Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-08-02

ii is past a doubt that she sank like a
stone i'm deep water and took those
poor fellows down with her"
1T is horribly sad. especially when
one remembers what I heard this
morning. Hamilton, the girl Mr.. Cam
bel went wild about six years ago, is
out I'm Florida this minute and free.
Duvernay, the man she married, died
six months ago OF malarial fever. You
know. Mr.. Cambel was engaged 10 her
just after he left Cambridge INC went
as an attache n was desperately
fond Of her, as / imagined he could be.
and when her people forced her into
marrying the other fellow he threw up
his post and wandered into all the most
out OF the way corners OF the earth TO
try TO forget things. What makes me
so interested is this I've just found out
thSt she was n Miss Mabel Kildare be-
fore she was married, and when l was
Il child / used 10 know her sister Elsie
very well indeed. In fact. / believe we
were some sort of cousins. and for half
a ysar we had h same governess to-
getner, and were as intimate as two
children could be. Then her sister mar
ried Mr.. Duvernay. who had a colonial
appointment, and Elsie went with them
abroad, and We dropped completely out
OF touch with one another. Strange,
isn't IL, that / should hear of her again
the same day that brings news OF poor
Mr.. Cambel's DEATH"
Its a small world this" said Fair
fax sententfousiy, and condolences are
the commonest things in II. j sup
pose I'm a novel the pair OF them ought
to have come together and forgiven the
past and married and settled down in
a villa residence, with ivy and clematiS
attachment. and lived happily V e af-.
terward. Unfortunately real life is
baider and far less romantic"
You seem put OF spirits said his
~fiancee. linking her fingers owe his
ERIN.
Il suppose I am. To begin with this
Port Edes business isn't calculated 70
enliven one. and then on the top OF that
I've had another taste of your blessed
guardians business methods which
have nearly sickened me out OF the Of
flee altogether. You know about this
Brothers Steamship company which he
Is trying to ioat2 Well. we had a
preliminary meeting ~today-quite 1000
people, and all. comparatively speaking,
poor. They were for the most part
the gang he breaches to on Sunday,
with a s%prinkling of shippers out Of
work and other s~eafaring folk who had
saved a trife OF money.
Shelf commenced the business with
DI 10 A6i Filou6h OF I
proper time. but struck me as being
particularly out of place there. The
audience. however, groaned approval.
and their confidence In the man seemed
to be strengthened. He followed this
up with Il clever speech about the pro-
fits to be made out of the modern sea
carrying trade and enlarged upon the
notorious fact that the losses OF the
business largely arose from the lack
~ fnfnenuf Nn a9.n e.nrk nf nhinpn af -
and the officers. This last. he said,
would be entirely removed in the
Brothers Steamship company. because
by the article of association no man
would hold n responsible position IN
any n Of their vessels who was not
an actual shareholder OF the company.
And then he pointed out that there was
an 3 per cent. dividend guaranteed on
preference stock and a certain Is per
cent. or Is per cent. On the ordinary
and our up with another lose of
cant. The company, he said, would
not be alone content with earning in
come for it's bondholders. 1t would
have as it's equal object the spreading
of the gospel and t e civilization Of
England to the uttermost parts of the
globe.
Then the meeting cheered and
amended and wrote put an application
for 10000 f5 shares then and there In
the room on forms which were handed
round, and when 1t dispersed Mr..
Theodore Shelf and l drove back to the
offices.
look here I said TO him, you've
put me down on the directorate OF this
thing. with a salary OF e 1000 a year. 1
want TO resign.
What on earth for?'
oh. shall we say l haven't suffi-
cient money loose to take up enough
shares
But he said quickly. you needn't
take up any. You can draw FOUR first
quarters salary n pay that back to
the ~company's bankers on your first
call. That win qualify you,
NO 1 said. Tn not going to do
that. I'm going to be mixed UP with
this new company I'm no degree what
ever. Flatiy, I don't believe in the
thing one bit. It's a notorious fact that
freights are so low just now that thou
sands of ton OF shipping are laid up
because ii can be run at a profit. and
III you put more I'm commission freights
will tumble down stfll lower
You speak from you ignorance he
said. L should remind you that I
am by far an older man and nave a
much deeper experience. The business
OF Marmaduke Rivers & Shelf Is a last
ing monument OF what my humble
talents can accomplish and you will
some day see for yourself the newer
company on an equal footing. Did you
not notice what enthusiastic confidence
I'm its prosperity those humble friends
OF mine showed this afternoon
"A fat lot they know about the ship
ping business said T. In the mood
you worked them VI TO they'd have
believed i'm an advertising stockbroker's
circular If only there were q text at the
head of the e
Shelf pulled the check string, and
his brougham stopped against the curb.
Mr.. Fairfax he said your attitude
pains me. Let US part here for the
time, and let us both pray that when
next we meet you may be I'm a more
Christian mind w~hereupon out I step
ped and arms along here to Park lane.
Amy, dear. i don't like the look of
things at an The other business-the
Oceanic Steam Transportation COM
Iany as II is called officially-is by no
means In a healthy condition. and re-
Numbering that Ii seems TO me that
starting this new company is something
very nearly approaching a swindle /
believe that Theodore Shelf. knowing
that he Is In low water. is getting des-
perafe."
Il don't know about the last" re-
piled the girl thoughtfuliy; but. as for
being In low water. there | think you
are WRONG Every week here
they seem IN spend more money
than they did the week before