The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1921-12-02

| back to that nightmare effect regis
| tered at the start. When the Dudley
will was taken out of the icebox and
read to the assembled members of the
family, there were at least two shock
ing surprises. Jasper hadn't been any
where near as rich as we had all been
thinking he was; that his modest
manner of living had been, perhaps, as
much a matter of necessity as Of
choice. Bad investments-of which
the family had never heard so much
as a whisper-had cut his fortune
down to something less than half q
million, all told. That was shock
Number One and shock Number Two
was strictly personal to me: Grand
father Jasper had left me his love and
best wishes, and had willed the money
and property-all Of it, mind you-to
Cousin Percy, giving as his reason
that he thought Percy would make
better use of 1t.
OF course, 1 had everybody's sympa-
thy and condolence-even Percys, for
that matter. My mother wept; and,
as 1 recall 1t, Lisette managed to COM
pass tear or so when I told her what
had happened; or rather what had so
ANONYMOUSLY failed to happen.
whatever will you do?" she fall
tered. IL suppose you Will really have
to go to work now, won't you, STAN
nie?"
Perish the thought" I told her
than froua ba noo1 raocAno univ
there was no hope for US in that d.
rection. "a fat chance I'd have to
earn any real money. 1 can navigate
a yacht-a little,-drive a motor, ride
polo pony, and play fair hand ar
bridge and the other great American
game. l think these are the sum total
of my shining accomplishments
You needn't return the ring" l
grinned, seeing that she was looking
at 1t rather regretfully. you can wear
1t on some other finger, you know"
Eyes; 1 suppose 1 could do that"
she agreed; and I'm blest If she didn't
shift 1t to a finger of the other hand
right there and thenl
1t was less than a week after this
little fade-out scene with Lisette that
Percy's letter came. This is what 1t
said:
Dear Stannie:
81 know just about how you felt
last week when you heard GRANDPA
Their Jasper's will read, and 1t isn't
going to make you feel any better now
when tell you that knew of Its pro-
visions more than a year ago. When
the will was drawn, grandfather
showed it TO me, and gave me sealed
envelope, which l was to open after
his death. That envelope, as l knew
at the time, contained, among other
things, a codicil to the will. By its
provisions you are to receive a legacy
under certain conditions which were
to be revealed to you at such time as /
might think best.
'Your portion of Grandfather JAS
per's property was worth, at its latest
something like $4,000. II
lies in a perfectly safe repository, stu
ated between the 105th and 10th de-
grees of longitude west from Green
wich. and the 35th and 10th degrees
north latitude. When you find 1t, you
will be able to identify II by the pres
ence of a girl with brown hair and |
blue eyes and small mole on her left |
shoulder, a piebald horse which the !
girl rides, and a dog with split face !
half black and half white. You will !
De more than likely to find the three |
.ogether: and If you make the &C
luaintance of the girl, you'll be on the
rail of your legacy.
$50 there you are. Stannie, old boy:
here's your fortune. All you've got
o do is to go to work and find it. Per-
laps by that time you Will have ac-
Iuired the working hablt-which is
What Grandfather Jasper hoped might
,rove to be the case.
"Wishing you great JOY In your
earch, | am.
"Your affectionate cousin,
PERCY"