"Wm. Conniston, Jr."
"Wm. Conniston, Jr.,
"Rattlesnake Valley.
"Orders imperative from your father. Cables from Paris drop everything immediately and come home.
"Edw. Corliss,
"New York.
"I refer you to wire of yesterday.
"Wm. Conniston, Jr."
Then came a message which puzzled Greek Conniston more deeply than the others had done—a message via cable and telegraph and telephone from his father himself: