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Show Thursday, August 18, 1927 THE LEHI SUN. LEIII, UTAH PAGE SEVEN t ! N TheR CHAPTER I ft was characteristic of Peter Mil-en Mil-en that he should bear the shock of the second of his life's tragedies with bo risible symptom of emotion. The first of these blows had been dealt him twenty-five years before. He had suffered It In this same richly rich-ly furnished room of his house In Lower Fifth avenue. Sneed, the butler, but-ler, who had just handed him the morning papers, had brought him a Quarter of a century ago the letter In which his wife told him she had gone away and would not return. The second 'blow swept away his comfortable fortune. At fifty, without with-out near relatives and long estranged from old friends, Peter Milman would be compelled to move from the house In which he had been born the house where he hoped to die to mix with the world he had forgotten, among people he had grown to mistrust. The three morning papers Sneed placed before him, although they varied somewhat In their telling of Eazen Brewer's failure, had substan tlally the same account of it. Brewer's liabilities were fifteen million mil-lion dollars. . His assets were given as less than .five thousand dollars. Somewhere, sandwiched among these vast debts, was Peter Mllman's modest million. The butler, sensing 111 news from the hastily read captions, grew relieved re-lieved when he saw his employer take out his pocket-scissors and begin to clip such extracts from the papers as Interested him. Later these clippings would be arranged systematically with the thousands of others which during long years Milman had gathered. In the library, steel-lined drawers, carefully care-fully locked, held the harvest of these gleanings. At three o'clock Peter Milman came down the stairs and selected a cane. He was dressed as though he were going to pay an afternoon call. He was one of those slight, small-boned men so often seen in the dwindling families of races near extinction. His smartly cut coat, his immaculate silk hat and distinguished "cane made him seem, from. a rear view, a boyish figure. fig-ure. It was when one saw the pale, lined face, the tired eyes, and the thin supercilious mouth, that one realized real-ized this was a man to whom the world has long since seemed empty vanity. On the whole, Peter Milman presented the appearance of one to whom familiarity would be distasteful and friendship the slow growth of years.' He was on his way to see his lawyer law-yer and find out how he stood financially. finan-cially. He felt almost certain that he had fallen with Hazen Brewer. Not for more than twenty years had Peter Milman been so much disturbed. Ruin meant giving up his home. The Idea was Intolerable. He entered the private office of Herman Her-man Loddon as one assured of his position and certain of his welcome. Assuredly Loddon, who owed so mucb to the Milmans, would be able to supply sup-ply him with the information he desired. de-sired. The first direct Intimation of the difference between a millionaire and a poor man was given him as he entered en-tered Loddon's room. Loddon remained re-mained seated. Hitherto he had risen clumsily to his feet at sight of his distinguished client and with -awkward gestures motioned him to the seat of honor. And his face had been wreathed with smiles. 5 For the first time Peter Milman saw the man Herman Loddon s he really was. Loddon hated him, and had always hated him. There could be no other explanation of his lack of courtesy and the sneering smile with which he greeted his client For a quarter-century he had worn a disarming dis-arming smile. Hazen Brewer's failure had swept away the necessity for using us-ing It any more. Things, then, were desperate. Milman's manner was still as loftily courteous as ever. "lliope you have been able to find out the extent of Mr. Brewer's misfortunes," mis-fortunes," he said. "Misfortunes!" Loddon cried. "His crimes, you mean." "I am not asking you to prejudge my friend," Peter Milman said quietly. "I want to know if the morning papers are correct In stating that his entire fortune has disappeared." "They are," Loddon answered with an appearance of satisfaction, "and as you wouldn't take 'my . advice about your investments, your money has gone too. I tell you, Milman, you've only got what I prophesied a million times." Milman! Never before had Herman Loddon presumed so much. Loddon's father had been the Milman coachman coach-man at their country place at Hastings Hast-ings years before. When he had been killed in a runaway , accident, Peter