Chapter 4—The Six
Next day Chicago returned to its numerous occupations. The different districts had resumed their daily physiognomy. If the population no longer passed, as they had done the day before, along the avenues and the boulevards as the funeral passed by, they took no less interest in the surprises that were doubtless in store in Hypperbone’s will.
What clauses did it contain, what obligations, fantastic or otherwise, did it impose on the “six,” and how were they to be put in possession of their heritage, providing that it was not all to end in some mystification beyond the tomb worthy of a member of the Eccentric Club?
But this was an eventuality that no one could admit. People refused to believe that Miss Lizzie Wag and Messrs. Urrican, Kymbale, Titbury, Crabbe and Real were
