The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1908-11-26

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knows where they enlisted the serv-
ices OF as pretty a woman as ever
rode down Fifth avenue.
In a few days she appeared at the
hotel in which the great capitalist
made his home. She was beautiful
enough to be conspicuous in any com
pany-difident enough To make her
attraceiveness compelling. She neither
sought nor declined introductions to
others, passing her time as any well
bred woman in ~affluent circumstances
might wish to do. AS good an auto
mobile as is made in France took her
from and to the hotel. And the car
bore her monogram.
Her life in this hotel was destined
to be marked by two great days, and
it was six months before the first one
came. On that day she was intro
duced to the man on account OF whom
some one had bought all her fashiona.
BILE gowns and finery, her motor car
and paid her hotel bills. She chatted
with him for ten minutes and then
babe him good evening, just as his in
terest in her was ascending by leaps
and bounds. The next day he asked
her to ride with him through the park,
and she politely declined.
For three months this handsome
young feminine person played with
this wise gentleman in much the same
name that a cat would toy with a
mouse it intended ultimately to eat.
Little by little she let it be known
she was a widow. Reared by an in
dulgent father, all she had known
about money was that it was made in
the mint and her papa got it. Nor did
her husband force upon her more
definite knowledge Of the manner in
which dollar bills are nursed into tens
and tens into hundreds.
Where "Advice" Was Not Taken.
Then death came upon their happy
home, and in a ~twinkling the respon-
sibilities of a large fortune were
thrust upon her. She disliked these
burdens so. She was never trained
to bear them, she had neither aptitude
nor liking for such tasks, and she was
in constant fear Of tumbling into pit
falls.
The gentleman was duly sympathet-
ic. To the best of his limited ability
he would at any time instruct her.
Was she at hat time contemplating
any investment about which he might
enlighten her? She was not.
This knew what to door,
rather she had been told what to do.
Her employers wished to know
whether it was her intention OF the
gentleman to force a certain stock to
a still higher ~figure-it was then high
to let it sag back. She bided
her time until she believed the right
moment had come and hen edged
around to the subject. A transaction
that need not be entered into here
had left her several thousand dollars
which she desired to %reinvest. Would
the gentleman advise her to buy stock
in his big concern at its present high
pricef ,
He ought to have known better, but
he didn't. He fell" for the wild
ow's" query without a "premonition OF
danger. And he told her only what
he honestly believed, but what he
knew to be true. The price Of the
stock was to be slaughtered in a few
weeks.
She thanked him and did not invest.
Neither did her employers. More than
that, they sold what they did have.
And what they saved by getting out
while the price was high made the
cost of paying the widows" expenses
for six months look like a rain check
beside a thousand dollar bill.
Another business man sent a mes
senger to request the chief Of a pri-
vate detective agency to call on lin.
'T want to find out" said he, what
So-and-So is going to do with such
and-such a property. He is the hard
est man in the world to get any in
formation from. But he's got a daugh-
ter who can talk like a p~honograph.
Furthermore, l think that girl Of his
knows what he's up to all the m
AS nearly as | can find out she's the
only one he confiGes in--she winds
him around her finger if she ANTS to.
Now, what | want 0 to do is
this: There are a 10 of young men
without much ear in this town
whose social position is just as good
as So-and-So's and his daughters.
consent to go on this case. I'll put up
all the money he needs to make good
with the girl. And | want you 20 have
him go after her as If she were the
only girl he had ever loved. If he has
to let him even propose to her--he
needn't marry her if he doesn't want
to-but If she has the information |
want he must get It,
The chief politely declined, and the
case went elsewhere, If it went any.
where.