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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH CHAPTER XIII Continued 26 Thanks. Not Interested. Theres a girl back In Pilarcitos, Calif., who claims all of my sentimental attention. I' hope to tell you I wouldnt lose her for a sum equal to the national debt. Bully for you, Mr. Clarke! And by the way, I must say I have never seen a man take such a loss with a smile before. Ill say youre game. Cant lose what I never had, Mr. McPeake. By the way, was the record of this old mortgage among my uncles papers? "Oh, yes! Tour uncle never de-stroyed anything. Well, If I had found It, I would have suspected that the mortgage had not been paid, otherwise there would have been a copy of the release among his papers. So I would have run the record down and paid It myself. Uncle Hiram worried unnecessarily. Tou would have paid It yourself with Interest compounded? Certainly. A note is a note, just as a bet is a bet. But I well, Mr. Clarke, I was going to suggest to you that we might get together with the present holder of that mortgage and effect a settlement. The deficiency judgment is outlawed and If we made a poor mouth and told her that a large portion of the estate consisted of real estate not readily salable, we might get her to abate the compounded Interest Or we might Induce her to accept a lot of dead real estate at inflated values fix It with the appraisers of the estate to reappraise the property. Elmer raised his hand protestingly. Youre proposing something dirty, Get this, my mister, he said evenly. friend : All the dirt rights of the tribe stood in the name of my late uncle, and Im not going to join with you or anybody else to take advantage of a woman. A contracts a contract, and if I lost every dollar of the million dollars I thought I had, thats my funeral and I refuse to atBut-terwor- tend it ! ' McPeake was embarrassed. Well, dont think any the less of me for Some day gesting it, he pleaded. you will think more of me for suggestHe smiled smugly, after the ing it. fashion of one whose head is quite filled with valuable secrets. I suppose its a lawyers duty to protect his clients interests, and I suppose, too, It is natural that folks should disagree as to what constitutes Elmer replied sporty treatment, so Ill your suggesforget grudgingly, tion. Just dont make another one like It Fair enough. Pll make one the very reverse of it Mr. Clarke, for more than a quarter of a century your uncle had a very confidential employee a sort of chief clerk, manager and man Friday one Bunker. Bunker is one of those mousy little men who are whipped in the battle of life the day they come into it. A retiring, timid, faithful, obedient, brainy, efficient rabbit of a man. His job with your uncle was the first Job he ever had and he is still on the estate pay roll, helping me close up odds and ends of business matters. Very early in life he made a mistake. He married and had children gave hostages to fortune, as it were. So his job was bread and butter and he never had the courage to quit and seek another. I think It must have occurred to your uncle, from time to time, that the Impossible might happen and he would lose Bunker's services, so he promised Bunker he would ' leave him one hundred thousand dollars in his will. This promise he from time to time, but when came to making his will he betrayed 'Bunkei. Cut him off with ten thou-- I sand dollars and if I had not fought him all over the office he would have let Bunker down with five thousand. of Poor Bunker is course. McPeake paused and looked at Elmer meaningly. And you are about to propose that I make up the deficit, eh? Elmer suggested. Exactly. Well cross that bridge when we come to it, and first we will ascertain whether or not we have a bridge to cross. I am a young man but I have made this discovery. The Bunkers of hard-workin- heart-broke- this world receive from the world exactly what they merit. Nobody but a fool and a particularly dumb sort of fool could work for my Uncle Hiram for more than a quarter of a century and not know that he was Inhuman, that he would lie and take brutal advantage of people. I dare say Bunker was important to him because Bunker was so weak he would do the dirty little deeds his master ordered him to do. Is that not so? Well, Im afraid that, In a certain sense, you are right, Mr. Clarke. You bet Im right I do not have to see Bunker to know the sort of man he is. I have little pity and little love for such men, and it is a question in my mind whether, by fulfilling my uncles insincere, unmeant promise, I would be doing Bunker a real kindness. Th'e money would probably turn his head. Well, Ill let Bunker argue his own Now then, case, McPeake decided. our