The Kalispell bee. [volume] (Kalispell, Mont.) 1900-192?, 1902-02-08

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note to Alice, as the writer had feared
that he would do. The effect upon him
may be understood by glance at the
contents:
Dear Alice-Your business done. Money
put away in this house. Writing hastily
at desk in library. Uncle's waiting in
barn for me. Cipher in valentine tells
used several times before. EDWARD.
Shepard had Immediately opened the
other envelope containing the valentine
and had discovered the mystic verses,
which ran thus, the peculiar numbering
of the lines being here preserved:
a. Flash of gold in Cupid's eye
ca Sends his sharpest darts awry
81 In these modern days.
a. He doth know where dollars bide
o. Better than where true hearts hide;
Sad these modern ways. 60
There's love that's new and old, %
ca Takes no thought of minted gold
E'en in these bad days; (0
Trust a brothers steadfast faith (D
10 Dear as life and strong as death;
Guide in troublous ways.
The sum of money ($6,25O) was clear.
" enough indicated, but it was LONG
time before anybody advanced another
step in the solution. The strain of the
attempt undoubtedly FASTENED Shep
ards end. He was found on the fooI
Of the library unconscious, and he dice
within a few hours of hemorrhage Of
the brain.
What may be called the documents
in the case passed into Uncle William
Yields hands, and he spent many
weary hour over those rude verses. HI
searched the house fifty times ant
might even have pulled it down, but
passed into the hands Of Deacon VIII
| lard Webster Of Leedsboro on mort
gage given by Shepard.
Meanwhile Uncle William had str1v
| en- in secret with the valentine cipher
| He resorted after a time to experts II
such matters and finally had let thu
| verses come before the public. The.
used to be handed around in sewing
circles and similar gatherings in tina
| part of Maine as a species of amuse
ment, and nobody knows how man.
minds they unsettled, for it FINAL,
spread all over the country.
Frank had his troubles with them
but his uncle always taught him t
look upon the money as lost, KNOWN
how unwise it is to permit such a will
o'-the-wisp to flicker before the eyes o
youth. It is easier to teach that doc
trine than to follow it. Frank neve
forgot that he had $6,250 hidden in tn
old Shepard house in Leedsboro.
The day came when he needed tina
money. He had gone into the emplo
of a mercantile establishment in Boz
ton after leaving college, and there til
chance of his life came to him. On
of the partners got into trouble wit
the other two and decided to will
draw. Frank, selling favorable OF
portunity, secured an option on th
share in the business. But an initis
payment of $4,000 had to be made. an
Frank did not know where to la
hands upon that sum.
In this emergency he bethought hi
of the money that had lain for fou
teen years in the old Shepard hous
and he resolved to make one last de
perate attempt to solve the riddle
the valentine. The original was
d the keeping of Uncle William Wei
and Frank went to Leedsboro to STUD
oil it. Uncle William viewed this pr
e ceeding with well founded alarm, al
D he made secret efforts to secure Il
/. sum that Frank needed, being convin
o ed that the young mans opportuni
y was one the like of which would n
|. come again.
l, Frank Weld worked two days up,
o the valentine puzzle and began to she
signs of mental collapse. He was
Of big, robust, handsome fellow, but
q was not fitted for that particular Ii
= of endeavor, and it told upon /
ell nerves. He had the air of one w
4 has sat up several successive nigh
p with sick friend, as Uncle Villa
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