his trust company boxes belle I 1 have lave been able to find only about ten thousand dollars aith woith of securities possibly quite possibly we all IoLe ici elved ived in the amount of his fortune sister theresa wheedled largo large sums tut dut of him bim and he spent as iou will see gee a small fortune on the house at annandale without finishing it it kasint gasn wasn t a cheap proposition pio positIon and in its unfinished condition it is practically valueless you must know that mr glenard glenarm give away a great deal of money in his lifetime moreover lie he established oui father you know what he be left it was not a small email for tune as those things are reckoned I 1 was restless under this recital my father a estate had been of respectable size bize and I 1 had dissipated the whole of it my conscience pricked we me as I 1 recalled an item of 40 tint thit I 1 had spent som somewhere ew here grandly on an ex perdition tion that I 1 led with considerable satisfaction to myself at least through the sudan dut words me let I 1 et me understand you I 1 said bonding bending to aid him my afy grandfather was supposed to be rich and yet you tell me you find little property pio perty sister theresa got money from him hl n to help tell build a school ilow how much was that fifty thousand dollars it was an open account ills his books show allow the ad vances but lie he tool took no notes and that claim Is morth borth 9 it Is good as aa against her Indi vilu ally but she yes go on I 1 had struck the right note ile he was annoyed by my persistence and his ap parent discomfort pleased mo me she refuses to pa poi she sais mr m mide made hera her a gift of tile the money that s poss ble isbit isn t ita ile ho was forbat making i iffus gifts to chuich churches chu iches s schools an annl I 1 oo cIcal were vv ere a sort ol of ie weik akness nesa with him anol oll pass that it if iou get this mon the estate is ia m woich oi t h GO plus th the aluc of the land out there at annandale Annand alc and clonard Clo narni louse house Is 19 worth morth ou oil nive ill UK it as the first it 11 alne sf lie he and shown ani an 1 it ft put nit on gimie I 1 should it II tit in idea of its value even nn an unfinished house is s worth hoin thin I 1 ind it out theio Is worth from tr 1 0 an acre there a an even hun ard teres ill ile be lad to have houi urgent of tit he house when you get there humph you flatter my judgment pickering the loose stuff thero there Is worth how its all in the library librae your grand fathers ua kness was so I 1 rem remember emberl I 1 In Inter terpos poa H e ie calling my stormy interviews with john marshall lar shall clonard over my illy choke of 0 a profession in his last years he be more and more to his books lie jie placed out there what la Is I 1 suppose the finest col lection of books relating to arch archilee itee ture tu to be found in this countr that teat was mas hla his chief hobby atler after church at af fairs as you may remember and h rodn it t hard haid ilat lie le derived a great deal of satisfaction from hla his studies stud iea I 1 laughed again it ivas easier to laugh than to cry over the situation 1 I suppose he fantod mo to toRild sit down own nui put rounded by worlds works on aak 1 tle iio jita ilc i that a study of I 1 he et m boull out I 1 be my lyonh onh resource the ii 1 eminent h and aji aai I 1 et is a liless housti a hundred aarts or of land and a doubtful claim again tit it n protestant nun aho vho m ho hoodwin ined lad m im grandfather into setting belting up u p a for foi her cpr blea ion ou heart nian man so BO far as my lily einhell tance Is concerned it 1 would mould have been mone 0 ne I 1 in a my pocket to hau hant stace int in tf ad i lea that a about tile the sim hie ot or it but he I 1 lynnel t lynn nl pi ty Is ill all mine ally taing lints ill it a lotse lose on the place in im grandfather plant ed old plate and bonds just to pique UK th cut of his it heirs j and as aHal alsins sins ns it mould bo be in keeping I 1 had vt m milk biked ilk L d to the window and looked out act abs the city As AB I 1 turned suddenly I 1 found ee bent upon mo me with curious intentness 1 I had liked hits his eyes they were too adlien a man meets your gaze tranquilly and readily beadily it Is just as well to bo be wary of him les es no doubt you will find the place literally packed with treasure trea suie he said and laughed men alien joa ion find anything might me ile he smiled the idea seemed to gle ghe him ph astrie ait ion oil s die theres nothing elsea I 1 askel no substitute no codicil 9 if ion know of anything of its your duty to produce I 1 it t we I 1 have aye ech aisted the possibilities ad admit mit that the of the will mill are un bour our grandfather giand father was waa a liar man in many respects but lie was thoroughly sane and his faculties facilities were all sound to the last lie I 1 la treated me a lot better than I 1 deserved I 1 said with mith a heartache that I 1 had not known often in my lyre irre sPun sible life but I 1 could riot not afford to bho feeling beffie aithur picker ing I 1 picked up the copy or of tile the will and examined it it was undoubtedly au then tic it boie the certificate of the jog V L I 1 I 1 found Picker inGra eyes bent upon me with curious intentness clerk of abana county indiana the witnesses were thomas dates bates and arthur picketing pickering N ho la Is aites I 1 asked