The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-05-05

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I'll g1lsBB'3 Shorthouses ro-
'Il nance Of John
M Ing!asant. Mrs.
Nolen was not given to reading fiction as
a rule; but Mr.. Shorthouse was under
stood to be a religious writer, and she
enjoyed his book very much without en-
tIrely understanding it. Percy kissed
Yer, and sat down in chair opposite.
After little desultory conversation he
s2id, Mother, I'm in 4 scrapew
Her heart sank; she closed her book,
and folded her hands upon it. "Oh, my
son!" she said, falteringly.
"Well, it's nothing so very dreadful,"
he returned, forcing a smile. II was up
at Monmouth Park the other day, and
lost little honeywell, it was a pretty
good sum, for me. I'm not a Croesus,
you know, and few thousand dollars
makes a difference"
Monmouth Park? What is that"
cts track; they race horses there,
you know"
"Percy, have you been betting on
horse races?"
r "Mercy, mother, it's no crimei All
the fellows do it. should look queer if
didn't chip in with the restI Only this
time l happened to get in pretty deep;
and as all the favorites were beaten I
got badly left"
''Do you mean that you lost all the
money you wageredY'
Every cent of it; you never saw such a
ruiz of bad luck in your life. The trouble
was, made up my mind to win anyhow;
SO each time lost put it all on the next
race, so as to get back what was gone,
and more into the bargain. 1t was as
good as certain that | wouldn't lose every
race, you see. So when it came to the
last had big pile on; and it was voted
a sure thing. believe it was the Jockeys
fault, after all Anyhow, he lost the
race by a short head; and if I hadn't
had return ticket I'd have been obliged
to walk home"
"All your money gone! Why, my
son, if you had invested it, you might
have lived comfortably on the interest of
it! And your father gave it to you to
start you in your profession. What can
you do?"
"Wen, mother, l must do the best 1
can l know it's all wrong, and I'm
vefy sorry and all that. But it's no use
crying for split milk. I'm in hole and
I've got to be helped out of it somehow
81 will speak to Judge Ketelle and see
what -
"Whatever you do, don't speak to
Jud{e Ketelle! He can do no good, and
would be certain to do lot of mischief.
What business is it of Judge Ketelle's
anyway"
HE was appointed executor under the
will and"-
THAT is no concern of mine, motherl
My interest in the will ceased when
got my patrimony. I have no further
relations with the judge nor he with me.
He has no right to help me, even if he
wanted to, which he doesn't"
'My son, he is the best friend I have,
and whatever is for our good
MY dear mother, tell you it won't
do! 1 know what the judge would say,
and after he had said it l would be no
better off than l am now. l have some
pride, and don't want all the world to
know that I'm beggar. l shouldn't
think you would, either"
percy, you know 1 wish nothing but
your good, but
''The long and short of the matter is
that unless am to be disgraced 1 must
have some money, and without any de-
lay, too. owe few bills-they don't
amount to much-and l must have a lit
tie to go on with. A thousand dollars
would cover the whole thing. You can
let me have it, can't your"
az thousand dollars! But after that,
PERCY? You will be wanting money all
he hne, and this cannot go on forever"
cit isn't going on forever. This is the
1rst time l have ever asked you for
cent, mother, and it shall be the last.
Heaven knows it was hard enough to
lave to come to you at any rate; but 1
lidn't expect you would make it harder
2y arguing about itr'
my dearest boy, you might have all
1oss4ss, so far as l am concerned"-
"Mho else is concerned except you?
thousand dollars isn't going to ruin you,
= nother, but 1t Is rum 70 me II don't get
). And don't fear l shall be coming to
ou again. l am going to stop the kind
# life have been living the last year
nd turn over u new leaf. have several
opportunities to get positions in the city,
\ nd l am going to set to work at once
nd find out what will be the best thing.
IS soon as l am in place where l can
I'm around l shall put in my spare time
Fudying up my mining, and before an
i 5her year is out shall be ready to ac-
spt az engagement. can support my
If as well as the next man-and make
fortune, too! But don't suppose you
ant to see me miss ali that for the sake |
paltry thousand dollars?"
The end of it was that Mrs. Nolen gave
IN thousand dollars. She tried to