Evening star., 1921-10-02

Every share
WHO to-"
Mostly in small block in Boston"
I'm. "um: Bonds s0ld?
who bought 'em?"
They're underwritten by the Common
wealth Security Trust Company"
Want to know! Got authority?
Vested with authority to put 1T In writ
imp T'Iaf-"r,
1.-The contract. you mean? --:
"Calc'late to mean that"
Yes"
Lawyer acrost the street." said Scat
tergood.
You can swing it?" 49,.
"Calc'late to-"
you have the capital to make good?"
know I have, don't you? Wouldn't
have come to me II you hadn't?
you'll have to borrow heavily"
MY lookout, hain't it? Don't need to
worry you"
mot in the least"
Lawyers still acrost the street."
co Scattergood and Mr.. Blossom
~ vent across the street and up
the narrow stairs to Lawyer Norton's
office. where a contract was drafted
and signed ob1igating Scattergood to
deliver to the Higgins Bridge Pulp
Company $4,000 cords Of pulp on or
before May l., payment to be made
on delivery. Mr.. Blossom went away
wearing a satisfied expression. and in
the course of the day sent to Crane
& Keith a brief message message
Of two words. He Bit" was the tele-
gram.
and presently might have been seen
to unlace his shoes absent-mindedly.
For an hour he sat there. twiddling
his bare toes Then he got up, 5erked
Mr.. Blossoms old jackknife from the
post where it had been abandoned
IF nothing else happens" he said
to himself. I'm figgered to make a
profit of so cents and tradin knife.
There followed very busy fali ana
winter for Scattergood. Not that he
neglected his hardware store. but
from it's porch. and later from a post
beside its big stove, he recruited men
for his camps and directed the labor
of cutting and piling pulpwood along
the banks Of Gold river. Also, from
time to time, he visited various banks
to borrow the money necessary TO
carry on the operation. sometimes on
notes and collateral, sometimes on
timber mortgages. The sum OF his
borrowing mounted and mounted,
until. before the arrival of spring. his
most.
Nor had the pulp company been idle.
Its new mills had arisen beside the
river at Higgins Bridge. machinery
had been installed, and the little ham
let was beginning to speculate in
town lots and to look forward to un-
exampled prosperity.
But before the ice was out OF the
river disquieting rumors began TO
breathe out of Higgins Bridge. They
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at first, apparently based upon no
evidence whatever, but friends de-
lighted to convey them to scatter
good, as friends always deiight 10
perform such a disagreeable duty.
to the the new pulp mill" said Deacon
Pettibone one bitterly cold afternoon,
when he came into Scattergood's store
to thaw the icicles out OF his sparse
beard.
BE perty bad for you II they was
to go wrong, wouldn't it,?
"Perty bad. deacon"
most ruin you, wouldn't It? Clean
you out? Leave you with nothin?
"Hain't mortgaged my health. Haint
Deacon. Don't 1gger I'm clean bank
rupt till them two is gone"
But it was to be noticed that Scat
tergood toasted his bare toes a great
deal during the ensuing days. he
scarcely put on his shoes except when
he was going out to wallow through
the drifts; and. as Coldriver knew,
when Scatterwood waggled- his bare
toes he was struggling with prob
lem.
Also it might have been noticed that
he pored much over the detailed maps
in the county atlas. studying the flow
of streams and the lie of timber. 1t
might have been seen that several large
blocks of timber had been marked by
Scatterwood with red crosses, and
that certain other limits had been
blotted out in black. The black pieces
were neither numerous nor Individual
ly extensive, but they belonged to
Scattergood. Those marked with red
crosses were the property Of Messrs.
Crane & Keith.
Now. it may he taken as automatic
that in those early days the value of