Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1904-04-26

| ",Yhut do you k'l0lD about tdWf'
o'clock sharp" replied Frye, lake
one hour for lunch and remain till
g." Then he added by way Of spur
to his slaves fidelity: 81 am paying
you $T5 a month on the recommend OF
nm important client of mine who want
| ed to humor his son. 1t was your good
| mck to have this sons friendship, as
he belongs to Il wealthy family. He
Is n spendthrift. Of course. but that Is
no matter and all the better for us.
Take my advice and cultivate him all
you can. 1t may be the means OF
bringing us more business. What l
say to you | shall expect you to con-
slider professional secret, and l hope
you will make good use of your time
when with this young friend Of yours
and heed we'll what l have said to
you"
That ended the interview, and Albert
was set at work copying legal docu-
ments and at the same time trying TO
reconcile himself to his new surround
ings. That night he wrote to Alice:
Il have hired out 10 u most unmitigat-
ed old scoundrel and yet one Of the
sharpest lawyers l ever met. He as
sured me | must lay aside my con-
science if mean to succeed, and hint
ed that he might use me latec on as
sort Of spy. upon Frank, l imagine.
He employs Il stenographer OF uncer-
tain age who comes in and takes die
tation and does her work outside. The
only stupid thing he has said was to
warn me not to tirt with her."
Then he wrote to his friend Frank,
telling him where he was located,
thanking him for his assistance and
begging him to call at an early date.
! After that he smoked for an hour III
glum silence. Ills room was small
and cheerless and in comparison with
his home quarters mere den. But it
was a question of saving, and the luX-
ury of space even he could not afford.
There is no more lonesome place Ill
the wide world than q great city I'd
one born and bred amid the freedom
of the wide fields and extended wood
lands, as Albert had been and now that
he was shut in by brick walls all day
and imprisoned in one small room at
night. with u solitary window opening
OH an area devoted to ash barrels and
garbage, it made him homesick.
He was Il dreamer by nature and
loved the music of running brooks, the
rustling Of winds in the forest and the
song Of birds. The grand old noun
tains that surrounded Sandgate had
been the delight Of his bOyhood. and to
| fish in the clear streams that tumbled
down through narrow gorges and
wound amid wide meadows or in the
| lily dotted millpond his pastime. He
had the artists nature in him also anu
loved dearly to sketch pretty bit OF
nat al scenery, Il cascade in the brook
or shady grotto in the woods. He
loved books. flowers, music, green
meadows, shady woods and fields white
with daisies. He had been reared
among kind hearted, honest, God fear
ing people who seldom locked theil
doors at night and who believed in and
lived by the Golden Rule. The selfish
and dlstrustful life Of great city, with
its arrogance and wealth and vanity
of display, was not akin to him, and tC
put himself at the beck and call OF q
mercenary and utterly unscrupulous
old villain, as he believed Frye to be
was gall and bitterness. For two
weeks he worked patiently, hoping eact
day that the one and only friend the
city held for him would call, passing
his evenings, as he wrote Alice, III
reading, smoking and hating myself
little and Frye good deal"
He had hesitated to write Frank IL
the first place. disliking to ask favors
but it could not be helped, and now ht
began to feel that his friend meant t.
ignore him. This humiliatinS conclu
sion was growing to u certainty ant
Albert feeling more homesick than evel
when one afternoon while he was, u:
usual, hard at work in Frye's Office
Frank came in.
"pray excuse me. old man." remark
ed that youth briskly after the frs
greetings, for not calling sooner, but
was off on my yacht about the time yo'
came, and then 1 ran down to New
York to take in the cup races. You see
I'm so busy l do not get any time II
myself. want you to come over tt
the club and lunch with me today, ant
we can talk matters over"
"You will kindly excuse me-" replied
Albert II have lot Of work cut ou
and am only allowed one hour TO