The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1900-06-08
The Second Chapter
BY Frederick J. Burnett.

m HE Mnccls vi 'i"'" 49, 49, - "
Michigan Central. were gust click
80 aver the last switch out OF kala-
oo as | leaned back in the corner
81 The smoking room o enjoy my after
dinner cigar and mediate upon the
case and comfort OF my journey across
,ho state. and the sharp contrast IL
rrescuted to the journeyings OF Mar
ouetie and Cadillac.
The only other occupant OF the
room. a slight man with sandy mus
,,che sat close to the window, using
III. last CLEANS Of daylight TO read
something that appeared to interest
lin Greatly in one Of the small maya
zines.
\frer little he closed his magazine
and looked out of the window; then
tnrnirr 10 me. said:
II wish people who write stories
wouldn't stop in the middle OF en- ms
/, ,he first half was all a person would
want 10 know"
smother of The Lady Of the Tiger
brandt" | asked.
Not this time: one Of those yarns
about fellow who is dead broke find
inc some hidden treasure that makes
Him 4 REGULAR Croesus. This is the
third I've read in a couple Of days ana
thcv All stop at the find.
wow. want to know the whole bus'-
ncss: how he turned his diamonds INTO
drcats: how he felt dropping from his
old vays into new ones: IL he had any
trouble proving the rightto his find. II
II was something that had belonged to
some one else at some time or other, or
IN land that wasn't his. seems TO me
there'd he somebody trying to claim it.
I want 10 know how he worked 1t TO
hang on TO what he found"
some one had been at the washstand
while he was speaking. and as he con-
cludrd tall. slender man appeared at
The door.
ri Won will have fresh cigar with
me- ana would care TO hear II. viii
tcll yon story Of that kind, for the
truth ~ which ! can vouch. and give
you The second chapter. too; though
in this ease il was ducats and not dia'
nouds
n once knew young man who was
clerk in a coal Office in Omaha. H'
,idn't ne; very large salary. hut. as nc
was The only clerk. and had TO give
more or less time and attention To at
fairs that were personal 10 the two
members Of the firm and not connected
With The coal business. he was KEEP
pretty busy. and pretty closely tied e
The Office
NE was an ambitious chap. Gn'
something Of dreamer besides. enc
each vi these charact eris,ics milc hin
hii dissatisfied with his lot. Econo
ir<r ~ he might. he would save bu
little. IA The three wears since he CANE
from Tie eastern village that cou'dn
,'rn offer him what he was getfln!
now. hc hadn't been able TO accumu'at
SiN
Ono Sunday afternoon this MAJ
'Nmped from Omaha 10 Florence.
little town just north. and was ram
bling about among the hills that SUI
round If. Walking was his principi
iecrcaiion, il was cheap and he Ell
ioycd it,
He had wandered away from road
and paths into wood that was tar
ged with vines and underbrush.
was September and warm. and whe
ny came out into the open. being he
and ired he threw himself down unde
walnut tree TO rest.
Before him was little glade whic
ell mn
oiii was covered with = ragged growt
Indian corn and part was plante
Win mil,et; besides this there WI
nothing to show that human bein
Aad been there before. The rngge'
poorly tended corn suggested 70 him a
aooriginal maize field. and II SCENE
% him as If the spirits of Mondami
and lIiawatha broodcd over that peac
iHllittlc valley.
Nnd he lay there thinking Of the r.
men and maidens who used to dive
among the hills over which he had ju
'een wandering, and who perhaps hi
painted maize in that very spo;. fro
'p IN the woods behind him came {.
zap tap, tap Of a woodpecker. whit
w uuotutI taP' '"'' 70
rom the woods on the other side. ]
hncw the taps to be woodpcckcr ra
pings, but il seemed as ii they VIC
i"uian signals. ! told you he was
dreamer
presently a walnut fell from the tr
"pove him and rolled into little gul
'nat the water coming down the h
.cn'nd him had washed nearby.
.o'lowed II with his eyes, and where
Stopped, noticed what looked like
= u'rty canvas sticking out Of Z
ground. Not little scrap. but apps