The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1853-08-31


good uncle tat y0n too Were 90 q
business"
.Is il possible :" e1claimed unele
Jasephsa b tt out af basiaess. hope
yoa have MT been fsolish. Tom-"
Ma. Uncle. Tom Is never foolish
one Of year digniied bays-prOper.
anil al that sort Of thing" replied
Ned.
-Ms services we're 40 longer re-
quired. Toa know onls Supplied
the place Of another" added Tom.
.fea hasebeen there three Ronths-"
Yes
.On thirty dollars manth,," added
Mel. :. saved money at that. Tom
will Just iit your place. uncle
Z. 10 you want clerk. uncle Jo-
seph :" asked Tom. meckly.
.' | tasught Of having another but It
is bat small pay" answered the stack
broker. little nettled. for he had Gre
ated the waat only To save the rePata-
ton Of Ned.
81 shhald be very glad 10 enter
your service even at a small salary.
Anything is better than being out OF
business"
.Right, Ton, right. exclaimed the
old gentleman. The salary Is four
hundred. and Won shalt have the place"
And Tom took the place. while
Ned. instead Of adopting his uncle's
excellent advice moved down two
flights at the hotel. rude out to Porter's
every day. and went to the opera eve.
ry-nighf.
IN due time the legacy reached I'M
Gle Joseph. who placed Ned in full
possession.
In another month, large gilt sign.
bearing the "nane and style" of new
frm-E. Murdock 4 Co. astonish>
ed the mercan NE world, aud Ned was
no longer out ii business.
The dignity Of the new frm--the
Co." VAS merely a flourish Of the
artists pencil TO give eclat "a the thing
demanded that the senior partner
should have a wife. Fortunately for
the feliciious carrying out of Ned's
idea on this subject, things had for Sc
veral months been progressing towards
this event.
Oar young merchant had paid ad-
dresses to the daughter OF a mercantile
man. reputed to be wealthy. and now
that " he had come to his possessions, =
there was no obstacle ian immediate
marriage.
A house in fashionable street was
p occurred; the cage beingready, the bird
was caught. and Ned found himself in
the full enjoyment of life. Ned was
no niggar,l. and things went on swim
minglv. Dinner parties and tea par
ties, and evening parties followed each
other in rapid succession.
Money flowed like water. Mates
on three. six and nine months were
given. Ned said the business was
bound to prosper-iike Richelieu. in
the play, Ned said there was no such
thing as fail.
OHc half Of his legacy only had been
invested in his business at the COM
mencement Of the operation. Six, nine
and twelve munihs did the rest. But
bis housekeeping affairs absorbed the
other half in less than six months. Ills
wife was from rich family, he reason.
ed, and must be supported in state.
At the end of those six months,
when the FIRST Of the notes became due,
Ned was not little astonished To iind
that he had nothing to pay them with.
He looked over his books to see where
the ten thousand had gone to; il was
only dust in the balance when weigh
edAagainst his business and his family
expenditures.
Bad debts and unfortunate specula-
tons stared him in the l-ce from eve
r. page. and Ned began 10 be little
troubled. A consciousness that he had
been going too fast. crept into his
mind. 1t was a disagreeable refec-
tan, and when he went hume to dinner
that ,lay, he lodged around a corner
10 avoid uncle Joe.
Ill the HtdHllint, ibiH H1u dSqult-
ted himself to the entire safisfactionu
his uncle. The head clerk had left,
aud he had been installed in his place.
Living within his means, INDUCING in
10 fashionable designations, the future
was bright with hope.
CHAPTER ".
One morning while Ned waSponder.
ing on the unsatisfactory state Of his af-
fairs, a neighbor brought him the news
6kshe failure of his wife's father
Nj was Mortified, for il must be
confes6k tina, in his present emergency,
be aome rather extrayagant
hop vet Of having rich ia
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