The Julesburg grit-advocate., 1914-08-06
BROADWAY JONES
EDWARD F1ARSEALL NTH Ph0ToGRAPHo
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Thanks. Rankin. Yes: I'm going 4
my study. Don't let ne b disturbed.
'I'll not, SIR"
When he left that study" he avoid
ed Rankin. His fingers were ink
stained from calculations. his hair va
quite disheveled. his eyes vers vid,
and rolling. He could - 10 hop,
ahead.
He wrote . letter to his uncle q
planning that Investments had gon,
wrong and that he needed small loal
of nifty thousand dollars for thre,
months. He vas sure that II hs 20
this he would be enabled to ind soma
way out. BY return Of mail he had
an answer In IN envelope which
strangely bulged. He opened 1t viii
trembling fingers and . package o,
Jones' Pepsin Gum fell out.
Chew this and forget It." said the
cheerful note which Uncle Abner had
wrapped round It. II said further:
I'm going to Europe for i've years
Don't bother me again. You've made
you bed. now lie on It."
That vas the last straw. Without
the least idea Of what he wished to
do. the frantic Broadway started out
to hnd some work BY which. At least,
he could earn honestly his board and
keep.
Wall street offered nothing. for when
he went down to So his friends there
his courage failed entirely and instead
OF asking them to And . place for him
he bought them. one by one, expensive
luncheons.
He went to neighboring cities, hop.
ing there to md some means Of Get.
ting food to eat without getting II on
credit. and there he had some strange
experiences which lasted several days.
But. while he Just escaped the uniform
Of the Salvation Army. he did not nnd
work and wandered back to Broadway.
the apartment and more debt,
He had no profession, knew no
trade. Half crazed with the obsession
that he must no longer run In debt.
ne decided to sell out the nat, dis.
charge the servants and do meniaI
labor. Running through the list of
his abilities he decided. with frank
self-contempt. that about the best
which he could do was help in 4 hotel
az bellboy. He know too little about
mathematics to keep books; he never
would succeed ~ desk-clerk, But he
could not bring himself to trv to rat
job Of that sort-it would too often
bring him into contact with the fo,l
he knew.
One afternoon, while wandering in
an aimless funk upon side street he
saw a card in front of an apartment
house announcing that an elevator how
was wanted. He rushed in with alac.
rity and Northumberland at the
very threshold met Mrs. Gerard, who
had been calling on friend there. In.
stead of asking for the Job he took
q drive with her.
1t was while this drive progressed
that the sordid. vicious tempter def.
nitely seized him in his tolls. The an.
cient but vivacious dame was very
anable-most agreeable indeed. She
was not motherly: she was flirtatious
And she accompanied her coquetry by
shrewd exposition of the magnitude
OF her unquestionably enormous
wealth. 1t staggered him.
II he had not at the moment had a
simple little Josie Richards letter in
his pocket he might have been swept
under. A thousand times he had dis.
covered the necessity of assuring him
self. as he travelled up and down
broadway. that he did not care for
Josie Richards. She was not the sort
OF Eirl who captivated one who knew
life as he knew it; she was dear. but
she was simple, unsophisticated and
what he most admired was wide So
phistication; he thought as little of
her as he could, but now she popped
into MS mind and made him edge away
from the aged, wealthy widow.
When he went back to the fiat he