Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-07-14
A Wild Goose
Chase
BY F. A Mitchell

This Is q copy of the viii Of Edward
Epangler, who died leaving a daughter
who was engaged to Thomas Ormsby,
q young man of whom the ~testator ap-
proved. MI. Spangler was considered
a very singular parsonage, and his Will
bears out the opinion.
Believing that between husband
and wife the n showing the greater
thought, resource, ingenuity = indeed,
those faculties which go to make up
smartnessEshould rule, I bequeath my
fortune either to my beloved daugh-
ter, Imogene Spangler, or to the man
she shall marry, the inheritance to be
decided In the following manner:
my property, consisting of twenty
bonds of 5000 each, Is buried In the
state of Florida. They will be found
either on the right bank Of the st.
Johns river, at its junction with the
ocean, or at Glencove Springs, twen-
ty miles northeast of st. Augustine.
The finder of the bonds-either my
daughter, Imogene Spangler, or her
husband-shall be their possessor.s
Surely, Tom" said Imogene after
reading the will, father must have
been delirious when he signed his will.
You'd better go to Florida and visit
the two places named In the will.
Quite likely you'll find a pointer IN the
n where the bonds are buried"
II think you had better go with me.
We can make 1t a bridal trip"
VERY good Name the day."
Imogene and Tom were duly mar
rfed and preparations made for the
wedding journey. The evening before
their start Imogene went into her late
fathers library, where the old gentle
man had kept many atlases-for he
was much interested In geography
with a view to locating the points
where they were to hunt for the bonds
Mr.. Spangler had set great store by O
revolving plaster globe four feet In
diameter. Imogene found St Angus
tine on this globe, but not Glencove
Springs. 50 she got down an atlas con
tanning a sufficiently detailed map and
located the points exactly.
The couple left the next morning for
the Flowery State, passing gradually
reached St Augustine Tom proposed
that they put up at a third rate hotel
or a cheap boarding house. He did not
approve of spending money freely until
they had found the money to spend
But 1mogene said that, being on her
wedding journey, she proposed to live
like a bride Tom was overruled, and
they went to the most expensive hotel.
After a few days rest from their
Journey Tom proposed that they should
proceed to look up their fortune. limo
gene seemed to be in no hurry.
-.zEtR-1amfortable hereyn9she said
Suppose you go to both points"
"But In case / find the bonds I shall
be the owner of them"
Suppose you are? That won't make
any difference to me. I think the hus-
band should have the money anyway.
Papa was like most men; he thought
that power In the family is lodged In
the one possessing the funds. He
should have known that women don't
work that way. Their power lies be-
yond dollars and cents. You go ahead
and find the bonds"
Tom was puzzled For him to go off
to hunt for a fortune on such meager
Information as he possessed seemed
ridiculous He showed a disposition to
give up the matter.
"Oh, go orr said his wife. you'll
get mighty tired sitting around with
me long before the honeymoon is over.
Quite likely you'll find a clew. Father
wasn't such a fool as to hide a fortune
where no one could find it."
She kissed him and patted him on
the back and sent him away. He went
first to the Springs, where he spent a
DAY looking for a sign. Finding none,
he proceeded to Jacksonville and
thence to the coast. But eve a sign
did he see. AS for digging anywhere
without q sign, he was not 80 stupid
as that So after three On four days
absence he returned TO St Augustine.
He expected to find his wife disap-
pointed at his failure, but she met him
with a smile.
sYou don't seem 10 be much de-
pressed at the loss OF a fortune" he
remarked.
"Isn't it a wffe's duty to cheer her
husband In times of adversityT she
replied
II hope youTl be able to keep It up
when the bills begin to come in"
"Brush your hair and get that disap-
pointed look Off your face. Things are
not 30 bad as they appear. I have
something to tell you. The night be-
fore we left for this place I went into
fafher's library to look upon his globes
and maps where these places you have
been ara. Something In the words
G5encove Springs sounded suggestive.
Springs, springs 1 kept saying. Why
I did 1t / don't know, but / pressed
my thumb on the globe at the point
whern GlencOve is and broke through