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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER, RANDOLPH, UTAH 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 G by Pater B. Kyne. would be doing Bunker a real kindness. The money would probably turn WNU Service his head. Well, Ill let Bunker argue his own McPeake decided. Now then, case," CHAPTER XIII Continued our principal debtor is insistent on 26 having the cash, and the only way Thanks. Not Interested. Theres the cash can be secured is to sell off a girl back In Pilarcitos, Calif., who the real estate belonging to the estate. claims all of my sentimental attenThe properties are covered with old tion. I hope to tell you I wouldnt buildings in a bad. state of repair, but lose her for a sum equal to the nathe Income from rents is excellent. tional debt. Are the properties salable?" ' Bully for you, Mr. Clarke And by At a price yes. the way, I must say I have never seen Well, if we hang on until they are a man take such a loss with a smile salable at a fair price we may be before. Ill say youre game. years closing this estate, and in the Cant lose what I never had, Mr. meanwhile that mortgage will conMcPeake. By the way, was the record tinue to draw eight per cent comof this old mortgage among my uncles pounded Thats no papers?" business, Mr. McPeake. Get an order Oh, yes I Your uncle never deof court to sell that property at pubstroyed anything." lic auction. Well, if I had found It, I would My idea exactly, Mr. Clarke. Your have suspected that the mortgage had decision does credit to your common not been paid, otherwise there would sense and business instincts." have been a copy of the release among What have you done with that little his papers. So I would have run the private banking business or was it a record down and paid It myself. Uncle pawn broking establishment? Hiram worried unnecessarily. Ive sold it at a very good figure You would have paid it yourself and the probate court has approved With interest compounded? the sale. When the estate Is finally settled, Certainly. A note Is a note, just as a bet la a bet." what do you think my share will But I well, Mr. Clarke, I was goamount to? ing to suggest to you that we might Oh, I should say, offhand, a quarget together with the present holder ter of a million dollars." of that mortgage and effect a settleWell, Ill always be a millionaire ment The deficiency judgment is out- in Pilarcitos. Ive been duly adverlawed and if we made a poor mouth tised as such and while I continue to and told her that a large portion of pay my bills Ill have the credit rating the estate consisted of real estate not of a millionaire. That will help. I readily salable, we might get her to can go just as far on credit as I can abate the compounded Interest. Or we op cash. Just wont go so fast, thats might induce her to accept a lot of all. Think Ill go He rose to go. dead real estate at inflated values on to New York and see some good fix It with the appraisers of the esDeshows, he informed McPeake. tate to reappraise the property." spite the walloping youve handed me, Elmer raised his hand protestingly. I think I can afford a month or two of Youre proposing something dirty, Broadway. After all, a quarter of a mister, he said evenly. Get this, my million is better than a poke In the friend : All the dirt rights of the eye with a sharp stick. Ill hang tribe stood in the name of around Muscatine a few days and sign my late uncle, and Im not going to any papers you may require. join with you or anybody else to take He took a cheerful departure. The advantage of a woman. A contracts Instant the door closed behind him a contract, and if I lost every dollar McPeake rang for his secretary. Ive of the million dollars I thought I had, always heard that out in California thats my funeral and I refuse to at- they grow things big," he Informed tend it!" her. Big potatoes, big pumpkins, big McPeake was embarrassed. Well, cattle and big boost, but If Elmer B. dont think any the less of me for sug- Clarke is a sample of her manhood, Some day California grows the biggest men 1 gesting it, he pleaded. you will think more of me for suggestever hope to see. That boy certainly ing it. He smiled smugly, after the can take a licking standing up. fashion of one whose head is quite Take a letter to Miss Nellie Cath-carfilled with valuable secrets. care Pilarcitos Commercial Trust I suppose its a lawyers duty to and Savings bank, Pilarcitos, Calif. protect his clients interests, and I supDear Miss Cathcart: Your sweetie pose, too, it is natural that folks arrived today and without any prelimshould disagree as to what constitutes I slipped him the fatal Elmer replied inary warning sporty treatment, but withholding your identity, tidings, grudgingly, so Ill forget your suggesof course. He can lose a million doltion. Just dont make another one lars and put his bright daydreams belike it. hind him with as much grace and Fair enough. Ill make one the humor as if he reckoned his loss in very reverse of it. Mr. Clarke, for depreciated German marks Instead of more than a quarter of a century good red U. S. gold coin. Im for him your uncle had a very confidential emall the way. Hes a man, and should ployee a sort of chief clerk, manager you permit him to escape you will and man Friday one Bunker. Bunker suffer an irreparable loss. He uses his is one of those mousy little men who head entirely for thinking. Pilarcitos are whipped in the battle of life the is lucky to have him for its mayor-elecday they come Into it. A retiring, . Please see to it that politics timid, faithful, obedient, dont spoil him. Yours sincerely. brainy, efficient rabbit of a man. His Now make out a petition to the job with your uncle was the first job probate court for the sale of all the he ever had and he is still on the real estate of the Butterworth estate, estate pay roll, helping me close up and Ill have Mr. Clarke and Bunker odds and ends of business matters. sign it Then make out an order of Very early In life he made a missale for the court to sign, and in take. He married and had children about a month from now well disgave hostages to fortune, as it were. tribute 'the estate and send Elmer So his job was bread and butter and Clarke back to win the capital prize he never had the courage to quit and in the best little love lottery you ever seek another. I think it must have heard of. He won only to lose, and occurred to your uncle, from time to he will lose only to win. That Nellie time, that the impossible might happen Cathcart must be a very unusual and he would lose Bunkers services, woman. She had a curiosity to so he promised Bunker he would whether or not Elmer Clarke leave him one hundred thousand docould fit Kiplings recipe for manllars in his will. This promise he rehood. Remember the lines? iterated from time to time, but when If you can meet with triumph and disIt came to making his will he betrayed aster, And treat those two impostors both Bunkei. Cut him off with ten thouthe same. sand dollars and if I had not fought Well, Im banking on Elmer. him all over the office he would have (TO BB CONTINUED.) let Bunker down with five thousand. of Poor Bunker is Darwins Theory course. McPeake paused and looked Darwin did not teach that Charles at Elmer meaningly. race is descended from human the that to And you are about propose The theory, predicated upon monkeys. I make up the deficit, eh? Elmer sugbelief in natural selection, sughis gested. gests that man and an anthropoid ape Exactly. ancestor. Well cross that bridge when we descended from a common of the that believed Is divergence It come to it, and first we will ascertain ocwhether or not we have a bridge to the humanoid and anthropoid types cross. I am a young man but I have curred perhaps a million or more years made this discovery. The Bunkers of ago. Exchange. Momey to DSiurmi -- By Peter Q. Kyne 1 The Knife Dr. Charles H. 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