Howard Girard, eighteen years old, had spent his last dime and was
wondering where he could raise a bit of change. Then he got a job in
a printing shop in Evanston, Illinois. And then, all at once, he got
word that he had fallen co-heir to a $12,000,000 fortune left by his
grand-uncle, Antoine Damange of Paris. Things like this have happened in
romantic novels. They don’t often happen in actual life. Howard, notified
of his remarkable good fortune, said, “Well, that’s pretty good,” and
then announced his intention of sticking to his job at the printing shop.
His share of the estate will amount to about $2,000,000.