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The Yakima Herald.
PATTLINCI JOB* PRAYER.
Capt. Jack Crawford, formerly the poat
maoter at Girard villa, haa written a vol
nme of character aketcbea and mining
poems and published them at San Fran
cisco. They are written In the style
adopted by Mark Twain and other west
ern humorists, and are said to be equal in
merit with the beat. The following is a
specimen of them. Its caption is
“a ATT LIMA JOE’S rEAYia.”
fletfUa on soesa more o’them pine knots,
An* squat rerself down on this skin;
Aa", Scotty, let up on on yer growlin’-
A yara as ’ll please ye, I think.
Twee the year eighteen hundred an' sixty.
A day in the bright month o’ June.
When tbs Angel o 7 death from the Higgins
Snatched “Monts Bill’’-known as MnOnuc.
BUI war alias a favorite among ns,
In spite o’ the trade that be bed,
Whisk war gamblin'—but-don't re furglt it
Which wo hawed from the trank o’ a tree.
Hie (aea war as calm as an angel's.
An’ white as an angel's could be.
An* (bar’s wbar the trouble commenced, pards,
An’ Joe said: “Wa can’t drop him tbls way.
Without some directions or stamps.”
Then up spoke old Handy McOwgor:
“Look's# yar mates, I'm regular dead stuck:
1 sent bold no hand at religion,
An* I’m ’faarad Bill’s gone In out o’ luck.
If I knowed a dam thing about prayin’
I'd chip In an’ say blm a mass;
Bat i ain't got no show In tbe lay-out—
I ain't bust the game, so I pass.”
Battlin’ Joe war the (text o’ the sneakers.
An’ Joe war a friend o’ the desa;
The suit water stood In hie peepers.
An’ these are tbe words as he toi m
“Halaajron know I Ma’tuy Christian, ♦
An* I'll gamble tbe good Lord don’t know
That tharlives tnch a rooster as I am:
Bat thar once war a time, long ego.
When 1 war a kid, I remember, ,
My old mother sent me to school,
To the little brown church every Sunday,
What they sold 1 was dumb os a mule:
An’ I reckon I’ve nearly forgotten
Party much all that 1 ever knew,
Bat still, If you’ll drop to my racket.
I’ll show yon what I can do.
“Mow, ITI show yon mt Bible/' said Joseph—
•*/lst band me them cards off that rack;
I'll convince yon that this sms a Bible/’
An* to went to work shufflin' the pack.
He spread out the cards on the table,
An"began kinder pious like; .“Bards,
If yellllat cheese yer rscket sn' listen,
ITI show ye the pra r book In cards.
“The ‘see/ that reminds us ol one (iod;
The ‘deuce’ of the Father an’ Bon;
The tray* of the Father. Son an' Holy Ghost-
Foe, ye see. all them three are hat one:
The'four-spot' U Mathew, Mark, Luke an’ John;
The ‘flve-spot’ the vlrxlns who trimmed
Their lamps while ret 'twas lUbt of the day,
An’ the Are foolish virgins who sinned;
The ’slx-jgot/ In six days the Lord made the
The sea an’ the stars In the heaven—
■e saw It war good, w'at He made, then He said
•I’ll list go to rest on the‘seven.’
The ‘eMrt>bspot' Is Noah, his wife an' three suns
An’ Noah’s three wns had their wives:
Ood loved the hull mob. so be bid 'em emb-ark,
An’ In the freshet He saved their lives.
The ‘queen’ war of Shebr in old Bible tiroes,
The ‘king* reprewnts edd King SoL-
She brought In a hundred young folks, gsls an’
on
Hot ~d:
‘By Joel How dirty their hands! Make ’em
An’ thereto showed Sheba the boys only washed
Their bands an'a part o’their wrtsU,
While the rods went up tothclr elbows Insuds.
Sheba weakened an’ shook the king’s fists.
Now, the‘knave,’ that’s the devil; an’.Ood.ef
Jlst7eephU*handsoff’n poor Bill
An’ now, Uds, Jlst drop on m knees fer awhile,
Till I draw, an’ perhavs I kin dll;
An’ bayin’ no Bible. I’ll pray on the cards,
Ferfve showed ye they’re all on the square,
An' 1 think God’ll cotton to all that I My,
If I’m only sincere in the pra’ar.
Jlst give him a corner, good Lord—not on stocks,
Fer I ain’t slch a damned fool aa that.
To ax ye fer anything worldly fer BUI,
KaM ye’d put me up then for a flat.
I’m lotion the mice o’ ver game, but I’ll ax
Far u aaut fer him buck throne.
And I'll bet my hull stack thet the boy'll behave
If yer angels Jlst lets him alone.
Thars nothin’ bad 'boat him unless be gits
Tto f ho<ni T U aU buck me In that—
But If anyone treads on his corns, then yon bet
He’ll flfbt at the drop of the bat.
Jlst don’t let yer angels run over him. Lord.
Nor shut off all to once on his drink;
Break him in kinder gentle an’ mild on the start
An’ he’ll give ye no trouble. I think.
