The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-05-18
Hy noNAIn ALLEN,


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tCopy wright. 1911, by Associated
Literary Press
The trouble with Mr.. Fred Watson,
bachelor and thirty years old. was
that no one took him seriously. He
had a fair income. and he was indo-
lent. For years and years he had
been going to do this or that--some-
thing to mako the world sit UP and
think--but he had gone on doing
nothing. 1t had come about thai he
had many friends and fcw believers,
Mr.. Watson had decided that he
was in love with a certain young lady.
She could not believe that lac was
sincere and married another. Three
months later he was lust as much m
love with another, and receiving no
more credit
Mrs. James Renfew, young widow.
WAS MIR. Watson's second cousin. lie
had fallen in love and proposed mat
rimeny three different times before
her marriage TO Mr.. Renfew. A year
after the cousin had been left widow
he proposed again. lie was just 90
serious as he rad been on the other
occasions Bc was Just as certain
IN his own mind that marriage Was
the thing for him.
1t was we'll for the bachelor that
he had q fixed income. and that he
could anticipate none of il in advance.
lie was known as an easy mark in
fact, he was SO easy that on one
occasion a Eet-rich-qulCk man had
returned his money with a note say
ing that hc did not take the none,
from children.
The cousin had expected the fourth
proposal, aud when II came she an
swered;
Fred il is not probable l shall
ever marry again, but II | do It will
be 10 a financier. / have always had
an admiration tor that class of men
The newspapers Gail them wolves and
all that but "A man who can beat
Wall street has brains. Think of a
man acquiring an old railroad nifty
miles long and turning it into a trunk
line reaching from ocean 10 ocean
Think of man consolidating half a
dozen starving corporations into one
that pays thirty per cent dividends
Think
II shall do the same or BETTER
calmly announced Mr. Watson
You poor child exclaimed the
cousin as she laughed In his face
Why Fred. il you were hnancfer
enough to buy forty bushels of pota
toes at forty cents q hushei you'd sch
them At the first offer Of thirty five"
Cousin, / shall become "a grear
financier.'
when
Right away. You admire Nnan.
GERS. and therefore ] shall take ur
that line. When | have shown you
that I am - success at ii ! shall hope
for your hand, what do you say
Il don't <5rbid YOU to hope. bu,
nov don't go eff and ioso all 70,
have. Your tine is being indoIent and
good naturer', Don't change it
Bat ] am nm longer indolent.
Since when ?"
Halt AN hour ago. Now that
have hope To sustain me ] am COINS
te hustle Monday j start for the
West to begin my financiering.
shall take up mines. You have made
money in them, Why shouldn't I?''
Fred Watson don't be an idiot"
was the exclamation. Why They'll
skin you out of your patrimony in =
week, My investments were made
hy sharp lawyer, and though I have
had some big dividends, / don't fee
safe. Gracious. but You arc the last
man who should think of going
there
III they can beat the fnancier they
are welcome to- The tiuAncier will
he working for the heart and hand oil
his dear cousin He now has some
thing to strive for. For the first time
sn his life he feels that he has struck
his gait. Mr. Easy Mark sheds his
name"
Mrs Ranfrew advanced other argu-
ments and besought the interference
Of mutual friends, hut Mr.. Watson
was obdurate. No one had ever found
him SO determined He departed on
the day set. and IN due time another
sendeffoots arrived in Nevada. He ar
rived there because the train did, and
because Providence guided him.
When he reached his objective
rninf the Emma mine. from which