"My brother, Henry Livingstone, was not a strong man," David dictated.

"He had the same heart condition I have, but it developed earlier. After

he left college he went to Arizona and bought a ranch, and there he

met and chummed with Elihu Clark, who had bought an old mine and was

reworking it. Henry loaned him a small amount of money at that time, and

a number of years later in return for that, when Henry's health failed,

Clark, who had grown wealthy, bought him a ranch in Wyoming at Dry

River, not far from Clark's own property.

"Henry had been teaching in an Eastern university, and then taken up

tutoring. We saw little of him. He was a student, and he became almost a

recluse. I saw less of him than ever after Clark gave him the ranch.

"In the spring of 1910 Henry wrote me that he was not well, and I went

out to see him. He seemed worried and was in bad shape physically. Elihu

Clark had died five years before, and left him a fair sum of money,

fifty thousand dollars, but he was living in a way which made me think

he was not using it. The ranch buildings were dilapidated, and there was

nothing but the barest necessities in the house.

"I taxed Henry with miserliness, and he then told me that the money was

not his, but left to him to be used for an illegitimate son of Clark's,

born before his marriage, the child of a small rancher's daughter named

Hattie Burgess. The Burgess girl had gone to Omaha for its birth, and

the story was not known. In early years Clark had paid the child's board

through his lawyer to an Omaha woman named Hines, and had later sent him

to college. The Burgess girl married a Swede named Thorwald. The boy was

eight years older than Judson, Clark's legitimate son.

"After the death of his wife Elihu Clark began to think about the child,

especially after Judson became a fair-sized boy. He had the older boy,

who went by the name of Hines, sent to college, and in summer he stayed

at Henry's tutoring school. Henry said the boy was like the Burgess

family, blonde and excitable and rather commonplace. He did not get on

well at college, and did not graduate. So far as he knew, Clark never

saw him.

"The boy himself believed that he was an orphan, and that the Hines

woman had adopted him as a foundling. But on the death of the woman he

found that she had no estate, and that a firm of New York attorneys had

been paying his college bills.




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