Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-12-25


You don't happen to have a hundred
dollars at your command that you could
lend friend, have you | can give you
ample collateral, and will pay two per
cent month, and that beats anything else
in the long run.
L suppose could manage to let you
have it, said Charlie, "if you can secure
me. What have you got?'
81 have got some Lone Jack shares.
They are now quoted at $50, and I will
give you thirty of them. You can throw
them on the market whenever you think
your money is in danger"
"You can't do anything in stocks with
hundred dollars" objected Charlie.
"What's the reason can't? can buy
forty or fifty shares in outside CANDLES, and
l tell you there is money in it. This ex-
element about the Old Judge mine is
bound to bring up the whole line of stocks,
and there is money to be made by the
small fry as well as the big fish. l hear
that the Old Judge crowd have been gath
ering them in quietly, and this squirt of
dividend paying is just done to make deal
in the smaller stocks. Anyhow, it works
that way"
''But how if l should want this money
myself at any time? =
Oh, can let you have it, ON weeks
notice, without any trouble, but am con-
fident l can clear more than the whole
amount in few days, if can only get it
at once"
Charlie let him have the money with
some inward misgivings, and took his note
and the Lone Jack shares only, when he
came to count them, he found there were
only twenty FIVE but this did not matter,
as Dawlish observed, for his loan was am
ply covered in any case, and the whole line
of stocks had an upward tendency. He
thought that at the worst he could afford
to lose the money, and he had not yet
learned to say ''No." for the want of which
useful monosyllable many a man has
started on the downward grade in life.
After their business was concluded
Dawlish asked:
Are you going across the bay to din
ner -
eyes, 1 suppose SO, said Charlie, i" al
| though the widow has taken to putting on
a good many airs of late"
So guess she's getting proud over few
shares OF Old Judge stock she has got. She
thinks she is too good to keep boarding,
house now. l guess she has got everything
she owns in the world pledged to buy
stocks with. You wait awhile, and see if
she doesn't get cinched clear in two, unless
Charkup helps her, as they say"
"Oh, well, the table is good enough, .
said Charlie, and one can keep clear OF
the old woman.
"Oh, l can understand that the old
woman is not the attraction, said Dawlish,
with laugh.
Arrived at the clearinghouse, after the
necessary changes in dress and toilet,
Charlie found himself dropping naturally
into the place which was always now re.
served for him, next Gertie Blake nor can
it be said that he felt much repugnance OF
unwilliDgness to be labeled as her especial
property, for he found in those deep, violet
| eyes an attraction difficult to resist.
You don't come so regularly to your
meals now, Mr.. Gould, as you did al
first, said Gertie, after they were seated.
''What is the attraction which tears you
away from us?"
&c The claims of business "
son, yes You needn't tell mel" she
interrupted. 81 know what young gen
tlemen's business consists Of Little din
ners at French restaurants and evenings al
the play or the gardens. In fact, every
thing that is comprised in running AROUND
with the boys
g Must give an account of myself ?"
emo, sir. 1t is needless such recital
are scarcely edifying" she broke in
pettishly.
Perhaps my doings have no interes
for you?"
81 did not say SO, F" she replied, looking
at her plate ; ''but one likes seeing bette
than believing"
81 fear you want that faith which move
mountains
81 don't want any mountains" sh
laughed; "they generally bring fortl
mice.
Talking of mountains, he said, "wh,
shouldn't we have a picnic this pleasan
May weather? Let us have Dawlish an'
his wife, and think l could prevail OIL
Jack Holmes to take Mrs. Harlay. l ex
pect between ourselves, he owes her som
money for his board"
'It is probable enough, 4" said she, bu
that would scarcely make him eager to ge
into such close quarters with her"
"Well, it would be kind of peace
offering, and Jack is good -natured enough
if only you don't tread on his menta
corns. In that case he will roar lout
enough
"What day would suit you % she asked
"Well, as matter of convenience,
expect Sunday would suit all of US best. !"
"Oh, l could not think of it!'' sh'
cried. Mother would never give he
consent, and then Mrs. Harlay conside
how much she would lose caste by it !"
True, he replied. "Her reputation
is plant of tender growth, and ought e
be exposed as little as possible, to the crit
cism of her good. natured friends.
What a fine speech You are evi
IDENTIFY one of the good-natured friends il
question. But why couldn't you get ava
on Saturday? will be free, and SO vii