Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-11-19
CHAPTER V.
HAGGLEToN AT WORK.

that. Two dollars will suffice for me.
MY clothes / can sell and buy q suit
more fitting for penniless man look
Ing for a Job. The difference In price
/ will add to my capital. You VIII
have to explain me to Moran ana
make him take me as boarder. am
Mr.. Jackson, small business man
rIined by the trust"
Then he added to Philip:
"Call my secretary"
The man entered hastily.
81 wish to be alone with Mr. Grimes
for few moments"
Philip and Gentle withdrew.
"Sit down." motioned Haggleton.
Grimes looked at his watch. The
Yacht was to sail in twenty minutes
he demonstrated. "You will lose the
tide"
Pm not going on the yacht
"Ah. Then I'm to countermand the
sailing ordersY'
81 mean that the yacht goes, but
stay here-here in this tenement. I'm
going to live here"
Gam to sail on the yacht"
"Of course. You will take my orders
and see that they are executed. shall
write a note for the captain. telling
him to carry out exactly the instruc-
tons already agreed upon
"For q three months cruiser
YES. See to 1t that the news does
not get out that l am not ON board.
Down here there's not one chance In
thousand that / will be discovered,
and-Grimes, l have another reason
for wanting every one to think me
aboard the yacht"
another reason besides - besides
your sonT'
eyes. You know how Bates went of
yesterday. He hates me-hates me
and he'll pay up somehow, but he'll
never stop fighting. Grimes. as soon
as those fellows know I'm away they'll
start some new deviltry against me,
and"-he leaned forward-"it might
be amusing and profitable to be right
here IN Manhattan watching them"
Haggleton opened the door.
"Come In, please he called.
Gentle and Philip entered.
The old man sat at the bare wooden
table and rapidly wrote his lnstruc-
lions. Then he sealed them and adj
dressed the envelope. There; l think
that's ALL" he concluded, giving 1t to
Grimes, who departed
A remarkable change had come over
Haggleton. His eyes were alert, his
face firm, but good natured. He
seemed pleased with himself and with
things in general. Philip observed this
with surprise.
Haggleton looked Philip straight in
the eyes.
81 have told you that am going to
show you what John J. Haggleton
would do II he had to hustle In ten
ement."
He now turned to Gentle and began
to fire rapid questions at him. Moran
A morose man, who ascribed his fall
ure to the iniquity Of a trust. Quite
so. After bis first failure he had sim
ply stopped struggling? Just so. He
was bakers assistant? Could he get
"Mr. Jackson" a place in the bakery?
Mr.. Jackson thought that he would
like to have a0try at the bakery bust
ness. Jenny? Hard working, but over
whelmed by her dispiriting environ
ment and the privations Of poverty.
Just as he thought.
Joe Caffrey? Shiftless? Unmoralf
Well, well. Joe must become their
charge.
In ten minutes John J. knew oil he
cared to know. AS In the organization
OF his gigantic undertakings, so now
here In this hovel, he had begun by
gauging the possibilities Of those with
whom he would have to deal. He had
watched his son and seen the look OF
interest. growing into admiration, upon
his face. Yes, he had made a good be-
ginning.
Haggetn rose and took final turn
Of the room.
when came here nearly forty
years ago." he announced. this was
clean district. Now it Is a dirty one.
American cleanliness has been sub
merged by foreign shiftlessness. With
In week | will have this home of
native Americans as neat as a New
England farmhouse"
Where was he to sleep? Joe CAT
frey would be Philips guest for day
or twoI All right. That nurse had
said that the children ought to be N
a hospital? Gentle would see to 1t
that they went that very day and got
their fathers consent? All right.
Gentle went on his mission, Haggle-
ton accompanying him to sell his
clothes and buy cheaper ones.
Jenny returned home with her. bas-
ket Of images and welcomed an'~dddi-
ton to their resources in the, form OF
q boarder who would be far less trou-
BILE than the two children and more
profitable. y Mr.. Jackson, Philip In
formed her, had seen better days-in
fact, until quite recently he had lived
in casy circumstances 80.