The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-23

friend small commission and you'll be
way ahead on the transaction"
To do Russell justice he was shocked
! by this proposition, and he continued to
regard it as temptation of Satan till
about the middle Of August, when he
! got very hard up, and worked the
scheme on neutrality-suspicious. named
James Remington. That is TO say, he
negotiated the loan with the knowl-
edge that probably no other way out Of
the difficulty would present itself ex-
cept that which Ray had suggested. Not
only was his conscience disturbed by
| this affair, but he was tormented by the
fear that John Deering would hear of
1t. Deering had kept out OF sight of
Ray according to agreement, but he had
called frequently on Russell to ask how
things were getting along. The first
time, he had come with a paper for
Russell to sign.
1t was an agreement which put their
relations into the form of contract,
terminable on the violation of certain
obligations. Among them was a pledge
that no stock-jobbing operations should
be carried on in connection with the en-
terprise. Deering had begun to be sus-
picious.
II wouldn't have this machine of
mine used to further the designs of dis
honesty" said he. If there's going to
be any crooked work | shall have to put
my foot on it," a
Russell did his best To reassure Deer
ing. He described his own moral char
acter in terms which made up in COM
prehensiveness what they lacked in
standardization. Then he cautiously
disclosed the secret Of Rays CONNECTION
with the enterprise, and said few
words about him which ought 20 have
been saved for his obituary notice. But
Deering did not seem To be impressed.
~ don't think much OF those brokers'"
said he, land his connection with this
affair only makes me the more anxious.
Those fellows always want something
for nothing. They've got So used etc
buying and selling pieces OF paper and
promises, and reaping wheat where they
have not sown, and floating the stock OF
railroads, which consist of half cord OF
secondhand ties and "a surveyors report
they're SO mixed up in business OF that
kind, say, that they can't treat
really valuable commodity with proper
respect. But IL you people are going to
sell machines, and not stock, it's all
right" Il
Russell guaranteed this and every
thing else which he could think OF that
seemed to require any supporting testi-
mony. He took the moral character
which he had previously constructed for
himself and built a piazza around it and
put on a couple OF bay windows and a
cupola. But he said that he thought it
was too late to ask him to sign any pa
pers.
~ can't help that" said Deering.
Invention hasn't been the mother of
necessity with me as IL has with some |
men. III you don't like my terms / can |
wait till Providence raises up somebody |
else to develop my invention"
IL Russell had had faith that Provi- |
dence would raise up another invention |
for him 10 develop he might have re-
sisted this demand, but as tho facts |
stood, Ao had no choice but TO sign |
The terms OF the anti-fraud condition
were put down in black and white and
witnessed.
But RrEsoll had suspicion that when
osibert Ray began actively to direct af-
fairs there would be only one command
meut. namely. The eleventh