Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-01-01
CHAPTER XI.
VT was not that he had realized
heavily in his Investments which
caused his friends and his enc
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His profit had been quite small as
filings 20 on the exchange in these
aovs The mere fact that he had
sbovn such foresight proved sufficient
canse for the reversal of opinion. Men
looked at him with new interest in
their eyes, with fresh confidence. His
unfortunate operations in the stock
market had restored him to favor in
all circles. The man, young or old,
who could do what he had done with
Lumber and Fuel well deserved the
new promises that were being made
for him.
Brewster bobbed uncertainty between
two emotions, elation and distress. He
had achieved two kinds of success, the
desired and the undesired. It was but
natural that he should feel proud Of
the distinction the venture had brought
TO him on one hand, but there was rea-
son for despair over the acquisition of
$4,000 1t made it necessary for him
to undertake an almost superhuman
feat-increase the number Of his Janu-
! ary bills. The plans for the ensuing
spring and summer were dimly getting
into shape, and they covered many
startling projects. Since confding
some of them to hopper Harrison that
gentleman had worn a never decreasing
look of worry and anxiety in his eyes.
Rawles added to his despair day or
two after the Stock Exchange misfor-
tune. He brought up the information
that six splendid little puppies had
come to bless his Boston terrier family,
and Joe Bragdon, who was present, en-
Enthusiastically predicted that he could
get 500 apiece for them. Brewster
! loved dogs, yet for one single horrible
moment he longed to massacre the
helpless little creatures. But the old
affection came back to him, and he
hurried out with Bragdon to inspect
the brood.
"And I've either got to sell them OF
kill Them" he groaned. Later on he IN
structed Bragdon to sell the pups fol
$25 apiece and went away, ashamed e
look their proud mother in the face.
Fortune smiled on him before the
day was over, however. He took Sub
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iuggernaut." bad weather and bad
roads Notwithstanding. Monty lost con-
troll of the machine and headed for q
+ subway excavatSSn. He and Smith
saved themselves by leaping to the
pavement, sustaining slight bruises
but the great machine crashed through
the barricade and dropped to the bot
tom of the trench far below. IL
/ Smiths grief and BreWster's deligh
the automobile was -hOpelessly ruined
4 / a clear loss of many thousands. Mon
\ tvs Joy was short lived, for it wa
soon learned that three luckleSs Worf
men down in the depths had been bac
Y ly injured by the green meteor iron
N above. The mere fact that BreWste
A could and did pay literally for the re
III lief of the poor fellows afforded Dill
I'll little consolation. His carelessnes
" and possibly his Indifference ha
brought suffering to these men an
their families, which was not pleasar
to look back upon. Lawsuits Wer
avoided by compromise. Each OF tn
Injured men received $4,000.
at this time every one was intereste
Ia the charity bazaar at the Astori
Society was on exhibition, and the pu
lie paid for the privilege of gazing
y the men and women whose name
filled the society columns. Brewst
~ frequented the booth presided over
Miss Drew, and there seemed to
~. no end to his philanthropy. The baza
-, lasted two days and nights, and aft
~. thar period his account book show
4n an even profit" of nearly $500
Monty's serenity, however, was CO
a. siderably rufied by the appearance
a new and aggressive claimant for t
-i, smiles of the fair Barbara. He was
Californian of i'm nense wealth and L
bounded confidence in himself, a
-, letters to people in New York had Civ
-. him certain entree. The triumphs
love and finance that had come W
his twoscore years and ten had {
, u, molished every vestige of timidity IL
may have been born with him.
was successful enough In the world
finance to have become four or E
times a millionaire, and he had fal
so well in love that twice he had be
- widower. Rodney Grimes was sta
as ing QUITO win Barbara with the .sa
dash and impulsiveess that overca
,o,. Mary Farrell, the cook in the min
49, camp, and Jane Boothroyd, the scht
''-e teacher, who came to California res
to marry the first man who asked
:, A. He was penniless prospector when
w married Mary, and when he led j
to the altar She rejoiced in hay
captured husband worth at Il
$4,000
an" He We'd with Brewster in-patroniz
Barbara's booth, and he rushed
LII the conflict with an impetuosity
seemed destined to carry everyti
before il; Monty was brushed as
'D'' Barbara was pre-empted as if she
a mining claim, and ten days after
arrival in New York Grimes was
= most talked of man in town. Brew