Milman, the elder, had taken charge cf the son's education and had eventually even-tually set him up in practice and given him his first case. "Tnen nothing Is leftr Milman asked. "Not a cent,, you're luckier than Brer Is. because you've got a valuable valu-able let on Fifth avenue, and there are fifty men wa'ting to make you an offer of-fer for It and put a big building where that mausoleum of yours stands." Milman said nothing. He allowed Loddon's sneer at his home to pass. Loddon did not know that, wheo Hazen Brewer incurred the enmity of reat financial Interests, and was so 2ard!y pressed for money, he had muie liy night to Milman and begged in utter desperation for a loan. It ecluse of Fifth Avenue By WYNDHAM MARTYN Ooprrtcbt In tha Cnlud Buom WHO Strrtca was Hazen Brewer who had arranged the mortgage on the Milman home. It was Brewer alone who had profited by the affair. And this mortgage was shortly to fall due, and there was no money to pay it Peter Milman could have sold the house and lot and retired to some other oth-er place In relative comfort until the end of his life had he been less obstinately ob-stinately desirous of remaining where he had been bom. "You can't stay there, if that's what you are trying to figure out," Loddon said brutally. "The taxes are heavy und you have some outstanding debts. My account, for instance. Sell It and live In Italy is my advice." He yawned rudely. Peter Mllman's question turned his red face a deeper hue. "Have you always hated me, Loddon?" Lod-don?" The lawyer did not answer immediately. imme-diately. This hate of his was a complex com-plex tiling, less the result of a deep Injury than of a thousand envies. He "Have You Always Hated Me, Lod-donr Lod-donr had always resented Mllman's discriminations dis-criminations when social functions were still a part of his life. It is true that he had dined many times in the Milman house, but his wife had never been asked there. He came to understand under-stand In the end that be was asked because be-cause Peter Milman found it a less tedious business than going to Loddon's Lod-don's office. It was this fancied slight to his wife which most angered the lawyer. She was a social climber, and the magic of the Milman name was a tradition in New York. Her husband, ashamed of his obscure origin, had claimed to have been at school with Peter Milman, and Mrs. Loddon felt that, were he to Insist, In-sist, she could be a guest In the envied en-vied home. ' Loddon hated Milman because, despite de-spite his unwise boasting, he knew he had never convinced Milman of his importance. "Always, he said slowly, with a rush of relief at being at last able to voice his emotions. "Yes, I hated you when my father drove you to school and I couldn't get either inside with you or on the box with him. I've hated you for your friends and the way you've expected me to come when you felt like calling." Loddon laughed sneeringly. "But that's all done with. I'm on top and only pity you now." , "I think I prefer the former emotion," emo-tion," Milman murmured. "In future," Loddon said majestically, majestical-ly, "I shall have too many big things to attend to to have time for you. I'll turn your affairs over to my managing clerk." "Thank you," Milman said, rising. "I shall not come again. Send in your bill at once. You have been loyal to our Interests, and that is why we employed em-ployed you." Peter Milman passed over the Loddon outburst of hate as though it had not Interested him. Herman Loddon watched him depart with the feeling that his triumph had not been as assured as he could hav wished. He had won no look of fear Song Composed Under Some persons assert that John Howard How-ard Payne wrote his wonder song, "Home Sweet Home," while in a debtors' debt-ors' prison. Others say he wrote It at a time when Is was penniless and homeless, stranded In London, iayne, however, leaves behind him the statement state-ment that he was a fairly successful playwright, with a good supply of money and excellent prospects ahead when he wrote the song. He did adult ad-ult that he was somewhat depressed at the time he penned the words, but he attributes his depression to a dull October day, merry crowds passing his window as he sat and watched them. He was lonesome. Being a wanderer, wander-er, he had strayed far from home, but at times he had memories of the days he spent In happy childhood with a mother he adored In a humble cottar at Easthampton, L. L The tune he adapted from a song he had heard a peasant girl singing to herself in the I" ' fill ' or apprehension from the man ha