The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1910-11-11

each other mn WINS theirs. Spuoncr, with
his natural enthusiasm. expected this:
Gibson. with II certain longhend edness
or horse sense. knew that II could not
be. There was nothing to bring tho
two women ogcther-indeed. there
was that to drive them apart. Each
wife was jealous OF tho influence ex-
ertcd by her husbands friend. at In
singular" Mrs Spooncr would shy.
fellow You are more capable In every
way" And Mrs. Gibson would say,
Your friend Spooner looks down on
YOU; lie considers himself vastly your
superior"
Spooner made money 40 fast that the
very rnpldity OF his Accommodations &C.
celebrated his nccumulative desires, Just
as II man owning nm automobile that
will do forty miles mn hour desires one
that Will do sixty. One morning the
newspapers announced the failure OF
II large and long established banking
house II wns the signal gun for the
opening uf commercial panic. The
house nf Spounrr & 60 went down IN
the crash ana the head Of The firm was
obliged Ia take the heurlit of the bank
ruptry law.
For two 90 three luars values
shrank. Gibson who hnd saved or,
rather whose wife hnd saved cunsld.
ernhlc money. snw nm opportunity to
buy property cheap and made Invest
mcnts which when the financial pen
hulum swung 10 the other extreme
hndc him rich. Meanwhile Spooner
was freeing himself from the wreck OF
his business and when he lud done 80
found himself more than forty yenrs
old without the physical energy Of
youth with which To make II new he.
ginning and without u dollnr Of cup.
ital.
His old friend called on him and
said.
bob, | can let you huyo $4,000 on
Il nominal interest and without secu-
rlly. would double It; but, you see.
my wife aud children hive their claim
On me. nnd don't feel TINT have the
''ph' 10 Il" more
Sp"oher Grhsp'd his frlehdS hand,
but said nothing for II time, then told
Gibson hr would consider tho matter.
When Mrs Spoonnr heard OF the offer
she advised her husband to nccept Il,
hut showed such untugOnism to tho
donor TINT Spouner resolved TO decline
the loan. Indeed, the sum was not
large enough To nut him on hIs feet M
be wished md he prefprred 10 manIp.
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mad off,rt nm thc nnrt Of thc Spooners
IN nnunt their posilIon I'm the face of
,ho t,Ibu,ns- TINT la ON the pnrt Of
Mrs. Spooncr. Whnt her husband did
was IuspIrcd by her But this Gibson
didn't know. and he felt his old
friends nningOnlsm keenly The
Spooners grew richer. md tho richer
they grew the more they snubbed the
Glbsons. Mrs. Spooncr'S chief desire
seemed TO he 10 make them under
stand Tint VIM" they hhd 'h"uHhhhs
the Spooncrs Ind mllliohs ma thh'
there was us wide difference IN 'ho
social position OF III" Two ihini,ieS nv
there was In th''r h''"n'h' ioS'.'oh'
And 80 u cam" li'"t Tue Two ''''"'"
drlf'cd hpnrl. nom ro''''h '''.' n"''
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Ind my uSe Tor tue money u" hhu
nccuinu'n'"h p'!""" o"'' ns'"s.