Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-01-06

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Copyright, 1918, by G. W. Dillingham; Company

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He wrote letter to his uncle ex.
planning that investments had gone
wrong and that he needed small loan
of fifty thousand dollars for three
months. He was sure that IL 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 a package Of
Jones Pepsin Gum fell out.
Chew this and forget it," said the
cheerful note which Uncle Abner had
wrapped round ii. 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 a place for him
he bought them, one by one, expensive
luncheons.
He went to neighboring cities, hop
IN nd -
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 find
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,
| he decided to sell out the fiat, dis.
charge the servants and do menial
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 a hotel
as bellboy. He knew too little about
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
he knew.
One afternoon, while wandering in
an aimless funk upon a side street, he
l a W q in af - !
house announcing that an elevator boy
was wanted. He rushed in with alac.
! rity and determination-and at the
very threshold met Mrs. Gerard, who
! had been calling on friend there. In.
stead Of asking for the job he took
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 f1irtatious
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 fol
Josie Richards. She was not the sort
of girl who captivated one who knew
life as he knew it; she was dear, but
she was simple. unsophisticated anc
what he most admired was wide 80
phistication; he thought as 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 fiat ht
found awaiting him new sheafs O
bills, none pressing him-mere state
ments. The rumor had not started
that he was not good pay. Broadwa,
still delighted in him, still endeavoret
to induce him to accept its credit. Thi
gave him new distress; he knew him
self-he knew he would go out tha
night and run more debts.
Suddenly he knew what to do. I
came to him without an effort of tn
brain. 1t was tragic inspiration.
Without word to Rankin, stealthil,
and secretly, he went forth into tn
afternoon in his smart runabout, still
driven by the taxi-cabman, who nov
regarded him with something akin t
worship, and sought gunshop and
chemists.
In the former he made purchase of
large, grim, blued-steel automatic pis
tol Of the largest caliber they had il
stock, and secured one box of cart
ridges. 1t seemed a waste of money
which by rights was definitely tn
property of creditors, to buy 80 man
cartridges, for he should need but one
However, he feared that to ask for on
> would pin attention to him and frus