Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-17


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~iApI-lS OF PRECEDING CHAPTERS
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NJ 'f' N'"'i'' ia '''''' - III 'N'"'i
hiiA birthday Il Mon; -uuery Brew SER. grand
...n 1td t.frof Edwin, Er,N.r-y ,.t.'fi,uuIr,. j.
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~ "'H, H. - ~, -'ei .li',!I's M
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-, Ill., as , ,tr ,r ,Ur a,,' SoI Eirv
aMy"t-' telling him t.al the fortune Of hir uncle
hm Mr. Swear.nsrn Jnnr. j. executor o, the
-e!r"rk NIL. IN-Brew-tcr l. informed that
Tia, ~" birttx .'t s, Tn ~ Of ire
following ycsr, he be absolutely pennilers. The
A., "nry Lot to s t 70 IKE m none ~ worh TIM
The srds" OK fortune amounts t" more than
rnc. y in i,ys 10 H, sse ai ig
l'," with Barbara brew. daughter OF Colonel
n y%ns n MEN Tntsns a. hates ,.@ .h ot con- ,h
bf,~ -tcr money. Brewster employs his friends
|" nrap nm, gg' t,G o. ne ,,,,
lca:cr lie give magnificent dinner. after
@h,m tne -911 ot'lims screen ials Oh ,ns ,aDle
man Who -necr- at him and Miss Drew. Will
rg"5tes arSs Jones Wafne1 Ie may mi marry S ta
rS r." ns hE',e love " for Bsr Gn'1 xM
c',-ter ret. on prize-iSht, hoping 10 lose.
rcird III IN lie 1e.,; ref; n".
winners. N-Brew-;er decides to invest in um
IL ' np md be nat t, noS 'an auto scri
dent costs Brew- $1,000 He has a quarrel
WITH Barbara, ., h,Jihwaymsn takr brews,eT -,
identity one OF the robbers and reforms him
Brewster anu MTG; DeMiile plan ball. Miss
CHAPTER XIII.
TT was while Brewster was In the
depths of despair that his tinan-
cial affairs had a windfaIl. One
4 Of the banks in which his money
was deposited failed. and his balance
Of over 100000 was wiped out Mis-
management was the cause, and. the
collapse came on Friday, the 18th
day Of the month. Needless to say, it
destroyed every vestige of the super
stition he may have had regarding
Friday and the number thirteen.
Brewster had money deposited in
five banks. transaction inspired by
the wild hope that one Of them might
eome day suspend operations and
thorohv nroxo q ,or,+,ro4o .ooa. ..
hin, Tboro eoo,,,nS ~ $1,000. 49,
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90 Oh, aooo.,.. =. ~, ,. "
% cont, ~, ~ ao1,,. .,,o' - =.
fortunoto Notr,,thatond;rn ~ o..
,ho+ o,,or,,hod,, go a.,S;aas A., -.
st,tut,on suhSton+io, ,horo ~. No.
few wiseacres who called brewster n
fool and wore go unreoeonoh,a q. IN
sov that he did not know bow to hon
die money. He heard that Miss Drew
IN particular was bitterly sorca stic In
referring to his stuniditv
This foilure cansad a +-on,onao,,s
Arrrv IN hort;r, o,ro,os T. -r.o. ~.
natural tbot ovostiono conco-r,no +ho
STABILITY of other hanks sbouId he osI,.
cd and n woa not lone haroro ,,ony
Wild dso,;eting renorts word eoof
Anxious denositors rnshed into tho
bip banking institutions and tben rich.
ed out again nartialIv assuraa +bo+
there was no danger The newsnonars
sought IN al,av the fears of the noo-
n,e but tbera were many IN whom
fear became manic There wero short
wild rms on some NJ the smaller
banks but all were in n fair wav to
restore confidence whom ont came tho
rumor that tho Ranl, NJ Manhattan Is.
land was in trouhle Colonel Prentiss
Drew railroad maqnate WAS the nres,.
dent Of tbis hank
Whom tho b.nk orened for bus,noss
IN tho Tuosdov roiIo,r,no tho fo,Iuro
+bora wos stomnodo of fr,cbtopod
donos,tor. peforo ~ o,c,oc,, Tho rim
had ossumod uy,v nrorort;on. and M
slouobt CoIonoI Drow and tho direct.
ors o. arst r,,Id,v d,st-o.s.d ord thon
aoo;ng +bot Tho orro,r bod hocorna 90.
r,ou. grow mora alarmed tbon tbov
oo,,lI oword - ,at +h, ,,,,,,,,o ro, rh.
loans of oil NJ tho HANKS wero rnusu.
oil, ,or,o 1rc,n,ort ,,,n. ~, ,o,oo la
mt oil of +hn,n IN an o+t,,udo 81 cor-
t,on ond tboro 1vo. a not,roI ro,,,c-
t.roo 60 ov,,o.o Cit, 49,, ,rto.o.t. =.
ieonardv nv coming 70 tho roller of
tho Rank of Manhattan leland
Monty Rrewstor had someth,no uta
COCO oo0 IN Co,ono, Dror,s h.nt ~
wonid NOT have roorotto1 an hi. o1yr
account tho oo,,onse - 49,. ,ns.,t,,t,or
but he realized what it meant to the
hundreds Of other depositors. and for
the first time no anpreciated what his
money could accomplish. Thinking that
his presence might give confidence to
tho other fenos,tors and ston tho rim
he went over to the bank with uarri-
son and Bragdon. The teIlers were
handing ont thousands of dollars IN tho
eager depositors. His friends advised
him strongly to withdraw before It was
too late, but Monty was obdurate. They
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