The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-02-01
CHAPTER /
The Inheritance.

To be twenty-five, to be wearing q
new seventy-ive-dollar suit, and to
walk down Broadway in the sun on
a May morning with the knowledge
that an inheritance Of a hundred thou
sand dollars is to be turned over by
ones trustee within half an hour. must
be quite an experience. If an accu-
mutation of such trlfles constitutes a
sum of happiness, Winton Garrett
ought to have been happy.
He was happy. He had left college
the day before. The world was before
him. He had nothing to worry him.
ambitions. He had resolved not to en-
terrain any until he received his
legacy.
Now that II was as good as his, Win
ton was beginning to wonder what 1t
would be like to have control of it.
He had not had much money to han
die; his bills had been paid for him,
and he had had a modest allowance
which he had never exceeded.
I'm have TO do something useful
with It," he was rejecting, IF Archie
hasn't spent II ALL"
Archie Garrett, Winton's cousin,
was just twenty years older than him
self. When Winton's mother died,
ten years before, and a year after
her husband, who had left her every
thing Internationally, she had willed
all to Winton, her only child, and APP
pointed Archie her sole trustee.
The thing had puzzled everybody,
and 1t had worried Winton's relatives
quite a little. Fol Archie Garrett was
the last person in the world whom the
average testator would select as a trus-
tee. Winton's mother believed in her
nephew, however.
He had once advised her about an
Investment which was turning out bad
ly. She had listened to him, In the
face OF expert opinion, and Archie had
plucked her out of the financial morass
into which she had strayed, and set
her on firm ground. People said 1t was
luck. but Winton's mother never for
got.
Archie, a bachelor of forty-four, was
one of those men who never quite grow
up. His own money had beer tied up
by a prudent father, but he lived on
the adequate income and played at
business. He was supposed to be in
In land development some
where. But nobody who entered Ar
Office eve saw n signs Of
business. Archie hadn't even a stenog-
He read French novels with
his feet on the window-ledge, three ,
hundred feet above Broadway; and :
his desk itself was as immaculate as 7
ts owner. I
IncoTrigible in his optimism. moth I
ever disturbed him. He did nave {
he knack OF failing on his feet after
to have made quite a little [
money out Of his income; but nobody G
Archie any the more for that,
hough it was admitted that he was
IOnorable. Archie was incapable of 2
'rongdoing. But Archie as a trustee n
'as-unthinkable. 81
Winton had never troubled very n
luch about his cousins handling of S
is fortune. Archie had paid his bills II
and had been generous. He l.
ad written cordially to Winton a week G.
making an appointment for that a
orning at his Office, to be followed b,
7 luncheon. At the interview the "
,oks were to be shown and the es-
te-which, Winton gathered from d.
me vague statement made a few tn
onths before, had increased consld-
to be handed over. al
Winton crossed one of the squares Of ia
e city and made his way toward a m
triangular structure of great pr
light, the acute angle pointing up- Dc