Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1922-08-05

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: ing in corners; the w~eodwork-that free Of
the oak shelves was dull white mottled
with broken blisters.
Seven millions" the young man said
aloud. In that tone Of suppressed awe one
employs in cathedrals, where echoes lie in.
wait to confound US II we raise our voices.
" Yesterday. seven cents, hguratively speak
ing:today, seven nillions!'
All day long he had repeated these phrases,
or similar phrases. and still he could not es.
cape from the notion that he had been
bludgeoned, that he was the victim Of a
waking nightmare such as prize fighters suf>
y fer when they are knocked out. For month";
he had known. and it had not troubled him
to any extent; but today he had come into
the actual possession Of these Millions Not
once had he danced, sung. shouted. as he
should have done, being only twenty-four.
Instead, his particular and immediate sen.
sation was that Of catastrophe. Not impend-
ing catastrophe. but the concrete actually,
here and now: seven millions and not the
least idea what to do with them! Dollar by
dollar. it would take years to COUNT this for
tune. 1t was. as incredible in computation
as the distance between Jupiter and the
earth. He was at a nonpius.
He folded the typewriter sheets and put
them into a drawer. Then he reread the
remarkable letter he hal received that morn.
Ing from the attorneys for the estate, Shell &
Pride. A hint Of foul play. But what could
he do. what could anybody do. aside from
! accepting as Conclusive the examination By
the physician. that death had been due to
heart failure? There was a suggestion that
his father might have been scared to death,
But who could prove 1t?
Collingswood jeremiah Bancroft. ESQ.
Dear sirs This day you come into the pos
= session nf Hy0J1r yhnp{fo>NoA -
contestable. according to the terms OF your
fathers will. And now we feet it our bounden
duty to aequaint you with the supposedly Pc.
death. Personally. / do not consider the cic-
cumstances peculiar; but our head clerk, Mr..
johnson, insists that you be acquainted with
such facts as he has in his possession to put
You on your guard should it turn out that
your father did.have an enemy Of murderous
-inclinations.
1t seems rather late in the day to put the
euppositipn before you, but we believed It
pest hrss to investigate thoroughly but quiet
ly Mr. Johnson's suspicious. The result is
we are exactly where we started, from: If
we found no trace Of him..
MY opinion is this: that some crank. who
could moi, get his business to your father
window via the fire escape platform. The
shock Of seeing him enter was too much for
your fathers heart. But that the stranger
was some one aware Of your fathers delicate
death strikes me as bosh. Your father had
been warned to avoid any shock. not to run
after street cars or to enter crowded trains.
More than twenty years ago he went
through a severe siege Of pneumonia, and his
heart has been In a precarious condition ever
since. His tow physician here not long ago
marvel to medical science. Logically he
should have died years ago.
He had his Office in ourSs for many years.
and by 80 doing kept out Of the turmoil.
though ALWAYS within imnaAdiate touch Only