The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1905-08-10
CHAPTER XXI.

Congressman Billy Biler having been
John Wickly's attorney in the prosecu-
ton of his claim against the English
crown for his thirteen hundred and TWEEN
ty-fourth of the Wicklif estate, naturally
retained his employment in the manage
ment of the much greater estate that had
suddenly and fortuitously fallen to John
Wicklys' pretty and accomplished daugh-
ter as she was termed by the very first
Issue of the Sandtown Gazette, after the
fabulous purchase Of the Wickly Woods
BY the munifcent 8. o. s. w.
In this capacity Of attorney and coun-
selor, Mr.. Billy Biler found it indispen-
sable to the proper conduct of the bust
ness II az te should put in an appear
ance tee Wickly house at least once
q day, Y men he was not in company with
John Wickly, journeying to and from the
great city Of the lakes that was faster
and faster reaching out across the prai-
ries and drawing unto itself all the am
bition and all the enterprise of the Wa
bash country.
The question of the proper, safe and
profitable investment Of such large sums
of money being one in which Miss Lizzy
Wickly herself must actually be consult
I'd in direct reference to her opinion
achieved upon a personal inspection of
the property or securities, 1t also became
indispensable that she should be a MEM
Der cf the travelling party on many of
these expeditions to that grasping and
reaching, and hauling city that seemed
10 be seriously attempting the feat Of
spreading itself all over the great yellow
Ind r1rple-fowered prairies outlying and
contiguous to it.
She had been to the city once before
her first trip in the character Of heiress.
That was on a rainy afternoon when the
sreat fat prairie looked like mighty
pool. white and boundless, and bleak and
ehill. Then she had seen the little, new,
Somber-hued cottages, dripping with rain.
and the great smoke-blackened PARALLEL
Srams of brick, looking so illimitable in
heir interlacing reduplications as the
ears few along them-that it had been
Gays before she recovered from the sense
IF loneliness and depression that the In
pvituble contrasting of her own little ia
miliar Sandtown with this mighty black
browed, putting. roaring. steaming, ring
hg, reaching and grabbing city had caus-
ID her.
Not az all the less had she remembered
loneliness that had displaced the other,
IN her return to Sandtown. How still
and oppressively slow and quiet, and de-
Rberate this little old Sandtown was. to
be surei
Now, however, it was as a well-known
ich and unmarried young woman that
The Kent. And how differently every
hing appeared to her. Surely wealth
Ices somethingi
1t was the presidents own car that
,ook her. And how many gallant and
accomplished gentlemen were introduced
% her by Congressman Billy Biler, and
By the president himself!
She had never dreamt that here could
,e in all the world one-half so many pres
dents as she>met on every trip. There
we're presidents of banks, and presidents
If railroads, and presidents of insurance
companies, and presidents of mining,
stock, real estate and newspaper COM
,anies, and-these were only foretaste.
What agreeable and accomplished gen.
:lemen they were, too! How they were
perpetually putting this and that. and the
yther. at her disposal. What bales OF
Invitations she received to every imagin-
able kind of an entertainment, public and
private. And how was she astonished to
Ind that her very first visit designed orig
hally to occupy but three days, drew It
pcIf irresisffbly and inexordbly into four
weeks. 81 which time she had gone With
nnch and every president IN the known
world. she believed, to some fascinating
mtwtainmsnt q pcus sort or othez-al-