Letters of a Lifetime (1912) Online

Letters of a Lifetime (1912) Online

The wealthy old bachelor returned to his home after a visit to his club, and found waiting him news that his time on earth was pitifully brief. He had money to pay for the best of medical attention, but doctors could not save him. For the first time it struck the old millionaire that no man or woman would care whether he lived or died. Essentially selfish, he had never made friends. From his safe he took a package of letters and legal papers. As a boy he and his brother had loved the same young woman. The boy was the favored suitor, and although not engaged, he confidently expected to wed the girl some day. Then a letter arrived from a lawyer. It informed the brothers of the death of their uncle, a recluse and woman hater. He left all his large fortune to them, conditional upon their remaining bachelors. The old man who now sat musing, had accepted the condition. His brother refused them. The elder boy with the money that had so strangely come to him, lived a happy, careless, ...