THE MISSING WILL

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 111, 12 May 1934, Page 10

THE MISSING WILL

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I "Come on, it's no use grumbling, even though things aro looking black. 3* Hilda Wakefield was speaking. She was a curly-headed girl of twelve, but today her jolly face was gloomy, even. Though she tried to be cheerful. Her brother and sister, Tom. and Tessa, had faces as long as a poker, as Hilda But it. r

They had reason to be sad, though, for. a will, raado by their grandmother, had been lost. They believed, it was intended for them, .and one part of it was that they could have a lovely home, besides being riclvfor life..; • ;--.;-,- . , "Well^ I vote we go "to" tha-play-t room," put in eight-year-old' Tessa, . "Why a kid. wants to go to a mouldys old play-room I don't know," said Tom sulkily. It could hardly' be exIpected that a boy of thirteen would liketo;play .with dolls,:or to ,be> a burglar in a girls' game. "■Come on, be a sport, Tom. You can't go outside'in this rainy weather,'* Hilda the peacemaker said^ "Bight-b! Only I'm going .to be the jolly old burglar who steal's, -thebaby," Tom said, snatching at Tessa's doll. *' Oh, don't, it '3 the one grandma game .me!" came in a scream; from. Tessa, ' • - •

Hilda picked up the'doll to see if it was broken, when, to her surprise, her hand felt a spring. She pulled a faded piece of paper out of the broken head. Trembling fingers' held it, and then. Tom, forgetting his dignity, peeped, over her shoulders. "Gosh," he ejaculated, "a clue, to the will!"

It was indeed a clue, as they shortly; found out. It read: "Look under tha floor for will. Amy Wakefield."When Tom lifted up the boards,.ex-< cited hands grabbed a bundle of papers*

'. The will entitled him :to have "Manorleigh," a large mansion, and plenty of money. ■ . \

That very day, (Tessa and Hilda had a .treat for Tom.' "Because, Tom, i£ you hadn't thrown Tessa's doll down, we might never have found the missing will," was Hilda's explanation.. : ' "SNOWGIRL" QOfc Miramar. ' v