New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-10-03
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vented 70 sell the whole enormous sfslr, putFUk
tc,l z horse or thrcshins machine. Again M
friends shrieiSed at me. after every Offer which ]
.ec",sea, an, whes cell y splendid cuisines, 1
nothing for weeks except wonder what I ought Il
DO Meanwhile my friends shrieloed '6et som3
nan whom you can trust. and place the whola
But this made me weep with vexation one min.
ntc and laugh with amusement tho next soma
man whom could trust. indeed have always
made 1t O point 10 trust everybody whom know
nothing at oil against II Is 10 me so drradflI
for ono not b. do that And as COR selecting sny
particular person In whom TO rcpose my faith.
mental But In little while woke 20 the FACT
that Ind been trusting. since was n widow
an old confidential clerk Of nv husbands, crcat
urc as iuiceess as a hiclsory-nu all wrinkles and
rheumatism and discretion. His name was
Grcdge and after bong interview with him I
resolved upon tho pcrretraton Of Q tremendous
tempter. and / Welded. The world today BE-.
lieves that carry on, With consummate cleyerress
Tire great business OF Dorian o % But Grcdgs
Is at once my mask Of guile and my staff Of sup
port II he should die tho mask would fall. ami
the staff would cracl K. J should be EXPOSED as 4
famcntable fraud As IT ia, have only to looif
other somi supcriors and to cough with dignity.
II 10 astonishing with what disnity have learned
how TO cough, I have somehow got an idea that
II Is Oils cough and nothing else. which saves NO
from having my reputation ANONYMOUSLY shat
tcrcd as q woua Of great mercantile s}lrcwdness.
think that learned tho cough from Gfedge no
has one good deal like IL lIo alone possesses
IN, secret Of my gross incapacity. But he Is an
ao0Omplice not b be corTupted. glance oves
accounts which seem TO me chaos Of figures. ]
no cough I mako believe that am adding
them up and confirming tho result IN eftt,
deteSt figures. and he muitipll catton table has
ALWAYS been 30 nc an enigma. | have convtc-
ton that Edlpus asked the Sphinx how much
was nine times nine or eleven times eleven. and
that for this reason she cast herself into the sea
But il Gredge should die that thought perret'
uallv tOrmcnts mo Grcdge is meanwhile hum
dled years old or q hundred and ffty-I never
cen lust remember which. But he Is not mmor.
tai Even a Gredge ust one dsy perish And
then I shall have nobody In whom can rcIoS9
the least faith rs a protective acoompn CO. But
now ] must say adicu for my prosecutors airs
awolt'ng me in an aug ist body You must CONG
10 mo again-you and your charming boy. And
II YOU are ever in need. he sure that VIII hello
YOU. That is all 7 win not more on that
subject might wound you. and see that yo4
arc easily wounded | ish only 70 show that
DO not bear shadow Of malice for-wen YOU
know what When you go home and think ms
over You will wonder az my having received YOU
thus You win TO yourself that ncoody Esq
In The whole world would have done IT, Ana
that IS what T shall Ike. ] always IKE " ee
thouoht different ono else IN the whoS
world ~ ~