CHAPTER XIII.
RETURN OF BEN WEST.
About two months before Ben West returned to Orangeville, Mr. Hammond took a letter out of the Orangeville post-office, which read as follows:
"Kohn & Kohn, Bankers and Brokers, Stillman Block.
"San Francisco, April 7, 1899.
"Harrison Hammond, Esq.,
"Orangeville, Calif.
"Dear Sir: We have been instructed by Benj. West, Esq., one of the leading capitalists of the Klondike, to send you a draft for five hundred dollars, with a letter from that gentleman to you, both of which we have enclosed.
"Yours resp't'y,
"Kohn & Kohn."
The letter from Ben West to Mr. Hammond was as follows: