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“Yes.”

“But I'm over twenty-one! I'm not crazy! What the hell—I beg your pardon—do I want with a
guardian?” The young woman attorney apparently had expected some such objection. She was all ready
with her brief case, which she opened.

She said, “It is in your father's will. I presume you have not read the will?”

“I didn't know dad left a will,” said Parker O'Donnel. “It's news to me.”

“The will,” said Attorney Martha Colby, “states that I am to be appointed your guardian.”

“Holy cats!” said Park.
The young woman removed a document from her brief case, a document which showed signs of age.
She indicated this legal article.

“It is,” she said, “right here in the will. You may read it.”

“Gosh!” said Park. “Does the will say what I am to do with you, now that I've got you?”

“As guardian,” said Attorney Martha Colby, “it is I who will tell you what to do. Not the reverse.”

Park became somewhat indignant. “Oh, it does, does it! I may have something to say about that!”

Attorney Martha Colby frowned severely. “The first thing I am to do with you,” she said, “is to take you
to visit a man named Tom Brock.”

“Tom Brock,” said Park, “was dad's old partner. I don't know him, but I've heard he was the only man
who was a bigger screwball than my good old dad was.”

“I am to take you to Tom Brock,” said the young woman lawyer. “And he's to give you a good talking
to.”

“Oh my goodness!” said Park. “I never heard of such a foolish thing!”



Chapter II. DEATH ISN'T FUNNY
THE relay officer operator was on the wire with more “99” messages. They were overworked at the
relay office, and the relay man called so angrily that his dots and dashes threatened to shake the tobacco
can out of the sounder box.

Park opened the key and said, “Min, you lid,” over the wire. Min meant minute, or wait a minute. And
the word lid was a telegrapher's bit of slanguage implying the other fellow was a species of goof who had
no head on his shoulders.

The relay man sent six or seven explosive words. He was evidently the chief operator sitting in on the
wire.

Park's ears got red.