“I am here and so is the money.  Got in last night.  Harrison came from Chicago a day ahead of me.  I went to the office of G. & R. at eight this morning.  Found them in a hell of a stew.  Thought I’d skipped out or been murdered.  Money all gone, everything gone to smash.  That’s what they thought.  Don’t blame ’em much.  You see it was this way:  I concluded to follow out the terms of the will and deliver the goods in person.  I got together all of Jim Sedgwick’s stuff and did a lot of other fool things, I suppose, 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 like a half inch of nothing.  Probably you and Mrs. Brewster were going to take a wedding trip, so why not go west with me in my car?  We start at 7:45 P.M. and I won’t bother you.  Then you can take it anywhere you like.