The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1917-06-22

Ing fund for the purpose that woul'
turn up century or two after hi
deathi And might not the statue hav,
something TO do with its location?
Though he did not know 1t, he hat
made mental leap bridging a centur,
since his ancestors death. He deter
mined TO make a study of the statu
and everything that pertained to II
Every morning he devoted an hour {,
sitting before the bronze, looking at
and thinking, about It. Perhaps b.
fancied that BY thus mentally dwelling
upon 1t through some spiritual process
the secret would be impaired to him
The inscription engaged his attention
but he could make notAing of It Ant
YET there must have been an object IL
putting 1t there alone, and especial!
with the hour and minute OF birth.
One morning Colonel Granville wal
sitting, as usual, studying the statue
The sun spot was crawling slowly ovel
the wall as 1t had been travelling yea
In and year out for 100 years. The
colonel was watching 1t as he had Of
ten watched It before. A third new
idea came to him. Might not this sur
spot have some meaning?
There seem TO be two kinds Of ideas
In the human brain, those that are
original or parent ideas and those that
are offspring, The present case Is an
illustration. The conception that the
sun spot might have some meaning
was in a measure original Though ev
erything, after all is but Link In ar
eternal chain, and it suggested anoth
er idea-viz, Might not there be con,
nection between the sun spot and the
date Of birth on the statue? W
Colonel Granville sprang from his
chair. He was confident that he had
made an important discovery. What
that discovery would lead to was an.
other matter. BE had little expecta.
ton that 1t would work out his. first
conceptions which had come from the
letter he had read, but he hoped Il
might solve the mystery Of the statue
and the date inscribed upon 1t. he
was not long in inferring that on the
day, hour and minnie recorded on the
statue the sun spot would rest on @
part Of the wall which would give
some information or injunction intend
ed by the man who had erected the
statue
The Inscription gave the year, which
could be Of no Importance since the
sun traverses the same apparent patti
annually; the day. June IT; the hour
10 O'Clock, and the minute, the TWEEN
ty-fifth In other words, II this were
the true explanation, ON June IT, al
twenty-five minutes after 10 o'clock
the Iosition Of the sun spot would
mean something. It could not refer tc
10 o'clock at night for an obvious rea
son.
1t was early Tn April when Colonel
Granville hit upon this possible ex.
PLANTATION Nearly two months of wait
ing would be necessary before the spot
would reach position corresponding
with the date Tile colonel, too impa.
tient TO defer investigation for what
seemed to him 30 long period, was
eager to get computer to come and
calculate where the spot would be on
the given day. But he knew of no one
at hand who would be able to make
the calculation Besides, he had NO
desire to suffer the obloquy such an
act would cast upon him, for when he
stopped to think he was forced to ad.
NIT that no more chimerical idea could
enter the brain of man.
So he was obliged to watt and while
waiting planned an excuse for what
he proposed 20 do. He determined to
make hole In the wall where the sun
spot rested on the nth of June at
twenty-five pinutes past 10 In the
morning, and he proposed to tell the
household that he was looking for q
convenient location for a chimney he
was thinking Of building. Every day
after that the colonel, watched the
movement Of the spot with keen inter
est and at the end of month he
could calculate pretty nearly where it
would fall on the 18th of June. How
ever, he waited till the date came
round.
Now, on the nth of June the sun
stands very high, practically at the
highest point during the year. Con
sequently the spot was at the lowest
point. In fact. it rested on the floor.
The colonel bored hole in the floor
ing. inclining 1t from the sextant to
the point OF the spots contact, and, in
sorting a tube, noted place in the
cellar where the line OF vision pro-
lopged would strike Then one night
when the household was asleep he
went into the cellar with Il lantern. a
pick and spade and began to dig.
BE had cut through the cement bot
tom OF the cellar and dug down exact
ly ten feet when he struck masonry.
1t was not very well put together, and
he soon loosened the upper stones,
coming to an open space In this was
an iron box or safe, such as was used
many years ago A blow Of the pick
Off the cover, and there lay a
mass OF gold coins On the coins lay
a paper. which Colonel Granville read.
His idea derived from the letter writ
ten by his ancestor was correct, Here
was chest containing a mixture of