The Mobridge news. [volume] (Mobridge, Walworth Co., S.D.) 190?-1917, 1914-09-11
WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
FROM SCENES IN THE PLAY
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! Thanks, Rankin. Yes: I'm going &c
my study. Don't let me be disturbed
III rot, sir"
When he left that study" he avoid
ed Rankin. Ills fingers were ink.
stained from calculations, his hair was
quite disheyeled, his eyes were wide
and rolling. lie could see no hope
| ahead.
He wrote a letter to his uncle ex-
plaininS that investments had gone
wrong and hat he needed a small loan
OF fifty thousand dollars for three
months. lie was ure that If he got
this he would be enabled TO find some
way out. BY return OF mail he had
an answer in an envelope which
strangely bulged. He opened It with
trembling fingers and q package Of
Jones Pepsin Gum fell out.
Chew this and forget it," said the
cheerful note which Uncle Abner had
wrapped round it. 1t said further:
I'm going to Europe for five years.
va = DCNi4tl iHC dSdin. lou We NGUP
you bed, now lie on IT,"
That was the last straw. Without
the least idea Of what he wished to
do, the frantic Broadway started. ont
TO find some work by which, at least.
he could earn honestly. his board and.
keep.
Wall street offered nothing, for when,
ne went down to see his friends there
MS courage failed entirely and instead
OF asking them to find a place for him
he bought them, one by one, expensive
luncheons. go"
He went to neighboring cities. hos
ing there to find some means OF get
ting food to eat without getting 1t on
credit, and there he had some strange
experiences which lasted several DAYS.
But, while he just escaped the uniform
or the Salvation Army. he did not find
work and wandered back TO Broadway.
the apartment and more debt. : 4""
lie had no profession, knew no
trade. Half crazed with the obsesSion
that he must no longer run in debt
he decided to sell out the fat die.
charge h servants and do inenial
labor. Running through the list Of
his abilities he decided, with frank
sel-contempt, that about the hest
which he could do was help in 4 hotel
as bellbOy. He knew too little ahou.
mathematics to keep books; he never
would succeed as desk-clerk. But he
could not bring himself to try to get
a job OF that sort-it would TOO often
bring him into contact with the folk
ne knew.
One afternoon, while wandering IN
an aimless funk upon a side street no
saw a card in front of an apartment
house announcing that an elevator bow
was wanted. He rushed in with alac-
rity did observation-disclosures at the
very threshold met Mrs. Gerard who
had been calling on a friend there. In.
stead OF asking for the Job he took
a 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
affable-most agreeable indeed. She
was not motherly; she was nirtatious.
And she accompanied her coquetry by
a shrewd exposition of the magnitude
or her unquestionably enormous
It staggered him.
II he had not at the moment had a
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
that he did not care for
Josie Richards. She was not the sor,
Girl who c~aptivated one who knew
life as he knew it; she was dear, but
she was simple. unsophisticated and
he most admired was wide So
he thought rs little of
her as he could, but now she popped
into his mind and made him edge away
from the aged, wealthy widow.
When he went back to the fat he