Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1900-03-30
Thu DUDES LUCK.
Harold Tremayne Found It Very
Advantageous In the
Klondike,

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Harold Tremayne was at eight and
twenty a favored clerk in a large bust
ness house in Liverpool, the chum Of all
his fellow clerks and something Of the
spoiled pet of his employers. He was in
vited to the senior partners residence in
the Lake district, and there had the reckr
less audacity to fall in love with his
hosts youngest daughter, Mabel. What
is worse, the young lady was not slow in
recognizing his devotion or in allowing
him to see that she also cared for him.
The result was inevitabFe-an interview
with paterfamilias, in which he kindly
but firmly pointed out to the young man
the impossibility Of his ~pretensions to
anything but disappointment.
I'm sorry for you, Tremayne. 1t was
straightforward and manly Of you to
speak to me before matters had gone
further, but you will, of course, under
stand that while 1 hope to see you stay
with the firm and rise in the Office, any
question of such a marriage is absolutely
not to be thought of. Mabel is not IL
and will soon forget a holiday fancy"
Poor Harold WINGED. "Each Of my girls
will receive as dover the annual inter-
est Of 100000 provided she marries with
my consent, and also provided her hus-
band has an income of similar or greater
amount"
Harold looked a young mans scorn Of
monetary considerations in such a mat
ter, and the old man added, half sadly:
"You may think me mercenary, but l
have seen too much misery brought about
by unequal marriages, where the income
has been all on the wife's side and where
misapplied love has dictated that most
unhappy %alliance-a runaway match"
Poor Harold returned next day to his
work in Liverpool, alternately bemoan-
ing his comparative poverty of t2OO a
year and sympathizing with the shrewd
wisdom Of Mabers father. His soul re-
belled against the underhand courtship
of a rich mans daughter, and pride and
resolution struggled over the problems,
Can a man with 1900 a year wed a wo-
man with $500, and how can a young
man most rapidly and certainly quadru-
pie the former income? He did not de-
eide suddenly, but most people would
agree that he decided rashly, for a few
days later he resolved that the first step
toward gaining a thousand a year was to
resign the position which brought him in
nearly a quarter of that amount. Mr..
Bartlett demonstrated with him on the
subject and when he heard the one word,
"Klondike," came to the end Of his pa
-tience and termed Harold Tremayne "a
.consummate young fool" for thinking Of
making a fortune in such a place. las
for Mabel" he added, 'she was flirting
with another young visitor before you
had been gone four and twenty hours"
Harold was OF the point Of saying that
whether Mabel loved him or not his love
for her made staying with the firm i'm
possible, but restrained himself and only
repeated his resignation.
"All right said Mr.. Bartlett, "go II
you must, but mind, if you come. back,
az of course you will, we will give you a
post in the Office, but you'll have to begin
as a junior again."
II shall return with 100000 or not at
ALL" said Tremayne stoutly.
A strong, healthy young man, Harold
had always been fond Of athletic exer-
cises; otherwise he had absolutely no fit
ness for roughing it in a mining camp
and for the strenuous work of digging or
washing for gold. Still, fred by the
tales which appeared in the English pa
pers of quickly amassed wealth in and
about Dawson City, he determined to
place his whole future on the hazard Of
the die. He had sufficient money for the
necessary outfit and expenses for a few
months stay at the mines and hurried
across Canada and took the first boat
leaving Victoria for Fort Wrangel.
the name Of "the English dude" fastened
upon him, and for no better reason than
that he paid rather more attention to per-
sonal neatness than did his fellow voy.
ayers and treasure seekers. The long
journey was finally accomplished, and
Harold Tremayne found himself n Of
the latest and most ignorant of the In
habitants of the city which had sprung
ND on the banks Of the Yukon river, that
cosmopolitan city crowded with citizens
all engaged in the keverish race for the
possession of sufficient wealth to be able
to leave it. Allowing his ignorance to be
more than suspected, the English dude
found his stores and dollars rapidly d.
minishing. Victimixed by the crowd Of
idlers who lived on newcomers, he was
not long before finding himself absolutely
penniless and with nothing but his mus.
cles and q few tools to ward of actual
starvation. Thoughts Of his old position
IA the firm Of Bartlett, Joyce & Co., and
Of his late employers offer of Q Junior
clerkship on his return, braced him to
fresh efforts.
He had tried for weeks to pick up .
thorough knowledge Of the work and to
accustom himself to the long endurance
Of q miners labor. Sometimes he had
Joined with other newcomers and some
times had sought gold by himself, but al
ways with the most ludicrously insignia.