The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-06-07

no one would take cent from me and
tradesmen courted the honor OF giving
me credit. ,.5S~ 3
Having received Mr.. Hardy check I
went to my bankers, who received me
as the inheritor of great wealth.
81 regret" said Mr.. Bergeret, 'sthat
you mistrust4d the Pacific railroad in.
vestment, for the stock has again gone
up. But no matter you have some lett"
"Will you have the goodness" siid /,
Ito tell me precisely how much all these
funds are worth which you have bought
for me?'
"The calculation is cash. Two hum
bred thousand dollars, at so much the
dollar-and the sum already paid. II
you sell to day you will put about two
hundred and twenty thousand dollars
into your pocket"
Iopened both my ears.
"You say two hundred md twenty
thousand. Are you quite Ger tain.''
CAS- certain as any one can be within
few hundred dollars"
l did not. wish to appear too much the
novice, and replied:
THAT is we'll. You spoke also Of a
oank?"
eyes: the establishment of this banh
has met with some difficulties; but the
affair is not the less good. We are on
the eve of determining it, and the scrip
is we'll up"
"Could that also be sold2" 1 in
Quired.
You hold fifty shares, replied the
hmm u 1D01 n1,:.
gether nearly sixty Thousand dollars"
;n %A','thoosh '' yet have paid moth
"without a doubt was the answer.
THAT is singular; but since you say
so, I submit, I should like to make q
safe investment of the whole; will Won
be 80 kind as to specify one?"
"Our four per cents sir-our four per
cents-I know of nothing safer. l can
easily understand that all these little
matters worry you. You will soon have
to deal with much larger sums"
by placing all that I hold except this
an income off,
about $l2, OOO."
How soon can this inv est,nent be
made and the bonds purchased for lne?"
"Oh, tomorrow, if you confide the
transaction to our house."
"That, of course" was my rejoinder.
"What other could inspire me with 60
great a degree of copfidence?"
The banker bowed.
Will it be believed? In the midst of
all these treasures, I felt a certain en-
barrassment in asking for smell sum,
of which l stood in the greatest need !;
for I had in my pocket but one dollar
and some silver. Such, however, was
the force of habit, that l could scarcely
believe myself possessed of more than
my little annuity, which was not yet due.
'Dare ask" inquired with a blush
almost of shame on my cheek-''can /.
with discretion, beg you to advance me
small sunni"
"Eh, my dear sir, my safe is entirely
at your disposal. How much do you
lars2"
~ 10 not want 80 mach; a thousand
"Will you have it in gold or notes7 Call
the cashier. May I beg you," said the
banker, leading the way as I rose to de-
part, "may l beg you to continue your
good will to OUR house?" !.
"Certainly, sir--you we'll deserve it,"
replied with confidence which the
certainty of possessing an income of $l2,-
600 began to give me;
Truth, however, always comes out.
Some that were on the watch were sur
prised that nothing arrived from China
we'll advised people shook their heads
when speaking of me. The edi6ce so
quick raised tumbled down with equal
rapidity.
'.The best of it u.s." said some, che has
ended by falling into the snare which he
laid for others. For..my part never be-
lieved in it."
comprehen led that the storm had
broken out, and finding one day dozen
notes on my table. They were nearly
all in the style of the first one opened.
Mr.. Orig presents his respectable
compliments to Mr.. Mearn, and having
an urgent need of money, begs that he
would pc so good as to pay, in the co" rse
has the honor to enclose"
My answers were all alike:
"Mr. Mearn thanks M. Grigg for the
bill which has been SO long asked for,
and sends the amount"
| One letter only contained no request
| for money; it was from friend whom
| had almost forgotten. Fearing that
had been duped, he wrote to lend me
five hundred dollars should I wish to
remove from place where SO :rany ru
mors were circulated prejudicial to my
character. My reply gave the neces.
sary explanation, which I concluded:
| II am rich, not by inheritance in which
I never believed, but because I was
determined, in spite of my protestatiops,
that should be ricll-I scarcely know
how. That is what 1 wish you to say t.
those who talk of me. owe more than
fortune to my singular situation, since i,
has assured me Of a friend upon whom
may count liz adversely, should it ever
visit me-"
Iquietly took my place in society a.
possessor Of an income of $4,000, aud
will keep it.