An' couldn’t va give him a back of old cards,
TO amuse himself once In a while?
*w®S}Tts?as¥i:2si ,ck
An' 1 hogs I hain't troubled yer Lordship to
•o I’ll cneese It bv axin’ again w
That je won’t let the ’knave git his grip on poor
Ttot'a ail. Lord-youra truly-amen. ’
Thet’a •■Rattlin’ MV* mnft old partners,
Aa’-whatl roe all aaorin’T say, lew,
By thunder! I’ve tailed every raacal to sleep,
Solgneesl had beat tom in too.
—Yoor wMtod cheeks may have all the
plumpness and bloom of health through
the oos of Ayer’s Sarsaparilla. This time
honored remedy still leads the van. It
improves digestion, purifies the blood,
and invigorate the system. Give it a
trial.
—Chilblains, unpleasant odors from the
feet and other parts of the body, nasal
catarrh, ringworm, poison oak, stye on
(be eye, granulated eyelids, eruptive dis
eases of the akin, all disappear after using
Dutard’s Specific. Warranted to effect a
radical core in every instance. Hold by
Alien A Chapman.
MVRTBY LI CK, (cohtimcbd.)
CHAFTBR XHV.
fILL, my dear.*
1 aaid Tramlay to hi®
wife one evening la
lat® wintar.The
pi® torn booght
building ritM of tb®
Hayntonßayoom
teiwaitai. 1M
bam ngooddaalaf
T I v money mmam ton
wtelm, and now people ■■ iirlnflttfwd
It It* abort Mm® for n® I® b® ooneidarlng
pMatoranrvflla ®hr
“Hot aatil w® are eor® we Mil baa® mar®
Mn M®» nrighbor®,” arid Mm Tramlay.
•Irita I mortdSri Uka to bam mom aar
talnty a® to bow lafg® ®rt family will b® tola
■Upi.-aUIIK Troaloj, > I Mn«J.
-Mr o moo who hoo * bokaoM npoMSlao
Mr «MM »<M,lMlok 700*0 MmmoMMoo
Ika MM pnoo who onr *ow broolhT-
Trmmamj oaomodnoiolod. HhwUotooUj
~*Ttlfc. ootnow"tf°Lucah ofklr h
to Oowm. iloog oo > hop toilnlii Am
koolok k Mo mmmm 00 k iMhliMtlik tor
“Ofcl* lnl I I|l fMo MMMoot, wttko
Mko of unroooo, “Poo haord Moooo-
F—«r MM -pool kkkM koo,«kd ><nl
Ik «p to Mh W» I mm* *h*H7 Mf M»-
atif le he as analoas as yoo to gel rid of our
btoossd Ant born."
w ll la because Hove her that lam ao deal
reuse* seeing bar happy and aattted-aot to
get Hd of her.*
•‘Tee, I enppoae ao, aad Pm a brute,"said
the husband. “Wail, If PM has bean watt
lot until ha abottld be eartain about his own
eeadHiou financially, be will not need to wail
awash longer 1 don't know whether it's
through brains, or tact, or whatto called lor
but hah bean doing so wall among
raOrnad people that la common decency!
wo* either raise his salary largely or give
him an Interest In the business.”
“Wall, really, you speak as If (ha bostneae
upon him.*
£ Pora month or two he's been taking all
the orders, Pva bean simply a eortof clerk,
to dlalrtbute them among mills, or find out
wbsrs Iron could be had for thoss who wanted
It In baste. Ha'a after an order now—from
the take and Oulftida road—that 1 let him
attempt at first mereiy to keep him Cram
growing conceited. It seemed too great and
difficult a Job to place any hope on, bat I am
beginning to half believe ha’ll snooted. If ha
does IU elm ply be compelled to give him an
Intaraatin the bualnem; Iff don't some of my
competitors will ooaz him away Cram am*
"Whatt after aO yon have dona for hlmP
Tutl tut I (ha faror la entirely on tbs other
tida Bad soma outsider brought am the or
ders which that boy baa taken, I would have
had to pay twenty times as much In commie
tiooaaa Phil's eatery has amounted to. What
do you think of ‘Edgar Tramlay ft Co.' for a
butinrw sign, or even *Tramiay St Kaynf
•*1 wppoos It will have to ha,” said the lady,
without any Indication of gratification, “and,
■lt must be. the sooner the better, for it
«nn*t help making Loofah position more cer
tain. If it doesn't do so at ones, 1 shall b»
Uava It my duty to speak to the young man.*
“Don’tl don’t, 1 Implore!" exclaimed the
merchant “Ha will think"
M Wlwt to may think laof nooooseqosooe,"
Mid Mm Tramlay. “Ills time that he should
know what dty etiquette demand*."
“But it imt necessary. Is It, that be should
know bow matter-of-fact and odd hearted
we city people can he about matters which
owntry people think should be approached
with the utmost heart and deUoaort Don't
Ist him know what a mercenary, self serving
lot of wretches we are, until to Is so fixed
that to cant ran away."
