Show e ON A BUICK WALT N the IIttl old town of Oloe pI everybody knew or the JltllonUnder i J ft wood toed l NoT No-T e 1 atrenlfr men Mmo + t thither to whom j t the tory KM not 1 if J laid 1 for It v u the ona romance nail myatery of the place and the pro pie were oalurally proud of It 1 I war all a i plaIn mi daylight HIM Janet llrllon worn aiti tom d to ear a dbeuMlng the lubjeel with her ten climate friend I have often braid mr poor father tell of IL llli tool Patten look offense At Mmcthlnf what It wn I never quite understood and made a will leaving the whole of hale properly with the exception of thli haute In which ho hen resided to another an-other nephew John Underwood Afterward Aft-erward ho repented of the Injustice and without destroying the nut will made another In which ho divided Ibo property equally between the two I Ned long After thin ho died suddenly sudden-ly My father waa away At Hie time and John Underwood who lived with tile mole and know All about the two wllli nod thAt they were both depot lied In a private secretary In his un dos room had the manaitoment of everUrine Well that second will rouM never be found Can anyone doubt that John Und 1wIWI < l Mole It out of the dead man t t reUry nod < destroyed And that li I why the two coiulns who hnd era n op > a brother became puml One had been robbed and the other pretended to consider hlmiwf IUIIIlI and xUndnred by A false charge And to three children hate kept up tho feud I to h1 day though growing up hoer neighbor with only a brjek wall between be-tween them aa It were That wnll wan raited m a partition tittnrpi at when John Underwood w lih I ni i unjustly gotten wealth built I Hi DM house on the otheralile W dl lbti n not many of ui now In Quar ti 1 s Hi rich other < H the ndorwoodt there are only I II I mil hla wife and tehl think the bye name li I Nell and Im the Ian of five of whom only the younri rut Henry over married And hIs daughter Dorothy will bo the lost of the Intent she conrluded with a sigh To Dorothy herself Piles Janet told this story when the orphan girl came I to Iho with her And how Dorothy awret pretence brightened and cheered j the rombro old homo just aa she ti persuaded her aunt to open tho fong cloecd window and hot lunililno 1i 1 onlllllli the breath of spring I Into III I musty pirtmenta rna day aa Dorothy sat In the sump sum-p tees boom rending It atruek her a i trance that site could ao distinctly hear the plaah of the fountain and catch the rich breath of rote from the other RIlo of Iho wall 1 I 1 al sYd I l 1 I + 1 PhQi 1rfil I 1 1JJ It = i t 4 1 f 11 W J1 ftt mi MISSINO wiiu Oh this lovely rotea A alight aound rained l her to turn her eyes to ono aide There lying at full length on tho gram with a book be ldo him and bla handsome dark eyes flint upon her was n young man Pardon roe said tho young man but VIII you permit mo to offer you the cone which you ao much mlmlnvt 1 Thank you they are the moat beau tlful roM that I ever nw nho said Imply lmlITbeJ They aro at your Mnloo always W lly father baa a pualou for rose nod we hive many arlella not common In e thin country Title ho enla the lolden e Bunact Ilii father Instantly II occurred to Dorothy that she woo talking wllli on of the Underwood What would i her aunt say to title A aliado of tOo I serve etole over tier I will go and put them In water I the aid And ao ended the unexpected Interview I Inter-view Bbo did not mention It to her aunt It would only worry her to know Hut Mil day when she repaired tot to-t her usual wl In the atinimer homo U she bad loa reel opened her book and nettled hertelf to read at tho old green table when thero Will the same milling of the Ivy branehee the llAma hand tom face looking through Ihs aperture Please do not consider coo too bold raid the young man but aa you ere aueh a lover ot roan thought you would be pleated to see some of those rare vorietlM of which I spoke t rda r-da dayAnd And then nlmott before Ibo knew It Dorothy found hornIt talking with till stranger about tho towers and the gar deal and the book she wu reacllnc t Your name la Dorothy ho wild glan Ins at Ibo embroidered tidy on the green table on which her work wasp was-p A d 1 Tinwin rue netu id i great aunt of mine and of your Dorothy Patten Ro bo had probably inquired and round out who bpi woo but Ibo answered an-swered quietly L r i I < > h I am Dorothy Jlf lion Ant I am Nell Und < woll4 I They looked gravely at each other IIhe WM thinking that thin Interview ought < to end and perhaps l he BUr must this for IIf lAId You will not let me frighten you away from this pleasant haunt of your