Evening star., 1935-04-10
CHAPTER x.
SARAH's INVESTMENTS.

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was hard for him to oppose
any one and especially the
Judge. II think my my
father would have liked me to be a
DOCTOR" he added gulping from sheer
nervousness.
II am sure there could be no ca
reer more pleasing both to your own
father and our Heavenly Father than
healing the sick and suffering" broke
in Miss Sarah, land while the law
in my fathers day was an honorable
profession for honorable gentlemen
it seems to me to be rapidly de-
teriorating-if one can believe what
one hears.
'Nonsense!" roared the Judge
EVEN q nincompoop would know that
1t ID not the profession which has
deteriorated, but the caliber OF the
men going into it. Use your brain,
woman, use your brain"
"Cant you realize that James
would be Q thousand times more use
full upholding the honorable tradi-
tions Of the law, which Is the founda-
ton of our country and OF all the
freedom we boast, than in going about
peering at peoples tongues and de-
Gliding whether they had better take
castor oil or ipecac?"
The Judge had long been famous
in New Concord for mot being po-
lite talker," but Miss Sarah was bit
terly offended, not so much as his rel
erence to 8 nincompoop as by the
mention of castor oil.
She shuddered in q ladylike way,
and drew herself up and pointedly
chsnged the subject and although the
Judge stormed and protested he knew
that his cause was lost and persisted
not because his heart was In It, put
as q matter Of principle.
He grumbled all the way home ana
avoided James for days atterWaro'
to his own distress as well as the
boys.
The Judge had never been patient
man or reasonable or he might nave
reflected that James had four years
of college before he could begin his
study of medicine and that in that
time many things might occur to
change his determination.
As it turned out something very
important happened that very Sum-
mer. James was destined never to
70 to college or to learn to cut 'em
up quickly" as Aunt Lou put 1t.
Strange to say, 1t was Miss Sarah
and not the Judge who brought this
about.
Miss Sarah had been her fathers
secretary during the last years OF MS
life and in his fondness the Governor
had grown to believe that his daugh-
ter showed an unusual aptitude to-
ward the management OF his analrs.
Therefore, just before he died ne
changed his will and not only made
her James sole guardian, but left her
in full control of their joint estates
until James was Is.
Miss Sarah, unfortunately, had few
things to interest her after James
went of to school and she quite
fancied herself in. the role Of q busl-
nees woman. Judge Holcomb, how
ever, waved aside her judgments and
comments on investments as OF no
value whatsoever, until after little
she ceased 10 consult MIN.
She was especially triumphant and
sure Of her own acuteneSs after she
had, against the judges advice, in
vested $4,000 in Oregon prune lands
and sold this land six months later
at 20 per cent profit.
Having tasted blood, Miss Sarah was
no longer satisfied with a meager 5
and s per cent on her money. In
Kansas City she found sympathetic
broker who assured her that her
Judgment in business matters was
phenomenally keen and that it was
A. easy as rolling OF log to double
ones capital provided one had the
natural aptitude and courage.
Miss Sarah, easily convinced that
she possessed both, sold her good farm
mortgages and gilt-edged bonds and
invested largely in Western fruit
lands, in Rhode Island railroad stock
and in Mexican oil. James, whom
she consulted after promise Of Sc
crecy. was fred with his aunt's
enthusiasm and thought it would be
. fine thing to become q millionaire.
They spent many happy evenings
that early Summer planning their in
vestments and spending the money
which was to come to them in such
unlimited quantities.
The story of Miss Sarah's invest
ments is neither a long nor an un-
usual one. It was q golden dream
while It lasted, but it did not last
long. Something, or rather a number
Of things, went wrong.
The sympathetic broker disappeared
and could not be traced. When it
came time for James to go to Harvard
he and Miss Sarah woke up to reality
and found to their Mortified amaze
ment that they possessed between
them an annual income Of only
little more than 81 800.
Hiss Sarah was bowed to the
Rroalnd under the burden of her re.