The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-27
THE EVENING STORY
HOW He Got His Nest Egg.

| Who does MT remember some school,
mate who was especially antagonlstlc:
/ Morgan Enright was so 10 me. -
was two years older than J. ana ll l-ll
we were respectively seventeen anu
fifteen he tyrannized over me; At NJ
teen 1 was fully as tail as ne thousn
not as well developed At any tsts,
gave him good thrashing, ana tnal
ended his annoying me. though ms usat-
ness toward me was increased.
When I began to earn q living was
| attracted by the large sums pala -
divers and became a diver. The tIuln
is, was in love, and, being anxious
/ to marry, chose that which PROMISES
| to enable me to secure q nest Sss.
Ny sweetheart didn't approve OF ny
! occupation at all, but, like me, Wan li.y
/ the nest egg. However I had a mo - 81
to take care of, and the nest egg balIen
/ to appear. was pretty well dlscoui-
! aged when something happened that
very nearly rendered it unnecessary
A ship had gone down close TO shole
/ on which there was heavy lnsu1ahllcS'
/ A diver was to be sent down represent
| ing the underwriters, together Win oiIS
representing the owners and the cap
tain. I was chosen to represent the
/ underwriters. I was standing on ms
float in divers rig, all except the ,. ~
met, waiting for the owners dANSA'
| when a boat pulled off from the snore'
and when it came near enough who
should be in it but Morgan EIlrlsht. "a
| was as much astonished to see me as
| was to see him. Neither knew thal the
other was q diver, much less that VIC
| were to 20 down together, but we were
boys no longer, and I offered him my
hand. He took II. but the look on his
face froze the marrow IN my bones-a
look that I did not fully understand TIL
later.
We'll, we struck bottom about the
same time on a stretch Of white sAnu'
The ship was in good position for IN
spection, for her bow had come down on
a ledge Of rock that lifted it above the
sand and only q few feet above our
heads It was no secret that l was
there to look for foul play, and the
place to find it WAS on the ship Dol
tom. / walked along, looking upward
till at last my head was even with the
inclining bottom, and after that 1 was
Obliged to stoop. Enrtght accompanied
me. also looking He soon got ahead
of me and motioned me to come on,
shaking his head as if to say that ne
had been looking carefully where 1 was
hunting and had found nothing. +!
| looked all the more carefully ana az
one place, poking my finger IN an IN
dentation, found a hole. succeeded
in pushing my fist through the bottom
and into the ship EnFight turned back
and saw me STOPPING, with my arm
I thrust
me and the first thing I knew seized
me around the body and gave me a
wrench that broke my arm. 1t occurred
to me at once that he had been semi
down by the owners. to foil an attempt
to discover, or at least report, on the
scuttling OF the vessel. Quick as q
fash of lightning all that had passed
between me and him from the first blow
he had given me before / was old
enough to protect myself till the day
had thrashed him came I'D before me
And now he was to take his reYenge
fifty feet under water He was to XII
two birds with one stone-haye his re-
venge and prevent my reporting the
scuttling of the ship.
Realizing that, handicapped as was
. I would be no match for him IN a
struggle, pretended to faint and sank
down on the sand. He raised his hee
and brought it down on the glass over
} my face, but its thickness, together
with the assistance OF the water under
his foot, saved me. He failed in the
= attempt Then he took a knife from
= his pocket and cut the signal line. Hs
was too late for managed to give the
: signal to be raised. When he saw ms
1 rising he cut the rope that was lifting
me. and sank again on the sand. Their
. seeing that I was cut off from succol
: he gave the signal to be taken I'D. As
he was rising I saw one chance fol
. my life. Encircling his leg with my
! sound arm I chung with the strength
+ of despair Had he been above water
he might have taken me off. As il
was. he was unable to do so. The meF
: above. feeling the extra weight, pulled
s hard, and before my enemy could dc
! anything to prevent we were both al
the surface
t AS soon as I saw that was saved
S tainted. When I came to myself En-
! right had gone, but, turning my eyes
e for the dock with furious strokes. Hur-
: riedly I called on those standing by tc
stop him. and two OF them, entering
another boat, reached the dock in time
to prevent him from getting away.
= When the underwriters heard my story
they. resolved to push both the owners. the
captain of the ship and especially 1nrtgh
. to the wall They had no end of money
. with which to do the job and landed ever
4 one connected with the swindle in stat'
prison. The courts dfdn hang Enright
as he deserved, because he had not sue
= ceeded in taking my life, but the judges
gave him 20 years, and he still has ten O
them to serve
r man could get me to put on a helmet TO
i any money. but it has not been neces
| sary. I had saved the insurance to tn
, underwriters, coming within an ace o
a purse for ne. each putting in 5000. ant
| as there were seven of them you can fig
ure that I got my nest egg. Besides,
( have been in their employ ever since.
d was married that autumn and have lives
| Comfortably on my salary and the interes
= | of my capital, which has been steadill
, growing. HAROLD OTIS.
: RebuIing a NTiser
= Charles NJ. Schwab in the cool o
? the evening. was pacing Atlantic City