M *d*ar. the subject Is not one to to joked
about, lemur)you.”
* And I assure yon, my dear, that Pm not
more than half joking— not a bit more. ■
“I shall not my more than thousands of
the most loving and discreet mothers have
been obliged to say In similar circumstances,*’
said Mrs. Tramlay “If you cannot trust ma
to discharge this duty delicately, perhaps you
will bavs the kindness to undertake it your
•ett*
The very thing I" said Tramlay. “If be
most have uupleasant reoolleotiaua of ona of
m 1 would rather It wouldn’t bo his mother
h»4aw The weight of precedent Is against
yon, don’t you know I—though not through
any fault of yours "
“Will you ssrioualy promise to speak to
hlmt At onoef —this very weekf
“I promise," said Tramlay solemnly, at the
mom time wickedly making a number of
mental reservations.
“Than If there should to any mistake it
will not be too late to recall poor Mr Marge,”
said Mrs Tramlay
“My dear wife," Mid Tramlay, tenderly,
“1 know Marge has some good qualities, but
1 tog you to remember that by the time our
daughter ought to be In the vary prim# of
tor beauty and spirits, union tor health falls,
Marge will be nearly 70 year* old. 1 can’t
baar the thought of our darling being doomed
to be norm to an old man just when she will
be most fit for the companionship and sym
pathy of a husband. Suppose that tan yean
ago, when you boasted you didn’t faal a day
older than when you ware #3,1 had been
twenty yean older than I am now, and hang
ing Uks a dead weight about your neck I Be
tween ua we have had enough to do In bring
ing up our children properly; what would
yon have dona had all the responsibility come
upon you aloud And you certainly don’t
oars to think of the probability of La being
tot a widow before she fairly reachM middle
agar
“Handsome widows frequently marry
again, especially If their first husbands were
well off."
“Wlfsr
lbs Tramlay looked guilty, and avoided
tor husband's ays She could not avoid his
encircling arm, though, nor the mmnlng of
his voice aa be said:
“Is there no Ood bat sodetyr
"I didn't mean to," whiepered Mm Tnm-
Uy. “All motbsrsare looking oat for their
daughters; I don't think fatbere understand
how neeemary it In If yoo had toown more
Infernal in Lucia's future I might not hare
keen ao anzioaa Fathers never Mam to
iiak that their daughters ought to hare
“Fathers don't Ukagirlato marry bsfora
they are woman.- aaid Tramlay. "Ivan
now 1 wish La might not marry until aha is
asvaral years older."
“Mercy P* amlalmad Mrs. Tramlay.
“Woold yon want the poor child to go
through several more yean of lata parties,
and dancing, and draadngf Why. she'd be
come desperate and want to go Into a non
nary or become a novelist, or reformer, or
something.*
“Whatl Is society really eo dreadful to a
yoanggtrir asked the husband.
“Itb tha moil tiraaome thing In M world
after th« novelty wear® off," aald Mm Tram
lay, **nnl— riiate tend of dirting, orgoto into
ootof tb* proey ®*t® where they talk about
aothlng bat hooka nod moke and picture* and
biaschine ud inch thing*."
-Llr® nnd learn," quoted tb® merchant
“Hart tlma 1 become a jonag man and marry
m bring op my family in tha country. My
Man had at tea* bona and tram and bird,
end (lower® and chicken* to amam them, and
not oo® of them married nntfl aha was twenty
■n.*
Mm Tramlay maintained edteoreetaflaoce,
for, except tbair admiration for tbrir broth*
», Mra. Tramlay had never bean able to find
a potato! contact In bar Mr In law. Tram
lay alowly left tb® room and wantto hiaelnb,
Informing hlmaelf, a® b® walked, that thar®
war® time® in which a man really naadadth®
looiaty of man
Meanwhile. Phil had for tb® twentieth
Urn® b®ao eloeeted with tb® porobaring offl
etekof tb® Lab® and Onlfride railroad a®
itteagrieebla and ampldoas a eonpl® a® b®
had or®r found among Bayntanh amortmeot
of expert grumbler®. Had be bean awr® ex
perienced in boaineae h® would haw® been lam
hopeful, lor, a® everybody wL® waa anybody
In Miron trad® knew tb® Lake and Oolf
dda had planned a branch nearly two ban
dred rallaa long, and there would be forty or
■fly thousand tone of rail® needed, every
body who waa anybody la the Iron trade wm
trying to aeour® at bast a portion of the
order. PhU'eauggaatloa that Tramlay aboold
My to aacure the contract had affected the
awr cha nt abort aa a proportion of a child to
bolld a boom might bar® dona; but to avoid
Aepraaring tha you* maa*a aptiita, ha had
eon—rtad, and had htewalf gooa aotaraato
gat terms, for portion® of tb® poariblo order,
Mum man who ware looking for onoonragw
tomii to ofan tbrir long eland mllla
Unknown to M nMtohart, and tofton-
SUPPLEMENT.
atoly for Phil, on# of (ha Lake and Gulf side
rebating agents bad yean before chanced
be a director In a company that placed a
■wall order with Tramlay, and, remember
ing and liking the way In which it bad ban
filled, was predisposed toward tbe liouae's
now representative from the first But
Tramlay, not knowing this, laid everything
to Phil’s look when the young man invaded
the whist room of tbe dab, called Tramlay
away from a table Just as cards had been
dealt, and exclaimed in a hoarse whisper;
“I've got Itr
“Got whatr asked tbe merchant, not over
pleased at the Interruption. Phil stared so
wildly that his employer continued: “Not
tha smallpox. I trust What is it? Cant
youqnakr
“I should think you’d know,” mid the young
man, looking somewhat aggrieved.
