The Lamar register., 1920-07-07
A STREAK
OF LUCK
By GENEvIEVE ULMAR
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\ thousand dollars was not much.
but II fairly dazzled Mark Senton., lie
had led happy go-incly existence fnr
over five years exploiting mining pros
poets and real estate booms. had lived
from hand 10 mouth and the unrxpect-
ed legacy Of what to him seemed ~
lie Il substantial sum of money brought
new ambition aud dreams Of opulencc.
II was William Morse. an old. d.iims
partner. who had remembered hin
thus strangely after they had not mt
FOR ten years. The money was pa.
promptly 10 Seaton, who emerged frtiI
The threndbarc yagahnnd into a uuiis
prescnlailc and we'll .ressed man.
'Ill make the thousand real capil'.l.
u" wasteful living it up" decit.- /
Seaton. There's chances down In ;ua
new oil fields near Elmnre II, Sr
careful, wary aud economical unui I
get On my feet. And this time IN
Stay there"
S'atuu put up AZ IA hotel at Elt.Jr-
uLd hr-uu looking around for hu~i-
mess chances. Al the end Of week he
decided thai 81 day wus too sleep
for him He had been told that =
widow. Mrs. Alma Bryce had room
and board for n respectable guest WIN
was is""d pay. Scnion one morning
walked up 10 her little home lie
found her absent. hut her two lIttla
children were playing Ia the yard
Handsome. hearty Mrs. Bryce cnua
-
friends In the world S-aton pre-
sented his plea for housing, aud cl-nn-
illness and prime cooking made his
new home palace Ia him.
You arr. tlir Kind Of woman I've
always pictured la my mind as pref.
~ nigh perfect" he declared one dny
one day Seaton cuIne home Ia find
stranger seated Oh the porch enjoy
ing It's coolnesS aud shade.
Been waiting for you. Mr.. s-aton.'
announced the visitor crisply. I'm
named Burt Talbot and I'm specula
tor. l heard you were To be In FL
more aud l wanted to have first chancs
at that oil land Of yours down al
Herkimer Forks"
Aren't you mistaken Inquired
Seaton Il own no land anywhere"
Il expected ihui-natural for ten.
derfoOt to be cautions. All right. Im
square. | happen to know that GER
tain tract is registered In the name of
Marx Seatou aud have some parties
who might be- prevailed upon TO give
snug sum for It,"
Now SeatOn was clever. Could II
be possible that William Morse had
added TO his henefactiOn and Included
some property He decided TO con.
suit the records and find out. Mean.
time lie would be duly polite with his
visitor
"You see" Talbot enlightened him
eTusivcly. I'm only a go-between.
Ten per cent commission Is all I'm Of
fered. My buyers have all the equip
meut to handle your land and capital
enough to stand II risk Shall feel
my way on S20.0OO basis, snyT
Too little" disseuted Seaton.
"All right. if | gel your figure and
there is Il sale VIII You see that am
paid for my serviceSt"
"Oh. sure "' acccded Seaton. and
after the man had left, hurried 10 the
record office. Sure enough. there was
the document on file showing thnIover
live years ago MARK Seaton OF
Denver" had owned the property IN
question.
That settles it-some other Mark
Seaton," soliloquized Mrs. Bryce's
boar,ler and went and played with the
children to forget his shattered dream
But two days later IA letter wa'
sent to him which had been delivered
at the hotel SeatOn read II 10 ind
that Il was from Your wife. Nella,'
at Denver to Mark Seaton" OF the
same place II hoped that her hus'
band would make sale of his oil land
al any price. as the mortgage on their
home was due. and she advised him