3/6) is the story of how a young Chinese in America fulfilled a certain condition in his grandfather's will which enabled him to inherit half the latter's fortune. In the event of his failure he would have received nothing. During Grandfather Cheung's lifetime young Cheung's brother won the "Irish Sweepstake and became front-page news throughout America by informing the press that he had discovered the number of the winning ticket by some Chinese method of divination. This appealed to the old man to such an extent that he stipulated that young Cheung must 'appear honourably in a thousand American newspapers in order to benefit by his will. As Cheung had taken up the peculiar vocation of "Locater of Business Leaks" opportunities of fulfilling this condition did not appear very promising, especially as most of his employers insisted on absolute secrecy after the successful unravelling of his cases.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.