New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-04-17
AGENTLEMAN or HIS WORD.
TWELVE YEARS NOT TOO LONG FOR ONE MAN
TO REMEMBER 4 PROMISE.

TO REMEMBER PROMISE.
"Wba, mikes some men the soul OF hohor
asked the story teller. Every one vi us ii"' "'''
some experience in life TO prove TO Us ''''' wv.
are men Of unimpcachable honor. tHh" NV "'''
honorable gentleman whom ! ever met WIS '''''
of absolutely Internal luck. HIST 81" mn, II, u
frontier Town lie had been cowboy, but he n"n
got caught in "A terrible winter bnck Oh inc pN''S'
and ot the time | first saw him he WIS Only "iec"
Of a man with legs misshnpen ana weak. anu cSoo
than were nearly blind. lie seemed 10 ue JUST
clnging to life in that little Colo7uo '"N"' "D''7
what little he could In barr0"ms OF eo'ns S''"
pyramids until fate should be kind enough 10 uHo
him away from his misery
He stopped mo In the street one night
VIII you lend me $1OP lie sa'd roughly
am In a bad way and | need IT,
Now $40 was a good deal Of money to me III
that minute for in my Western experience hau NY
ups and downs aud at that time was having NY
downs -
wouldn't "A dollar do You p asked, for the Fellow
looked So bad that | wanted Ia DO soIneth'hS ioF
him. but knew that / should never see my money
again.
NO. he said doggedly. 1T won't want 10 20
70 Denver | am about crazy with pain and want
IA GET there and see II | can't find some rehei' l
haven't n cent In the world. Crhcre we're good
many men In that little town who were IN the same
prcdcamcnD ,,,
Int | can't spare So answered. ! hecd H.
.you don't need 1t 50 much as | DO he S'd
acrcely i tell you man. that the hell that NH
suffering would Nil you. Lend II to me III pay
II back to You. Give me your hANhc M" "
III md you'll live
We'll. | gave him che $40. | told him that he
need not worry about paying back expected 70
get ont Of nv troubles some day and then shoniu
not feel the need Of IL.
NO. he said 4 won't touch IT on any other
condition. / want 10 pay 1t back with interest,"
twelve per cent n year. money was worth some
thing out there
so | wrote ont nv name for him. giving him as
my permanent address the home Of my family III ''e
Fast The next day he went To Denver. shoruS
aiterwnrd climbed into snddlc ana role away 10
punch cows | punched them With varying success
all over the Colombo gTnhng fields Tor nine Year,
Having had enough OF cattle raising BY that hnio
and nv ideas of great fortunes having been consider
ably modified | sold out my cattle and cam" back
TO Clods own country.
~Of COURSE after the first few months following
nv loan Of $40 to the cripple he never came mo
my thoughts. though there were times when that
$40 would have been n god friend, bui completely
.org., about H. had been Fast for three years,
had married. and WAS the proud father Of the two
handsone,t children In New York. when letter was
forwarded 10 me from fathers home In Mnssa
,husetis IL wa from the cripple In II was a
po,tonico order for my go ana lntcrnt on iOV
Twelve year. AT one per cent mouth. I.'if ""'
no word IN the letter except thanks l"r my hiun.s'
and tho assurance That h" was no" d'hR Wc,'
well for him | call that man "a gentleman ana /
told him 80 when wrote him. aud also told MIN
something I'm the letter which hoped W"ud penSc
h,m-thut on thnt day | had made the first bank de-
post for my baby ana that the amount Vas
ga 30, his loan and ne lnisrc,t ana Ihat u'MEn n
IL per cent the deposit ought 70 bring him good
luck That's all there ) Ia This story