hated. Perba t, after all, there was i something about men like Milman different from him. Then the thought of his two millions reassured him and he lumbered to the window and watched his former client cross the road. The great limousine opposite would presently take Herman Loddon to his lavishly appointed apartment, where he would dine largely. He pictured pic-tured Mllman's solitary and dismal meal. There would not be many more for him In the family home on Lower Fifth avenue. The Patrician age was gone. Peter Milman reached his home without encountering anyone who knew him. Fashionable New York with her residences and clubs had long passed on her northward way. Those few houses which, like his own. were still owned by their builders' families, were mostly unoccupied save for a few weeks in the year. With these people Milman had now nothing in common. He had rejected their overtures. They spoke of him with pity, almost with contempt A legend of eccentricity grew up about him and presently gave way to rumors of mental men-tal deterioration. Sneed, who concerned himself greatly great-ly with the sudden change in his employer's em-ployer's habits, saw him return with obvious relief. Sneed had read the papers and realized the extent ot Hazen Brewer's troubles. He wished he dared ask Mr. Milman If he, too, were badly hit. Peter Mllman's face told him nothing. Nor was his customary cus-tomary manner changed. "I am going over the upper rooms after luncheon," said Milman. "Please see that they are in order." The upper rooms. It was In these spacious chambers that the old furniture fur-niture was stored about which experts raved. The six rooms were arranged as a museum. Milman moved from piece to piece. Everything had Its definite association. He stopped before be-fore an Eighteenth century card table covered with sealskin. On this table, in 1745, a Peter Milman had lost a thousand pounds on a cut of cards with a blue-blood of South Carolina. Those six chairs, called "banister-backed "banister-backed by their creator, Heppel-whlte, Heppel-whlte, had been, made to order for a Milman. There was one room devoted to the Dutch furniture that had come to the Milmans from a marriage with a Van Sluyter heiress. Peter Milman bent down to look at a Dutch church stool which a Van Sluyter servant had carried car-ried to a place of worship two hundred hun-dred years before. It was black In color, and on one side bore a picture of the Last Judgment and some appropriate ap-propriate verses. "I don't read Dutch," Milman observed, ob-served, "but I remembered the translation. trans-lation. Listen, Sneed, It may do you good." "Certainly, sir," said Sneed respectfully. respect-fully. "The Judgment of God is now prepared; there la still time, leave unwisdom. unwis-dom. The pious will be separated from the wicked. God's wisdom encircles the Universe." "Very true, Mr. Peter, sir," said Sneed. There was a look on his employer's em-ployer's face that he did not understand, under-stand, something hard and ruthlefs. "There are some of the wicked I should very much like to separate from the pious without waiting for post-mortem Judgments. I am not sure that such an act would not be a logical way of acquiring merit I take It, Sneed, that In your essence you are law-abiding?" ' "Always," said Sneed with conscious con-scious rectitude. "In that respect, Mr. Peter, I'm like you." "A very admirable frame of mind," said Milman. Sneed had rarely known him com ment on any of the exhibits before To day it seemed he had a word for everything. "On this settle with folding candle stick," he observed, "Benjamin Mil-man Mil-man fell asleep in the Revolutionary war and was captured by a red-coat major, who gave him liberty owing to his pretty skill on a six-string bass viol. The viol is in the next room These three mahogany pieces," he said, pausing before a six-legged high case of drawers, "once belonged to the man whom Aaron Burr speaks of 'as my friend Hamilton whom I killed.' (TO BE CONTINUED.) Stress of Loneliness fields of Italy while he was visiting that country. After writing the words, he Jotted down a semblance of the tune he had heard In Italy and sent the suggestion to the composer, Harry E. Bishop, who produced the air that so admirably fits the words. Kansas City Star. Folly of Fashion "So great was the weight of the elaborately padded garments worn by men in England during the reign of Henry the Eighth," points out Frederick Fred-erick Tisdale In an article in Liberty, "that a bench was built along the house of parliament so the fainting dandies could rest their mattressad