thither than do an I will promise river again to Intrmle My mint one uld hmltallngly I I know yen and I have both heard l the old story Hut we did not build this wall If I could I would hare It down It w ms Inclined to rom down of itself she laid milling It la I time piy It wee ever built And then they talked n little farther and when Dorothy found herself alone In her room that evening she could think of nothing but Nell Underwood and aho had n any delightful conviction convic-tion that ho tlnl olIo thinking of her Thin must not gn on she thought regretfully It la I not right not for me and not as regnrdi my duty to Aunt Janet And for a whole week she stayed away from the summer house Hut It was alrango how Nell Under wood contrived to cross her path Onto overtaking her when In returning from nn errand In an obscure little suburban alreet aha woe caught n Hidden thunder thun-der torn Ho made her bake neecuary shelter In a church porch and there for more than nn hour while the atorm looted the a two mood talking together and oe raalonally looking Into each other eyes And everybody who hiss been eighteen and twentytwo know how much eye con tell Hut MlM llrllon beard ol Ihla Interview Inter-view and was furloui What hard and bitter thing aha Mid 1 1 of those Un derwAoda and of the Triton who could be degfrernte enough to forget the dignity of her family and loop to nc rapt a tervlrr tram their rn mM who bad wronged and robbed them And I = her tomruanda were poaltlvt I that Dorothy i Dor-othy ahou d never again upon any oo cation peak In Nell Underwood So Home week pascal and the girl I went no more to the mmmer house or alone to the town And the old tlme people R ho rlilled Mir llrltonwould occasionally remark that somehow Mia Dorothy didnt look aa bright and cheerful a when the hid first come to her nunta One day she was In her own room arranging her work In tho drawers of n little ebony wrlling stand which she end found In the mile and taken a fancy to llanelng toward the open window Rhll saw across tho top of tho brick wall Nell Underwood slowly promenading prome-nading one of Iho garden terror Ills back Will to her and abe watched him Until He turned at the end rf tbo walk when with glrllih ahynen she lnalnctlvty 1 I drew back out ot tight In the aiidden h motion the little I ebony table woo overturned nod came with a criuh to the floor I Dorothy alonped sod lifted l the broken top Oho found It to bo n lid cloilnu by n atecl spring over n ahallow apace beneath where no ono would have impeded 1 such to exist And In this pace nppearrd act era old letter and a folded paper yellow and crlip with age Tho girl took up tbo latter and glance nt tho writing on the oulildo Int Will nnd Teatnment of Paul Iutlen with Ibo dale An old copy perhopi Hut no Was there not the story or tho loft will With onger hnato alto unoldod tho paper and glancing haitlly over Iho trot page ran down tabs In her aunts room her face pale her eye bright with oxeltement Oh Aunt Janet lee how you have wronged theml Hero la I the missing willPulse Pulse llrlton read It with trembling liamlii nod then ant like ono dated staring at the paper 1 found It In the little ebony writ ngtabte Dorothy explained Yea I heard my father My Hint that table stood always by hit unclea bed In 1 hit lilt illness 110 kept him hi-m lclne In tho denser lIe mUll have taken the will from the eretary and Illatolllt In the wrlling stattq And Ids sudden dealt prevented hili telling where II nil It wu a minnorablo day In the nnnnli ot Olney that un which lie lone aland Ing feud of HrltonUndernood 1 was Healed We have dote you n great wrong I mid Mlu 1 llrlton ai ahe exKutfud her sand to air Ikiill Underwood when for tho ant time ho Hood beneath the root of Inn old haiiiMtMd We have ao ouenl you of u crime ot which you wero guiltier And we hare wrungeil you though unwittingly ho returned aa he took tho offered limit We have been eUlni Ing and tiling aa our own property to which you were juitly entitled Itut ao fr ai In my power MM It ahall bo atoned for Hbo ilioak her Mind I So far ai I am conccrnrd let It real 11II It la I I am an old wanton unit havo enough for my few remaining years Hut for Dorothy She paused and looked at bor niece who with eye gllitenlng with loan yet a happy alto on Iwr Up stool I looking on I Then her glance petal to the young man by Dorollifi tUe Md she Bald I no more only Nattily held out her hand to him alto I Mr Urtrtrwooda ra hid follny d hn and ho emIUid I It will all come right now ho lAid Lot the unhappy lost bo burled and forgotten And the brick wall be pulled down II added Nell |