“Not Lake and Oniftidof"
“Exactly that,” mid Phil, removing his bat
and bolding It Just as be i-Muambered to have
seen a conqueror’s hat held In a colored print
of “Gen. Scott entering the City of Mexico."
“Hurrah I" shouted tha merchant, dashing
to the floor the cards ha bald. This move
ment eliciting an angry protest from tbe
table, Tramlay picked op the cards, thrust
them Into thehoixtoof a lounger, said: “Play
my hand (or ma Gentlemen, I must beg you
to excaw me; sudden and important bus!
new,” seised hie hat, and hurried Phil to the
street, exclaiming:
“Sore there Is no mistake about it? It
•aama too good to be trua”
“There’s no mistake about this,” Phil re
piled, taking a tetter from his pocket The
merchant hurried to tbe nearest street lamp,
looked at tba written order, and mid
“My boy, your fortune is made. Do you
realise what a groat stroke of business tbls
isr
“I hope so," mid PhlL
“What do you want mo to do for you?
Name your terms or figures."
Phil was silent, for tbe very good reason
that ha did not know bow to my what waa in
hto heart
“Snppoae 1 alter my algn to Tnunlay ft
Hayn and make you my equal partnerf
Still Phil was silent
“Well," mid the merchant, “It seemed to
me that was a fair offer; but if it doemt
meet your views speak out and any what you
pmfer."
“Mr. Tramlay,” said the young man, try
ing to speak calmly, but falling most lament
swy, “they my a countryman never is
■MMIed in a trade unless he gets something
to bool”
“Very well What shall it her
“MM— everything; that is, 1 wish you’d
give me your daughter too."
The merchant laugbea enftly and shook hi*
bead. Phil started and his heart fell
"I don't see bow 1 can do that,"said Tram
lay, “for, unless my eyes deceive me, you al
ready have her.”
“Thank heaven P exclaimed Phil devoutly
"So ny L" the merchant responded.
CHAPTER XXV
HAW AOAIK.
NE of the penalties
of snooees (acoord
\ lug to the success
H ful) being the ms
[l lignant envy of
V those who have not
< succeeded, it is not
surprising that in
time there began to
creep into Wall
street some stories
that E. ft W. was
no better than it
should be, nor even
quite ao good, and
that there wee no
reason why the
stock should be ao
high when sollder securities war* selling be
low par
Tbe management, assisted by the entire E
ft W. clique, laughed all such “bear” stories
to scorn, and when scorn seemed somewhat
Insufficient they greatly Increased the volume
of sales and maintained the prio* by the fa
miliar, simple, but generally successful ex
pedient of buying from one another through
many different brokers In tbe stock market
The bear party rallied within a day or two,
and returned to the charge with an entirely
new set of lies, besides an accidental truth or
two; but the E Sc W. clique was something
of a liar itself, and arranged for simultaneous
delivery, at different points on the street, of
a lot of stories so full of new mineral develop
ments on the line of tbe road, and so many
new evidences of tbe management's shrewd
ness, that criticism was silenced for a while.
But bear* must live as well as bolls, and
tbe longer they remain hungry tbe harder
they are sore to fight for their prev; so the
street was soon favored with a fresh amort
roent of rumors. This time they concerned
themselves principally with tbe alleged bed
condition of the track and rolling stock In
the west, and with doubts as to the mlnsral
deposits said to have beso discovered. The
market was reminded that other railroad
companies, by scores, bad mad* all sorts of
brilliant discoveries and announcements that
had failed to materialise, and that some of
these roads hsd been managed by hands that
now seemed to be controlling EL Sc W.
