and hiked on to New York. You'll find
about seven million dollars' worth of stuff to your credit when you
endorse the certified checks down at Grant & Ripley's, my boy. It's all
here and in the banks.

"It's a mighty decent sort of wedding gift, I reckon.

"The lawyers told me all about you. Told me all about last night, and
that you were going to be married this morning. By this time you're
comparatively happy with the bride, I guess. I looked over your report
and took a few peeps at the receipts. They're all right. I'm satisfied.
The money is yours. Then I got to thinking that maybe you wouldn't care
to come down at nine o'clock, especially as you are just recovering
from the joy of being married, so I settled with the lawyers and
they'll settle with you. If you have nothing in particular to do this
afternoon about two o'clock, I'd suggest that you come to the hotel and
we'll dispose of a few formalities that the law requires of us. And you
can give me some lessons in spending money. I've got a little I'd like
to miss some morning. As for your ability as a business man, I have
this to say: Any man who can spend a million a year and have nothing to
show for it, don't need a recommendation from anybody. He's in a class
by himself, and it's a business that no one else can give him a pointer
about. The best test of your real capacity, my boy, is the way you
listed your property for taxation. It's a true sign of business
sagacity. That would have decided me in your favor if everything else
had been against you.

"I'm sorry you've been worried about all this. You have gone through a
good deal in a year and you have been roasted from Hades to breakfast
by everybody. Now it's your turn to laugh. It will surprise them to
read the 'extras' to-day. I've done my duty to you in more ways than
one. I've got myself interviewed by the newspapers and to-day they'll
print the whole truth about Montgomery Brewster and his millions.
They've got the Sedgwick will and my story and the old town will boil
with excitement. I guess you'll be squared before the world, all right.
You'd better stay indoors for awhile though, if you want to have a
quiet honeymoon.

"I don't like New York. Never did. Am going back to Butte to-night. Out
there we have real skyscrapers and they are not built of brick. They
are two or three miles high and they have gold in 'em. There is real
grass in the lowlands and we have valleys that make Central Park look
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