The Chesterfield advertiser. [volume] (Chesterfield C.H., S.C.) 1884-1978, 1922-01-26
FRANCIS LYNDEJ
BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Il

snlIt II 10 nnger or the other hand
right there and then!
1t was less than week after this
little fade-out scene with Lisette that
Percy's letter came. This Is what II
said:
Dear Stannie:
81 know just about how you felt
last week when you heard GRANDPA.
ther Jasper's will read. and II isn't
going to make you feel any better now
when tell you that knew of It's pro-
visions more than n year ago. When
the Will was drawn. grandfather
showed II to me. and gave me a senled
envelope. which I was to open after
his death. That envelope. MS I knew
mt the time. contained. among other
things. codicif to the viii. BY Its
provisions you are to receive legacy
under certain conditions which were
to he revealed to you at such time as
might think hest.
"Your portion Of Grandfather JAS
per's property was worth. Mt it's latest
valuation. something like $44O.OO0. It
lies In perfectly safe repository. stu.
ated between the 1O5th and 10th de-
grees Of longitude west from Green
wich. and the 35th and 4Oth degrees
north latitude. When you find It, you
will he able to identify It by the pres.
ence Of girl with brown hair and
blue eyes and small mole on her left
shoulder. piebald horse which the
girl rides. and dog with a split face
half black and half white. You will
he more than likely to find the three
together; and If YOU make the ac-
quaintance of thp girl. you'll he on the
trail Of your legacy.
$50 there you are. Stnnnie. old boy:
there's your fortune. All you've got
to do is to go TO work and find ii. Per-
hnps by that time you Will have ac-
Qulred the working hnhit-whfch Is
what Grandfather Jasper hoped might
prove TO he the case.
"WishinC you great Joy In your
search. | am.
your affectionat" cousin.
"r::R"Y."
Naturally, had II Qu.ct lit'lr laugh
over this screed OF i'I' r.Niug il
for joke; II poor .jUSv and IA rather
bad taste, l thought In lhul mood |
handed the letter to Lisctte FOR her to
read She didn't laugh, but she did
look bit scornful and put about, IL
you know what mean.
Il don't suppose the blue-eyed girl
would appeal to you" she said.
though the horse and the dog might.
When do you start?"
We discovered that Meridian 100
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, n slice Of Utah. good bit bigger
slice of New Mexico, with a bite out
of the northeastern corner Of Arizona,
just for good measure.
me for the wild and woolly"
brayed. Don't you see me rigged out
in nice, hairy-pair of 'shaps' and
riding Observation-Disclosures believe
that's the phrase-over the snow
capped peaks or the boundless prairies.
ns the case may be? But just Imagine
Percy the immaculate pulling a bone
neuu Joke ike tUlS!
you are taking 1t for a joker" she
questioned
"Sure I am; and It's n rather rotten
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 misslngm
For just one crazy minute I had n
hunch. or premOnitIon, or Whatever
you like to Gull II, that the letter might
not be Joke. Grandfather Jasper Ind
always been bit eccentrIc-a rich
mans privilege and rich old mnn's
incontestable right. What II he had
actually done this thing to me7-a
thing scarcely less devastating than
cutting me of without a penny On
the spur Of the moment said:
"If I should 60 would you wait for
me. Lisette7'
She took her time about answering
"a good and sufficient plenty Of II.
81 think perhaps I'd better NOT
change the ring back. Stannie," she
said. sort Of wintrily. "Tf there Ia INV
money and you should happen TO End
II, you would probably fling II all
away before you could get back to Bos-
ton. Besides. there is the biue-eyed
girl; If she should bring you fortune,
you'd have to marry her. wouldn't your
You are big and strong. and-well-er
nice In good many ways, Stannie,
ana much too gOod-looking for your
own good; but when you marry-if
you do marry-yOu'd better be sure
that the girl has money enough to buy
her own hats. haven't enough. as
you know"
u know only too well that the love
in-a-cottage idea has never appealed
TO you." ] said, with the regretful stop
pulled all the way out I'm Difference to
the sentimental decencies.
Not In the least. Stannie, dear; not
In the littlest least"
This appeared to be the end of our
rather lukewarm Iove-dream, and to