Then tbe R Sc W management lost its
ordinary temper and accused tbe bean of
malignant falsehood. There waa nothing
unusual in this. In s locality where no one is
ever suspected of tolling the truth while be
can make anything by lying. When, how
ever, Eft W. Issued invitations to large
operators, particularly in the company's
■took, for a special excursion over the road,
with opportunities for thorough invsstiga
boo, the bears growled sullenly and began
to look for a living elsewhera
Tbe excursion start waa a grand soobsa in
tbe eyes of Mr. Marge, who made with it his
first trip In tbe capacity of an Investigating
Investor. There were men on tits train to
whom Marge had In other days scarcely dared
to lift his eyes In Wall street, yet now they
treated him as an equal, not only socially but
financially. He saw his own name In news
papers of cities through which the party
passed; his name had appeared In print be
fore, but only among lists of guests at par
tiss, or aa usher or a bridegroom's bast mao
at a wedding—not as a financier. It was
gratifying, too, to have pr—otsd to him some
presidents of western banks who Joined the
party, and be named to these financiers as
one of tbs most prominent Investors In R
ft W
Us saw aiare, too, of bis own country than
ever before; his eyes end wits were quick
enough to make him eater heartily Into the
spirit at a now enterprise or two which some
off the B. ft W. directors with tbs party were
protecting. It might retard a little bis aocu
mulattoa of B. & W. stock, but the difference
would be in hU favor in tbs end. To "get In
on tbs ground floor” of some great enterprise
bad beeo his darling Idea for years; be bad
hoped forltaa un wcaryinglyaa for e rich wife;
now at last hie desire was to be granted; the
rich wife would be easy enough to And after
be himself became rich. Unaccustomed
though be wee to el umbering with a Jolting
bed under him, ble dreams In the sleeping onr
were radar than any bo had known since the
hair began to grow thin on the top of hie bead.
But as the party began to look through the
ear windows for the bears of the Rooky
, mountains the bears of Wall strest began to
loss in your father’s case, why, t would bn
vorth dropping Into |«etry to tell of el least
me instance where Shakespeare's ooodation
»as wrong. Ton know tha rest of tbe quo
ationr
Ten, evidently Lada knew it, for her cheek
(lowed prettily under tha compliment,
which, white somewhat awkward, reached
to mark by the help of Phil’s eyes. As (or
Phil, his heart began to be Itself again; whose
mart wouldn’t, ha asked himself, under the
Minsciousnees of having given one second of
pleasure to that dear girl?
“You scorn to be In a sermonizing mood
to-night,” said Lucia. “1 know my father la
the best man alive, and 1 supposed yon liked
aim—a little, bat 1 can't Imagine what
ibould have impressed yon ao strongly with
aim to-night”
Phil studied the tow of bis boots, the tints
of tbe patternless rug, tbe design of the
frwroid ceiling. Lucia watched btm with
in amused face, and finally mid. “Evan you
don’t aoura to know.”
“I know." mi<l Phil, slowly, “and Pm try
ing to think how to ezprew ft properly.”
Pour followt how be did despise himself,
that what be bad hurried there to my would
not come to his iipe properly I Such a story
had seemed eaay enough when he had road,
in books, of bow other men told it—ao easy.
Indeed, bad come to have vary little
patience with tliat portion of novels. Of
Murse be could not tell it white Lucia was
laughing—laughing at him, too. Perhaps
ho could lead conversation back to tbe de
li red tone, hut no, for Just at that Instant
Margie flow Into tbe room, exclaiming, he
fore she fairly entered:
“Ob, Lu, Isn’t it awfult I Juat went acrow
like room for somet blog, and my drew caught
:be table cover, and over went an ink stand
my very, veriest white— Why. Phil, I
lid n't know you wore here.”
“I wish I knew what would taka ink stains
from very, veriest white"—
“Ob. w» do 1. What shall 1 do. Lu? Do
tell mo at oucc. ”
"Perhujis," suggM>t<<d Phil, with a gleam of
tope for Margie and several for himself, “your
aunilriwK can toll.’*
• The very thing," said Margie. “What a
Mowing you arol I wish you were always
jere.” Then she flew out of the room, but
sot until the bad flung a meaning look at her
lister and another at Phil Doth blushed, and
Phil felt uncomfortable, hut as be stole a look
st Lucia be mentally blessed Margie, for Lada
was no longer laughing, and she was looking
musually pretty; her eyes, slightly down
iest, seemed a more heavenly blue than ever.
“The reason I have your father's goodness
tn my mind to-night," said Phil, breaking
the silence to abate the awkwardness of the
dtuation, “is because to-night be ba» made
ne bis partner in business—bis own equal."
“Oh. Phil 1“ exclaimed I Aida, her whole face
luddenly aglow and her eyee looking full into
tia “Pm so glad—so glad for you—for him,
I mean. for both of you. What I meant to
say was— Oh, how did it happen P
“Oh, I chanced to get an order which be
was kind enough to think the greatest stroke
of husinees that any Ann has made this sea
son. So he asked me my price, and while 1
was wondering what to my be made me the
offer."
“Just like bis dear, noble heart," said
Lucia.
“Yes," said Phil, rising, and pacing to and
fro in front of the piano, and fixing bis eyes
on the floor; “and all the nobler it seemed on
account of the sordid, grasping way in which
I took it I wasn't satisfied with that, but
wanted more. I hope he'll never have cause
to think unkindly of me for it"
"MoreP said Lucia, wonderingly, and
somewhat soberly. “What more could you
want than to be a promitent merchantP
“As we say in tbe country, guess,” said
Phil, approaching tbe piano stool and open
ing his anna
Lucia guested.
