Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1936 — Page 18

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At a fashionable tailor’s he was measured for 12 suits.

3 TWARDLY, Guy Crane was J an industrious, unnoticed clerk in the office of the Whitley Corp. manufacturers of nuts and bolts, Between 12 and 12:30 every day he snatched a lunch costing 15 cents at the corner drug store. He never ate more than 15 cents worth because, inwardly, Mr. Crane was an incurable optimist who saved money in order to throw it away on schemes that he hoped would make him wealthy. His private business dealings extended to taking chances on strange inventions, wildcat oil wells, gold mines and peacock farming. He was modestly positive that, some day, he would suddenly become very, very rich indeed. Therefore, he was not at all surprised and knew exactly what to do, when one day he actual1y received news that his dream had come true! © Setting his tie, he carried the marvelous letter into the general manager's. office, “I'm going to quit, sir—and 1 would prefer to leave immediately.”

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HE G. M. was curious. Crane allowed him to read the letter.

It was from a certain unknown

genuius who had invented a chemical process that must surely revolutionize the whole rubber industry. This process, in which Crane owned a half interest, had been sold, said the letter, to a large manufacturing organization for a quarter of a million dollars. Crane would receive a certified check for his share in the near future. “Don’t you think,” suggested the G. M. cautiously, “you had batter wait until you have this money in your hand? are never certain.” "This is certain.” Crane put the “And I can’t “Wait. I've gone without everything you might call a luxury, and even without necessities, to make this kind of success possible. | Now I'm going to make up for lost time.”

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E didn’t gloat over his fellow workers as he bade them farewell. He wasn't that kind of man. He promised, instead, to take them all cruising on his yacht when it was built. " Within the subdued sanctum of a fashionable tailor’s shop he was measured for 12 suits. From there he went to a store where he ordered dozens of ties, shirts, pajamas, socks and shoes. He knew exactly the kind of automobile he wanted. He found it— a 12-cylinder streamlined model in royal blue. After that, exhausted with excitement, he went to a movie and slept the remaligler of the afternoon.

After all, these things]

He arrived at his boarding house shortly after 6, bearing in his pocket a lease on an expensive bachelor apartment. He found a special delivery letter waiting for him. It was from

him that the latter had been taken to an institution for mental disorders. “1 thought you ought to know,” she wrote. “I don’t want you to put any more money into his inventions. The doctor says he'll be all right after he rests up. Please don’t encourage him in his notions any longer.” Mr. Crane couldn't night, ing out his window, ” " Bn N the morning, he braced. himself for what lay before him. He told the tailor he,had been called West and couldn't wait for the suits. He grimly canceled the order for the other clothes by saying he had to go to the hospital for an operation and wouldn't need any clothes at all. “For months,” he insisted when pressed. No, he didn’t want the pajamas, either. The hospital furnished all patients with a particular kind of pajama. / The automobile salesman listened to a story of his going to Europe. Over there, Mr. Crane said, he would pick up some car of foreign make. Oh, most certainly, when he returned to America, he would drop in and look over their line again. The lease on the apartment was something else again. The agent threatened legal action until Mr. Crane said, “I couldn't pay you the first day’s rent, much less a year’s.” 2 ” ® EAVY hearted, chastened, he went back to his job. In the general manager's office, he spent a horrible 15 minutes while the G. M. laughed himself sick before he said, kindly, “Well, we haven't found any one to take your place,” and ordered Mr. Crane back to his desk. There, on the desk, was lying. an envelope. It bore, on the upper lefthand corner the name of a law firm. | With cringing fingers Mr. Crane opened it. No, it was not a law suit. It was a notice that Mr. Crane's great-uncle had died in Ecuador and had left Mr. Crane a fortune of half a million dollars. “Bad news?” a stenographer asked him, Mr. Crane shook his head. “Nothing much. I guess I'm just rich again. Will you get me the correspondence from the Green Bay dealer? I'm behind in my work.”

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