The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-05-31

gideration to the problem of his aunt 1t
his way to consider all his problems
with extreme minuteness and he found
IL it paid And he had problems, too, In
plenty The casual traveller would not
have guessed the village in which Gribber lived
considered-they called it Thorpe Dedham-to be
place where problems were bred put II ne mao
his little farm and his chambers shop. he would
have known better.
Thorpe Dedham was not SO very far from Lon
don, when you found it--after much trouble-on
the map. 1t might have been twenty-five miles,
as the flies, but the quickest journey between
London and Thorpe Dedham, on solid earth, took
The nearest railway station to Thorpe Dedham
BY strict attention to his little problems
Daniel Gribber was doing very well IN his little
The problem o. TO t WORK w ns
usual he solved with comparative ease, for work
was scarce thereabout and the problem Of making
buying articles of whatever quality he chose to
give. for whatever prices he chose to charge. was
not SO difacult az you might expect.
II Gribber's business had been transferred to
America and multiplied by about million, 1t
would have been called trust rSnr As It WAS its
thousands; and Gribber was too busy max
Ing it pay to bother about calling it anything in
His little problems were generally solved on
cept that of getting the local doctor to pay COM
mission his receipts from Gribber's men and
their families. As to that he never forgave the
doctor. It wouldn't have been much, and what
eve, II vas might easily have been added to the
Eudely sssry at the suggestion. Clearly no man
81 bosin~sa
Ana now arose the question of Gribbers aunt.
She was dying, and the problem. of course, was to
make it pay. Aunt Porcher was one of those
hidden Wealth cloudy. INDEFINITE speculative. hid
cen wealth. but wealth undoubtedly. She was
" II Of ma in III and she
IN Gribber's family wealth was counted. as l
have limited, not in thousands. hut in hundreds;
nd WhouG lab cd In wit hor III
able hgure--mentally he labeled everybody with
. probable ngure-he never ventured beyond the
higher hundreds, FOR he had rather superstitious
dread Of expecting too much.
The great danger in the problem Of making
shopxirl in London p who had the sdvantage Of
being nearer the prey: It was because OF this
danger that Gribber yentured the ex1avasanee OF
four and sixpence each time On the first of
these journeys he found his aunt looking exceed
ingy pale. and feeling very bad. 50 that he re-
turned quite happy. being especially encouraged
by his aunt's complaints that her grandniece
less shopgirl failed to come and tend her relation.
in spite of having nearly an hour to herself every
night from the shop only few miles on at Peck
Gribber expressed a proper moral reprobation
OF such sinful callousness, and went away a good
deal happier about his four and sixpence man
of forty whose habits incline him to take vas.
deal Of trouble to gain shilling does not gladly
upon a clear likelihood Of consequent profit.
The second visit was more eventful. The old
gave SO little hope that Grbber grew very hope
full He was rather portentous doctor. far better
GpSber et sm on tbe stairs and in renly to his
INQUIRE: the doctor said:
can conscientiously give you reasonable
pectation OF your aunt's recovery. Hum! When
We have pernicious anaemia in person of your
aunt's age, and when also have concurrently
an enlargement Of the lymphatics OF obscure
tion-hum-then we have not far to look for the
end. Hum! About fortnight. should