The evening world., 1916-04-05

inside ten years-perhaps five. II l
may venture TO offer you a piece OF
purely disinterested advice--think II
over before letting go.
AN Investment bringing in three
thousand a year-not 10 mention pos
sible increased dividends md Jump
in the stock value-is hard to beat
anywhere. Remember Standard OIL
and a hundred others: where they
started and where they finished"
Forbes promised TO think Il over.
leaving with warm personal re-
gard for Mr.. Green, who was eH-
tremely frank. sincere. and wholly
likable. There was sound common
sense in what he had said. Why not
pay tho Chicago bank the three thou
sand year income. and. when tho
principal had doubled. sell out ard
turn over the entire proceeds?
In that way the debt could be wiped
out in half the time! Yes, undoubt-
edly this was the best course, the
most sane and logical. He was glad
lie had had the interview with Mr.
Green, He would write the Chicago
bank guaranteeing 20 pay, say, four
thousand year toward settlement OF
his fathers defnlcation; In Ave yea1s
that would mean twenty thousand.
Then in Ave years or so the value OF
his stock would have doubled; that
would moan fifty thousand! Fifty
and twenty made seventy-almost
the entire debt! lie began 20 feel
renewed respect for his financial ca
paclty and. for the first time since
thnt fateful night, ability 10 cope
with The situation.
In tho Empire Construction Com
pany md outside II Forbes was made
10 feel his position in other ways, FOR.
though offering no explanation Tor
assuming his new name, the Cnnse nf
the change had somehow become
brultcd abroad, and. again, he traced
this TO a source higher up, And, again,
he may have done Marsland an injus-
tice, yet felt reasonably certain of his
suspicious, the President and he him
self being the only ones who knew.
In the designing room and among
his enemies nothing was said openly
about the matter for in the past few
days Forbes had developed look
about the mouth and in the eyes that
was anything hut pleasant. and they
had heard of what happened TO Adolph
l5crgstrom. II seemed this young man
Forbes came of criminal stock aud was
1t person of a violent and even danger
ous disposition. All this, however, DID
not prcvcnt Hullble innuendocs ana
remarks from flying about words that
put the .-ou deep In young Forbes .
soul and made him 20 white ana
trembling
That designing room became a con-
crcte example OF mans inhumanity 20
man, tho thoughtless and would-be
humorous adding their quota 70 the
Intentionally cruel. Men who ordinarily
would have been outraged at sight OF
even a dog being worried by the pack
flung in the careless feet and humoT-
Gus gibo almost uncUnSclOusly and
without realization.
The PRESIDENTS Pet" as Forbes had
been dubbed, had become the goat"
or the hour, and Il was the fashion 10
take a surreptitious fiing at him. Not
one appeared conscious Of what the
victim suffered for he gave no slRn.
pretending not 20 hear; not one knew
that II was only AZ HON" he allowed
unchecked ven 70 his pcnt-up feel
iug9, living over again thc days bitter
ness and humiliation. And now tho
bottle OF Scotch was constantly at MS
elbow; II was becoming his comforter,
his only friend IN II ho sought new
courage and forgctfulnvSs
lo' incrc "d- one 'Uu,Oyoe OF The
Lmp1o Company Nw 1,. b,uu gwen
ne "l@arAr vision wnn saw erd VII