The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1893-08-05

thirst for possession and retention
muit be inocu at ID into you You
must gain in year or less the ex-
perience which Simon Lester has
only gained in lifetime. ! do not
know what prompts m TO make this
conpro Mise with you--partly on ac-
count OF yourself AMI partly on that
OF Julie, for h L heart is SIT upon
you and il has never been 81 upon a
man before. could find hundred
tomorrow. re dy made TO my hand
who would require n Il aching u fit
tn I'm for the guardianship Il "a for
tune. but tn n there comes in the
waywardn ess 81 woman they might
not suit Juliet!
"Now. young man, hear me. To-
morrow you come here to my Office.
You must serve an apprenticeship as
did Jacob for Rebecca Upon your
| self will depend the results. II you
are diligent scholar the sooner will
you have Julie. But If | do not see
that the iron has entered your soul
that you are capable OF tearing away
the worthless sympathies and subdu-
ing the innate whims which most
men allow to dominate their reason
Il shall tell YOU frankly that You
are no husband for Juliet. Are you
willing u accept the conditions? To
become the associate of Simon the
miser, the apt apprentice OF the us
urer. the leech, the extortioner?
All, you hesitate. 1t is too much OF
test for your love"
1t was true the young mans face
had blanched little as he listened
20 the detestible suggestion OF the
miscr. but he answered with reso-
Lutte voice:
"Mr. Lester, am willing to sub.
NIT to any test to win your daughter,
so long as il is honorable
stop cried the old man, stirred
by the words OF the young man. III
men will be fools enough to squandcr
their patrimony is it unjust that
others should take what they throw
away. That those who save should
gov rich on those who waste. What
drivcling sentiment. TO be sure. Did
] ever go TO any one to rob them?
DO not all my clients come TO me? Ii
i treat them uniustly. why do they
come? No First the; get into diff
ficulty and are hard pressed. They
Immediately think Of Simon. They
come and implore me as a friend to
come TO their assistance vowing
eternal gratitude. |. well knowing
that they will curse me for their own
follies before they are out OF the
woods, yet constrained to help them.
DO charge them for my help? Ger
tainly. DO they not charge others
spendthrifts make the usurers, not
the usurers the spendthrifts. Let |
them mind their ways and they would |
have no need to complain of the |
usurcrs. >
80 be it then,H answered Arthur
Drayton. Tomorrow ! will begin |
my study Of human nature. | hope |
that | will prove an intelligent pu-
pill"
You know what depends upon
your aptness, replied the old miser;
land now begone. | haze two hours
work yet before me and Juliet will |
be waiting dinner"
The young man took his hat up |
and put it on, saluting the Insurer
with his most courteous manner and, |
S yinging the dirty, ill-iitting door
Of the miserable den behind him, |
plunged downwards through laby- !
iinth of stairs into Park row.
Arthur Drayton money-lender's
clerk" he sohloquized as he de-
scended the steps carefully to avoid
falling down the ill-lt passage, and
"a bitterness was in the unspOken |
words. But" he followed. Juliet
Lester is the reward and she is worth |
the price Of a soul"
There are those Who argue tina
inherent traits cannot be overcome. !
They would have marvoled to see the
change which came over young Dray-
ton soon after his acceptance OF |
Testers terms.
From a well-dressed, fine-maRnered
young man seeking pleasure and re-
iinement as the summum bonum of
mortal happiness he changed almost
by magic into money-making
Simon Lester himself marveled at
the transformation, although he was
delighted at the way in which Dray-
ton performed his tasks.
Night after night he spent going
over the stock list or making calcu-
lations by means of which the wealth
Of the old miser could with safety be
The two men became
almost inseparable.
Juliet saw much less of her lover
now that he was her accepted sutton
than she had done when their inter
views were stolen, but She was aware
Of the strange compact that her
lover had made with her father and
knew that his devotion to business
was evidence Of the mighty love
that he bore her.
In twelve months time Arthur
Drayton was monomaniac on the
question Of making money.