The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1912-08-23
BY Melville Dapisson. Posi-
Copyright by Edward ]. Clode
Continued from yesterday. J

mad my way about it in the end.
The meeting of the Cruger Coal COM
pany was held, the record correctly
made, the bonds authorized, and the
mortgage prepared in every detail as
the law required 1t. l took 1t to Ran
dolph Mason when the scrivener had
finished. He examined 1t carefully.
called in notary, dictated the GER
tifcate, had the signatures properly
affixed, and sent me with it to the
bankers. They took It with the bonds
and handed General Cruger draft on
the Rothschilds in Paris for two hum
.Sired thousand dollars. I;walked up
town with the bewildereds old man to
.hlssclub. He was silent for "a bioek55of
the way dazed by this incredible fot
tunes Finally. he pathls hand sns11ny
arm.
my dear friend" he said. 81 seem
to be quite awake, and yet this event
is after the manner of dreams or the
illusion of some Oriental drug" &
He went on slowly a little farther
up Broadway. Then he stopped as
though taken with a sudden resolu-
ton.
Mr.. Parltsf' he said Randolph Ma.
directed me to go to Europe and
hide this money in my daughters
apron. ] will go tomorrow on the Bal
tic. Come down to the ship at eleven
and explain this miracle to me. ISwill
run up home now for the luggage
Then he toolIia car to5his train and
ISreturned to the banking housg of
Hurst & Solmeyer l, also, wished an
explanations walked straight through
the building to the private office Of
the elder banker, and sat down be.
fore him at his table.
"solmeyen" said, f'were you sure
that the brick which you have just
bought is gold7"
The old man smiled and stroked his
long. patriarchal beard.
Eyes. Mr.. Parks" he said, this one
is gold, Gates got the brass one"
Impossible" replied "Myron
Gates got mortgage prepared by his
own scrivener for the full value of this
property. His security is prior to
yours, How could his brick be br4ss?"
The old mans black eyes twinkIed
in their deep sockets.
"Mr. Parks" he said, F"you do not
know the Prophets. Is 1t not written
Whose causeth the righteous to go
astray in an evil way shall fall him.
self into his own pitt"
"The quotation is hopeful" I said,
but into what pit did Myron Gates
fall?"
The old banker looked me searching
I.ly in the face.
Randolph Mason said that we were
not to tell this thing to any one" ito
avoid charge of notice under the
case cited,) but you are his secretary,
and take It that he has sent you to
see If We, ourselves, understand it"
Then he pulled out the drawer of
the table and laid before me the mort
gage, copy OF the one executed for
Myron Gates, report of the Supreme
Court of Appeals of West Virginia,
ana copy or the Acts or Its Legisla-
ture. Each volume was marked with
slip of paper. The banker opened
first the volume of Acts.
you viii observe" he said, chat
the old form of acknowledgment for
corporations was changed by this act.
and new form given, in which the
president of the corporation must Ger.
tify under oath that he Is such officer,
and authorized to execute such pa.
per. Now. the scrtvener Who drew
the Gates mortgage used the old form
of acknowledgment as be found 1t In
the form books, while our mortgage,
you will notice. is executed under the
new form of acknowledgment"
Well" said, f"what important eft.
feet can that have? The Gates mort
gage Is in proper form, there is only
"a mistake in the certificate OF acknowl
edgment That does not lnValldate
the mortgage, nor AFFECT the validity
OF the bonds"
EEqt answer the banker opened the