mentally consigned this to regions more than tropical and seeming for the time to have lost his power of assuming an interest in the woes of mr fell to his wooden leg as a preparation for departure its performances of that evening having severely tried its constitution after had left the shop hat box in hand and had left mr to lower himself to oblivion point with the requisite weight of tea it greatly on his mind that he had taken this artist into at all he bitterly felt that he had himself in the beginning by grasping at mr s mere of hints now shown to be worthless for his purpose casting about for ways and means of the without loss of money himself for been betrayed into an of his secret and himself beyond measure on his purely accidental good luck he the distance between and the mansion of the golden for felt it to be quite out of the question that he could mutual friend lay his head upon his pillow in peace without first hovering over mr s house in the superior character of its evil power unless it he the power of intellect or virtue has ever the greatest attraction for the lowest natures and the mere defiance of the unconscious house front with his power to strip the roof off the family like the roof of a house of cards was a treat which had a charm for as he hovered on the opposite side of the street the carriage drove up there ll shortly be an end of yo said threatening it with the hat box u tour is fading mrs descended and went in m look out for a fall my lady said lightly descended and ran in after her how brisk we are said you won t run so gaily to your old shabby home my girl have to go there though a little while and the secretary came out i was passed over for you said but you had better provide yourself with another situation young man mr shadow passed upon the blinds of three large windows as he trotted down the room and passed again as he went back cried m you re there are you where s the bottle you would give for my box having now composed his mind for slumber he turned homeward such was the of the fellow that his mind had shot beyond two three and gone straight to of the whole though that wouldn t quite do he considered growing cooler as he got away that s what would happen to him if he didn t buy us up we should set nothing by that we so judge others by ourselves that it had never come into his head before that he might not buy us up and might prove honest and prefer to be poor it caused him a slight tremor as it passed but a very slight one for the idle thought was gone directly m he s grown too fond of money for that said he s grown too fond of money the burden fell into a strain or tune as he along the all the way home he it out of the rattling streets piano with his own foot and with his wooden leg he s too fond of honey for that he s grown too fond of even next day soothed himself with this melodious strain when he was called out of bed at daybreak to set open the yard gate and admit the train of carts and horses that came to carry off the little mound and all day long as he kept watch on the slow process which promised to itself through many days and weeks whenever to save himself from being choked with dust he a little beat he established for the purpose without taking his eyes from the he still to the tune he s grown too fond of money for that he s grown too fond of i t v v i the evil genius of the house of the new york t o and i l mutual friend chapter the end of a long the train of carts and horses came and went all day from dawn to nightfall making little or no daily impression on the heap of ashes though as the days passed on the was seen to be slowly melting my lords and gentlemen and honorable boards when you in the course of your dust and have piled up a mountain of failure you must off with your honorable coats for the removal of it and fall to the work with the power of all the queen s horses and all the queen s men or it will come rushing down and bury us alive yes verily my lords and gentlemen and honorable boards your to the occasion and by god s help so you must for when we have got things to the pass that with an enormous treasure at disposal to relieve the poor the best of the poor cur hide their heads from us and shame us by starving to death in the midst of us it is a pass impossible of prosperity impossible of continuance it may not be so written in the gospel according to you may not find these words for the text of a sermon in the of the board of trade but they have been the truth since the foundations of the universe were laid and they will be the truth until the foundations of the universe are shaken by the this of ours which fails in its terrors for the professional the sturdy of windows and the of clothes strikes with a cruel and a wicked at the stricken sufferer and is a horror to the deserving and unfortunate we must mend it lords and gentlemen and honorable boards or in its own evil hour it will mar every one 