The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1857-04-09
him. and their wives were lie sisters They started

him, and their wives were Ike sisters. They started
in the world as peddlers, 0sShane lOaniHg his friend,
who had spent al his money in sickness, enough to
get a well-fiied pack. In order to lessen expenses,
they rented q small house, and their wives lived to-
gether while they were away.
4 length the friend saved enough to set up a
grog shop, and O'Shane accepted a situation at the
South. They parted and never met again until six
months ago-twenty years having elapsed since they
separated The friend made money enough IN a few
years to get into q decent and respectable business.
He became wholesale dealer, aud Is now. I am told,
one of our wealthy merchants. But he is represented
as being exceedingly proud Of his position In society,
st the same time that he is naughty and overbearing
to those IN humber circumstances. With him, I
suppose, as with too many others, money, not worth,
makes the man.
.O'Shane, who vas a far worthier man, pushed
ahead at the South. Two years ago he went to New
Orleans, having amasSed about fifty thousand dollars
in Charleston, and entered into the cotton brokerage
business. from which he retires with half a million
honestly made. But now for the gist OF the story.
O'Shane had not seen or heard direct from his friend,
for fifteen years; but he understood how he was get
ting along, and ascertained on his arrival in Balti-
more that he knew nothing of his altered fortunes.
So what DO you think he does! He knew that if he
came as the possessUr Of half a million, he would be
received with open arms, and ne would never know
whether a spark of old and true regard remained.
He therefore determined to test his friend In order
TO do this, q few days after his arrival IN the city, he
called, IN company with Biddy, his wife, both plainly
but not meanly dressed, at the store Of the merchant,
ami Claimed acquaintance. Two or three persons
happened TO be present at the time, and [ am told
they describe the scene as rich beyond anything they
had seen. The merchant did net know them, and
O'Shane 70 refresh MS memory, refunded him In an
assumed brogue, of old Ireland, and what they had
been there, and Of their early tolls and struggles in
this country. II IS said he spoke with much feeling.
But the outraged merchant bid him BECOME in a tow
ering passion
After that, Distances wife called to see the friend
of her early years, hoping that she might not be as
badly changed as her husband. She sent up her
name, and received for an answer, that the lady
wasn'r at home; or, Is the servant said, not at home
10 her.
1T was enough O'Shane saw that his old friend
WAS unworthy of his regard. and will treat him here
after as a stranger
Leary and his communicative companion were
walking along. the former with his bead bent down
and his eyes upon the pavement, in order To conceal
the expression of his face. After the narrative was
closed, and while smarting comments were being
made thereon, Leary looked up and found himself
almost face TO face with O'Shane and his wife, both
with the appearance and bearing OF people who moved
in and were used To- good society. They looked at
him with the look OF strangers, and his eyes dropped
beneath their gaze.
That's the very man, now said LeaFys ON
panion, as they passed on.
Leary knew It 600 we'll. Ind he also knew, very
soon after, that his conduct was notorious, and that
people despiSei him for his pursepreut arrogance;
while O'Shane was respected for his sterling qualities
as a man-his true heart and sound head, a. much
as for his wealth. He never fOrgave O'Shape in his
heart for what he had done-but his anger was I'm
potent. He sometimes met him in society, but
Distances bearing was that of a perfect stranger.
Every now and then people would introduce them,
and then they would bow with cold poIteness, as IL
they had never seen each ether before. Mrs. Leay
and Mrs. O'Shane also met occasionally. BUTT was
Biiiy and Macy no longer.