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He presented himself, with his battered valise, at the door of Thomas
Bingle's apartment--and was given a warm, even hearty reception!
And it was on that day--at that very hour, so to speak--that Thomas
Bingle became a fabulously rich man without the slightest effort or
intention on his part.
Mr. Hooper one day recalled to mind the postal-card will. If his
memory served him right there was something jocose and undignified
about it--something that would not look well in the public prints. He
visited the offices of his lawyers, recovered the amazing instrument,
and forthwith set about to make a new will, bereft of certain grewsome
stipulations but quite as sweeping in purpose as the other had been.
In fact, he left his fortune--as he had done before--to his beloved
nephew, Thomas Singleton Bingle, with three precautionary bequests to
his son and daughters, providing against the contests that were sure
to follow. He bequeathed the sum of one thousand dollars to each of
his children, and he signed his name once more as Joseph H.


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