The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-05-10

l 11SE kliOElNtS were varied anu SUI
! they were unique. She had to wipt
the stain of failure from the nam
of Whiting. She had TO found a new
| dynasty OF success. She wanted t
| prove. someway, that she knew how
She wanted 10 forget, too. that sh'
was a marrying woman. She couldn'
have those Warrener twins under he
nose every day without thinking. And
above all, she wanted to show Billy
Prior that she was right and that h
was wrong. She was there to seize
| opportunity by the forelock with {
grip that was the grip of death it.
self.
'Now!" she exclaimed. with the
same gusto one at Gravesend might
cry: They're off,"
She sat and waited. Then she adj
vertised a bit. Then she sat and
waited some more. Then she adver-
tised again. Business came creeping
in. She took charge of collecting the
rents of three houses whose annual
income was 5000 for the three. Her
| commission was s45 per annum for
that service. She sat and waited.
But she was not idle. like the failures.
Not at all. She began to understand
the real-estate business in all its
/ length and breadth
Il must get my cash to work" she
! assured herself She still had FIVE
/ hundred. dollars Her trick was to
| speculate on her own behalf: not mere
| ~ to get commissions for other peo-
/ pies sales. To buy and sell, herself,
| to get her own profits and to keep
them; to buy at low prices and sell
at high prices; that was the trick.
To deal in equities: that was the
great game, in which the fittest were
sure to survive. She haunted sheriffs
sales and foreclosure-sac She
scanned the papers for business trou-
bles
Going at five hundred and twenty
five" the sheriff cried, Five hundred
and twenty-five. This new, double
decker apartment-house. all improve
ments. near the trolley-five hundred
and twenty-five"
Genevieve paused for an instant
She did nothing in a hurry. There
were a dozen real-estate men about
the room. Billy Prior was one of
them He had been bidding insistent-
ly. But he had dropped out at four
seyenty-five. Somebody else was bid
ding against Genevieve; it was some
body who wanted the apartment
house, unquestionably. Genevieve
smiled to herself. Yes, Billy was
gutter. It was tlE people who stay
ed in the game who won out, after
all
"Going at, five Twenty-Five" ex- /
claimed the sheriff.
Five fifty" whispered Genevieve.
There was a deep silence. Some |
body nodded to the sheriff. The |
sheriff asked for other bids. There |
were none. Genevieve flushed with |
pride. The equity was hers2hers!
Gone at five hundred and fifty, to |
G. whiting" said the sheriff
Prior came over to shake hands
with Genevieve.
You dropped out" said Genevieve..
Prior nodded. IF I could have hadS
it at four fifty" he said. Il knew
where 1 could dispose of it at a hun
dred dollars profit
"A hundred" gasped Genevieve.
why I'm expecting to make half a
thousand on this deal"
.Phew!" whistled Prior, "but you
have luck"
That's what you call it, Billy" she
She flushed with satisfaction. She
was a real-estate woman in dead /
earnest now. She owned an equity. II
She was specializing. And she knew. i
And Billy Prior had gone up there
and done all that bidding just be-
cause he thought he might make fifty
Or a hundred dollars. And his nerve
had forsaken him.
After six months hard work Gene
We've unloaded her bargain at profit
Of twenty-three dollars and fifty cents.
Things had gone wrong, somehow.
TT was one of Harrington's new 4
houses. you know" other real-estate
men told her, land you know Harri1g-
ton squeezes 'em dry before they leave
MS hands. Steer clear of Harrington.
You were lucky to get out whole.
"Such darned luck she thought to
herself.
But it was all right. 1t was ex-
And she had sold the house
o Billy Prior. That was one satisfac-
ion. If Harrington had stuck her,
Why. she had-wen. not stuck Billy:
out Billy was a fool for buying such |
Tn elephant.
Geo. Billy informed her, after |
light more months, "it took work, I |
ell you, for me to sell that place
gain. Only made five hundred on it,
90. It kept me awake nights, I can
ell you"
Genevieve investigated, and-wilted.
Yes. Billy had made the half thou /
and all right. Why hadn't she held
n? But she was through with new
ouses. Her eyes were wide open. New
ouses We're built to sell. But old ones
-eren't. People wanted new houses.
Nobody wanted old houses. Genevieye
rent, personally, into good neighbour
GODS. respectable side streets. where
roperty was worth fifty dollars q
cot. and picked out the most disrep-
table looking shanties she could
nd. She selected the big, roomy
ouses that needed shinglfng and re-
ainting and plumbing She bought
ne. the worst of the lot by its APP
and put carpenter and
lumber and a painter at work upon
. Inside of two months cit looked
ew. Genevieve sold it at once. and
lade four hundred and thirty-five dol
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