The evening world. Newspaper, March 9, 1907, Page 11

THE EVENINGIWORLD,' SATURDAY, | MARCH OO, 1907: f es i wrt: Saar Se ar iraaa at eee TE = EIT eee semen > So it} Almost before bara was aware of what was happening they had | from his desk the voluminous telegram from Swearengen Jones. It Was akfast, A message | changed places and the machine, under Monty's guldance, was tearing over | follows; y, announcing thy receipt the ground 2 Probate U urt in Sedgwick's home county, recelxed in response to a It was 9 0 when Brewster fir nd after his tub he | ry from.us. It says tnat the will is to be filed for probate and that Mr. | ready to cope with any problem, even | to-gwick was many times a millionaire. This statement, which he calla an | had como to him from Mr. Grant of | ai } entory, cnumerates his holdings and their value, and tho footing shows Gh impor t despa t and asking lim to luncheon at once, “Of all the casual people,” sald'the girl, by no means unequal to the ex-| Grant & Ripley, 345,0 ind numbers. The Investments, you see, are gilt-cdged. There | He had to sf and Mrs. Gray had gone out, he tele- reltement, “Ibelleve you're kidnapping me, i Yucatan Building, yw York. ras beat a Pea , i all ne 2 0 phoned | jut when she saw the grim look on Moniy's fi nf one pollcerian | + 1am to be sole referee In th matter, You are-retained as my agents, helt ¢o Well. ft Is Kering, isn't 1t?"" sald Montgomery, passing hls | erisp au fafthr another vu hin she became serte “Monty Ttowster, | report to. me through you weekly, One destre’of uncle wan to forestall grande hand over hig f was begluning to compreherd a) 2 Hin horse was keen | this pace ts positiy dangerous | crs bequest. Tpvall friend and trusted m ct that desire. Inforce torms rigidly, He was my beet "more ways than one. What are you going to do about 1t?" with disposltion of All this money. Shall attend, to {t ga= Pe about it?" tn surprise. “Why, its mine, ien't it?" ¢ yours \ ber,” the lawyer quietly sald credly, Helr muat get 1d of money left to him in given time. Out of respect Metory of uncle he must ¢ake no one Into: ! think 8. wax damned e der: LN confidence, Don't want world Here aro rulea I want him-to—work-t# 0 ‘dlotle Board of Trade speculation, 3. No TS CUAFACISS, Leciise “(halt iiemors--would- be-an- criminate giving away of funds. By that I don't mean man and so did J. ‘T. 8. No more than ore So did J.T. 8. And both of ws/sowed-an oat cesive donations to charity, 1f he gives aa other millionaires Wo. TH Jet tt go at that. Don’t belleve charity should Le spoiled by indulgence, | It ts not easy to spend a million, and I won't be unreadonable with him, Let’ him spend {t freely, but not foollshly, and get his money's worth out of {t, If” he doom that_I'll consider tim a good business man. I regard {t foolish to tp Walter more than dollar and car porter does not deserye over five. He dose not carn mote than one. If lietr wants ¢o try forthis biz take he'd better begin .- “Well, I fancy 1 con walt,” sald Brewster with a smile that cleared the the air, 3 —=MBut-msy—dear-foht 3 : souforget that you are exyic y fra hay A't you exc n mibétons. “Butlet me Inquire ho 1 purpose doing It?" ast “Why, by th sof destruction, Don’t you rid’of a milion | who wouldn't d is to cut a fow p mind being a paup: “That x “Uf course. Yam assured thn. No iton> De him to be sting dinary. 4. or two. 6 No ox Jcan get avetodo I don’t; § pos Vth r er for a fe hours on the 23d of next plan, thon? ms Vsball substantfate all that this will sots forth, When e in the extent of tnis vin be no posetbillty of m putea clatm, quick, because he might allp up lf ho waltn until day of judgment. it’s less than 1.1 take s: 1 orid of my grand- Luck to him. Wil write you more fully, 8. JONES, /~ v now. Tho zest “Write more:fnlly!" echoed Montgomery, “What.can there bo left to. ges ; writn-xbont > = SET | fatcal, penetrattig-gese served: 4 “He 45 explictt,” sald the attorney, “hut it is best to know all the afte ditions before you-decide. -Have you made up your mind?" ; ‘ i yster sat silent for a long time, staring hard at the floor. A. great going on in his mind. Os f nible, and a big one," ho-sald_at_last, squaring his shoulders, “but I'l) take 1-don't want to appear disloyal_to-my-grandfather,-but-E— think that oven he would advise mo to accept. Yes, you may write Mr. Jones that I aceept the chance.:’ 4 The Attorneys complimented him on hia nerye and wished him success, Brewster turned with a smile. |” ig “ll begin by asking what you think a_reasonable-fee for an-attorney——-—— {n a caso of this kind: [hope you will act for me.” i senate “You don't want to spend {t all In’a lump, do you?” asked Mr. Grta.'t, smiling. * We can hardly act as counsel for both you and Mr, Jones.’’ “i But [ must haye a lawyer, and the will mits the number of my confl- {dants. What am f to do?” “We will consult Mr, Jones {n regard to the question. It {s not regul rs at to exchange a. pal- you are forget(ing. tho {It will be no easy hhout In-somewas violating the restric= losing both fortunes?" CHAPTER V. The Message from Jones. NEW pointel view ¢ +" had not o¢eurred to him tha The thought lualiy came to Brewster, All his life had beeh now to get enough moncy to pay his bills, and {+ It ht be as difficult t6 spend as to sae - ¥ | you sce, but I apprehend no legal difficuliles. We cannot accept fees front 5 ; skered him for a moment, Then he erled {both sides: however,” sald Mr, Grant. : | , “fcan tdectine to accept Rrandfa{hor 's million.’ ‘ : “But I. want attorneys -who are willing to help me. It won't be a help. You ennot decline ¢o accept what is already yours. 1 understand that J if you decline, to Kecept my money,| . | O “We'll resort.to- arbitration; iaughed-Ripiey; Sareea Before night Montgomery Brewster began a career that would have jStartled the world hid the facts been known.. With true loydlty to the “Litle Sons of the Rich," he asked his friends to dinner ahd opened their eyes. ( : "i “Champagne!” erled Harrison, as they were seated at.tuble. ‘I can’t re momber the last time I had champagne,” ‘ x “Naturally,” laughed “Subway” Smith. “You couldn't: remember any- | thing after that,” paste art As the dinner progressed Brewster explained that he intended to double his fortune within a y “I'm going to have some fun, too,” he sald, “and you boys are to help m x “Nopner” Harrison was employed as “superintendent of affairs; Gardner as financial secretary; Joo-Bragdon_as_private secretary? ‘Sudway— + Smith-as counsel, and there were places In view for the other member” St” | “I want the smartest apartment you can find, Nopper,” he commanded. “Don't stop at expense, Have Petting!l] redecorate It from top to bottom. Get the best servants you can find. I'm going to live, Nopper, and hang the consequences,” c (To Be Continued in Monday’s Evening World.) been paid to you by Mr. Buskirk, You have a million dollars, d [t cannot be dented.” ; ht.” agreed: Montgomery, defectedly. “Really, Mr..Grant, sition {s too much for me. If you aren't required to give am Im- mediate enswer I want to think {t aver, It sounds Ike a dream.” “It Is ro dream, Mr. Brewster,” ‘smiled the lawyer. "You are face to face with-an amazing-reallty. “Come In to-morrow morning and see mo again. Think it over, study {t out. Remember the conditions of tho wili and the conditions that confront you. In the meantime, I shall writo,to Mr, Jones, the executor, and learn from him just what he expects you to dodn order to_ carry out his own conception of the terms of your uncle's will.” “Don't write, Mr.Grant; telegraph.—And-ask-him-to-wire-his reply—A~ year is not very long fn an"affalr of (his kind.* A moment later he added, “Damn these family feuds! Why couldn't Uncle James have relented a bit?) He brings endless trouble on my innocent head just because of a row before, 1 was born.” * i “He wasn strange man, Asa rule, one does not carry grudges quite so | ‘far, But that fs nelther here nor there. His will {s law in this case." | “Suppose I succeed {n spending all but a thousand doliars before the 23d! of next September! I'd lose the seven millions.and be the next thing to a. pauper. That wouldn't be quite ilke getting my money's worth." | *"Itis a problem, my boy. Think it over very seriously before you come } to a decision, one way or the other. In the meantime, we can establish be-| Yond a doubt the accuracy of this {nventory.” z Bt “By all means, go ahead, and please urge Mr. Jones not to be too hard | on me. I believe I'll risk {t if the restrictions are not too severe. But If | Jones has puritanical Instincts I might as well give up hope.and be satisfied! | with what I have.” : a if “Mr, Jones is very far from what you'd call