I will stand every expense," he said, and then and there he also confided a startling secret to the surgeon.
"I am a lone man in this world, without one kindred tie on earth.

Some little time since I made my will.

I left every dollar I possessed on earth to my young cashier, Lester Armstrong, though he never even dreamed of such an existing state of affairs.

I never intended that he should know that I had made him my heir for perhaps years to come yet." "Lester Armstrong!" exclaimed the surgeon.

"Why, that is not the name he is entered here under, Mr.Marsh.The friend who was with him did not call him that." "Then the friend who was with him evidently did not know him.