The Complete Works of Dick Purcell
By Dick Purcell
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The Complete Works of Dick Purcell
This Complete Collection includes the following titles:
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1 - Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot
2 - John Harper's Insight
3 - Gunnison's Bonanza
4 - "Next Stop, Nowhere!"
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The Complete Works of Dick Purcell - Dick Purcell
The Complete Works, Novels, Plays, Stories, Ideas, and Writings of Dick Purcell
This Complete Collection includes the following titles:
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1 - Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot
2 - John Harper's Insight
3 - Gunnison's Bonanza
4 - Next Stop, Nowhere!
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Being one of the richest men in the world, it was only natural that many people anticipated the day he would die. For someone should claim—
Mr. Chipfellow's Jackpot
by
Dick Purcell
I'M getting old,
Sam Chipfellow said, and old men die.
His words were an indirect answer to a question from Carter Hagen, his attorney. The two men were standing in an open glade, some distance from Sam Chipfellow's mansion at Chipfellow's Folly, this being the name Sam himself had attached to his huge estate.
Sam lived there quite alone except for visits from relatives and those who claimed to be relatives. He needed no servants nor help of any kind because the mansion was completely automatic. Sam did not live alone from choice, but he was highly perceptive and it made him uncomfortable to have relatives around with but one thought in their minds: When are you going to die and leave me some money?
Of course, the relatives could hardly be blamed for entertaining this thought. It came as naturally as breathing because Sam Chipfellow was one of those rare individuals—a scientist who had made money; all kinds of money; more money than almost anybody. And after all, his relatives were no different than those of any other rich man. They felt they had rights.
Sam was known as The Genius of the Space Age, an apt title because there might not have been any space without him. He had been extremely versatile during his long career, having been responsible for the so-called eternal metals—metal against which no temperature, corrosive, or combinations of corrosives would prevail. He was also the pioneer of telepower, the science of control over things mechanical through the electronic emanations of thought waves. Because of his investigations into this power, men were able to direct great ships by merely thinking
them on their proper courses.
These were only two of his contributions to progress, there being many others. And now, Sam was facing the mystery neither he nor any other scientist had ever been able to solve.
Mortality.
There was a great deal of activity near the point at which the men stood. Drills and rock cutters had formed three sides of an enclosure in a ridge of solid rock, and now a giant crane was lowering thick slabs of metal to form the walls. Nearby, waiting to be placed, lay the slab which would obviously become the door to whatever Sam was building. Its surface was entirely smooth, but it bore great hinges and some sort of a locking device was built in along one edge.
Carter Hagen watched the activity and considered Sam's reply to his question. Then this is to be a mausoleum?
Sam chuckled. Only in a sense. Not a place to house my dead bones if that's what you mean.
Carter Hagen, understanding this lonely old man as he did, knew further questions would be useless. Sam was like that. If he wanted you to know something, he told you.
So Carter held his peace and they returned to