pointing to the roan man s signa tui e one of bour grandfathers dincov ei aites lea lies lu in charge of the house out there and a trustworthy fellow fellom ile he s a fair cook among other things I 1 dont don t know whore where mr Wel lil larin got nals but lie he had bad every confidence it la him bilm the man was with him at the end A picture ot of my grandfather lying dying alone with a servant while I 1 his only kinsman in strange lands was s as not one that I 1 could contempt contemplate ito with wilh much satisfaction my aly grand father had been an all odd figure of i man inan who always wore a loni long black coat silk hat and cabled can led a carl curious on s alli er headed staff anti and said things at which everybody was afraid fiber cither to augh or to cry the though ol 01 him touched touch fil me mc now I 1 was glad to red feel that his money hid never ban a lure to me it did not matter 1 its hia es ea ate was great or small I 1 could at least case ray my conscience by oben ing the behest of the old man whose name I 1 bore and whose hose interest in the finer things of ufa life and art had given him an undeniable distinction I 1 I 1 should like to know something of nir mr Clen glenara glenarm arms s last days I 1 slid ab raptly I 1 lie wished to visit tile the village where ho he was born and dates his bis companion and sr servant vant went to 10 vermo it with him lie ile dlud led quite suddenly and was but bulled fell beside his father in tho the oil vil lage cemetery I 1 saw nim mm last early in the sumin summer cir I 1 was amay aw ay from home and old not know of his death jnell it was all over dates came cama to clort it to me and to sign the aary biary papers la in probating tho the will it hid had to be done la in the alae of the decedent ceda ants s residence and we went to aether amther to NN abana dna abe seat of county in which annable An llos lies I 1 waa mas atti artl i flits looking ott 0 it toward the he aca tit it 1 l 11 tit id called me since ni aill bt t dimms of the world that lay boond it it a a pool stake glenarm glenara re mat antik kid ki d pit ivi I 1 ing and I 1 wheeled liev ed led trion ui on him I 1 i is 1 u think it it poor stake slake 1 I 1 cupi n i 1 oil l ell cm I 1 he bet it y thing in that old ii 11 i lit bencina MB ills money hut bill I 1 1 d I n I 1 i n 11 a griat my in till hallam aftan i I 1 avei ni vei any of my illy gi I 1 i 1 8 1111 3 in ills 1119 life time illi bin llo nort that I 1 it t s it ad hla his last wish Is in anditon im ill oens going out there to spind it 11 ni at if I 1 tit die for it do ion get fet an ni idal you always alway wre re a patrel lie he backed I 1 fancy it will bo be safer to keep our most aart able acquaintance on a strictly bust busl ness b bials i ils it if ou accept the terms of the will of course I 1 accept thuril UK in do you think I 1 am going to make a row ie tube to fulfill that old man 6 last wish I 1 gaie bae hini him enough trouble in his life without disappointing him la in his grave brave I 1 suppose soud like to ban have e me fight the lie m will ill but I 1 in going to dis appoint i 3 oil mi lie ile bald nothing but placed with life hla penell pencil I 1 held had never disliked dim bini so heartly lie he was so BO and comfort coin foit able ills ilia office bica thed the verv ver spirit of I 1 nishon ashod to my lily and get away I 1 suppose the region out there has a haili etith rate now how a the ma larla not alarmingly pie pieN alent I 1 under stand a bummer buni nier lenoit orel avei on oil one side of lake annandale the place I 1 Is s i lealev pa iv to be whole some borne I 1 dont don t believe nour conr grand father had homicide in mind in send ing frig you there no lie he probably pio bably thought the iusti cation would make a man of me must I 1 do my 0 own n 9 I 1 su suppose Bup poBe bo be allowed allonen to eat dates bates can cook for jou iou hell sup ply the necessities instruct him to obey ciders I 1 assume you 11 riot not have roam mam gusts eusty in fact he be studied tho back of 0 his hand intently while that isn t stipulated I 1 doubt whether it was our grandfathers grandfather a idea that 3 ion ou should surround und yourself with uh companions I 1 I 1 supplied the words la a my tone no my conduct shall le be ex mr air bickering lIc kering I 1 added with affable it diony ony ile he up tip a single sheet of thin type wilUin iett ta paper and passed d it aerobe the table it was a formal boimal acquires ence in the of the will pickering had pic pared it in of mi im conil nf and toils assumption that I 1 would accept tl ti c tet beims m it rotated rne mp assumptions as an to what I 1 should do clo dundei min ondi condition tion had always me and in a large carpo measure mt aagre lot loi ni nii aronn Is hs to surp ilse aid 11 d disappoint people suni sum a cotik il to my signa ture linw soon shall ou take taho joshoa slon 7 lie he I 1 I 1 tave ave to make a note of it I 1 shall start for indiana to linot low I 1 As I 1 rose to RO go picketing said bald it will be sufficient if you drop me a line say sav once a month to let mo me know coir air are there the Is annandale I 1 sup suppose poe I 1 might file a supply of postal cards in the village and arrange for tho mailing of one every month it night be done that way he an kwerel b tenly aly we may perhaps meet again it if I 1 don t d e at it starvation or ennui good by I 1 TO BE BB CONTINUED |