The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-14

Mcfu, ana Lne,
With con iderabe 10y. | don't need
to 60 into details; suppose you know
What these stories sound like too welt
10 need to have them repeated But,
fnyEcT, II came oat OF school ow
in3 $4,000. and owing it to the kind
CT people that couldn't possibly tell
my father about Coulcn't speak
about them even.
There We're other debts that he
squared when | graduated. plenty OF
them, But this $4,000 couldn't pos
sibly mention TO him. He would have
kicked me out on my head, and right
ly so II lie had known CT them,
Now, ia got pretty sick OF the
wild young goat sort OF existence BY
this time The knowledge OF those
10000 worth Of / o US hanging
over my head had aobefed me ny
good and plenty, All / wanted to do
was to get back 10 the big works
thU.c IL i5loHsonsilie and work like a
, slave tying TO make good the way a
Bronson should. Oh | was reformed,
all right Yoa know now good black
coffee tastes after night Of il. Well,
] had had ali the nights OF it that |
wanted in my life, and | w>s certain
~ huugering for the black coffee
didn't have another desire .hau to
get to work in the Bronson PLANT and
make good and wanted to DO that
well, il / couldn't do 1t, lifo WASH {
! worth keeping, Oh. | was reformed,
all right, good and plenty
, Well I went back to BronsonyIlla
! ard went TO work, Ard / made good.
| The old man offered to let me start
! in the Office. No | said, plenty OF
time for that after I've gone through
/ the works So / went in the works.
| worked in the foundry department,
| the machine room, the assembly de.
partment. paint shop--all through tho
place---for one solid year made
good. felt | had TO. The old man
was proud Of me, He didn't know
what it was that was drying me to
| make good.
Then ! went into the office and In
| q few months ! was treasurer, ar4 a
| good one. too--tcg few months You
see, these people who held my l. O,
| us w,"a smart. They held Off whilu
| | was working in the works. But the
mirute they heard I'd got to be treas
| urer of the company. down they came
| on me They began to squeeze. Cad!
| gentlemen, you have no idea what
went through for the next six months
| There I was, working my head Off
4 making good, the pride OF my father
an exemplary young man, end taere
1 over my head, hung those awful !. O
4 us that would make me an oUtcaE'
/ the minute they were dropped.
~ couldn't raise $4,000 without
giving soEp explanation for it.
couldn't explain why | wanted it.
suppose you can guess what is com
4 ing? was treasurer Of the company
! had all IT'S funds under my control
without any supervision from any
body. My father trusted me as he did
himself. Nobody to know it--and
always figured would be able to
slip IT back before its absence was
discovered, Yes, II took $4,000
worth OF the FIRMS money and paid
UP those /. O. US that were driving
me crazy.
81 came near getting away with Il
would have done IT but for old Car
berry. Carberry is the. manager o.
cur office. lie started In as an Office
boy for my father when father was
making engines with his own hands
That was As years ago. He's beer
there ever since. Carberry has. He''
fathers confidential man
+, "Ile never had the brains to get in
to the firm lie had hoped TO become
manager some day, but he didn't have
the ability to force himself into th'
Job. That soured him, but he didn'
let father see It,
\ "Well, Carberry got next to my tax
Ing the $4,000 There wasn't any
thing in the office that he wasn't mex
to. AID just as soon as he got mex
to 1t, he had a club over me that III
could brain me with
when | was made manager OF tn
company two years ago. Carberr,
saw his chance He would have beei
made manager himself. probably. If |
hadn't been for me, and 1t was hi
ambition to get that job before b