The Union times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1894-1918, 1904-04-08
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slider professional secret, and 1 hope
you VIII make good use Of your time
when with this young friend of yours
ana need well what l have said to
you."
Ihat ended the interview, and Albert
was set at work copying legal docu-
ments and at the same time .ryinc TO
reconcile himself to his new surround
Angs That night he wrote to Alice:
nave hired out to q most unmitipat-
ed OLD scoundrel and yet one of the
sharpest lawyers I ever met. He as
sured me 1 must lay aside my con-
science IL I mean to succeed, and hint
ed that he might use me later on as
q sort OF spy, upon Frank, imagine.
he employs stenographer Of uncer-
tain age, who comes In and takes die,
tation and does h0.-S> outside. The
.a. only s=-==. - .s.dd was i ]
/. asa aef me notSA--At WITH - -
Then he wrote to his friSnd FranS, s
telling him where he was located,
}thanking him for his assistance ana
begging him to call at an early date
After that he smoked for ain hour In
clum silence. His room was small
and cheerless and in comparisoy with
his home quarters q mere den. nt II
was a question Of saving, and the lux
ury of space even he could not afford.
There is no rnnra lonesome place in
the wide world than n great city to
one born and bred amid the freedom
Of the wide fields and extended wood
Id DIS, as Albert had been, and now that
b was shut in - brick walls all DAY
and imprisoned ,n one small room at
night, with a solitary window opening
on an area devoted to ash barrels ana
garbage, it made him homesick.
He was a dreamer by nature ana
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
ash in the clear streams that tumDled
down through narrow gorges ana
wound amid wide meadows or In the
lily dotted millpond his pastime. BE
had the artists nature in him also and
= loved dearly to sketch pretty bit oi
natural scenery, a cascade In the brooH
or q shady grotto In the woods. Ht
loved books, flowers, music, greer
meadows, shady woods and fields white
with daisies. He had been reared
among kind hearted, honest, GOD rear
ing people who seldom locked thei
doors at night and who believed In ant
lived by the Golden Rule. The selfsl
and dlstrustful life of great city, wit
a,I
of display, was not akin to him, and t
put himself at the beck and call OF
mercenary and utterly unscrupulou
old villain, as he believed Frye to b'
was gall and bitterness. For tw
weeks he worked patiently, hoping eac
day that the one and only friend til
city held for him would call, passin
his evenings, as he wrote Alice, u
reading, smoking and hating myself
little and Frye good deal"
He had hesitated to write Frank
the first place, disliking to ask favor
but It could not be helped, and now
began to feel that his friend meant
ignore him. This humiliating concl
sion was growing to certainty al
Albert feeling more homesick than ev
when one afternoon while he was,
usual hard at work In Frye's Off
Frank came In.
"Pray excuse me, old man." Temar
ed that youth briskly after the fir
greetings, "for not calling sooner, but
was of on my yacht about the time y
came, and then ] ran down to Ne
York to take In the cup races. You 81
I'm 80 busy do not get any time
myself. I want you to come over
the club and lunch with me today, a
we can talk matters over"
"You will kindly excuse me-" repl
Albert. IL have lot Of work cut
and am only allowed one hour