St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1921-12-03

tereu. Il suppose you Will really nave
to go to work now, won't you, Stan
nie?'
Perish the thought" l told her;
then l gave the good reasons why
there was Nc hope for us in that di-
rection. "A fat chance I'd have to
earn any real money. l can navigate
a yacht-a little,-drive a motor, ride
a polo pony, and play a fair hand at
bridge and the other great American
game. I think these are the sum total
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; I suppose | could do that"
she agreed; and I'm blest if she didn't
shift it to a finger Of the other hand
right there and then!
It was less than week after this
little fade-out scene with Lisette that
Percy's letter came. This is what It
said:
Dear Stannie:
Il know just about how you felt
last week when you heard GRANDPA
ther Jasper's will read, and it isn't
going to make you feel any better now
when te,. you that knew Of its pro-
visions more than year ago. When
the will was drawn, grandfather
showed it to me, and gave me a sealed
envelope, Which / was to open after
his death That envelope, as | knew
at the time, contained, among other
things, 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 i
might think best.
"Your portion of Grandfather JAS
per's property was worth, at it's latest
valuation, something like $4,000. It
lies in perfectly safe repository, stu
ated between the 1O5th and 10th de-
grees of longitude west from Green
witch. and the 35th and 4Oth degrees
north latitude. When you find it, you
will be able to identify it 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 dog with a split face
half black and half white. You will
be more than likely to find the three
together; and if you make the ac
ouaintance of the girl, you'll be on the
I trail of your legacy.
$50 there you are, Stannie, old boy;
there's your fortune. All you've got
to do is to 60 to work and find 1t. Per-
maps by that time you will have ac-
1uired the working habit-which is
what Grandfather Jasper hoped might
prove to be the case.
"Wishing you great Joy in your
search, am, IL
"Your affectionate cousin,
PERCY"
Naturally, l had a quiet little laugh
over this screed Of Percy's, taking it
for a Joke; poor joke and in rather
bad taste, / thought. In that mood l
handed the letter to Lisette for her to
read. She didn't laugh, but she did
look bit scornful and put about If
you know Wnlt Ahedu.
81 don't suppose the blue-eyed girl
would appeal to you," she said,
Though the horse and the dog might.
When do you start?" s=s
We discovered that Meridian 105
west of Greenwich split the state Of
Colorado just beyond Denver, Colorado
Springs and Pueblo, and the hunting
ground plotted out for me took In
three-fourths Of the remainder of the
state, slice of Utah. a good bit bigger
slice of New Mexico, with bite out
of the northeastern corner Of Arizona,
Just for good measure.
.Me for the wild and woolly!" I
prayed. Don't you see me rugged out
in nice, hairy pair of Snaps and
riding ll-bent-for-leather-1 believe
that's the phrase the snow
capped peaks or the bound}ess prairies,
as the case may be? But just imagine
Percy the immaculate pulling bone
head joke like this u"
"You are taking it for joker she
questioned.
sure am anu IL IdlueI IOtteH
one at that, I should say-considering
the source"
.Then you won't go to look for the
blue-eyed girl with nut-brown hair and
the cunning little mole? Think Of what
you may be missing!"
For just one crazy minute I had a
bunch, or a premonitioh, or whatever
YOU like to call it, that the letter might
not be q joke Grandfather Jasper had
always been a bit eccentric-a rich
mans privilege and rich old mans
incontestable right. What If he had
actually done this thing to me?-a
thing scarcely less devastating than
cutting me off without penny? On
the spur of the moment said:
.sIf I should go, would you wait for
me, Lisette?'
She took her time about answering
"a good and sufficient plenty of it.
IT think perhaps I'd better not
change the ring back, Stannie," she
said, sort Of wintrily. IF there is any