| Show PAPA FLEU MISER A french millionaire who in the streets and died tn filth A of the storybook type died a few weeks ago in dauxerre auxerre Aux erre france although he never had wife or children he was known to all the persons in the city as papa he had been a public figure for a generation and could be seen daily in storm or sunshine tottering in his rags through the streets to gather odd bits nf coal and wood and cigar stumps when he began his work in the city there were alie usual rumors that he was and miserly but they were soon by the abject filth and want in which he lived and by his im importunity in begins papa Fleu died in his eighty fifth year and was buried in the potters field the french police who suspect everything still suspected the old man s pretenses of poverty despite the recent tins of public opinion and they searched the hut in which he had lived and died filth was ankle deep and knee deep in the cellar th st search was rewarded is covery of four hundred bottles of F i deaux vinta ere of 1700 the se breh however revealed a hole in the clar wall behind a pile of indescribable dirt from this hole the police draped a chest and in the chest they found the treasure from top to bottom it was full with mortgages government bonds shares in tock companies and title deeds all showed the keenness of papa Fleu in investing his savings for without exception the securities were of the highest class their face value was one million francs but as many of alie bonds and stocks were above par they can be sold for a much larger sum for more than eleven years the old man had neglected to clip his coupons lie had leathem accumulate until they represented a market value of one hundred and forty thousand francs among the many pieces of real estate whose ownership was revealed by the contents of the chest is a tract of land near bonne yonne on this land arc four hundred acres of fine forest and several buildings of the ancient and indestructible make it had been more than forty years since anybody at villeneuve knew who owned alie estate when papa Fleu died in his hovel but twenty centimes cen times or less than five cents was his total cash capital As was expected the usual number of heirs have appeared since alie old mans body was buried in alie potters field they affect to believe that still more treasure is concealed in his hut and they are taking it down piece by piece in alie hope of enriching themselves |
