The Alaska citizen., 1910-10-31
George Randolph Chester
 In Saturday Evening Post
S3G GG CG GGGGGGt {

" "tIllIllE tl ny bN u 'il mat ''AAN
 Bobby went away satisfied once more and quite willing 10 give mp .he additional foot of wall. The work would entail considerable cost. and ayr,u~, ~4s no2 much more of an .tem than it had been a few months previously. Already he had spent up on this project over two hundred and .ar. thousand dollars; ten thousand he had given to Rif Rates: ten thou sand h" had used personally. so here pas hur an insignificant portion left of his TWO hundred and fifty thousand dollars Their grand op- eujng" would eat up another tidy lit- fle sum. for it was to he an expensive 1nasr The liberal advertising tlat had already appeared wa augmented rs the yreat day approached, brass band haC been engaged. a magnificent lunch. sufficient 10 feed an army. had able bus and carry-all and Dicnic wagon in the city had been secured to tran~pcrr all corners. free of charge. from the end of the car line 70 the new Addition The price of vehicles was high. however. for Silas Trimmer had already engaged quite number of them rC run between the Applerod Addition and his own. Dur jna the week preceding June first here had appeared in the local pa 1crs. advertisements of about one. fourth the size that Bobby was using calling attention to the opening of inc Trimmer Addition. which was to he upon the same date
 On the evening of May 29 Bobby found Silas pacing the top of the retaining wall which held in his swamp and waited for the spider like figure to come across and join him
 Too bad you didn't come in with me. or sell me your property at a req :onaOle figure" said Bobby atfa bly. willing in spite of his recent bitter experience to meet his com petitor upon the same friendly grounds that he would a crack polo antagonist OH the eve of contest Ifs a shame that this could no' all have been improved at one time,
 9TG just as lief have my part of f he way il is" said Silas. It's n good now. but its as good as loars, and he climbed into his buggy and droEe away laughing. leaving Bobby strangely dissatisfied and doubtful over that strange remark.
 While he was still trying 10 un raycl it, he noted that the water ir Silas' pond, which but day or SC previously had been down to fully nine inches from the top, was now climbing rapidly upward again; and there had been no rain for more than two weeks, The thing was ineXplic able. He drove down the road ana turned m al broad Burnit avenue 10 ward the clubhouse, The asphalt and the payements were bone dry anC as clean as ballroom floor. and Il seemed to him that the young graos was growing greener and higher hero than anywhere,
 Suddenly he ordered his chauffeur Q stop the machine. He had just passed a lot where, amid the tufts ot green. his eye had caught the glint of water Running back to il he saw that the center of that lot was GOV cred by a small pool scarcely ,al1 grass was growing dankly. This. too was queer, for the not sun and strong breeze of the past few days shoulc have dried up every vestige of .aois rure. He rapidly walked along the sidewalk. studying each of the lots in turn. Here and there he discot cred other small pools. and every lo bore the appearance of having jus been freshly and too liberally water ed. He stepped from the pavemen upon the earth, and to his surprise his foot sank into it to the depth O an inch or more For a while h' was deeply worried, but presently il flashed upon him that all this soi had been dumped into the marsh displacinP the water. and that il this process il had naturally become soaked through and through. O. course it would take a long time to dry out and it would be all tho better for It's moisture. The rate a which grass was growing was proof enougl of that.
 On the next day, kept busy by the preparations for the big opening Bobby did not get out to the Apple rod Addition until evening again. A. he neared 1t he met Silas Trimmer coming back in his blackboard, tha false circle around his mouth mucr in evidence.
 You ought to have had your open ing yesterday I'd have been tempt ed to buy a lot myself then" shout ed Silas as he passed. and Bobby was sure that the tone was a mock ing one.