He read as follows:

 

 

"Wall Street Exchange.

"Dear Sir: In reference to the mining stock about which you inquire, our information is that the mine is a valuable one, and very productive. The stock is held in few hands, and it is difficult to obtain it. You tell me that it belongs to an estate of which you are the administrator¹. I advise you to hold it awhile longer before you seek to dispose of it. We are about to send an agent to Nevada to look after some mining interests of our own, and will authorize² him also to look up the Golden Hope mine.

 

"Yours truly,      

"Crane & Lawton,    

"Stock and Mining Brokers⁴."

 

Mother and son looked at each other significantly.

 

Finally Mark said, "This mining stock must have belonged to grandfather."

 

"Yes; I remember now his alluding⁵ to having purchased a hundred shares of some mine."

 

"The brokers say they are valuable. Yet Uncle Solon has never said anything about them. Mother, he means to defraud⁶ us of our share in this property, supposing that we will hear nothing about it."

 

"How shameful⁷!" exclaimed Mrs. Mason indignantly. "I will sit right down and write him a letter taxing him with his treachery."

 

"No, mother; I don't want you to do anything of the kind."

 

"You don't want us to submit to imposition? That don't sound like you, Mark."

 

"I mean that he shall give us whatever is our due, but I don't want him to suspect that we know anything of his underhand schemes. He hasn't sold the mining stock yet."

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