Evening star., 1898-11-19

| poor little firm can pay 10000 at least on
Monday, we must stop, and all our
hard work TO build up an honorable firm is
| lost.
We can scrape $4,000, and my partner
! and l have $1,000 private means to put in
and that's all; 5000 saort
Yes; we have tried the bank but thew
| can't do anything there. Goldsworthy, the
| manager, is the incest fellow living and his
NO Is almost as good as another's Yes
| but, OF course, il was No. we had no Sc
| cLrlty; the cotton may go lower before il
| turns, and he has told us we must pay"
But surely, Herbert, if the big firms
hhe" now you We're situated they would
| help you, because things would come right
| in few weeks. you say
Every man has to look after himself in
the market. But L did go to Huddleston
because he has given me so much advice.
| ana wanted me TO take an interest in the
church L wish my tongue had been
| burned before l crossed his room
NO; he wasn't rude-that's not his sin
| ne might be better if he were straighter. He
| hoped that | was prospering in business
and reminded me that / must not allow the
| world to get too much hold, and became
| eloquent on money being only Stewardship
But when L opened up my errand he ex-
| planned that he made it a principle never
| to lend money. and suggested that this was
a chaStenlng because We had hasted to be
rich. He hoped that the issue would be
Sanctified. and but [ rose and left
quite sick
What canting old wretch" Mrs Ran.
some was very angry. Il always hated
that man soft sawder; he's much too
| pussy to be true"
He was not bound to help me unless he
pleased. But what riled me was his re-
ligious talk he might have spared me that
at least. And if those operators who have
knocked the market to pieces haul in $50, ,0ou
| they will likely give f1.000 to missions
When a man has done his level best, and
been fairly prudent, and has worked hard
and is getting a fair connection, and every
iS tal l,,., /,
speculative firm, which sees a chance of
making a pile at the ruin of half a dozen
struggling firms, it's a little hard
Ihey ought to be put in Jail; but they'll
catch it some day., and it was evident Mrs
Ransome, like many other people in her
circumstances, found much satisfaction
| from the belief in future punishment.
| Its apt TO make one bitter too" Ran
some went on. When L sat opposite old
Dodson in the bus this afternoon-come
| to the penny bus now, you see Queenie-
looking out from below his shaggy eye
troWs like Scotch terrier, with meanness
written over his shabby clothes, and almost
heard the gold chinking in his pockets, and
thought that he could save our home and
| secure my future by a check, and never
| miss the money-suppose he lost it which
| he wouldn't if 1 lived-I declare / could
| have 3" WELL l did not feel as Chris
| tian as Huddieston would desire"
| Bert, have you ever thought what we
| would do If we became rich-how we would
send flowers TO people who were not well
| of, and let them use our carriage, and send
| overworked teachers and clerks for holi-
| days and >"
Help lame dogs in cotton over Stiles eh
wife? Yes, I've had my Dreams too. I'd
| go in for the poor children's holiday fund.
that would be my extravaganza. But we
[ are no better thar other people. And were
| you never afraid that we would grow selfish
| and pompous and mean and pharisaical
| like Huddleston, and maybe end in being
DodSon?
| NO. no, that is impossibler' cried his
wife, because for thing, we have
| loved, and chaps Mr.. Dodson never was
loved poor soul; and if things come to the
worst, remember there is good deal left"
There is something in that, Queenie;
| run over the inventory and I'll check you"
First of all, there is YOU. the truest
kindest, bravest husband in Liverpool -
stop; that is your own prItate proper
ty, and We We're to go over our common
means; besides, the valuation is 80 per cent
| too high
| "You be quiet. And there are two chill
dren, whom every one looks at on the street
and who are the sweetest Nobody
hears us, SO it doesn't matter, and you
know they are. Wouldn't it have been far
| worse if we had lost Reggie when he had
| diphtheria? Well, we have him and Maud
and they never looked better"
That's true, wife; go on; capital is
mounting up
',rheH there's your good name which
has never been stained. Nobody says you
are mean, hypocritical, or unmanly, or
anything bad, and If . you
can't pay that money on Monday every
person will know that 1t was not your
blame, and that you will repay all you owe
some day if you can
'Yes, please God, wife, we will
You think too much of me; but go on"
I'VE have half a dozen friends. and