The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1905-04-26

cOuntenance was overShauowed by
DOUBT and his manner lacked It's
confident alertneSS.
Something gone wrong, Dillon?'
Saked the friendly cashier.
| Glenn sighed heavily as he pushed
fifteen dollars IN weH-worn bills
across the counter. Going wrong!"
he SAID, gloomily. I'VE got bus
mess chance that | won't get again
in blue moon, and I've got to let
IL slide for the lack of a little cash. =
What is lt?' questioned the cash
4 Ter, kindly. Two heads are better
than one. Perhaps | can figure a
way around the difficulty"
: Glen stated the case briefly "Old
Mr.. Mathews, who owned the gen
eral store at the crossroads, wanted
to sell out and wanted five hundred
1 dollars for MS store. He says it
is worth a thousand, and | have
been through it and | know it is
worth more than five hundred dol
lars, anyway. These is a lot of good
stuff there, and man with little
enterprise and advertising sense
could draw people from miles
around, T" said Glen. But | have
only got a little over three hundred
in the bank, aud | leave Blake 5
next mouth; and what is coming to
me? With the best of luck it won t
Oring it up to more than three hund-
red and fifty. Mr.. Mathews is
| 1orh T
can It figure out the extra hundred
and fifty any way I try. Not one of
the farmers around here would
lend it to hired man, they re all too
tightfsted and 'scarey to lend to
anyone but bondholder It is the
best chance I shall ever get to start
paying business with little
money; but | suppose will have TO
stand by and watch some other fell
low with luck pick it up.
'But that place doesn't pay,
protested the cashier, You would
only be sinking your money in it. >
"Of course it doesn't pay now,
said Glenn, iEDgatiently. THAT is
the reason Mathews is selling it so
cheap. But could make ID pay.
You would see the people in my
section coming my way for goods,
instead of travelling off five or six
miles the other way to Puttsboro,
like they de- now. I'd put a. little
modern method into the running of
that store, and inside of a year, it
would be county institution and a
good paying, one, too.
Look here, Dillon. :" The cash
Ter dismissed the discussion rather
brusquely. You drop in Ut my
house Saturday evening. I want
to talk with you.T He was insis-
tent, and before Glen left the bank
he had given detected promgse to
make the call, though he was, in the
dark as to the object.
Sunday morning, before bae rest
of the family were ready for church,
Lily slipped oat to the barn, where
Glen was havnessing the horses.
Her crisp rn6fes and fair head
cleaned in the dust of the barn,
and Glen s face was happier than
ever as he talked, the girls. eyes
growing wide with establishment
and ioyousness.
80 you bought the crossroads
storer' echoed Lily. Yes. Glenn,
know chat ] promised to marry
you just as soon as you stopped be
| ing hired man and could take care
of me, whether father was willing
or not, and I shall. But, Glen,
how did you do it2 You coulon t
have saved up that much in two
years. Somebody has been mighty
good friends to YOU and to me, too. =
cit isn't exactly a somebody, 1t is
a something, said the happy hired
man. Then he told Der how, un-
known to himself, he had won the
interest of the bank people through
his steady saving; how his mad
vertent confidence in the cashier
had moved that parsonage to write
to the president to ask il he would
authorize loan to Dillon; how that
gentleman, whom Glen did not
know even by sight, had sent an
| immediate reply authorizing the
loan and commenting favorably up
on Glen as depositor. 1t was the
4 bank which had stood his friend and
made it possible for him to win the
business opportunity, and wife.
"You are the one who deserves
the credit for my sayings, not me,
i though, Lily" said the hired man,
because you coaxed me to put my
j money in the bank. But, | tell you
one thing, I'm still persisting in
i doing some swearing in connection
1 with banks, but now I'll do my
swearing by them, and not at them.
And the bank president looking
over the accounts year later, and
. noting the wiping out of the loan