The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1888-11-29
The Wall Street World
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE DENOUMENT.


were buried with him. "Poor felloww was
the general ejaculation in Wall street-at
once his requiescat and epitaph. But the
great wheels OF business moved on; bulls and
bears kept up their eyer-renewing conflicts
and secret Vaccination; new gladiators
stepped into the ring; new crowds waited the
turn OF the wheel of fortune; and new Train
ors were ready to sacrifice themselves, if need
were, for the Trilions of the exchange Who
believes in the efficacy of lessons? What
public execution ever deferred the murderer
from his design? What spectacle of drunk
enness ever restrained the youthful debauche!
What accession however notable, to the
ranks of "the unfortunate" ever made the
fascinated woman pause in her first steps
toward ruin?
No-human nature remains the same; and
the erring ones, predestined to sin by their
own unrestrained passions, wait only for the
overmaStering circumstances to yield and
fall. When any Of these solemn warnings
are held up to the yet callow sinner, what
does he propose to do? TO stop and repentl
NO-to be little more careful and not be
caught.
Not that precepts and examples are use
less All together go to make up the moral
government OF the world-pervading like
the atmosphere, and like it resting with the
uniform pressure upon the earth. Crime
and folly will always have their exemplars,
but retribution furnishes the restraining in
duences that keeps evil down to it's average.
AS locks and bolts are made for honest men.
not for thieves, SO the moral law and its
penalties are for those who have never
openly sinned.
If Mr.. Trillion had been ten times the
Shylock he was, he could not have disre-
garded the last injunction of Trainor. The
turn i'll the market enabled him to make adj
vantageous sales of his stocks, and in less
than a week he resumed payment.
The first thing he did was to pay
over to trustees the notes he had given
Irainor, thereby securing the widow at least
decent support. He also sent Major & Co.
the $4,000 for which their clerk had paid
such q terrible forfeiture. After dischargine
all his obligations, there was still ample mar
gin left-a large fortune, in fact. MI. Tril-
lion could now retire with comfort-could
look forward to many years; so he fattered
himself. His will was made his children
provided for; and some unsettled accounts
accounts, not remembered by any save him.
self and the recording angel, We're adjusted
RS well as the lapse of time would allow. Sc
ne thought of purchasing a country house for
the next season, and of giving the rest of his
days to the enjoyment of life.
But it was not so to be. A swift and s,1d-
den stroke smote him down. In the dead OF
nlght, and alone, he met the angel for whose
summons all OF us are waiting, and went his
way without struggle. The morning sun
Is its rays shot in between the blinds, lighted
The scanned and careWorn face of an old
man, resting, as in a serene, dreamless Sleep
Nil. Sponsor found, on consulting the best
legal authorities that he cauld not maint air
his claim upon the notes he had received OF
Norcross; and, rather than subject himself tc
the expense Ola lawsuit in which he was Ger.
tain to be BEATEN he relinquished them to
Jameson, and filed his claim for the money
against Norcross' estate. Ten per cent was
the amount of the dividend he received: the
remainder was charged to Profit and Loss
Experience being duly credited with the same
amount.
it was with the greatest difficulty that the
judicious Palette prevented his friend from
making second visit in the evening of the
same day. OakhurSt had come to full con
vlctlon, In his own mind, that his difference
with Agnes ought to be settled, and he could
not conceive that it might take time to bring
her to the same conclusion. Some people
adapt themselves to circumstances instantly:
the aversion of one hour becomes the delight
OF the next; but those who are guided by rea-
soning, especially where there is a shade of
rnSpnfmQnf-VhO aI NV q
opinion, and by the idea of consistent self
respect-such persons are slow to change a
'ettled conviction; the course of feeling is toe
powerful and too constant TO be arrested ant
turned backward. Palette thought-and POI,
haps rightly-that Agnes needed only time *
become accustomed to the new view OF thu
case; and he believed that any precipitation
might be fatal to his friends hopes.
"Give her the opportunity to think abou
it, he said; Elf she loves you, depend upon
it, the wind will change with her. Due east
to-day, according to all you have told me
and the violets won't blossom till the SUI
comes out of the sullen gray cloud and thu
south wind breathes on them.-The very
contact with lover, you see, makes me poet
ical"
"But her thoughts may take another direc
ton. Who can tell what impression tina
malicious vixen has made upon hers"
Agnes, fancy, is a sensible youn,
woman; and Miss Norcross, in her rage, mus
have shown her hand too freely. To be sure
Agnes might wonder how you could eve
have been captivated; but she could no
blame you for getting out of reach Of such
Tartar. Besides, the exemplary widow i
your friend, you know, and I'll warrant tina
she will set the matter right. Irene won
trouble you again; such mischance couldn'
happen twice. You are as safe as the sailo
who put his head into the hole whore can
non-shot had just come through. Lightnin.
doesn't strike the same tree twice in on
shower
Oakhurst was at length persuaded to wal
and let events take their course. Tt he re
manned inactive, however, Palette did not
from Mrs. Norcross he heard daily the pre-
gresS Of affairs, and at length intimated
his friend that it might be judicious to cal
again.
Once more Oakhurst was seated in TIL
drawlng-room of the boarding house. A
every distant footstep his heart beat almos
audlbly; and when at last the breezy rustl
OF q woman's robes came in from the hall,
thought, as many man has, before an
since
She is coming, my life, my fate!
She entered, not with the welcoming smil
he would have liked to see, nor with the fo1
bidding cloud of sadness which yelled he