The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-12-16

] lsh tonight you can give me a receipt i for whatever is the regular fee for a ! job of this sort, and nobody. will ever know that I gave you any more-oth- ] erwise the jig would be up" i But won't your father find out that your mother has sold this property. and 1 investigator
 'No, we are safe there. Doc. Hen | never know, unless ma dies, Ma knows 1 that, even if I hadn't got the money, pad paw the paper off the walls at | the idea of selling half Interest in the weatherby plantation for five l thousand dollars-it would be dirt make a quick sale So ma can't tell; 1 and Uncle Tom won't. for he and pa i don't speak. They had a political ar i gument In 1896 Ma tried to choke 1 them off at the start; but they both l said they guessed two gentleA'en could l pleasantly discuss a simple, matter Of ] opinion Just before the curtain fell, l pa said all Bryanites were fools, or men | too lazy to work for living, and Un- 1 cle Tom said that Bryan had proved 1 that all geld bugs were thieves. or l gamblers who didn't want to work for | a living Since then neither one knows the others alive"
 i T thought a womau's husband bad to sign deed to her properfy2" l t1 l know if. and he's too ignorant to have a lawyer for anything. Why, he thinks 1t beneath his dignity to consult any ] body"
 "what yarn are you going to tel about hurting this fingerY'
 i've got a good one: in crossing q street my foot slipped and fell, and a buggy ran over this finger'
 Rot! A buggy running over that ! hn fn ratFa the second and third. also" "Humphl You rig up lie, then"
 Are you right-handed?"
 1 'Yes"
 Then you cannot cut it, or hit 1t I with a hammer. while--"
 | No hammers need apply, Doc. What would I be doing with a hammer? It would take a string of lies to explain that"
 T have a plan" said Frank, after a short pause made for effect; he had devised this plan twenty-six days be- fore, and revised 1t seyenty-eight times. Listen. You are in street caG you are raising a window; you have 1t partially raised YOU grasp, the side of the window with your left hand in order to get a better hold with your right hand which is underneath the window; the window slips from your left hand falls, and mashes this finger. You are In great pain this Is the nearest doctors office; you rush here: etc. A man actually did mash his finger in that way about two years ago. and amputation was necessary" l But. Doc, the ground Is frozen right I now. Nobody but lunaHc would want a car window raised tonight"
 we had better walt till warm weather comes, then; or go let a win dow fall on it." Frank made this an+ swer to test the strength of his visi- tors purpose.
 ''But that would hurtr'
 How about my cutting it off?' SPshaw, I've seen the company sur Eeon take arms off niggers and they didn't feel It."
 Very well. Answer one more cues ton. ana I am at your service. Why do you wish to do this thing?"
 Doe" with some show of spirit, q have paid you your price; and I an going to tell your lie; that is my SC.
 aHeref said Frank. showing the money across the desk with a superb imitation of contempt; nothing but the prospect of instant death would have made him submit to the loss of that money"
 Doc, that's not right" protested the other, but weakening visibly
 1T must know the gist of this busi- ness before I take the risk Being convinced that his possession of the money was in no way imperilled there by, Frank was determined to gratify his curosity He felt that he was wealthy enough to afford a few luxu- ries.
 rwhy. you said, yourself. that there wasn't one chance in a thousand of blood poisoning"
 "Biood-poisoning be hangedl am I talking of my risk, not yours. If 1t l were to become known that had ann putated perfectly healthy and unin- tured finger in order to aid the fin gers owner in some underhanded af- fair, I would be branded as something lower than the quack who adyertises, couldn't practice another day! My professional existence is at stalker Frank did not think it necessary to state that the amount of money be- fore him equalled his professional in- come Calculated on its present basis), flor one hundred years.
 The words professional existence" always impress a layman, and they were probably the cause of Mir. Evans s hurried surrender at this juncture.
 Here goes then. Doe, if you must have it:
 "Pa is a rich man; supposed to be a millionaire. Of course nobody knows how much he's got, and he takes par ticular pains to keep anybody from finding out; but I know that the rail- road pays him fifteen thousand year and I am satisfied that his outside. in- come is at least that much more.
 Now, though I am his only child, he is determined that shall work. just as if I were a poor clerk with an h. valid wife and four children. Futher- more he has made up hIs mind that l shall not have a nickel outside of my salary. r~.-. .-- "'"-
 T left college last. June, and on the first day of October the old. man put me in the Auditors office He told them to keep me busy, and pay me sixty dollars Q month Said he knew I wasn't worth that much, but he'd try to make it up to the road in other ways At first l had a good thing Wilson-the Auditor-let me- do- as I pleased. I got down late, and left al any old time, and wrote notes to the girls, and ate when I was in the of fee. But the old man sooh caught on Sent for me and Wilson; told Wilson right before me, that he must keep my nose to the grindstone,' and treat me just as he did hs other clerks then told me that he didn't propose to sup port a loafer even if he was his own son. and that, if I didn't stick to that job and earn my salary l shouldn't snend any of his money while he was living nor after he was dead And do YOU know with great warmth, that he hasn't given me measely cent since?
 Now" throwing out both hands, q s don't get up every morning hoping that the old man will drop dead be- fore dark, and I don't yearn to blow in a barrel of his money every night but l do want to have an Income suit | +, tho+ eftpafiOu n life in which