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wmmmmmmmmmmmm its appearance among the pieces and protruded from what was clearly enough a false bottom. Dorothy opened it and gasped. It was her aunt's last will. It was in dubitably the very last will, for it was dated a year later than the one by which she inherited the money. As she stared at it Charley came in. He picked up the will and read it One scathing sentence burned itself into Dorothy's brain. " my property," it ran, "to be the possession of my niece Dor othy so long as the blue Worcester teapot remains intact And, know ing that within a short time my said niece, Dorothy, will break the said teapot, I hereby bequeath all my property, except the broken frag ments of the said teapot, in the care of Mr. Jebediah Sturgeon, president of the Parrot ass'n of Greenville, Mass." The guest had taken the opportu nity 'to slip away, and Dorothy and her husband looked at one another in dismay. "The darned old cat!" said Charley. "What does it mean, dear?" asked his wife hysterically. "It means," he answered, "that your Aunt Jerusha has taken her posthumous revenge upon us. Don't you see? So long as the teapot was sound neither of us would know that we didn't own the property, but now we've come upon a later will inside. the old thing, we've weVe got to evacuate." "And I've made tea in it 50 times and and thought of her," sobbed the girl. "I wish we'd spent every penny of that old legacy and sold the house, too. Isn't there any way of getting out of it, dear?" The lawyer shook his head. "The will is properly executed and wit nessed," he answered. "Of course it might be possible to claim that she had been of unsound mind. But I know that in spite of her eccentric ities she was a woman of remarkable clarity of mind. And anyway, a law suit with old Jebediah wha's-his-name would be an expensive pro- ceeding. No, my dear, there isn't anything we can do except turn the 't will over to Jebediah." On the following morning Charley set out for Greenville, accompanied by Dorothy, who had peladed to go with him. iC Mr. Jebediah Sturgeon was easily n located. He was, in fact, the chief lawyer of the town, but when the vis- r itors explained their presence and t spoke of the Parrot ass'n he smiled "s, with much amusement iT "The late Miss Jerusha Shaw was a remarkable woman," he said, as he n. searched in a tin box for some pa- i pers. "One of the eccentricities was I an extreme aversion from lawyers. a I understand that you are of our pro- & fession," he added, turning to Char- a. ley. . "Yes, and she had no use for me o on that account" 5. "So I understood. I can say, in a fact, that I was the only lawyer for J whom she did have any use. Ours was a very old friendship, and her s will, though amiarentlv drawn ud i 'without legal advice, was, in fact, ) drawn up by me. I may say that Miss Shaw would have placed as 1 much confidence in me as this state- ment denotes." i. He drew a paper from the box, put l on his glasses and began to peruse it Then he smiled genially. 'JThe property was much smaller x than you expected to find, Mr. En- t field?" he asked. I "She ought to have had about $6,000 more," said Charley. "She had $19,000 more than ap peared in the will," said Mr. Stur- 1 geon. "It was invested in certain 2 bonds which are in my keeping. As I said, the late Miss Shaw honored I me with her absolute confidence. But ' Miss Shaw was anxious to test vour honesty, Mr. Enfield. In fact, she said to me that she regretted she could f not put you to the test while she was J alive. i J iAMiMMMiiiilflHMI