The Cairo bulletin., 1906-08-15
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The Key to a Fortune
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

! John Nettlctun was IN inventor He
invented ii number Of small devices for
various purposes but none of them
| turned out to be Of value, or, II they
| did. some one who furnished the means
TO nut them On the market icGqed tue
benefit. Nettleton's Wife and z s'rI
she had adopted stood ly him through
all his disappointment, His son Peter
os soon as he became old enough to
shirt for himself, became a machlnist
ana drifted away from home.
Peter knew enough Of such matters
to feel sure that If his father had in
vented means Of overcoming the de
feet he had made a model Of the con
trivance. He ANA Maggie hunted all
over the house for such model EY-
ery closet was ransackel spaces I'M
der the caves of the roof, cellar and
workshop, 10 10 purpose. The model
was not to be found.
The pet scheme Of John Nettleton
, life was machine for saving labor,
the object of which he alone under
stood While thus engaged he dreamed
ut night of great fortunes secured or
that some one wa destroying his model
inst as he had perfected it, often his
1 wife would awaken him when he was
! struggling In nightmare. But before
| he accomplished his object she died,
leaving no one but Maggie Thorpe her
adopted daughter TO care for him.
! she remained with bin and was per-
/ petual bow OF promise
II was several years after his wifes
/ death before Nettleton struck the fun
+ dameutal idea Of his machine. But ON
appyiug il he found that a device was
necessary to overcome a defect which,
| though trihing in itself. rendered the
/ machire useless. He worked three
years over this ana oyefrIme it. Then
| he made a model Of bis machine, and Il
separate model Of his coatryunce 70
/ overcome the defect. lie lad been 50
/ swlndlel by persons apgropriatins his
Inventions that he chose L, keep key
to this one, which would alone unlock
/ the secret. The model Of the machine
he kept In his workroom. The model
/ Of the c0ntrivanee he kept no one knew
/ where.
! But with all his precaution John
! Nettlaton never reaped tile benefit Of
| HIS invention Death took him away SO
! suddenly that he had no time to reveal
| 10 any one where he kept the model
he called his key model Peter was
caLed home to bury his father and
| found nothing to represent an nhcr-
lance except VIII hcqueatfing the
little house and the invention to Mag
Gle Thorpe Peter saw tile model OF
the machine and. being a machinist,
was delighted with it; but, setting II
in motion. he soon saw the defect 1t
seemed simple matter t. remedy
that, aud he set to work to do SO. Mag
gle told him that his father hdd done
50. but she knew not by what con
trlyance.
Peter obtained employment near by
and nights and holidays went to his
fathers workshop to find remedy
for the defect As bis father had been
encouraged by Maggie 50 was the son
She would 20 into the workshop
which was in The rear Of the house
when he was there. and when she
found him respondent would remlnt
him that his father had overcome 1t
and what had been done once could b,
dane again often late ut night the
shon door would opcn to reveal Mag
cio's synpathctic face while she hell
m her hand n plate on which she ha,
nlacod (, simple supper.
p,t pete,. had not the genius of MI
4 . father and M last made up his mine
t,at II hn aid NOT give up hunting TO
, ~, .,,.r.,t l,o would 90 mad Then
s.t',,t I'm ,ben MAGGIE advised hin
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