Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1906-03-19

,-bou fully SJ.OOO disappeared, and [
- wore others on which he spent 1
,n,,cb loss than $1,000, but the average
- eecure. Taking everything into
federation. Brewster found that his
So~+rne had dwindled to a few paltry A..
thousands in addition to the proceeds
Itch would come to him from the sale
- bis furniture. On the whole he was
satisfied.
The landing in New York and the
.onoro+ion which followed were not en-
.iroIv merry. Every discomfort was !,
forgotten. and the travellers only knew
,bot the most wonderful cruise since
,bo+ If the ark had come to an end.
Tbe,4 was not one who would not have
Icon clad to begin it again the next
day.
..or oud Gardner were busy with the
"details Of settlement. After clearing
nm all of the obligations arising from
tho cruise they felt the appropriate
nesa Of a season Of reflection. 1t was q
diaicult moment-a moment when un-
delivered reproofs were in the air. But
Gardner seemed much the more melan-
choly Of the two.
piles of newspapers lay scattered
about the floor of the room in which
they sat. Every one of them contained
sensational stories of the prodigaPs
trip. with pictures, incidents and pre-
dictions. Monty vas panied, humili-
ated and resentful, but. he was honest
enough to admit the justification of
- 90 hion un rnod
bits of it here and there and then threw
the papers aside hopelessly. In a few
weeks they would tell another story
and quite as emphatically.
: The worst of it, Monty, is that you
4 are the next thing to being a poor
4 man." groaned Gardner. 1--WE lone
NV best to economic for you here at
: home. as you'll see by these figures,
+ but nothing could possibly balance the
extravagances of this voyage. They
e are simply appalling"
With the condemnation of his friends
: ringing in his troubled brain, with the
K sneers of acquaintance to distress MS
d pride, with the gibes of the comic pa
: pers to torture him renorseleSsly,
r Brewster was fast becoming the most
n miserable man in New York, Friends
p of former days gave him the cut dI-
30 rect. clubmen ignored him or sc0rned
him oDenly. women chilled him Will
the iciness of unspOken reprOof, anC
all the world was hung with shad
q ows. The dOggedness of despair KEEP
n him up, but the strain that puile'
~ down on him was so relentless tina
nv the struggle was losing its equality
He had not expected such a home com
to ing.
Compared with his former sell MOL
w. ty was now almost a physlcaI Wrech
rd haggard. thin and defiant, a SHADOW
&C. of the once debonair young New YORK
or. an object of pity and scOrn. Asham
ed and despairing, he had almost lack
he ed the courage to face Mrs. Gray. IN
ro- consolation he once gained through he
ION he now denied himself, and his suffer
ing. peculiar as it was, was very rea
III In obsolute recklesSness he ave dill
in ner after dinner, party after party, a
ON q most lavish scale, many OF b
Lon guests laughing at him openly viii
they enjoyed his hospitality. The re
friends demonstrated, pleaded, q
etin everything within their power 10 enc
SUN 1900 - I,,+ xrfthn
his awful rush to poverty, put Wltno
success. He was not to be stopped.
10 ~ Atlast the furniture began to co. u
the Mate. then all the priceless br
hin. a-brac. Piece by piece it disappear
ct until the apartments were empty d
he had suuandered almost all OF
two S4O,35Q arising from the safes. l
Inv servants were paid off, the apartmel
hon. relinquished, and he was beginning
- know what it meant to De on
uppers.'' At the banks he ascertain
80 that the interest on his mon
'oNeu amounted to S19.140.S6. A week
m fore the 23d of September the WI
N-nn million was gone, including
amounts won in Lumber and Fuel
:, other luckless enterprises. he
a. had about $1,000 of his lntel
n money in the banks, but he hau a
luicn lion pangs in his heart-the Interest
his improvidence.
He found some delight in the dis
cry that the servants had robbed
!, of not less than $500 worth OF
-, belongings. including the Christ
IN presents that he in honor could
- have sold. His only encourager
came from Grant & Ripley, he
yers. They inspired confidence IN
ed her H"77" = +horoo
pr and 80 re 80 &c
the oe OOne9 - IT
sons of " ~ uo
49, assurance that he would approx
what had been done to obliterate
- win Peter Brewster's legacy.
nd he - nv - 80 -
live re- 80 -eaa wos
His oon,n,ota,U Tr<o $50 offorad
80 tba money, employment. rest and sec
an from @oaHLon ~ -
If with pu " III
ne Her TA"S vas slleNInS neA n0"i' O~~