principal debtor is Insistent on having the cash, and the only way the cash can be secured is to sell off the real estate belonging to the estate. The properties are covered with old buildings in a bad state of repair, but the Income from rents is excellent. Are the properties salable? At a price yes. Well, if we hang on until they are salable at a fair price we may be years closing this estate, and in the meanwhile that mortgage will continue to draw eight per cent comThats no pounded business, Mr. McPeake. Get an order of court to sell that property at public auction. "My idea exactly, Mr. Clarke. Your decision does credit to your common sense and business instincts." What have you done with that little private banking business or was it a pawn broking establishment? Ive sold it at a very good figure and the probate court has approved the sale." When the estate is finally settled, The Knife Dr. Charles H. Mayo, the famous surgeon, said at a luncheon in Rochester : Dreiser in one of his novels killed off a woman in childbirth with a Caesarian section operation, and now Hemingway has done the same thing. These novelists are evidently of the same mind as the hospital sur- family seems to be a wholly friendly combination. Brockton Enterprise. Powder Not New powder may be popular, but it isnt new. It was used by Roman ladies in the year 300 B. C. Sun-Ta- n Sun-ta- n Spagnum Moss in Quantity peat bog 700 acres in area' and One of the blessings of love Is that believed to contain a half centurys moss at of 500,000 spagnum people can talk silly without feeling supply bales a year, has been put under pro- ridiculous. duction in Canada. A I Prize Stamps The most valuable postage stamp Doctor, a visitor said to him, in the world is the British guinea. what is the most dangerous case One Is owned by King George and one by Arthur Hines. you have here?' 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St. Salt another nights what do you think my share will amount to? Oh, I should say, offhand, a quarter of a million dollars. Well, Ill always be a' millionaire in Pilarcitos. Ive been duly advertised as such and while I continue to pay my bills Ill have the credit rating of a millionaire. That will help. I can go just as far on credit as I can on cash. Just wont go so fast, thats Think Ill go He rose to go. all. on to New York and see some good Deshows, he informed McPeake. spite the walloping youve handed me, I think I can afford a month or two of Broadway. After all, a quarter of a million is better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick. Ill hang around Muscatine a few days and sign any papers you may require." He took a cheerful departure. The Instant the door closed behind him McPeake rang for his secretary. Ive always heard that out in California they grow things big, he informed her. Big potatoes, big pumpkins, big cattle and big boost, but If Elmer B. Clarke is a sample of her manhood, California grows the biggest men 1 ever hope to see. That boy certainly can take a licking standing up. Take a letter to Miss Nellie Cath-carcare Pilarcitos Commercial Trust and Savings bank, Pilarcitos, Calif. Dear Miss Cathcart: Your sweetie arrived today and without any preliminary warning I slipped him the fatal tidings, but withholding your identity, of course. He can lose a million dollars and put his bright daydreams behind him with as much grace and humor as If he reckoned his loss in depreciated German marks instead of feood red U. S. gold coin. Im for him all the way. Hes a man, and should you permit him to escape you will suffer an irreparable loss. He uses his head entirely for thinking. Pilarcitos is lucky to have him for Its mayor-elecPlease see to It that politics dont spoil him. Yours sincerely. Now make out a petition to the probate court for the sale of all the real estate of the Butterworth' estate, and Ill have Mr. Clarke and Bunker sign it Then make out an order of sale for the court to sign, and in about a month from now well distribute the estate and send Elmer Clarke back to win the capital prize in the best little love lottery you ever heard of. He won only to lose, and he will lose only to win. That Nellie Cathcart must be a very unusual woman. She had a curiosity to discover whether or not Elmer Clarke could fit Kiplings recipe for manhood. Remember the lines? If you can meet with triumph and disaster, And treat those two Impostors both the same, Well, Im banking on Elmer. Lake City, Utah. CULLEN GARAGE 37 West 2nd So. sleep gone! STORAGE AND SERVICE Flit kills LUtftSe Hotell Q. R. Co., (Garage Across the Street) mosquitoes quick! 167 Gentlemen : Inclosed find $1.00 P. O. Money Order for One- tube of Q. R. 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