What a deal ha had to say to her while
still they stood there 1 He knew It was not
polite to keep a lady standing, but while be
waa supporting her so strongly, though ten
derly, It did not seem that laida would weary
of the position; nor did aba And what a lot
of questions each asked and answered I—ques
tions and answers that would seem as silly
to any one else as they were interesting to
those they concerned. Perhaps there came
occasional moments when neither was speak
ing, but during these Phil could look down at
tbe golden tangle Just about at the level of
hla lips, and think bow much more precious
It was than all tbe gold that railroad iron
ooukl be changed Into by tbe alchemy of en
deavor.
How long they might have stood there, If
undisturbed, they never knew, for they were
to heedless of all that might be going on
about them that they did not note the en
trance of Margie, who was returning from
an interview with the laundress In the base
ment That young lady was quick to discern
the situation, and was about to depart
quietly and with celerity, but, acting upon
the promptings of hor second thoughts, she
returned, threw her arms around tbe couple
and exclaimed:
“Oh, isn't this splendid r
There was a rapid separation of tbe trio,
and then Margie attempted to whirl Lucia
about the room in a waits, that being tbe
younger sister's most natural method of ex
pressing Joy But, somehow, Lucia did not
feel like walking. On the contrary, she
kissed her sister several times, hid her own
face a great deal, and Anally made a great
effort to becalm aseb# pointed at Phil and
aid with a sprightly toes of hsr head»
•‘Papa's partner. Tramlay Sc Hayn la to
be tbe sign over the store hereafter.”
Margie’s eyes opened In amassment for a
moment; then It was Poll's torn to be whirled
about tbe room—an operation In which be
displayed the astounding awkwardnsss pe
collar to young msn who cannot daooa Sod
deoly she paused, and said;
“Mamma must know at ones, Tbs idea of
there being some one within reach to toll it
to, and I wasting all this timer
“Margie;" exclaimed Lucia, as the girl's
dress rustled op the stair, “Margie, corns
back a moment, da” Then there was some
rapid whispering, and Margie rsaacanded.
saying, In very resigned tones;
“Very well.”
“I suspect,” said Phil, when Lada returned,
“that you’ve suggested that I am the propsr
person to break the news."
“Isn’t It betterr asked Lada, timidly
“Infinitely.”
"Mamma is not always easy to speak to, on
•on* subjects," Luda suggested.
"No task coaid bs hard to ns to-night,’’
responded Phil
Vst la a Bxxasotar two, wbso Mrs, Tram
lay was bsard approach tag. tbs young maa's
looks belled his brars worda Lucia pitied
him. ahs premed clossly to bis skis, as If to
assist him, bat whsa bcr mother'* footstep
was bsard In the ball the girl's courage do
■sited bsr, and abs Usd. and Isft tbs young
man to whatever tats might be ixnpsodtbg.
"Margie teds ms you have toms groat
news," said lira Tram lay to Phil
"Bless Margie I" said Phil to himself, then.
Instead of at once addreaUng hlmsslf to tbs
doty before him, be gave lira Tramlay as
full a report of tbs rise, progress aad result
of tbs Lake and Oulfsids operation as If toe,
Instead of her husband, were tbs head of the
iron bouse.
"And you have toU Ur. Tramlay. I think
you mid." the lady remarked.
“Tea; 1 looked bhn out at toe dub for tha
purposa.**
“Be was pleased, of eonnel*
“Greatly, 1 am happy to aay.”
lira Tramlay looked thoughtful Phil was
punted by her manner Did she know or
care ao little about business oanotto estimate
at its true value the importance of tbe Lake
and Oultslde order? She waa ao calm about
it that Phil himself began to think teas than
before of his soooam. He even wondered
whether it would be worth white to tell beg
of the worldly fortune the operation had
brought to him. Probably she waa one of
the Urge class of women of whom be hod
beard who have no heads for business
“Did Mr. Tramlay my anything in reply?”
asked the lady, after a moment or two of
thought
“Why, yea," said Phil, with some hesita
tion. for ho wondered if. after all. It might
not be batter that Tramlay himself should
tell the story of bis clerk’s promotion. Mrs
Tramlay eyed him keenly, then she asked:
“Did be my anything concerning your fut
ure. and ours also, as related to It?”
“Tea.” said Phil, now satisfied that Tram
lay’s offer bad bean premeditated, and not
made in tbe excitement of the moment;
“and,” he continued, with his best mite and
bow, “1 am happy to assure yon that I was
simply delighted to agree with him.”
“My dear son!" exclaimed Mrs. Tramlay.
Phil's astonishment reached almost the
stage of petrifaction, but before be could be
tray it his prospective mother-in-law bad de
pressed his liead so that aba might Mm biro
on both cheeks.
