Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1904-07-02
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had forgotten all about their claims IN
the course of events in business life,
or they only thought Of them TO say to
themselves.
ut begins TO look MS though the forty
seven per cent is about all | shall get
out of that business"
The cooper had reckoned on the aid
of Time. who. so he was wont to say.
Is good fellow. by the end of the
third year dos Grassins wrote to Gran
Diet, saying that he had induced most of
the creditors to give up their bills. and
that the amount now owing was only
about ten per cent of the outstanding two
millions four hundred thousand francs.
Grandet replied that there yet remained
the notary and the stock btoker. whose
failures had been the death of his broth
or; they were still alive. They might he
solvent again by this time, and proceed
ings ought to he taken against them;
something might he recovered In this way
which would still further reduce the sum
total of the deficit.
When the fourth year drew to a close
the deficit had been duly brought down to
the sum Of i,2OOWU francs: the limit mp
| peared to have been reached. six months
were further spent IN parleyiDgs be-
tween the trustees and the creditors, and
bet wecn Grandct aud the trustees. In
short. strong pressure being brought to
bear upon Grandct of Saumur. he an
nouncpd. somewhere about the ninth
month of the same year. that his nephew.
who had made n fortune IN the East In
dies. had siguitied his intention Of set
thing IN full all claims on his fathers
estate. and that meantime lie could not
take It upon himself to act nor to de.
fraud the creditors by winding NJ the
affair before he had consulted his
nephew: he added that he had written to
him. and was now awaiting an answer.
The middle " the Rftif year had been
reached. and still the creditors were
held In check by the magic words Tin
full" let fall judi, iously from time IA
time by the sublime cooper, who war
laughing ut them IN his sleeve. Those
Pnrisians." he would say to himself. and
a cunning smile would steal across hi,
features.
| In fact. n martyr,lom unknown to the
calendars Of commerce was In store fol
the creditors. When next they appear II
the. course Of this story they will bt
| IOVuu III eNV'tly tue pVSi'Vh '""'
they were IN when Grandet had done
with them. Consols went up to 115, old
Grandet sold out. and received from
Paris about 2.iOO.OOO francs In gold
which went into his wooden kegs to keel
company with the GDO.WU francs Of inter
est which his investment had brought In
Des Grassins stayed ON In Paris. j
d was very lucky for his wife that she hnt
brains enough to carry on the concern n
Sanmur in her own name. and could ex
tricntc the remains Of her fortune. wlicl
had suffered not little from NJ. de-
Grassins' extravaganza. But the quasi
widow was IN n false position. and TIL
Cruchotins did all that IN them 10y 4
make matters worse: she had TO give nj
all hope of match between her son AM
Eugene Grandct. and married he
daughter very badly. Adolphe lies Gras
sins went to join his father In Paris. AM
there acquired. 50 II was said, an unen
viablc reputation. The triumph Of TIL
Cruchotns was complete.
(To he continuedI