CHAPTER XXIX.
MR. FAIRCHILD’S TELEGRAM.
“Tacoma!” repeated the professor. “Who is interested in Tacoma?”
“I own five lots of land there,” answered Chester.
“Then I congratulate you. Lots are rising there, and are destined to go to a still higher point.”
“How do you account for that?” asked Prof. Hazlitt.
“In three months the Northern Pacific Railroad will be completed, and that will give a great impetus to the growth of the town. I expect to live to see fifty thousand people there. Let me ask how you became possessed of these lots?”
“They were given to me by a friend now dead.”
“What was his name?”
“Walter Bruce.”