The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-02-22
ase and hinder your opponenpN.

ing to do just as I direct and to ask no
questions. Do you think you can iii
the billf''
IT can try" replied Albert quietly,
"and as soon as I get used to your
methods of procedure here I think I
can succeed"
He was q little startled at the pecul-
lar character Of his employer and I'm a
way slightly disguised. but no was not
In a position to cavil OF feel squeamtsh
over apparent lack of honesty and \.
solved at once to ignore it.
what do you wish me to dof" he
continued after a moment. II Will do
the best 1 can for o and am ready to
go to work now"
"You are to be at the Office at 8
o'clock sharp" replied Frye, take
one hour for lunch and remain till
O." Then he adde' way Of O spur
to his slaves fd az am paying
you $40 q month recommend OF
an important ellen 70 who want
ed to humor his son. was your good
luck to have this sons friendship, ae
he belongs TO a wealthy family. He
is q spendthrift, Of course, but that is
no matter and oil the better for ug.
Take my advice aud cultivate him all
you can. 1t may be the means Of
bringing us more business. What I
say to YOU 1 shall expect you to con-
slider u professional secret, and I hope
you will make good use OF your time
when with this young friend Of yours
and heed well what I 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:
II have hired out to q most unmitigat-
ed old scoundrel and yet one Of the
sharpest lawyers 1 ever met. He as
surCd me / must lay aside my con-
science IL l mean to succeed, and hint
ed that he might use me later IN as
q sort of spy, Upon Frank, 1 imagine.
He employs u 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 f1irt with her."
Then ne 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 in
glum silence. His room was small
and cherries md In comparison with
his home quarters q mere den. But 1t
was a question of saving, and the lux
ury Of space even he could not afford.
There is no more lonesome place in
the wide world than n great city to
n 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 n small room at
night, with a solitary window opening
on an area devoted to ash barrels and
garbage, 1t made him homesick.
He vas n 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 mou
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 OF In the
lily dotted millpond his pastlme. He
had the artists nature In him also and
loved dearly to sketch a pretty bit Of
natural scenery, q cascade in the brook
or n 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 their
doors at night and who believed in and
lived by the Golden Rule. The selfish
and distrustful life Of n great city, with
It's arrogance and wealth and vanity
Of display, was not akin TO him, and to
put himself at the beck and call Of q
merccnary and utterly INSCRIPTIONS
old villain, as he believed Frye to be,
was gall and bitterness. For two
weeks he worked patiently, hoping each
day that the one and only friend the
city held for him would call, passing
his evenings, as lie wrote Alice, ain
reading, smoking and hating myself a
little and Frye n good deal"
He had heSitated to write Frank In
the first place, disliking to ask ~favors,
but it could not be helped, and now he
began to feel that his friend meant to
ignore him. This h~umiliating conclu-
sion was growing to n certainty and
Albert feeling more homesicli than ever
when one afternoon while he was, as
usual, hard at work in Fryc's office
Frank came in.
"Pray excuse me, old man." remark
ed that youth brlskly after the first
greetings, "for not calling sooner, but 1
was off on my yacht about the time you
came, and then 1 ran down to New
York to take in the cup races. You see,
I'm SO busy / do not get any time to
myself. 1 want you to come over to
the club and lunch with me today, and
we can talk matters over"
"You will kindly xcu me-" replied
Albert. ~ have n lot of work cut out
II am only allowed one hour for
lunch. Can't you come around to my
room tonight and have n smoke talk2"
Maybe" replied Frank, land we
can go o to the club later. You
will meet some good fellows there, and
we always make up q game of draw
small limit, you know. Say, old man."
he added interestedly, how do you
like Fryer"
AS that worthy happened to be out
just then the two friends had q good
chance to exchange opinions. Albert's
is already known, but, for reasons, he
did not care to express 1t to Frank ut
this time.