Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1902-03-27

took up his hat from the table.
81 thank you,' he said, ''for your ad-
vice. with just a bit of emphasis on
the last word. Good afternoon
He went back to the office of the
magazine. Sunderland had gone for
the day. Haven paused in the outer
doorway and was presently accosted
by a truly wise young man who was
connected with a large advertising
agency. He had taken a fancy to Ha-
ven, and that was why he broke a very
notable habit of reticence
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EyaE7S with these words spoken
rGEAN in a low tone:
IN ) Hunt cover! This shc-
(N N:\ bang. is gone up!''
NV @M Haven paled.
"Do you mean it?' he
IN gasped.
@HHNW "Sure," said the young
KfR man. And he went his
H q way.
Knowing him, Haven
i was we'll aware that he
gone up!' would not have spoken
upon any other basis than
that of absolute certainty. Haven
walked hastily to the cashiers win
dow The mans face showed that he,
too, knew the game was up.
81 can't do a thing for you," said he,
'until Mr.. Sunderland comes back"
''When will that be-"
"We1l," said the cashier, with consid-
Grafton, 'it's uncertain. By the way,
here's a letter for YOU"
1t was from Philadelphia, addressed
in the familiar writing so dear to his
eyes. This time he felt no fear in open
ing the envelope; it was absolute GER
tainty. The trend of events had be-
come so plain that a gift Of prophecy
would have been s%uperfuous. And yet
he was not prepared for the full weight
Of the calamity.
1--WE have lost every penny" she
wrote. "We were deceived. 1t was not
a question of bad investment by our
trustee. 1t was dishonesty. He has
taken all we had and the property of
others as we'll and has fed. The shock
has made my mother very i'll. and am
anxious about her. / tell you the truth,
but you must not think / have lost my
courage. In some way 1 will care for
her and for myself"
She went on very bravely, urging him
not to be alarmed: but there was no
way of %concealing the facts. The
emergency was one that called upon
him. Indeed it called so loudly that it
walked the soul in his body.
"She will never need me more than
she does now he said. eff l can't
marry her and care for her in this time
of trouble, l have no right ever to think
of doing it,"
But he hadn't q penny, and the only
person whom he might have thought cf
as a source of help had
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already refused him. 81
Yet in that very moment MA
the subconscious mind @SSI
was repeating Osborne's ME5AN
name with obstinate re- w(NAMA
iteration. ZION n
"He's the only man I ~
know that's got any ~
money" said Haven, ~
sand l can't borrow Of ~.
him. Then, by the Eter-
nal, I've got to do bust Concentration
moss with him, T know is the name
I absolutely know, that
he will take up this plan of mine if I
can only put it in shape. And l must.
That's all there is about it."
He went up stairs to his office and
remained there for an hour in a condi-
ton that his Office boy took to be some
strange and new form Of intoxication.
Concentration is the name Of it. though
the boy did not know that.
At the end Of the hour Haven put on
his hat very firmly, took up a piece Of
paper on which he had made some fig
ures and walked out of the Office.
"I've had it for months" he said to
himself; "only I couldn't see it because
I was looking at something else"
Mr.. Osborne again received him with
the same kindness and courtesy. On
this occasion Haven did not suffer from
hunger. He had forgotten that he had
q stomach or anything else except a
scheme-a business proposition. He
laid it before Osborne with an incisive-
ness that was like points of pins that
navigators drive into charts to mark
the course.
The. publisher scarcely said a word
until all was over. Then he sat back
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waistcoat and said:
well go into it. How much do you
want DOWN."
"Five hundred" said Haven. Sand
my salary is to start from today"
Gall right. When shall ! see you
again?"
mot before Tuesday" replied the
young man. "I'm going owe to Phila-
delphia to get married"