Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-01-31

tue was nothing to brag about. 1t
was easy to be good when not ex-
posed to temptation But for those
born with the devil in them it came
hard. u was all a matter of heredity
and influence. Ones vices as we'll as
| ones virtues are handed down to us
ready made. He had no doubt that
in the Jeffries family somewhere in the
| unsayory past there had been weak,
vicious ancestor from whom he had
inherited all the traits which barred
his way to success.
The crowds of hungry workers grew
| bigger every minute Every one was
elbowing his way into neighboring
| restaurants, crowding the tables and
| Bullets, all eating voraciously as they
talked and laughed. Howard was
rudely reminded by inward pangs that
he, too, was famished. Not a thing
had passed his lips since he had left
home in Harlem at eight o'clock that
morning and he had told Annie that
he would be home for LUNCH. There
was no use staying downtown any
longer For three weary hours he had
trudged from Office to Office seeking
employment, answering advertise
ments, asking for work of any kind,
ready to do no matter what, but all to
no purpose. Nobody wanted him at
| any price. What was the good of
man being willing to work If there
was no one to employ him? A nice
! lookout certainly. Hardly a dollar
left and no prospect of getting any
more He hardly had the courage to
return home and face Annie. With a
muttered exclamation of Impotence
| he spat from his mouth the half-con-
sumed cigarette which was hanging
from his lip, and crossing Broadway,
walked listlessly in the direction of
Park place
He had certainly made mess of
ago, what a brilliant future life
seemed to have in store for him! No
| boy had ever been given a better
| start. He remembered the day he
left home to go to Yale; he recalled
| his fathers kind words of encour-
agement, his mothers tears. All, if
| his mother had only lived! Then,
maybe, everything would have been
! different But she died during his
| freshman year, carried off suddenly
| by heart failure. His father married
| again, Young woman 20 years his
! Junior, and that had started every
/ thing off wrong The old home life
! had gone forever. He had felt like
! am intruder the first time he went
! home and from that day his fathers
roof had been distasteful to him. Yes,
! that was the beginning of his hard
luck. He could trace all his misfor-
| tunes back to that. He couldn't stand
| for stepmOther, a naughty, selfish,
| supercilious. ambitious creature who
/ had little sympathy for her predeces-
sor's child. and no scruple in show
( ing it.
Then. at college, he had met Robert
| Underwood, the popular upper class
man. who had professed to take
great fancy to him. He, a timid young
! freshman. was naturally flattered by
/ the friendship OF the dashing, fascinat-
/ ing sophomore and thus CONNIE need
| that unfortunate intimacy which had
/ brought about the climax to his tTou-
bles. The suave. amiable Underwood,
whom he soon discovered to be gen
1 tlemanly scoundrel, borrowed his
i money and introduced him into the
sporty" set. an exclusive circle into
which, thanks to his liberal allowance
/ from home, he was welcomed with