The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-06-06

ohu HuVh lITllateu against MIN, L
guess yon want to see our cashier"
said !, after giving him hasty, abb
sent-minded hand-shake My boy out
there will take you to him"
The old do-nothlng's face lost it's
confident condescending expression.
His lip quivered, and | think there
were tears in his bad, dim gray-green
eyes suppose he thought his a pro-
foundly pathetic case; no doubt he
hadn't the remotest conception what
he really was-and no doubt, also,
there are many who would honestly
take his view. AS If the fact that he
was horn with all possible advantages
did not make him and his plight mex.
cusable
No, my dear Blackjack" said he,
bringing now as easily as he had con-
decentralization to cringe and bow to
condescend are taught at the same
school, the one he had gone to all his
life. 1t is you l want to talk with.
And, first. | owe you my apologies. I
know you'll make allowances for one
who was never trained to business
methods I've always been like child
In those matters"
l. You brighten me-" said I. THE
last gentleman who came throwing
me off my guard with that plea was
shrewd enough to get away with a
very large sum of my hard-earned
money Besides"-and was laugh
ing, though not too good-naturedly-
i've noticed that you gentlemen be-
come vague about business only when
the balance is against you. When it's
In your favor. you manage to get your
minds on business long enough to col
lect to the last fraction of cent"
/, He heartily echoed my laugh. 81
only wish were clever" said he
However, I've come to ask your In
' diligence. I'd have been here before,
+. but those who owe me have been put.
ting me off. And they're of the sort
OF people whom it's impossible to
press
I'D like to accommodate you fur
Their" said |, shedding that last little
hint as cliff sheds rain, but your
account has been in an unsatisfactory
state for nearly month now"
I'm sure you'll give me a few days
longer was his easy reply, as If we
were discussing trifle. by the way
you haven't been to see us yet. Only
this morning my wife was wondering
when you'd come. You quite captt
waited her, Blackjack. Can't you dine
with us tomorrow night-no, Sunday
at ergnt? We're having in few
| I ;,,lr 4
Glad to come" said l, wishing to bt
, rid of him, now that my point wa,
gained. Well let the account stant
4 open for the present. rather thinl
your stocks are going up Give my re
CARDS to-the ladies', please. especial.
to Miss Anita"
He WINGED, but thanked me grac
iously; gave me his soft, fine hand t
= shake and departed, as eager to be OF
, as TO be rid of him. Sunday next
at eight" were his last words. Don
fail us"-that in the tone of king &C
dressing some obscure person whoI
he had commanded to court 1t ma
be that old Ellersly was wholly uncor
scious of his superciliousness fancie
he was treating me as If were a
most an equal; but suspect he rattle
accumulated his natural manner. wit
the idea of impressing upon me tina
in our deal he was giving at least q
much as |.
My petty and inevitable success
with that helpless creature adde
amazingly, ludicrously, to that dal
gerous citation which, as | can no
see, had been growing in me eve
since the day Roebuck yielded so rea
lily to my demands as to National Goa
The whole trouble with me was thi
up to that time had won all my vi
tories by the plainest kind of straigh
away hard work. | was imagining IN
self victor in contests of wit again
wit, when, in fact, no one with al
especial equipment of brains had ev'
opposed me; all the really strong me
had been helping me because the
found me useful. But for my Sc
hypnotism in the case of Roebuck,
find no excuse whatever for myself
, He sent for me and told me VIII
share in National coal they had
cided to give me for my Manasqua
ne mines. "Langdon and Melville" sa
NV he, think me too liberal; far too II
eral, my boy. But insisted-in yo
case felt we could afford to be ge
erous as well as just" All this wi
an air that was a combination of d
pastor and the parent
'hs can't even offer the excuse of n
Jul having seen that he was hypocri'
Gu felt his hypocrisy at once, and n
III first impulse was to jump for n
ei' breastworks But instantly my vani
OPP got behind me, held me in the ope
iey pushed me on toward him. II you W
los notice, almost all confidence" gam
iau rely for success chiefly upon enlisti
'aS a mans vanity to play the traitor
eii' his judgment So, instead of readi
'l his liberality as plain proof OF inter
no' ed treachery, ! read it as plain pre-
of nv own greatness, and OF the fe