Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-10-04

clyde took no man on earth into his
| confidence. ! judge. tho, that he was
/ an unsuccessful sutton for your
| mother. The affair must have cut
deep. for he never married"
Eighty million!" murmured Jack.
unable to grasp the idea of such a
sum.
Nearly five million year: four
hundred thousand a month; say thir
teen thousand a day"
The figures had a convincing ring
/ The color stole back into Jacks
| cheeks, and n delicious warmth crept
around his heart. He had no great
difficulty in believing his good for
tune, because he had already pic
tnred 1T to himself in fancy. His
| first thought was of Kate II can buy
her anything now"
For moment or two he found
nothing to say Thlamare seeing his
eyes become dreamy. smiled again.
Spending it already, / see!"
| Jack blushed and descended to
/ earth. PLEASE tell me all about it,"
| he said.
I'll tell you what know AS I
| said, l was not in Mr.. Gydes full
confidence-no man was. Indeed l
knew him but slightly. He was
good customer of the bank, but he
did everything in his own peculiar
way. He rented a large vault from
| us. and had the locks changed under
his own supervision. / believe he
Kept the major part of his securities
there, but he may have other vaults
too.
Some five years or so ago. he
came to me saying he wanted to rent
"A small lock box in our vaults, the
kind that we get ten. dollars a year
/ for. He was SO insistent upon the
necessity for secrecy that we allowed
him to have it undeAan assumed
name. Another officer of the bank
and myself were taken into the Sc
cret. Mr. Clyde left me a duplicate
key to this box with instructions to
open it if ever a day passed without
my hearing from him. l believe he
used to visit the box himself to make
| sure that had not been tamDcring
with it, but his peculiarities were so
well known, one didn't mind that
in him.
Since then, every day Of his life
he dropped in here, or called me or
my secretary on the phone, just to
| report, he said. In the beginning I
often wondered why he had set him
self such a task, but as time went on
1T became mere form, and at last
| forgot how the custom had started
when word of his death was
brought me day before yesterday. all
recollection of the small box had
i PASSED from my mind. My SECRETARY
brought it back by remarl1ingt that
the old gentleman's daily report was
now at an end / found the keys and
opened the box. The papers were
sealed into the box itself, so that
they could not be removed without
breaking the wax Very character
istic of Mr.. Clyde.
''The contents consisted of his will:
detailed instructions to me how to
find you and identify you, and sew
eral keys which I was directed to
hand you. Here they are And here
brevity you see."
| oeaSh tCaos j, ollttS SIyOG, Delng
Of sound mind and in the full pos
session of my senses. do hereby de-
wise and bequeath all that die pos
sessed of to John Farrow Norman
son Of John Goadby Norman and
Phoebe Farrow, and do appoint the
said John Farrow Norman and Wal
ter Delamare, President of the Ma
tional New York Bank, my execu-
tors"
"My Instructions state" Mr.. Della
mare resumed that the witnesses
to the will were two clerks employed
by Mr.. clyde at that time. You see
he forgot nothing.
AS to those keys. they are for the
various doors in Mr.. Gyde's apart
ment at the Hotel Madagascar I
am. told here not to deliver them into
any hands but yoursa and you are
instructed to visit the apartment at
once and alone. Always mysterious,
you see. BY the way, Mr.. Clyde was
the sole owner of the Madagascar,
and it is therefore now yours"
81 suppose there will be lawyers to
see, and SO on" said Jack.
"Mr. Clyde had no personal attor-
neys. He was always suing and be-
ing sued, but he retained new man
for every case. Obviously he has
made these arrangements on his own
initiative. 7 expect it will be up to
YOU and me to ferret out his proper
ties I will have my attorney pro-
bate the will You had better have
lawyer to advise YOU. Have You
any one in mind?'
Jack shook his head
(To be continued.