The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1907-10-27

The old train of thought was i'm
| mediately aroused within Rainor. =
desire to try the boy came within.
IN tell you how you can make g
bunch of money in less than a life
time
JACKIE grinned incredulousIy.
We'll, wot's yer tip? I've got &
ton O. stuff TO unload"
You ever wait on trade at the
store?"
Yep"
THE next time you sell dollars
worth of goods scoop a nickel of the
change and cash in ninety-five cents.
A word to the wise is enough, as your
Uncle Dick says
The look of half-awakened interest
and confidence melted out of the boys
face. A CLEAN of contempt flashed
across it. He gripped the basket,
which he had rested on his knee, and
with new vigor swung on toward the
house.
That's a darn poor joke, Mr..
freedom of the gallery. I'm earnin'
clerks
downtown he found that the demon
he had once exercised had returned
with all it's relations. The Murray
problem dinged in his ears, and the
fresh Gothic headlines commemorate
ing the purchase of an alderman
sneered at him from his favorite paper.
From that day his unrest became pro-
nounced, and he set himself to re-
viewing men and their motives, until
it was as if he placed everybody on a
pair of moral balances that he might
determine the exact weight of their
dishonesty. The game was unhealthy
but fascinating.
When ne tried the weighing process
on his old friend, State Senator Thorn
berg, that gentleman did not greet his
advances with the gladness one would
expect from man who had once con-
tracted debt that could never be
paid. The call was visibly an unex-
pected one, and the senator could not
refrain from an occasional wiggle in
his conversational machinery. But
when the talk turned into the channel
toward which Rainor had been adroit-
ly working it, Thornberg shut up like
an oyster. Unwittingly Rainor rat
tied on and on, talking first of this bill
and then of that one which had been
lobbied through the last legislature by
means of much money spent on those
whose votes counted. Then, apparent
ly all unthoughtedly, Rainor spoke of
the traction-subsidy BILL
Couldn't you see it was wrong, |
You were honest in your |
vote, of course, but your judgment |
was way off. You should have stood |
for the people. Why didn't your
Thornberg's sputter was reminiscent !
Of the time he picked the winner on .
; college feld-day and lost-Rainor's |
why didn't I, Tom Rainor? Why |
1idn't I? Because I wanted s35, 900.
Though a state senator, I was dis
poor-everything mortgaged
couldn't borrow-no security. l had
committed myself to a promise else
where that had to be upheld by actual
,oin. If I didn't furnish the money
was ruined and others with me
friends who had stayed by me through
hell. The vote was mine to do with
Is I chose. I didn't care for myself;
t was the boys that followed me, and
held up my hands when I needed it.
'fWhy didn't / vote against the ones
Who helped me?"
He repeated the thought again and
lgain. Both men were facing each
,ther; both faces were flushed; both
we're breathing in stertorous gasps.
rhornberg's hand clutched at some
hing knobhy in his coat pocket.
You, Tom Rainor, if you knew ev-
rxyf hi oh haf
cant reason to fling your insult in my
eeth! You were one of the"
but, Thorny," interposed Rainor
mildly as one talking out of a dream,
no matter what your old obligations
o me, l wouldn't want the price of
hem to be your honor"
Honor? Honor! oh, you I'M
empted bird of Paradise. If you ever
-et into the kind of a hole l was in |
QUILL do worse than I did. I know
zen of your type. I knew Murray
e was a friend of mine, too. It was
My a week before he made his get |
way that he sat in that very chair, I
alking about mems duties to each |
ther and to society-said gambling
yas criminal, and wine and women
npardonablel Murray for a preach I
r, Ell? /
"I'll tell you, Rainor, and you can {
pread the news all over the town, I
an be bought if friend suffers for f
hat the price will get him. There'sl
lways a market value!" /
st got your figure too high by mis- r
IKE" Rainor said, in an even voice. {
lie realized that he had found what /
e expected, but he was ashamed and +
,rry. He arose, picked up his hat and G
ane, and went out. For him, it was i
he same as If Thornberg had never
xisted. c
The years were cementing Rainor to v
is task when the long-gathering t
nancial storm burst and the bank &
egan to, rock and totter upon founda- G
ons which were supposed to be I'M y
ssaflable. Wall street, frantic, I'M t
able as a chorus-girl's heart, indi- t
ated the progress of the hurricane. 4
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