Such a prayer of thanksgiving ae Phil'*
heart eent up aa be returned Mr*. Tramlay’*
mlutatiou 1 Meanwhile, two young women
who had been flagrantly transgressing one of
the mo».l imperative rule* of their breading
flew at each other from the two door* that
opened from the ball into the parlor; at laat
Margie had found eotno one who waa both
able and willing to be waltaad madly about
They were even reckless enough to float Into
the parlor, right before their mother'! eyee
Then Mm Tram lay. eonadooe for the fleet
time that her eyee were wet, flew to the ao
elusion of her own rc vu, where, to her great
nrpriae, she fell Into lie arms of bar husband.
CHAPTER XZVIL
▲MONO the acuta.
R. MARGE reach
ed New York with
only the dletinct
Impression that be
would like at once
to tom hie single
bit of real estate
into cash, shake the
dust of the etty
i from hie feet for
ever, and begin life
and business anew
at eome place where
be was not known,
and where the dis
grace—as It seemed
to him—of his al-
tared fortunes would be unknown to any one.
There waa his Interest in the Haynton bay
property, to be sure, but he cursed the day
he had ever put nearly 13,000 Into property
which at best would not be likely to return
any amount of cash for years to come. He
might sell that also, but who would buy itt
Nobody knew much about It but the other
owners; of these, two were Tramlay and
Phil, to neither of whom would be admit
that be needed money; be would rather loss
all he had invested. As for Agnes Dlnon.
who held most of the remaining shares, be
could not make a business offer to a woman
who had refused his hand and heart several
years before.
Perhaps bis broker bad saved something
for him from the wreck. Marge sought an
obscure hotel Instead of going to his apart
menu or his club, fearing even to meet any
one be knew on Wall street, went to hit
broker's house by night Tbe Interview wai
not satisfactory The broker had not only
been obliged to doss Marge's account, but
infected by his customer's success, had op
erated so largely In & Sc W. on his own
account that ha also had been ruined, and
contemplated selling his seat In the exchange
so as to make good some of his indebtedness
to members.
As for E. Sc W., Instead of recovering It
bad gone lower and lower, until eperatiopi
In it almost ceased. The president, utterly
ruined, retired from office, turned over all
his property to his creditors, and went abroad
to recover hla shattered health or to die, he
did not much car* which.
Marge sold bis house at auction, and while
wearily awaiting the circumlocution of
“searching title" which necessarily preceded
his getting full payment he betook himself to
Boston. To avoid speculation wee imposdhls:
It bad been his Ilfs for yean; and as be found
mining shares were within his reach he began
again to operate in a small way. The little
he bad assn of mines while on tbs fateful R
Sc W. excursion was so much mors than tbs
majority of those about him knew on tbs
subject that he made a few lucky turns, and
be Anally Interested some acquaintances In a
promising stiver property be had seen In the
west His acquaintances succeeded in getting
the property “listed” at one of the New York
exchangee, and Marge, wife new hopes and
a great deal of desperation, risked nearly all
be bad on the Brigbtbop* mlna
The scheme worked finely for some weeks
It was skillfully managed by the Boetoolam
interested; they even succeeded In getting a
great deal about It Into tbs newspapers of
hot* cities But—alas for the wickedness of
human nature I—one day tbe company wars
horrified to learn that their title to the prop
arty was hopelessly defective. When this
tact became Indisputable, Brigfathope stock
tumbled farther than R Sc W.—tumbled
utterly out of sight; and all the aamto of tbs
company, except the safe and two desks, were
Bold to a paper stock dealer at a cent a pound.
Than Marge thought smtouriy of suicide
He bad but a thousand or two dollars left,
bow could be operate In anything on that
small sum and support himself besides? He
could sdd something to tbe sum by selling his
horses and carriage, but such things always
had to go at a sacrifice; besides, there sronld
be a (amble bill to be paid for the mainte
nance of the animals during the two or three
months in which he had been absent from
New York.
Still, the thought of suicide did not 1m
prove on anqnaiataara While there was
Ufa there was hopa Why shouldn't he go
book to New York, brave everything, and
start anew to the boot of his ability! Other
men had pocketed their pride; aad, although
his own pride was frightfully large to bs
submitted to such treatment, be did not
know that the ,/poratioo would give him any
more discomfort than be was already sod or
lDTbs thought resolved Itself into decision
when one day be chanced to meet In Boston
a New Yorker with whom lie had a casual
acquaintance. After a little chat the wan.
who had been away from tbs city for months,
remarked;
"You’re not married yetf”
"No.” said Marge, with a grim wnlla
"I thought 1 hod heard that you were en
gaged to Mb* Tramlay. and 1 wanted to
congratulate you. Am iron house traveler
whoa. 1 wet a short Unis ago told me that
Tramlay wee getting rieh very fa*."
