The Alaska citizen., 1910-10-17


 h,r. the co>crnor couldn't 20 into everything that was offered to him. aua To ,h.s plan he never urged ane objection but that he had toe u.Any irons in thc fire" wogdut touch it." declared Az n.s. and that was her final argu- m Its. II Joan Bcrnit had de ,lned to go into it. no matter for N.ar rolsou. The pan was not worth considering
 S-iH undecided but carrying seri- ou.'y the thought tha, h" must over ,ouk no opportunity if he was to prove amself the successful man that hi, father had so ardently wish e1 aim 10 become Bobby dropped into the Idlers' Club for lunch. where NI,k AHsJyue and Payne Winthrop hailed him as one returned from ,ae dead
 Just the chap" declared Nick stan Rogers has written me that I'm to scrape the regular crowd to. ee u.r and come up to his new lodge tor auur. Stag affair, you know. Eoa spar, and no pink-coat pre-. .euse.
 sorry. Nl,k.~ said Bobby. plum M4 himself rifle upon his stead. lassuezs to duty. but I know what S;au's sag affairs are like. II would mpau i've weeks al least, and | could aot -pare that much time rom The ,.l"
 Business again. eroaned Payne in mock dismay This grasping sre,d for gain is bIighung the most promising young men of our ayari clou, couutr. Why. it's positively aam,Iu. Bobby. "heu your father aasr baye lett tour over three mil hca
 TWO hundred and fifty thousand 90 .ar d. I'm allowed To inquire just u.v." o5,ley,ea Bobby; and I'm or cea,I To go into business with thaf ana prove that I'm not such a blith cring id.ot thaf can't be trusted with rha rest of il. whatever there i~"
 Hut thought you had your triaL by fire and pulled out of it." inter posed Nick. Il heard that yon haG sold your interests or something and when l saw new sign over the store l knew that il was true Sensible thing. | call it"
 "Sensible," winced Bobby. "You are allowing me a mighty pleasant way out of II, bu, the fact ot the matter iy that I have lost in sucf a stinging way I'm bound ;o ge back into the game and do nothing else untii win" anc he explained how Sias Trimmer had performed upon him neat and delicate oper era ion in commercial surgery.
 They were properly sympathetic not that they cared much about bus mess. but if Bobby had entered any game whatsoever in which he haC beeL sCl ndl; beaten, they coulC qu,te understand his desire to stay in the game until he could show points on the right side
 Nevertheless" Nick urged. 'yol ought to take a little breathing spel in between"
 All through the lunch. and througl the game of billiards which followed they strove to make him see the CT TOT of his ways, but Bobby was ob durate, and at last they gave hin up as bad job. with the grave pre- diction that later he would fnC himself nothing more nor less thal beast of burden When he Jeff them Bobby was surprised at him self. Fer 2 time he had feared thar in his declaration of such close at tentiOn 10 business he might be posing; but he found that to miss stag hunting party. which here tOfOre hgd been one of his keenesr delights. weighed upon him not al all; he found actually that he would far rather stay in the city 10 ell gage in the great game of finance which was unfolding before him, He came upon the surprising discovery while he was on his way across tc side street, where. on the fourth floor of a store and warehouse build ing. he had let himself in at 8 wide door with a latchkey and en tprp1 uyrOpo linn of