The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-04-20

i received a short note from him.
The note was a@itatCd. almost incoher-
ent. Ii told me he had sent for you-
Alan Conrad, Of Blue RauidS. Kansas
but spoke of YOU as though you were
some one ought to have known about.
and commended YOU TO my care. The
remainder of 1t was merely am nuitat
ed, almost !nho"iph"rahle Farewell to
We. When | opened the envelope, a
key had fallen out. The note made
no reference to the key, but. compar-
Ing 1t with one / had In my pocket,
saw that it appeared to be Il key to
safety deposit box in the vaults of a
company where we both had boxes.
The note, taken in connection with
my daughters alarm about him, made
1t so plain that something serious had
happened to Corv"t, that my first
thought was merely for him. Corvet
was not man with whom one could
readily connect the thought Of suicide;
but, Alan, that was the idea | had I
hurried at once to his house, but the
bell was not answered, and | could not
get in. His servant, Wassaquam, has
very few friends. and the few times he
has been away from home of recent
years have been when he visited an
acquaintance of his-the head porter
In Il South Side hotel. I went to the
telephone in the house next door and
called the hotel and found Wassaquam
there. l told him over the telephone
only. that something was wrong, and
hurried to my own home to get the
key, which / had, to the COrvet house :;
but when | came back and let myself
into the house, 1 found it empty and
with no sign Of anything having hap
pened.
THE next morning. Alan, went to
the safe deposit vaults as soon as they
were open. l presented the numbered
key and was told that it belonged to
box rented by Corvet, and that Corvet
had arranged about three days before
for me to have access to the box If /
presented the key. l had only to sign
my name in their book and open the
box. In it, Alan, | found the pictures
OF you which ! showed you yesterday
and the very strange communications
That | am going to S,,uw you DOW"
Sheriff. opened the long envelope,
from which several thin. folded papers
fell. lie picked NJ The largest of these,
which consisted NJ several sheets
fastcno: together with a clip. and
handed Ii to Alan without comment.
Alan. us he looted u il ami turned tho
p"t'S' saw that II con aimed two CJi-
uinhS of tyrcWIitin& carried from page
10 page aiuer the manner of an ac-
count.
Ihe column to the left was an invCn-
tory OF property and profits and liz
come by months and years, and the
one 10 the right was liSr of losses
ana expenditures. beginning at an in
definite day or month in the year 1895,
there was set down in Il lumn sum
what was Indicated as the total OF Ben
Jamn CUrvet's holdings at that time.
TO this. In sometimes undated items,
the increase had been added. In the
opposite column, beginning apparently
from The same date in iS95. were the
missing mans expenditures.
Alan having aSccrtainCd that the pa
pers contained only this account,
looked up queslioningly to Sheriff.; I;
but Sheriff., without speaking, merely
handed him the second of the papers.
Alan mfOlded ii and saw that IL was
letter written in the same hand
which had written the summons he
had received In Blue Rapids and had
| made the entries I'm the little memo
randum book of the remittances that
had been sent to John Welton.
1t began simply:
Lawrence
"This viii come to you In the event
that l am not able to carry out the