The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1905-05-24

self when he had won an unusually
knotty case. He knew no was both
hated and feared by his fellow mem
bers of the bar. Being hated he didn't
mind. n being feared fiattered his
vanity to an intense degree. When
Uncle Terry put himself In his power
and. like a good natuTed old sheep,
stood to be sheared, Frye only laughed
at his clients stupidity and set out to
continue the robbery as long as posi-
bic. Messrs. Thygeson & Co. Of Stock
holm, who had first employed him to
hunt up an heir to the estate Of old
Erie Peterson, whose son Neils and his
young wife had been lost on the coast
Of Maine. Jared no better. TO them he
only stated that he had found several
promising clews and was following
them MS rapidly us possible, but 1t all
cost money, and would they kindly
send a draft on account for necessary
expenses, etc. When Albert had taken
away his best client the old scoundrel
suffered the worst blow to his vanity
he yer received. Course the fellow"
he would say to himself. "Ill pay him
and have revenge IL I live long enough.
No man ever got the best OF me, and In
the long run no man ever shallV'
But there is q Nemesis that follows
evil doors In this world, ready to strike
with an invisible hand all who are lost
to the sense of right and Justice. In
Frye's case the %avenging goddess lurk-
ed In his inordinate belief in his own
shrewdness. coupled with a fatuous
love of speculation. A few lucky ven
lures ut first In the stock market had
famed the fame.
Then along came q war cloud In Eu-
rope. Stocks began to drop and pro-
visions to advance. September wheat
was then selling In Chicago at 90 cents.
Frye bought $4,000 bushels on a mar.
gin. France and Germany growled,
and wheat rose to o.. Frye sold, clear.
Ing $4,000. Then it dropped n cent,
and Frye bought n hundred thousand
bushels more. Once again the war
cloud grew black, and wheat rose to
0S. The papers were full OF wild ru-
mors, and the Wall Street Buglc said
wheat would look cheap al n dollar and
a half inside of n month. Then 1t adj
vanced to 81, md Frye lost his head.
His holdings showed a profit Of $1,000,
and sudden riches stared him in the
face. Once more the two bellicose for
clgn powers growled and showed their
teeth. Wheat rose another cent, and
Frye doubled his holdings. Then tho
powers that had growled smiled faint
ly, and In one day wheat fell to % and
was still falling. at every drop Of q
cent he was called upon for $4,000.
Day by day 1t vibrated, now going up a
cent and then dropping two, and when
Uncle Terry and Albert were discussing
how to checkmate his further robbing
Of the lighthouse keeper he was, with
muttcred curses, watching his Ill got
ten gains vanish to the tune Of many
thousand dollars per diem. He neg
lectcd his business, went without his
meals and forgot to shave. He had
m~ortgaged his real estate for $4,000,
ana that was nearly gone Wheat was
10Y down to so, and Franco and Ger
many were shaking hands.
Frye could not sleep nights. His
margins We're almost exhausted and
his rs well. He had put up
$4,000, md IL wheat fell 3 cents more
1t would be all swept away. Then he
executed q second mortgage at high in
tcrest and waited. 1t vas the last shot
In his locker, and all that stood between
him and ruin, but wheat advanced 2
cents, and he began to hope. He had
absolutely ignored business for two
weeks, and now he went to work again.
To collect the little due him and raise
all the money he could was his sole
thought. He wrote to Thygcson & Co.
TINT he had at last found the heir they
were in search OF and described what
proofs he held, at the same time stat
ing that on receipt of his fee Of Il thou
sand dollars all and sufficient proofs Of
Identity OF the claimant would be for
warded. Then lie wrote to Uncle Terry
and demanded $500 moro. September
wheat had now fallen to rs.