Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 284, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1912 — Unthinkable. [ARTICLE]

Unthinkable.

Quite unexpectedly one of Brooks’ distant relatives had remembered him In his will, but Brooks hadn’t told anybody about It. "Rivers,” he asked, in a casual, offhand manner, “what do you reckon you could do with —we’ll say with — $1,200, if somebody should die and leave you a sum like that? How would you—” "Twelve hundred dollars!” gasped Rivers. “All at once? Great Scott, I couldn’t believe it! I’d think I had gone crazy!”