“Well, I hope it’s a valuable estate if it is coming to your father,” said the senator’s son.
“I don’t know whether it is valuable or not, and neither does father. He says in his telegram it is certainly worth several thousand dollars, and he doesn’t know but that it may be worth a hundred thousand dollars or more.”
“A hundred thousand dollars!” cried Laura, who had come in to hear what Ben had to tell. “Oh, Ben, that certainly is a fortune!”
“Well, what does it consist of?” queried Dave. “If it may be worth all the way from two or three thousand dollars to a hundred thousand or more, it must be mining stocks or something like that.”
“No, it isn’t in stocks or bonds or anything like that.”
“Then what in the world does the estate consist of?” questioned our hero.
“Miniatures,” answered Ben Basswood, simply.