The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-07-25
10 XVlII.-Continued.

safe. Put it in the bank AM
me a check
y, on yonr life" replied Heale!
laugh. The suckers W,
mod gave checks, and | turned
irto cash as soon as the banks
nj wasn't any too spry, either
If the damned sneaks consulted
,s-s as soon as they sobered off
,ded to stop payment on theil
,ts They're threatening proceed
You must take the dough away
you and don't want a receipt.
Trimming suckers, eh?" said |, moi
to decide what to do.
Their fathers stole it from the pub
he explained. They're drunken
snobs. not fit to have money
doing a public service by relieving
n Of Il. If I'd a got more, I'd feel
much more"--he vented his light
sarcastic laugh-"more patri.
! can't take it" said |, feeling that,
nv present condition, to take it
uId be very near to betraying the
{sdence of my old friend.
fThey lost 1t in a straight. game, -
fastened TO assure me. II haven t
] brace box or crooked wheel for
] years" This with a sober face
! twinkle in his eye. But even
i bad helped chance to do the good
ik Of teaching them to take care
Their money, you'd not refuse me.
Town and down town. and all over
place, what's business. when you
be 10 look at it sensibly, but trad
stolen goods? Do you know a man
\ could honestly earn more than
Or twenty thousand a year-good
Fn money by good clean work."
|Oh, for that matter, your moneys
|tlean as anybody's,' said |. But
know I'm a SPECTATOR, Joe. [
I my downs-and this happens to
. stormy time for me. If | take
Y money, | mayn't be able to ac.
~ lot 1t or even to pay dividends
J! lor-maybe a year or So"
us all right, old man. I'll never
sH thought till you remind me
u Use 1t as you'd use your own.
col to put it behind somebody's
z-Ehy not yours?"
y mlshed doing up the package.
= ne seated himself, and we both
Sea at 1t through the smoke of our
lr
" llsl as easy to deal in big sums
'"ue' In large matters as In
y. 'sn IT, joe said |, once one
IL 'he way of it?"
" you remember-away back
e-lhe morning." he asked mus.
4, .ne last morning-you and | |
W IRON the straw in the stables
At jerome Park-the stables
ieI us sleep in?"
~ went out in the dawn to roost
ue rails and spy on the speed |
,Ol Old Revells horses?"
Ascuy, said Joe, and we looked .
va Other and laughed. I'VE in
gosh how chilly it was that .
ins' Do YOU remember what we
q about?" Wv
: sad !, though I did.
vas proposing TO turn "A crooked
- ana You wouldn't have it, You
,ena u ,ne 10 keep straight, Matt.
y, '' forgotten it. You kept me
.a me what a fool a
' a., 70 load himself down with a
!, 'alceny record. You made a
=, me' Matt. And then those good
-, !oufs caught the eye of that
'IAer $ girl, and he gave YOU a
u.iuhg shetland you worked
with You" W W. N
O W ago it seemed, yet near and
w. as | sat there. conscious of
~ Iouna and motion, even of the
~ Shapes taken by our up.
I'd, 1A'oke. How far | was from
yaa oird' of those happy-go-
lars ~ when a meal meant quite
~ - 70 me as does a million now
No. 70. from all that, yet how near,
b ~ was | not still facing life
Ao same careless courage, for
nov .a'n yesterday in the eager
,o,a ' OF each new day wit. It's
. :, we went on in our rrmin-
= ior while; then. as 10. had
Nc. "ork 10 do, drifted our into
NIo,,, LOOK a bite of supper with
Ana 'iI'e' had a little go at the
'Nr,, toward five in the clear
h g emerged into the broad
ma streets, with the precious
ol,o my arms and a five hun.
Oil in my waistcoat
ss Iy win to me in a single
/ os 10 the banker, land blow {
pa Tn with the change.
, me- down the street with {
,,a Oilpanionship and a little
. turning in. he said, but / +
sn,o ues're to keep his eye ON {
~ while longer had some |
~ with his taking that early I
,o, roi'' We passed several of {
,y'lorn figures that hurry |
~ Dno slowly'awakening streets l
70 work. Finally, there /
" old' old woman-a scrub 1
!. guess, on her way. home l
NouluE Soma m ts... | =,