The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1907-08-01
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BY c. >. cuTLlFFE HYkE.

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1 wreckage had been sighted. So fear
II IL past a doubt that she sank like a
stone in deep water and took those
poor fellows down with her"
1T Is horribly sad, especially when
one remembers what heard this
morning. Hamilton, the girl Mr.. Cam
bel went Wild about six years ago, IL
: out In Florida this minute and free.
Duvernay, the man she married, died
4 six months ago OF malarial fever. You
know, Mr.. Cambel was engaged to her
just after he left Cambridge and went
as an attache and was desperately
fond OF her. as I 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
30 interested is this: I've just found out
that she was Miss Mabel Kildare be-
fore she Was married, and when was
child used to know her sister Elsie
very well indeed. In fact, believe we
were some sort Of cousins, and for half
q year we had the same governess to-
gether and were as intimate as two
children could be. Then her sister mar
ried Mr.. Duvernay, who had colonial
appointment and Elsie went with them
abroad, and we dropped completely out
Of touch with one another. Strange,
| Isn't II, that should hear Of her again
the same day that brings news Of poor
Mr.. Cambers death?"
TITS small world this" said Fair
fax sententiously. "and condolences are
the commonest things In it., I sup
pose In a novel the pair OF them ought
| to have come together and forgiven the
| past and married and settled down in
villa residence, with Ivy and clematis
| attachment. and lived happily ever af-
terward. Unfortunately real life is
belder and far less romantic"
You seem out OF spirits" said his
| fiancee, linking her fingers over his
arm.
II suppose am. To begin with this
Port Edes business isn't calculated to
eniiven 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
| fice altogether. You know about this
Brothers Steamship company which he
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 sprinkling Of shippers out Of
work and other seafaring folk who had
saved a trine of money.
Shelf commenced the business with
prayer, which is right enough at it's
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
mp with a 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
| OF interest on the part OF shipmasters
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 a responsible position on
any one Of their vessels who was not
an actual shareholder OF the company.
And then he pointed out that there was
an per cent dividend guaranteed on
preference stock and a certain Is per
cent. or 18 per cent. on the ordinary
and wound up with another dose OF
| cant. The company, he said, would
not be alone content with earning in
come for Its bondholders. 1t would
have as its equal object the spreading
of the gospel and Z civilization of
England to the uttermost parts OF the
globe. r.t.s.
Then the meeting cheered and
amended and wrote out an application
for 10000 &c 8 shares then and there in
the room on forms which were handed
round, and when 1t dispersed Mr.
Theodore Shelf and drove back to the
offices.
look here said to him, you've
put me down on the directorate Of this
thing, with q salary OF e 1000 a year.
want to resign
"'What on earth forT
"'Oh, shall we say I haven't suffi-
ctent money loose to take up enough
shares?'
But he said quickly, you needn't
quarters salary and pay that back to
the company's bankers on your first
call. That will qualify you
No. l said, TIM not going to do
that. Pm going to be mixed up with
this new company in no degree what
ever. Flatly, l don't believe in the
thing one bit. It's notorious fact that
freights are so low just now that thou
sands Of tons of shipping are laid up
because 1t can't be run at a profit, and
IL you put more in commission freights
will tumble down still lower
"'You speak from your ignorance he
said. I should remind you that 1
am by far an older man and have 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 dSy see for yourself the newer
company on an equal footing. Did you
not notice what enthusiastic confidence
In It's prosperity those humble friends
OF mine showed this afternoon?
"a fat lot they know about the ship
ping business said /. In the mood
you worked them UP to they'd have
believed in an advertising stockbroker's
circular II only there were a text at the
head OF the page a ~
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 In a more
Christian mind whereupon out step
ped and came along here to Park lane.
Amy, dear, l don't like the look OF
things at an. The other business-the
Oceanic Steam Transportation COM
pany as 1t Is called officially-is by no
| means in a healthy condition, and re-
membering that II seems to me that