"One thing more," he said to himself, "and my arrangements will be made."
He visited the office of a lawyer and dictated his will. It was very brief, scarcely ten lines in length. This also he deposited with the safe deposit company.
"Oliver," he said, in the evening, "I've gotthrough my business sooner than I expected. Can you start to-morrow?"
"Yes, sir."
"Then we'll go. We'll pay our landlady to the end of the month, so that she can't complain. One thing more, Oliver, I want to tell you. I've left the bulk of my property, in bonds, and my will with the Safe Deposit Company, No. —— Broadway. If anything happens to me you are to go there and call for the will. Whatever there is in it I want you to see carried out."
"All right, sir."
The next day they started for Chicago.
CHAPTER XXVI.
WHO RUPERT JONES WAS.
J UST before leaving New York Oliver wrote a letter to Frank Dudley, announcing the plan he had in view.