The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-08-01

d 1t is past a doubt that she sank like
d stone in deep water and took thos
G poor fellows down with her"
n 1T is horribly sad, especially whe
h one remembers what I heard thi
morning. Hamilton, the girl Mr.. Cam
bel went wild about six years ago, i
d u in Florida this minute and free
@ DuNernay, the man she married, die
q SIX months ago of malarial fever. Yol
o know, Mr.. Cambel was engaged to he
e just after he left Cambridge and wen
as an attache INC was desperatel,
1 FOND or her, as l imagined he could be
and when her people forced her int,
marrying the other fellow he threw VI
! his post and wandered into all the mos
, out OF the way corners Of the earth t.
? try to forget things. What makes m,
SO interested is this: I've just found GU
mat she was A Miss Mabel Kildare be.
fore she was married, and when / wa!
y a child | used to know her sister Elsie
very well indeed. In fact, I believe we
were some sort of cousins, and for hal,
a year we had the same g%overness to.
gether n were as intimate as two
children could be. Then her sister mar
REQ Mr.. DuVernay, who had a colonia
appointment, n Elsie went with then
abroad, and we dropped completely out
or touch with n another. Strange
isn't 1t. that l should e of her agair
the same day that brings news of poor
Nh. Cambel's death?"
Its a small world this said Fafr-
FAX scntenttously. and condolences are
the commonest things in it. l sup
pose In a novel the pair of them ought
to nave come together and forgiven the
past and married and settled down in
a villa residence, with ivy and clematis
attachment, and lived happily aver at
terward. Unfortunately real life is
balder and far less romantic"
You seem out of spirits" said his
rancee, linking her fingers over his
arm.
Il suppose I am. To begin with this
Port Edes business isn't calculated to
enliven one, and the on the top of that
I've a another taste of your blessed
guardians business methods which
nave nearly sickened me out of the Of
fee altogether. You know about this
Brothers Steamship company which he
is trying to float? 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 sprinkling of shippers out of
work II other ~seafaring folk who had
saved a trifie 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.
n their confidence in the man seemed
TO be strengthened. He followed his
up with u clever speech about the pro-
hts 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 s~hipn1asters
n 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 n OF their vessels who was rot
an actual shareholder Of the company.
And then he pointed that there was
an s per e dividend guaranteed on
preference stock and 2 certain IS psr
cent or Is per cent on the ordinary
and wound up with another dose of
cant The company. he said. would
not De alone content with earning in
come for Its bondhol5ers. Ii would
nave as its equal object the spreading
OF the gospel and e e~IvfIizattor OF
England to the utrerrras1st parts Of the
globe.
h the meeting chesress and
amended n wrote out an application
Tor 10000 e5 shares then and there in
the room on forms which were haade<t
round, and when IT dispersed MFR.
Theodore Shelf and I drove bacx to the
offices.
Look here I said to him you've
put me down on the directorate OF this
thing. with a salary OF sT.Gas a ysar. I
want to resign.
What on earth for-
Oh. shall we say I haven't surf-
cient money loose to take up enough
sharesg
But he said quickly, yea needn't
take up any. You can draw your first
quarters salary and q tina back to
the companyn bankers on your first
call. h will qualify you.
NO., I said. Tn not going to do
that I'm going to be mixed up with
this new company In no degree what
ever Flatly. ! don't believe in the
thing one bit. It's a notorious fact that
freights are SO low Just now that thou
Sands OF tons OF shipping are laid up
~ you put more In commission freights
VIII tumble down still lower
speak from your ignorance he
said I should remind you that /
am by Tar an older man and have a
muc deeper experience. The business
o. Marrnaduke Rivers & Shelf is a last
ing monument OF what my humble
talents can accomplish and you will
come day see for yourself the newer
company on an equal footing. Did YOU
not notice what enthusiastic confidence
In Its prosperity those humble friends
VI Hhlne 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 stockholders
circular II only there were a text at the
head of the page
Shelf pulled the check string ana
MS rseugham stopped against the curb.
Mr.. Fairfax he said your attitude
pains M 4et US part here for the
time. and let US beth pray that when
y we meet you ma be III a more
ChTistiea mind whereupon out.I step
PED and came along here to Park lane.
Amy, dear. | don't ike the look Of
Things at all. The other business-the
Oceanic Steam Transportation com
Eany as II is called officially-is by no
g In a healthy condition, and re-
membering that 1t seems to me that
starting this new company is something
very nearly approaching a swindie /
neiieve that Theodore Shelf, knowing
Itnat he Is in low water, is getting des-
I don't know about the last.s re-
piled the girl sthoughtfully: ..but, as fer
being IN low water. there i think YOU
are wrong. Every week here
they seem to spend more money
2 they did the week before.
Mrs.. Shelf was at a. picture sale yes
teraay n bought two old masters at: