him had not been measured by
any knowledge of his wealth, but which had been bestowed upon him solely
for simple love's sake. Every line Helmsley had written to her in this
last appeal to her tenderness, came from his very heart, and went to her
own heart again, moving her to the utmost reverence, pity and affection.
In his letter he enclosed a paper with a list of bequests which he left
to her charge.

"I could not name them in my Will,"--he wrote--"as this would have
disclosed my identity--but you, my dear, will be more exact than the law
in the payment of what I have here set down as just. And, therefore, to
you I leave this duty."

First among these legacies came one of Ten Thousand Pounds to "my old
friend Sir Francis Vesey,"--and then followed a long list of legacies to
servants, secretaries, and workpeople generally. The sum of Five Hundred
Pounds was to be paid to Miss Tranter, hostess of "The Trusty
Man,"--"for her kindness to me on the one night I passed under her
hospitable roof,"--and sums of Two Hundred Pounds each were left to
"Matthew Peke, Herb Gatherer," and Farmer Joltram, both these personages
to be found through the aforesaid Miss Tranter. Likewise a sum of Two
Hundred Pounds was to be paid to one "Meg Ross--believed to hold a farm
near Watchett in Somerset." No one that had served the poor "tramp" was
forgotten by the great millionaire;--a sum of Five Hundred Pounds was
left to John Bunce, "with grateful and affectionate thanks for his
constant care"--and a final charge to Mary was the placing of Fifty
Thousand Pounds in trust for the benefit of Weircombe, its Church, and
its aged poor. The money in bank notes, enclosed with the testator's
last Will and Testament, was to be given to Mary for her own immediate
use,--and then came the following earnest request;--"I desire that the
sum of Half-a-crown, made up of coppers and one sixpence, which will be
found with these effects, shall be enclosed in a casket of gold and
inscribed with the words 'The "surprise gift" collected by "Tom o' the
Gleam" for David Helmsley, when as a tramp on the road he seemed to be
in need of the charity and sympathy of his fellow men and which to him
was

MORE PRECIOUS THAN MANY MILLIONS.

And I request that the said casket containing these coins may be
retained by Mary Deane as a valued possession in her family, to be
handed down as a talisman and cornerstone of fortune for herself and her
heirs in perpetuity."