The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1897-05-20
CHAPTER NXI

When George Wentworth received this
message he read it several times over
! before its full meaning dawned upon
him. Then he paced up and down his
! room and gave way to his feelings. His
best friends, who had been privileged
to hear Georges vocabulary when he
was rather angry, admitted that the
! young man had a fluency of expression
which was very much more terse than
! proper. When the real significance of
the dispatch became apparent to him,
George outdid himself in this particular
line. Then he realized that, however
consolatory such language is to a very
angry man, it does little good in any
| practical way. He paced silently up and
down the room, wondering what he
could do, and the more he wondered
the less light he saw through the fog
He put on his hat and went into the
other room.
Henry" he said to his part ner, do
! you know anybody who would lend me
100000"
! Henry laughed. The idea of any
body lending that sum of money ex-
cept on the very hest security was in it
self extremely ccmic.
"Do you want it to-day ?" he said.
"Yes, want it to-day"
We'll, i don't know any better plan
than to go out into the street and ask
every man il he has that sum about him.
You are certain TO meet men who have
very much more than C 10000, and per-
haps one of them, struck by your very
sane appearance at the moment, might
hand over the sum to you. i think,
however, George, that you would be
more successful if you met the capital
ist in secluded lane some dark night,
and had good reliable club in your
hand"
You are right" said George. "Of
course, there is just rs much possibil-
ity of my reaching the moon as getting
that sum of money on short notice
"Ies, or Oh long notice, either, /
imagine. / know plenty of men who
have the money, but wouldn't under
take to ask them for it, and don't be-
lieve you would. Still. there is nothing
like trying. He who tries may succeed,
but no one can succeed who doesn't
try. Why not go to old Longworth?
He could let you have the money in
moment if he wanted to do so. IIe
knows you. What's your security,
what are you going to do with it--that
eternal mine of yours?"
'Yes, that eternal mine / want It
to be mine. That is why I need the
100000
We'll, George, don't see much hope
for you. You never spoke TO old Long
worth about it, did you? He wasn't
one of the men you intended to get into
this company"
mo, he was not Iwish he had been.
He would have treated us better than
his rascally nephew has done"
"Ah, that immaculate young man has
been playing you tricks, has he?"
He has played me one trick, which
is enough"
We'll, why don't you go and see the
old man and lay the case before him?
He treats that nephew as if he were
his son. Now, a man will do a great
deal for his son, and perhaps old Long
worth might do something for his
nephew"
"fes, but i should have to explain to
him that his nephew is a scoundrel."
"Very well, that is just the kind of cx-
plauation to bring the 10000. If his
nephew really is scoundrel, and YOU
can prove it, you could not want bet
ter lever than that on the old mans
money bags"
by Jove," said Wentworth. 81 be.
lieve | shall try it. want to let him
know, anyhow, what sort of a man his |
nephew is. I'll go and sec him"
II would" said the other, turning to |
his work And SO George Wentworth,
putting the cablegram in his pocket. |
went 20 see old Mr.. Longworth in a |
frame of mind in which no man should |
see his fellow-man.
He did not wait to be announced. but |
walked, to the astonishment of the
clerk, straight through into Mr.. Long
worth's room. He found the old man
seated at his desk.
lTo BE Continued