Disappointed In Love

Ansel White, the lost heir to a large estáte near Utica, N. Y., valued' ai eral millions, was an eccentric person. He went to Clallam county, Washington, in the later sixties and squatted on a tract of government land. He was thrifty, energetic and made money. When times were hard and interest high he frequently loaned to his neighbors small sums of money on good security. In those days the nearest bank was 100 miles distant. After promising a loan he would ask the 'borrower to cali the next day for the money, when he would have it on hand. It waa generally supposed by his neighbors that he kept his money buried. A vein of mystery always hung around the old man, who was on the shady side of seventy. Once in a burst of confidence he imparted the information to a friend that he had wealthy relatives living in the East, and further said that in early life he was disappointed in marriage and for that reason he carne out West and buried himself in the wilderness. It seems that he was engaged to marry a pretty girl, of a rich family, but a few days prior to the day set for the ceremony she canceled the engagement and shortly afterward was wedded to a man who years before had betrayed White's friendship in some trivial incident. Though possessed of a comfortable annuity, with the ultímate certaihty of eventually being a three or four times millionaire, White forfeited wealth, relatives and friends and sought to forget the painful memories by mingling in the excitement of the Pacific coast. For a time he lived in California and then drifted to Puget Sound. It was during his residence here that he made and canceled several wills. The will cow in existence made a neighbor's soï Preston M. Troy, his heir. At th Urne of White's death, in 1888, he was seventyslx years of age.