Warren sheaf., 1903-06-18

for all time to come on this particu-
lar matter 55@s'
Quiet being obtained Archie pro-
ceeded, II. .s .5
Firstly, brethren, Gus is still the
same old stoten bottle he was when
we all used to get all his marblss
away from him on any old bunco
game that occurred to kids mind
This is no dream. I speak by the
card. He fell into job of about his
size in the insurance Office, and being
a patient and not overly ambitious
mortal he made very good clerk
Then he fell heels over head in love
with Angie van Ostrand- and her
fathers millions, and of sudden be-
came enamored Of society. And he
went the pace. We will all have to
agree to that. No fellow in the set
wore better clothes, nor wore them
with better grace. But that sort of
thing costs money and Gus was not
blessed with a princely income as
clerk for the Improvident Insurance
company. Sequel: he ran in debt
even as the rest Of us have. But
there was this difference that Gus
had small prospects of an advance
and no hope outside. So it became
serious.
"Then came the denouement. A
certain fellow clerk, who was lot
smarter than Gus and knew it, and
thoroughly despised him, got into Sc
we're financial straits through too abun-
and, being in position where he could
do a little doctoring of the books, he
touched the company up for a snug
sum and made last whirl at the mar
ket on the win-or-ruin proposition. OF
course he lost, and woke up one fine
morning with the penitentiary staring
him in the face. Then he began to look
about for fire escape. 1tso happened
that he and Gus were the only persons,
who had access to the books he had
doctored and the dense stupidity of
Gus flashed across his mental vision as
possible means of escape.
'He knew something of Gus necessi-
ties and took occasion to drop into his
ear suggestions of something great
coming off in c., G. & M, of which he
had inside information. Gus knew
that this seductive fellow clerk had
been dabbling in the market, and ru-
NOR had it that he had been very sue
cessful. So he opened his ears to the
pointers carelessly dropped regarding
the great possibilities in the coming
campaign in c., G. & NJ. and when the
suggestion was dropped to him as to
what a shame it was that poor men
like themselves could not take advan-
tage OF the sure thing in sight-espe-
2c1ally when there was such wad of
money lying idle to which either had ac-
cess, and which could be returned so
easily without anybody being the
wiser, he bit like a hungry sucker. He
figured on it until he was ripe for the
pen, and then in his laundering way
got the essential details of the alleged
tip from his disinterestedf friend. This
advice was given so that Gus was sure
to lose-for, you see, the other fellows
game was to get Gus to lose a wad of
the company money, so when the in
evitable investigation came Gus de-
linquincies would be discovered first,
as they would surely be, because Gus
could not cover up so cleverly as his
more astute associate, and then he
could throw the whole theft onto Gus
and escape the felony.
well, Gus bit all right-swallowed
hook and all. But right here is where
his genius came in, fathered, as it
were, by his superlative stupidity. He
knew nothing whatever of the market
or stocks or anything else, excepting
the adding of figures, and the careful
directions of his tempter fell upon un-
whiting ears. He went out on his great
coup with letters and figures all jun
bled in his Uranium and mindful only
of making a killing which would not
only restore his solvency, but would
pave his way to the favor of the van
Ostrands, for old Van likes nothing
but success.
''Now, mark you, instead of selling
", w. q Nl. Slut lOi dll Uuo margin he
could copper from the insurance COM
pany's vaults, he forgot his cue en-
tirely by the time he reached the bro
ker's Office, and, by George, he didn't
do a thing but sell p. & G. M a stock
that was supposed to be as sound as
the everlasting hills, and which had
been on the up grade in conservative
and healthy way for months. And this
happened to be the particular time that
Lorgan and the gang Of Wall street
fnanciers determined to wreck the
road, and, starting at the price at
which Gus bought, which was the high
est ever reached by the stock, p. G..
NJ. dropped like a chunk of lead, and in
ten days Gus had cleaned up hundred
thousand, replaced the borrowed cap
ital and started out in his new role as a
genius A s 55s
His smart fellow clerk never knew
what struck him, and soon after his
shortage was discovered, and I'll bet a