puritanical, but he Is in-| ff tensely practical and clear-headed. Ho will undoubtedly require you to keep | @n expense account and to show some sort of receipt for every dollar you disburse." “Good Lord! Ttemize?” ar j i __ The Young Millionaire Is_in-Love With Sweet “Peggy” Gray. - “In a general way, I presume.” for a canterand he had reached the obelisk before he drew rein. As he was} ‘Perhaps it Is,” he respondéd, “but 1 haven't wanse enough to keep | “Uj have to employ-an-army-of-spendthrifts to devise-ways Oud means | SvCtt to cross the carriige road “nearly run down by Miss Drew in| out of the way they shouldn’t kick if they get run over.” Pe ber new French automobile. for profilgacy,” neh mobile, “I don't mean the people or the automobiles or traps or trees or monu- “I beg your pardon," she cried. ‘You're the third person I've run Into, | ments, Monty; I mean you and me. I know we'll be Killed or arrested.” “This {sn't anything tothe gait-I'll_be going -If-everything- turne-out-as “You forget. the Item that restrains you from taking anybody into your ~ eontldence concerning this watt Think It over, It may not be so difficult ld be if £ ye run down by you", —_{1_expect._Don't be worried, Babs Besides, it's_one-now,-_Lord,-I-didn't. etter a nights sleep. SS ee | | "Very well, then, look out.” And she started the machine as if to charge | dream {t was so late.” him. She stopped in time, and sald with a laugh, “Your gallantry deserves '8 your appointment so important?” she asked, hanging on. a reward. Wouldn't you rather send your horse home and come for a ride “Well, I should say {t 1s, and—look out--you blooming ldlot! Do you with me?” want. to get killed?” The last remark was hurled back at an indignant “My man pedestrian;who had escaped destruction by the merest chance. with pleasure. “Here we are,” he sald, as-they drew up beside the éntrance to the el erely a society acquaintance with Miss Drew_He had met | vated_“Thanks-awfully—you're-a-corker—norry-to-feare-yor-this—way-——1 her at dinners and dances, as he had a host of other girls, but she had im-| tell you all about ft later. You're a dear to help me keep my appointment. yressed iim more than the others. Something indescribable took place every “Seems to me you helped yourself,” she cried after him as Me darted up time their eyes met._Monty had often wondered just what that something | the steps.—““Ceme up-for ten-some-day and tell: mie who: sue tady-ts. meant, but he had always realized that it had in {t nothing of platonic aff After he had gone Miss Drew turned to-her chauffeur, who-was-in the “peraps of pad paper, each covered with an incomprehensible mazo of figures: | {0n- tonneau, Then she laughed unrestralnedly, and the faintest shadow of a ern i ‘ ps i ES After dinner he had gone to his own rooms, forgetting that he ved on Fifth “If I didn't have to meet her eyes," he‘had sald to himself, “I could. go | grin stole over the man’s face. : an ; : A ‘ Mb, 3 avenue, Until long after midnight he smoked and calculated and dreamed, | on discussing even polltics with her, but the moment she looks at me I kuow Beg pardon, miss," he sald, “but I'd back Mr, Brewster against Fourn’ er For the first time the {mmensity of that millon thrust {tself-upon him, If {she can see-what I'm-thinking about." From the first they constdered them- | any day: “on that very day, October tho first, he were to begin the task of spending {t| selves very good friends, and after: their third meeting it seemed perfectly Only he would have but three hundred and fifty-seven days in which to accom- *plish the,end. Taxing the round sum of one mfilion dollars as a basis, it was an easy matter to calculate his average daily dishursemont,‘The-aitun~ Vor did not Took #6 utterly Impossible until he held: up the Uttle sheet of All the rest of the day Brewster wandered about as one ina dream. He ; ‘was preoccupled and puzzled, and more than one of ‘his old associates, re- celving a distant nod in passing, resentfully concluded that his wealth was beginning to change him, His brain was so full of statistics, figures and computations that it whirled dizzily, and once he narrowly escaped being run down by a cable car, He dined alone at a small French restaurant.in. one of the Bide strects:— The walter marveled at the ai t of black coffee the young man consumed and looked hurt when he did not touch the quail and lettuce. me “That night the Iitle table tn his room at Mrs. Gray’s was Mttered with 1s walting at Fifty-ninth street. If you'll come that far I'll go wf an hour hate, Brewster entered thé office of Messrs. Grant & natural that they should call ono-another by their first names. Monty knew | Ripley, flushed, eager and unconsctous-of the big_sploteh_of niud_that deco- he was treading on dangerous ground. It never occurred to him to wonder | rated his cheek. 