The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-03-31

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That's my motto, Mr.. Felix Boyd
Look out for number one. Take care
of yourself and let others do the same.
That's a good enough doctrine for me
TO follow, and it ought TO be good
enough FOR any man. So tits, too if his
brains are not bran. Look out for your
self-always!"
lie was a familiar figure i'm and
about Wall street in those days. the
man who thus declared himself one
morning IN the Pine street Office of Mr..
Felix Boyd. To be Familiarity regarded
IS not always to be favora bly, regard
ed, however, and MIR. Benjamin Hislop.
VINO far more generally was referred TO
as old Ben HisiOp, was by no means a
Iavorite with man. woman or child
For no ScroOge was ever more tight
listed and cOvetOus. No Shylock was
ever more merciless and exacting
Hard as flint, cold as steel as greedy
as Vulture. and not unlike one in
aspect. manner and methods Hisl0p
had clawcd his way through nearly
seventy years OF life, a hanger-On in
Wall street a piker known in every
brokers' Office below the dead-iiue. Il
trader Of the herring and Sculpin class
too crafty and mean TO be caught for
much, and often too cautious for his
g oRn advaEtage.
such men have only left-handed
friends Whenever HislOD was favored
with tip 20 buy the market, the mar
ket was Invariably a good, safe sell.
Many years before. some eighteen or
twenty, Hislop had been i'm the bottfiug
business III "a small way, with quarters
Hf, "a damp, old cellar, where he en-
41loEed- l4stff-a-dozeEt- ul=raid. ilI-fed,
SpiritlesS BOYS, by whom he was
heartily hated and thoroughly feared
one day he conceived the idea that Il
man both cautions and patient could
BEAT the stock marker. and from that
dQy he gave mp the bottling business
probably To the ultimate benefit of his
deJect hirel1ugS, if not to his own.
.srom under his brovs for several
Ileoments Mr.. Felix Boyd gazed silently
dt this mana nervous, narrow. Cada-
Nereus little fellow. with eyes that We're
never. still. with hands that were al
WAYS, restless. with a figure somewhat
bsWed and almost invariably clad i'm a
SUM- Ot rUSty-brown corduroy. Boyd
knew him well enough by sight and
name. Yet never before had he set foot
i'm Bayd's office.
Despite that most of the facts were
Widely, published at the time, and that
many of them are still remembered, no
clTonicler of the exploits of Mr.. Felix
Boyd could well pass over the shock
lES Collamorc murder case. in the in
vestigation of which Boyd figured with
even more than characteristic bril-
liaaey. The affair occurred in the
month at December, during Il prolonged
spell of unseasonably warm and murky
weather. and Boyd's part in the case
had its beginning with the entrance of
HIslop into his office early that morn
ing.
Yours is not a very generous doc
trine. Hislcp. on my word" Felix Boyd
presently rejoined, with a contempt
uOus stare through the smoke from his
brier. zone too selhshly actuated fire.
quentiy gets bit"
"oh. I've been bit times enough, Mr..
Boyd. cried Hislop bitterly. wagging
his head and working Jerkily from one
foot To the other. TOO many times
I've been lit, sir; bit hard and deep.
Yer many time, too, I have bit back, !
make no mistake about that. I'm one
who bites back. sir. never doubt it."
Nor do |, Hislop, by any means,
said Boyd dryiy
Il don't mean To get bit again. how
ever. if | can help it, I'm getting too /
old tC take very long chances. and well /
] know IT, So / keep an open eve. Mr.. |
Boyd always. and look out for myself. !
That's my motto sir. as 1 said in the |
beginning.''
And is it to look cut for yourself in
SOME way, Mr.. Hisiop. that YOU have
called upon NE this morning2" asked |
Boyd quite pOintedly. If so. old man. |
l think ia better be guarded"
jSe, no, it's not that-nothing of the /
sort cried Hisl0p hastily There's /
nothing involved in it for YOU. nor for /
meG Directly. I'm striving only To /
serve another"
Hunrph! 1t strikes me- that you've /
suddenly taken the other side of theI
fence grOwled Boyd. who had no
fancy for his despicable visitor What 1
do you want here?"
Il want your opinion of a certain
party" said Hislop, now tmcturing his 1
request with a mingled snarI and
whine. You know everybody about /
Wau street or it's said you do. and
you,rf a man of sood, sound Judgment.
want to know what you think of a |
certain man.
Boyd's brows dropped consciously |
over his keen gray eyes.
What man?" he asked coldly.
His name is Herbert Janway-bet- /
ter known as BERTHE Janway.'
a clerk for David COIlamOre. bond
broker, of Beaver street,"
That's the young man." cried His |
Top promptly.
We'll. before I tell you what I know
OF young JanNay, suppose you tell me j
why YOU call here TO ask about him" |
said BOYD cuTtly.
"only because I think you can best |
inform ma"
"oh, / don't mean that. Mr.. Hislop. |
and sgell You know il. / first wish TO 1
know the occasion of your interest in /
Janway."
Interest. is it," snarled Hislop CAP
tiouslv. I've no interest III him. the 4
devil take him. If he'd keen alOcf from
me and mine. I'd never trouble him. He /
wants to marry my daughter and she
him.. the headstrOng Jade. and it's only /
with tooth and nail that [ can prevent /
H."
He had married after turning 80. this
man HisloD. and his wife lived but a
year. Some wondered that she lasted i
as long as that and openly declared /
that a woman who could live with His
lop could live with a wolf. One daugh-
ter was the fruit of the marriage. how
ever, and she had grown 10 as lovely
and lovable a girl as ever carried a
fan. People said she took after her
mother. and that there was none of
fIislop in her. and it's odds they were