With best regards

+Sydney Porter+

c/o Jas. S. Coleman.

P. S. To summarize--$750--by--wire--not by an A. D.

T.--satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded.

This appears to have been followed breathlessly by a telegram which

read thus:

LIKE TO HAVE FUNDS DO WIRE TODAY WILL POSITIVELY BE THERE ON TIME

HAVE CUT OUT SPENDING AND CHIANTI S. P.

Tyler seems to have thought it wisest to send only a part of the sum

demanded and to do that by mail. By the end of February this glowing

message came up from Asheville:

WILL ARRIVE AT NOON MONDAY IF YOUR HUNDRED WIRED TODAY EXCLUSIVE

WORK GUARANTEED UNTIL SATISFACTORY RESULTS

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