The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-10-18
The Wall Street World.
CHAPTER XVI.
PALETTo AS A FRIEND.

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PALETTE AS FRIEND.
Jameson was walking sorrowfully home
ward when he met Palette. He was in no
humor for conversation, but he could not
civilly avoid the painter, who evidently was
waiting to speak to him.
@Glad to see one man that isn't capital
ist You and /, Jameson, are independent
of banks and brokers'"
Jameson family smiled
"This is deadly time here in New York
horrible stagnation. Every man avoids his
neighbor as though he had the plague; and
we have no Boccaccio to tell us stories while
the deadcarts go by"
"The dead-cart went through our street
to-day"
"You don't tell me! Who is the lucky
corpse that is out of his miseryw
"Mr Sleavin. Our house is shut up. and |
am vagrant."
performed the Wandering Jew all by nv
self. Now have company. What shall we
do to be jolly?
"Jolly"-with tone of melancholy sur
prise.
"When should man be jolly, il he can't
when he's nothing to dos am the slave OF
gold, you understand. II any rich magi-
clan rubs his double-eagles before me, woe is
me, if don't paint! When the magicians
send their eagles on other errands, am free
from their drudgery. Meanwhile, / live on
air, Hattened out and packed away, like a
Mexican horned frog, or dreaming toad. in
assure of preadamite rock But tell me
how it happened"
II trusted my all to man whom thought
not only honest, but my friend, and he has
proved a scoundrel."
"You shouldn't have led him into temta-
ton. You are particeps criminis, and the
partaker is as bad as the thief. Don't trust
without taking security, my friend; its Offer
ing premium to crime. Who is the luck
less person."
"Norcross!"
81 knew it ] expected it. He was too
good by half. don't blame him for his
widow-and- orphan business; somebody must
do it; but made up my mind some time ago
that he would come to grief"
"The worst Of it is he has dragged innocent
people down with him."
Innocent, yes, you have the word. A
man that trusts all he has without security
to any fair-spoken financier, is an innocent.
truly. But don't be discouraged. don't
doubt you viii find something to do in good
time"
"But must earn something at once"
"The danger of being made to work isn't
pressing. Ships will have time to get well
rested. Truckmen are actually growing civil
with little starvation. The beggars don't
hold out their hands for coppers; they make
more money by hauling out their old stock.
ingsand lending at five per cent. month"
"You will laugh me out of misery in spite
of myself
VI hope SO; but am not sure that a man
can be laughed out of q thing he wasn't
laughed into Now, Jameson, am going to
surprise you. am going to bore you, annoy
you; for | am to see you every day for the
next week. Can you bear ito"
Jameson pressed his friends hand
."Come, by all means And now we are
near my house; go in and take tea with us.
"No, not to-day. Good bye!"
Twirling his grizzly moustaches and hum
ming to himself, Palette turned back. He did
not go to his room, however, but went down
quiet street, apparently guided by instinct,
@AN rang WIG DolA VI u Wcu-AllOWLi uOOE.
as Mr.. Osgood at homer
The servant girl nodded and smiled, and
Palette entered. Mr.. Osgood was emphati-
cally at home, for he was ON all-fours, his
three children riding cock-horse, with merry
shouts, varied by harmless tumbles and
laborious clamberings up Mr.. Osgood rose
with flushed and happy face, and the child
rem rushed at once to clasp the knees of their
familiar old friend.
ave all have to come down at times, be-
lieve," said Mr.. Osgood, smoothing the few
thin hairs on his handsomely arched crown.
Certainly; man that can't be boy with
his children deserves to have none. Now the
reason am bachelor is that feared could
never unbend, being somewhat remarkable
for my perpendic-"
The word was cut OF by sudden move
ment; the children in their playful struggles
had, in fact, thrown him down. In a mo.