5 what Barbara -might think.ot-him,—Heteokit-as-a-matter of course that she “Awfally-sorry-to-have -kept-you-waiting; he-apotogized: c must. feel. more than friendly toward him... As they-rode Larne Te maze panerloek yolmes more say that you spnaahect driving, Mr. Brewster," e1 y emplated the tol of carriages they bowed frequently to friends as they passed. hey were | sald Mr, Ripley, shaking the young man's hand. Led pleats ee Sec orithat simple problem in_ mathe: Sonselous, That: some of te-womenh; noticeably old “Miss Dexter, actually “He would miss (t; Mr. Riplay, Tye been fytig,— What have you heard It meant an average dally expenditure of $2,801.12 for nearly a-year, and|turned-around-and:gazed at them. a from: Montana? He could-no-longer check the-imputient question, which ‘even then there woiild be sixteen cents left over, for, in proving the result of “Aren't you afraid people will talk about us?” asked Monty with a laugh. | came out so suddenly that the attorneys laughed frresistibly, Brewster join- hls rougi-sum in division, he could-account for but $999,999:84.- Then It oc-] “Talk about our riding together I the park? It’s just ns ante, here as it [Ing them an Instant Tater. “They laid before hima half dozen telegrams, ro eurred_to_him. that his _money would. be drawing interest at the bank-—— ‘would bein Fitth uvenue.” Hesldés, who cares? T fancy we can stand It.” sponses from bankers, lawyers and mine operators In Montana. These mes ——“But for each day's $2,801.12 Iam getting seven times-as-much;'-he-so-| “You're a thoroughbred, Barbara. I simply didn’t. want you talked established beyond doubt the extent of James.T. Sedgwick's wealth; joquized,:as he Mnally got to bed.—“"That means: $19,607.84-2- day, a-clear{ about: When I go too far say the word and drop nie.” Was reported to be even greater than shown by the actual figures. ae of $16,806.72. That's pretty good—yes, too good. I wonder if the bank “I hive a luncheon at 2, but until then we have our ride.” “And what does Mr, Jones say?" demanded: Montgomery. couldn't oblige me by not charging interest.” Monty gasped and looked ‘at his watch, “Five minutes to 1,” he cried “His reply resembles a_press despatch. He has tried (o make himself The Reader Is Far from the End of ‘the’ The figures kept adding and subtracting themselves as ho dozed off, and Th tt thi: ent-with-the-att had- quite escaped htm: in} thoroughly clear, and if there Is anything left unsaid {t ts past our compre- “ Hi t ‘pboe during the night he dreamed that Swearengen Jones had sentenced him | tho exhilaration of Misa Drew's companionship ae had torqeciok cron tinge | heonlen, 1 am worry to tutarm youn theneh Ghat he hee pe ee telegraph Story Yet, but’ This fs the Last of the” fo eat a million dollars’: worth of game and salad at the French restaurant | Jamee's-millons_-—- Be = seein charges," naid-Mr, Grant, enlling broad! ~ : coe Mittion that Monty Brewster “Spends = +He awoke. with the consclousnesa that he had cried aloud,“I-oan-do-t but “T've "gota date At One that mcanw Tite” ard-death to me. Would you "Tg he rallonal about 17" asked Montgomery, Horvously,——— So Cle Det ir delatece ABI nf ba =9-¥oar-{e-not-very-long in an-affalr-of-this kind. Mr, Grant gaye his partner a’ quick, significant glance and then-drew rey everly and nterestingly. “res eth O-MORROW’S SUNDAY WORLD| Where Will the Most| sta Weather ana | Mos Daring Pro” Voy) Naystery of The : The Mystery of The Man, | Beautiful Girl Be Found ?\\ the kia! ieee ete || ae tela ame ie ay Fea The Sunday. World’s $300 Beauty Contest now a’ feature SEE THE FUNNY SIDE. J plosions and Such Things. The Story of a Strange Quest for a Great Secret, and the of a national controversy, growing out of Chicago's challenge, : _ Man Who Is Making It. which is answered by a dozen cities. 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