thighs." I Out of Teliowsto&e park's tout ares I of 3,343 square miles, each Americas cltixea owns an area 80 feet square FAMOUS MININGSJRIKES By THOMAS E. STEWARD 'Diggings at Deadwood THE financial panic of 1857 was a prime Influence In bringing about the rush of prospectors into the. hills of Colorado In that year which led to the discovery of many -famous mines and resulted directly In the founding of Denver and Boulder, both in 1858, and of many minor settlements. Business uncertainties resulting from the panic made many daring souls willing to risk their future In the Western wilderness in an effort to recoup losses in business. At about the same time a small amount of gold was collected and exhibited by a party of civilized Cherokee Indians, who said they had found it In the Colorado hills. Early in 1858 a party of Georgians, headed by W. J. Russell, went Into what was then called the Pike's Peak country In search of gold. They finally final-ly made a minor strike at the mouth of a gulch leading Into the Platte river about seven miles below the present site of Denver, and when news of this find reached the outside world, the rush to Colorado began. Clear Creek county, destined to become be-come one of Colorado's richest mining districts, first yielded precious metal in April, 1859, when one George A. Jackson made a strike on what was called Chicago creek. That year was marked by an Influx of prospectors who not only explored streams along the foothills of the Rockies but penetrated pene-trated deeply Into the mountains. The "Deadwood Diggings" were developed on South Boulder creek, and the history his-tory of Colorado as one of the nation's na-tion's richest sources of metallic ore and metal had begun. Discovery of the lode or actual vein from which placer gold previously found had been washed down, soon followed when John H. Gregory located lo-cated what was called the Gregory lode, also in Clear Creek county. Several Sev-eral lodes were found near Georgetown, George-town, then known as Ellzabethtown, and II 1SC0 gold diggings were located In the Upper Union or Empire district dis-trict As a consequence of these discoveries discov-eries and the inrush of population, congress passed a bill on February 20, 1861, organizing the territory of Colorado. Colo-rado. Col. William Gilpin soon after was appointed the first territorial governor. gov-ernor. Settlement of the Colorado mining districts was accompanied by the usual riotous camp life, with many violent deaths, over-gay dance halls, and repeated Instances of fortunes easily snatched from nature and as easily spun away across the gambling tables of the towns. 1849 The Marvelous Year ABOUT a year after the discovery of gold at Sutter's mill, the gold of California began to attract the greatest Influx of Immigrants that America had known up to that time. People from all sections of Europe made their way overland, across Panama or around the "Horn" to join the bearded crowds of rough, gay, adventurous men and youths who were seeking fortune along the golden streams of that most westerly west-erly state. The output of gold from the new diggings on the Feather, Yuba, American Ameri-can and Stanislaus rivers surpassed anything the world had known. Some miners, working with crude methods, made as much as $5,000 In a single day. When all the printers, and readers, read-ers, too. of the Californian had gone off gold digging, the publisher decided to combine a tour of the gold camps with a little digging venture of his own. Upon his return, when he resumed re-sumed publication, he reported that he had easily made from $44 to $150 a day with his pan, and had averaged about $100. Gold dust became the currency ot the period, but it was produced so rapidly that it dropped in price from $18 to about $4 an ounce and prices rose proportionately, as always happens hap-pens when a currency depreciates. Until the formation of the Vigilance committees there was no law but that of the fist, the pistol and the bowie knife. These placer operations actually no l more than scratched the surface of the placer and gravel gold deposits of California, but they came to yield as high as $50,000,000 a year In the period pe-riod from 1850 to 1853. Then the output out-put started to go down, due to the fact that many of the more easily worked diggings had been exhausted and machinery ma-chinery had not been devised that enabled en-abled the miners to work the deep and heavy gravel deposits. The fim of the placer tools was the pan, which a man held in his hand. 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