The Farmville herald. [volume] (Farmville, Va.) 1890-1934, 1901-07-05
A WILL AND A WAY.
BY WRIGHT A. PATTERSON.
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d EFORE you talk to me abou
ID marrying my daughter. youns
man. develop some of the prospect
you talk about. Prospects are wei
enough in their way, but unde,elope,
ones will never keep a family"
"liut, sir, your daughter loves me
and can you not give me some more
definite answer TO my suit; something
IN which / can place more hope of a
final consummation of our wishcs?"
NO. Again l say, develop the pros
poets of which you talk SO glibly before
You talk to me of marriage with my
daughter In the future, until they are
developed, must inform you that my
house will be closed to you"
as that"
Nothing more. / have no time for
this kind of nonsense. lfthe girl loves
you, it will not hurt her to wait until
/ your so-called prospects are i'm better
condition than they are at present.
Good day"
The conversation had taken place in
the elegant private Office of "a wealthy
banker. Edward Chalmers. the suitor
for the hand Of Banker Moves dauph-
ter, had been known to the wealthy
man since boyhood. lie had gone to
school with the bankers daughter.
Margie, until the girl had reached the
age where her father thought the pub
he schools beneath the dignity of his
house. The two children had loved
each other ever since the days when
they made mud pies together or dug
holes I'm the sand along the shore of
the lake. When she had reached a
coming out" age che had gone into
soclety-a society which ne could not /
enter, but through it all she remained F.
true to the promise made in her girl I
hood days-that Edward and Edward
only would she marry.
Edward Chalmers left the public
schools at Is. The first work that he
had found was as a clerk i'm a railroad
office, but the labor was uncongenial.
and he failed TO advance in it after two
years of trial. His ambition was
place on the staff of daily newspaper.
He knew one or two young reporters,
and the life they led appealed to his
fancy. But II was not until he had
passed p that he was offered an op-
portunity to realize his ambition. lie
was given a chance as 'space writer"
Or emergency reporter" on one of the
city dailies. From a financial stand
point II was not much of a situation.
but when the eight dollars that he
earned the first week was increased to
.en the second, and twelve the third.
he felt that his rising prospects war
'anted his speaking TO Margie's ia
her.
But Margie's father knew more of ,
he newspaper business than did the
'oung suitor for The girls hand i'm o
larraige. lie had at one time been
ppointed receiver for a bankrupt =
ewspaper, and had investigated the d,
ay rolls to some extent at that time.
n his estimation the newspaper man =,
iade, at the best, but a prccarious :.
wing, and then, too, he had other =
lans for his daughter besides seeing -
er married to a beggarly newspaper Il
porter who could give her neither
lme nor fortune. And so it came r.
bout that the young man was uncere- "
oniously dismissed.
Extra paper, herel All bout the
g bank failurei" al
The cry went from one end of the al
eat city to the other as rapidly as
iterprising newsboys could travel.
ne news the extra contained Travelled m
en- faster than the newsboys Tele- le
zone and telegraph lines were al
ought into use TO transmit the mes
ge 10 interested parties that the ut
mixing house of Noyes q Co. had ze
lied to open its doors. People Sc
ured out of the homes. stores and ne
,tories, and gathered about the bank tn
ilding. They were depositors: men tic
d women whose savings had been
'ried there to be saved for them: ha
N and women whose greatest inter thi
in life seemed now TO be locked be- pr'
I'd those closed doors. Rapidly the Gle
'wd grew until there were hundreds an
people standing in the cold about ma
great building. RumOr followed flee
nor through the crowd The heavy 81
'rs opened and a boy came ont. lie beg
5 but young clerk. and could have the
OWN but little of the affairs of the
TX. He said nothing as he pushed "Ai
way through the mass Of despond- mu
humanity. The failure of the cor
tx meant loss of employment to hav
L. and the gloom on his face was enc
nsferred to every other face in all poo
great struggling crowd. for
They say it's bad 'un," said one kee
4 to a little woman beside him. nigl
Mt suppose we will ever git any sala
e." fna
j the announcement of the failure star
he late afternoon papers was the 81
ement that the bankrupt banker that
Id say nothing for publication. TO K
re was not an afternoon paper in her,
city that contained a line from 81
you
ne morning dailies' attempting TO swel
it by the failure of their afternoon "y
were making every vou
ible effort TO secure the desired in won
pxy Thraa Of tho host man ON