The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-08-01
slO,OOO,oOO HIS
# HE'S MARRIED
sa IN FIVE MONTHS
Youth Dazes Fourteenth Street
With Conditional Legacy
:. From Forgotten Uncle.
MAYBE "SHE'LL" RELENr.
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It's All a Secret, and Rooten
q Can't Show the "Papers"
H. or Tell ANYBODY. /
MAYBE "SHE'LL" RELENr.

" you were quite poor. not quite
twenty-ons years old and courted .
girl who was well UP in Fourteenth
street. social circles. proposed to her
and she kept putting II of. urging you
10 mako your fortune, and II suddenly
Q forgotten uncle died and left you
$4,000. ooc-wouidn't you be happy, And
II the uncle put . clause in his will
making 1t necessary for you to marry
before you were twenty-one. which 10
only hve months and six days OF,
wouldn't that make you happier stillf
, All Of Fourteenth street east Of
Third avenue Is rejoicing over the good
fortune which Maxwell Rooten OF No.
ali announced has come to him. Tho
uncle In the case Is william Maxwell,
the address Buenos Ayres. Argentina,
ana the location Of the fortune 10 in
nitrate mines in Patagonia.
0ooMED FOR EAST SIDES MA
YoR, RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
Rooten was not slow In announcing
MS good fortune to his friends. es-
peeialiy to a young woman across the
way. and the friends were not one whit
slower in celebrating. Huge signs were
nailed across the windows Of the
young mans ONCE announcing the be-
quest Of the millions and pressing his
candidacy for the Mayoralty of Four
tsenth street. Where does any oppo-
sition come In with a 10000, 900
Nayori
Young Rooten blushed profusely when
IN Evening World reporter asked him
about his good fortune.
IT'S only five months more" he ex-
Stained, before must be married.
Aid don't know anybody-I mean any
Girls that will marry me on such short
notice. still"-and ne looked longingly
across the street-"there's that girl
over there. OF course, she's In society
--belongs to three clubs. But II I could
get the money quickly she might do IT,"
Tho young mans reveries was inter-
rupted. Would he show the letter OF
notification from Buenos Ayres? Who
were the lawyers who had sent him the
food news. and to what lawyer had he
turned the matter over?
HE'S FORBIDDEN TO SHOW 1.-THE
PAPERS," YOU SEE.
II can't show you the papers" he
said so)emnly; ut says SO in the letter.
I mustn't show II to anybody. or tell
II to anybody.
Then he wandered away from the I'M
pleasant subjects.
hatI ha
could get into society quick enough to
set married II they sent me some ad-
vance money from the South? You
know. l don't like to have every body
know this. because II they did. you
see, I'd have all the girls after me.
Gee, ten millionsd make them all 60
some, eh?"
There was another little reverie. and
Q more urgent request that he show
some Of the documents But the young
man was obstinate.
What should worry what my
friends 'beheve when I've got ten mil
lion coming?" And there was no answer
70 % logical a question.
What are you goirS to do with the
money II you get ~" he was asked.
when I get It," he corrected, "a. OF
course. must get married first After
that I think II will be real estate. My
friends urge me to buy this whole end
Of Fourteenth street and turn II into a
street like Forty-second and Broadway.
But you see. I've got to get married
4rst."
And Mr.. Maxwell Rooten looked long
!ngly across the way.