The young acrobat stared hard at Luke Belding. He wondered if the embryo lion tamer was crazy—or had he not heard him aright?
Instantly Andy's mind ran back to the encounter with Jim Tapp on the streets of Tipton the evening previous.
This made the second time, then, within twenty-four hours that an allusion had been made to the fact that he was "an heir."
Andy knew of no reason why a sudden mystery should come into his life. The coincidence of the double reference to the same thing, however, namely, an alleged heirship, struck him as peculiar.
"Heir," he spoke in a bewildered tone—"me an heir?"
"Yes," said Luke.
"Heir to what?"
"Why—oh, something, I don't know what. But the thing you're heir to is there."
"Where?" persisted Andy.
"I don't know that, either—Fairview, I reckon."