The Caldwell watchman. (Columbia, La.) 1885-1946, 1914-03-27

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Thanks, Rankin. Yes; I'm going to
my study. Don't let me be disturbed
I'll not, sir"
When he left that Study" he avoid.
ed Rankin. His fingers were ink.
stained from calculations, his hair was
quite disheveled, his eyes were wide
and rolling. He could see no hone
ahead.
He wrote a letter to his uncle OK.
planning that Investments had gone
wrong and that he needed small loan
of fifty thousand dollars for three
months, He was sure that if he cot
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 a 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.
Don't bother me again. You've made
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 out
to find some work by which, at least,
he could earn honestly his board and
keep.
Wall street offered nothing, for when
he went down to see his friends there
his courage failed entirely and instead
of asking them to find place for him
he bought them, one by one, expensive
luncheons.
He went to neighboring cities, hop.
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
. of the Salvation Army, he did not fine
work and wandered back to Broadway
the apartment and more debt.
He had no profession, knew NJ
, trade. Halt erazed with the obsessio,
, that he must no longer run in debt
he decided TO sell out the fiat, dis
charge the servants and do menia
! labor. Running through the list O
y his abilitiei he decided, with fran
;. self-contemF, that about the bes
which he Gould do was help in a hote
as bellboy. He knew too little abou
q mathematic to keep books; he neve
y would succeed as desk-clerk. But h
could not Hing himself to try to &c
r job ofsthN sort-it would too ofte
bring NJ INA scontset with the fol
Z One Xednoon, while wandering
4 an aimless funk upon side street, /
! saw card In front OF an apartmel
r house announcing that an elevator be
+ was wanted He rushed in with ala
$ rity and determination-and at tt
! very threshold met Mrs. Gerard, WI
X had been calling on friend there. l
stead of asking for the job he TOT
,. drive with her.
It was while this drive progress'
~ that the sordid, vicious tempter de
- nitely seized him in his tolls. The a
@ Gent but vivacious dame was We
"a affable-most agreeable indeed. s.
o was not motherly; she was fiirtatiO,
n And she accompanied her coquetry
h shrewd exposition of the magnitu
of her unqustionably enormo
wealth. It staggered him.
- If he had not at the moment had
:. simple little Josie Richards letter
:. his pocket he might have been swe
~ under. A thousand times he had d
~ covered the necessity of assuring hi
-, self, as he travelled up and do
=. Broadway, that he did not care
-, Josie Richards She was not the s.
49, of girl who captivated one who KIN
- life as he knew it; she was dear,
she was simple, unsophisticated 8
q. q what he most admired was wide
~ phistication; he thought as little
~ her as he could, but now she popl
" into his mind and made him edge av
from the aged, wealthy widow.
When he went back to the fiat