Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-12-13
CHAPTER III

1880 AAS AS H" .. .
Journalism.
Could it be possible, Brooke asked
himself, that this idle invention of
his was to involve him in complica-
tons? 1t a evident that already
the money and the story Of the bet
had becom gossip among the hotel
servants. Before morning how much
farther might it go?
Carefully he lifted his coat from
the m~oney-piled table and took up his
memorandum, $%275,000, $147, 900,
$4,000, $166.oOO, $40 1000. $685.
900, $4,000. That was a fair count
all in all. a thousand dollars either
way-and the total was %s1,1s2,00O
Suppose" murmured Brooke, his
eyes dancing at the possibility, "only
just suppose it should never be
c:aimed!"
Long before 8 o'clock, the hour at
which he desired to be aroused, John
Brooke vas astir. His night had been
restless. filled with sudden awaken
ings and punctuated by the ever re-
current thought of the bag of money,
which he had placed under the bed
CLOTHES between himself and the wall.
At dawn. as soon as there was suf-
flcient light to see clearly, he had it
lOoS1 AAS NOAASSAkS OuSO L1OIS IS1IlOVSU,
and the bag undergoing Q thorough,
ninute inspection.
1t had occurred to him that the
name of the maker might be stamped
somewhere upon it and, that If this
were so it would afford a possible clue
to the owner. But the makers name
was not to be found. Nor did he find
a single mark save a barely decipher-
able patented 1881" on me of the
brass catches, which only told him
that the hardware raj of American
manufacture, and that vas scarcely to
be regarded as significant.
Later, having put his find carefully
out of sight, he rang for a page and
ordered the morning papers-all OF
them, for he was inexperienced, and
likely medium for the advertisement,
he half expected.
When they came he threw himself
down on the bed again and began q
systematic search. One after another
he examined with careful delibera:
ton, the sole result being a fixed con.
vtction that New York women were
amazingly careless as to their jewel!
and that New York fox terriers were
a pack Of ~ungrateful renegades.
Having thus exhausted the LOS
and Found" colunns, he turned tt
the news, running casually over thu
headlines in search Of something in
teresting and glancing incidentally a
the portraits and other illustrations
But scarcely had he scanned a pag.
clutchtng the page eagerly with botf
hands. his head bent forward, hi
eyes d%evouring his brain intent.
The headlines which provoked thi'
sudden physical uprising and excites
this absorbing mental interest wert
these:
Killed in Fau from Train.
BODY Supposed to Be That OF Joh1
Brooke Of Honolulu, Found
Beside Tracks in Mott
Haven, Yard.
And with electric swiftness h,
raced through the account which fol
lowed:
"close beside the railroad tracks i,
the Mott Haven yards last night" h,
read, "a section hand found the dea,
4 body OF a young man who had evi
IDENTITY fallen Or Jumped from mi o
1.-THE incoming trains. The mans skull
was crushed and death was probabl,
instantaneous. There were no paper
|on the body to serve as Identification
s'The Empire State express havinl
passed this point only five minutes be
fore the section hands discovery. 1
was thought that the unfortunat
man might have been a passenger Of
that train.
1T 800 learned later that q travel
tng bar belonging to John Il Brook
haA been unclaimed when tho expires
and the colored porter Of the Pull
Imam HARt on Vhfehs RrnnkA $50 800