Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1897-07-28
WHO'S w ff8?
BY HUGO ST. FINISTERE,. M. D.

your credit It's Just half the sum rpromised.
The expenses of my humming bird have COM
pelled me to withdraw all my property from
| your side Of the Atlantic and to invest 1t here
In the Old Lady Of Threndneedle street. hope
there is enough to last my chsrmer, though
she Is getting away with good deal more than
| expected.
| As FOR Huke and Discoe, intended to sug-
Rest that their matter was worth your atten.
| ton. ] really thought seriously Of going IN
with them. for the prospect Is good. I meant
| to recommend it to you, but since they seem
to have made miss Of 1t Of course that Ia out
Of the question.
| I must speak Of another matter-the amount
| which agreed to give you for taking the char
acter Of Harold in place of Harmon Westcott.
named Sc, ,0OO as the right years salary, but
| that is like me-always too generous. Have you
| reflected that it equals the pay of the presi-
dent Of the United StutesP
I am surprised that you agreed to accept 4
without protest, and yet don't blame you. II
isn't often fellow gets such u soft snap. So
I've changed my mind and decided to make 1t
one-half the sum. That surely will be good
wages for mighty easy job.
Now, don't attempt to lecture me. I fancy
you will be grateful for the handsome bonus
that Is yours. but will feel like scolding me as
| to Miss Lawrence. But none of that, Hail. as
thou lowest me.
have decided, too to leave to you the task
of explaining matters to my former fancee. II
would be deuced awkward for ME to write to
her, for haven't done 80 since leaving New
| York.
| shall remain here. as / told you, for some
time to come. Since you have been 30 lucky
in disposing OF the Discoe and Huke business Il
fancy it would have been luckier had you
fallen in with them) 1t may relieve you to
know that there are no more snags in your
path. All now is clear sailing, and with best
wishes am WALcorT.
1t was some minutes before I could
master my emotions sufficiently to rea-
son over the unprecedented state of af-
fairs.
My first impulse was to send him ev-
cry dollar in my possession, and actu-
ally set out to do so, but common sense
interviewed
Yesterday and today down to the
moment received this letter the $685.
600 was as much mine as is the suit OF
clothes I am wearing, but not cent be-
longs to me now, for to keep it would
be to accept the wages Of sin. Since the
principal belonged to me yesterday and
today does not, the accretions already
made are wholly mine. Through provi-
dence and the good judgment of my
brokers my fortune was quadrupled
From the gross amount I will deduct
the $40, 200, plus the small sum he
turned over to me before his departure,
and send it to him. The rest belongs to
me-"
was impatient to carry out my de-
cision. No doubt, now that Harold had
spendthrift wife on his hands, he
would be glad to receive the money, and
any indignant comment chose to make
would be thrown away.
A bill of exchange for the exact sum
was purchased, placed in an envelope
and directed to r. o. Walcott, Berkeley
House, London. The hardest thing to
do was to restrain myself from giving
rein to my consuming indignation. I
did write letter, such as would have
blistered the hide of a rhinoceros, but
! after reading it over twisted it up and
held lighted match to the corner until
it was ashes.
"He would call it a deuced good joke.
He would show it to the woman with
him, and she, too, would laugh at the
absurdity of it. They shall not have
tha. consolation.
So when the missive reached Harold
he found within the envelope q draft
for the amount named. There was not
a single word. He would understand it
There are some occasions where silence
is a thousandfold more expressive than
speech
That disgusting business off my hands,
lost no time in leaving the apartments
which he had occupied so long. could
no more breathe and exist in them than
I could breathe and exist in den of
rattlesnakes. So far as possible every
thing that could remind me Of the un-
spe; kable miscreant was removed from
sigl't. took up my quarters i'll another
portion of the city, leaving directions
whittier my mail should be forwarded.
Somehow or other I am convinced
that that is the last Of Harold Westcott
and that I shall never hear Of him
again.
But was mistaken. Ten days later
the startling interruption came In q
form Of which had never dreamed.
TO Re CONCLUDED NEXT SATURDAY.