CHAPTER XXII.
WILLIE’S PLANS BUD.

ITHER they were over, or were only be-
ginning ; for, the next winter, while Willie
was at college, grannie was taken ill; and although
they sent for him to come home at once, she had.
climbed higher ere he arrived. When they opened
her will, they found that she had left everything to
Willie. There was more than a hundred pounds
in ready money, and property that brought in about
fifty pounds a-year—not much to one who would
have spent everything on himself, but a good deal
to one who loved other people, and for their sakes
would contrive that a little should go a long
way.

So Willie was henceforth able to relieve his father
by paying all his own college expenses. He laid
by a little too, as his father wished him, until
he should see how best to use it. His father al-
ways talked about using, never about spending
money.

When he came home the next summer, he moved