Indulge in pernicious activity They ell at
tacked B. St W. with entirely new lota of
■larlOA which were not dented rapidly enough
for tbe good of the slock, for some of the
mom active managers of the E. St W.
clique ware mors than a thousand mites
away. Dispatches began to hurry westward
(or new and bracing information, but tha
whole excursion party had taker stages a (aw
boon before for a three days’ trip to see
acme of tbe rich mining camps to whleb E. A
W. bad promtead to build a branch. Ho an
swers being received, MAW. began to droop;
as soon salt showed decided tigna of weaknem
and seamed to have no friends strong enough
to support It the bears sprang upon It so
masse and proceeded to pound aodaoratoh
the life out of 11 It waa granted a temporary
breathing spell through the aeitetanoe of some
operators In other stocks, who feared their
own properties might be depressed by syrn
r hy. but as soon as it became evident that
ft W. waa to ha tbs only sufferer all tha
bolls In the market sheathed their horns In
bears’ claws and amtetiil In toe annihilation
of tbe prostrate giant who bad no frisoda
Tha excursion party returned from tbe
minw in high spirits; even the president of
tbe company declared be bad no ktea that
the property waa so rich. He predicted, end
celled ail preasot to remember his wards, that
tbe Information be would send earn would
“boom" K. ft W. at least ten points within
ten days. Marge’s heart simply danced with
In bun; If it was to be as the president pre
dicted his own hoped (or million by the be
ginning of Urn stagnant saamo would be
nearer two. Ha smiled pityingly w Lucia's
(oca ram before him, bow strange that be
bad ever thought seriously of making that
chit his wife, and being gratified for such
dowry as the Iron trade might allow bar
father to give!
The stages stopped at a mining Tillage
twenty miles from the station, for dinner
The president said to the keeper of the Mule
(total:
“Is there any telegraph station barer
There’s a telephone cross the rood at the
store," said the proprietor “It runs Into thr
bankin’ hones at Big Stony.”
“Big Stony r echoed the president. “Why.
we're done some business with that bank.
Come, gentlemen, let’s go across and And out
bow our baby le being taken ears of.”
Several of the party went, Marge being
among them. The president “rang ep" the
little hank, nod bowled:
“Got any New York quotations todnyr
“Yes.” replied n thin, far away roloa
“How’s the stock marketF
“Pretty comfortable, eoaridsring*
“Any figures on E. to W.l"
“El,” was the only aouad the prsrident
could evolve from the noise that followed.
“Umpbr said be; “what does that mean!
‘El’ must be ‘twelve’-hundred and twnlvn
Still rising, you Mi though why it should
have gone eo high and so suddenly 1 don't
exactly sea Hello,” he resumed, ae he tamed
again to the mouth piece; “will you give qas
those figures again, and not quit# so loud? I
can't make them out ”
Again the message came, but It did not
stem any more satisfactory, for the president
looked astonished, and than frowned: than
be shouted bnekt
“There’s some mistaki, yon didn't get the
right letters. 1 said B. to W.—Eastern and
Western. One moment Mr. Marge, went
you kindly take my placet My hearing isn’t
very keen.”
Marge plaoed the receiver to his ear, and
shouted, “All right; go ahead.” In two or
three seconds he dropped the reetiver, tamed
pale, and looked as If shoot to fall
“ What Is itr asked several voioeqin ebon*
“He said, ‘E. * W Is dead esa smelti
knocked to places two days ag&*”
“What Is It quoted at nowl" asked one,
quickly.
True enough i who could want to know
more than Marge! It was in a feeble voioa,
though, and after two or three attempts to
clear his throat, that be asked:
“How did It dose to-day r
Again, ae the answer came back. Mane
dropped the receiver and acted ae* abort to
falL
“Whatlaltr Speak, can’t yoof
“Thlrtreevenr whlaperad Marge.
There was an outburst of angry exclama
tions, not onmlzed with profanity. Thao
nearly all prmmt looked at the prmident In
quiringly. bat without receiving any attempt
at an explanation, for tha president waa tar
the heaviest owner of E. * W. stock, and
be looked aa atony of face as if he had anddew
ly died bat neglected to cloas hia aym
Maraa hastily aongfat tha outer air, It
aeamed to him ha would lose his raoaon if ha
did not (at away from that awful telephone
Thirty-seven I ho knew what that meant< hie
margin might hare aarod his own stock had
the drop bam to a little below par, but it had
tumbled more than half a hundred points, aa
of course his brokers had dooad the account
whan the margin waa exhausted, and Marge,
who a fortnight before had counted himself
worth nearly a million dollars (Wall street
millions}, waa now simply without a psoay
to hia credit in Wad street or anywhere else,
what money ha chanced to have m his pocket
was all he could hope to call hia own until
the drat of the next month, whan the occu
pants of hia tsnsment bouasa would pay their
rent
It was awful; it waa unendurable; ha longed
to scream, to rare, to tsar hia hair. He
mentally cursed tha bears, the brokers, tha
directors, and every one else but hlmaslf.
He beard some of bis compankma la the store
bawling mesas gee through tha telephone, to
bo wired to New York; them ware veterans,
who assumed from past erparlance that a
partial recovery would follow and that they
would partly recoup their losses But what
could he dot There waa not on earth a per
eon whom he could ask, by telegraph, for the
few hundred dollars necessary to a small
epcculatloa on the ruins
He heard the outburst of Incredulity, fol
lowed by rage, as the paMogtn who had re
■uaiiied at (be little hotel received Um ones
pooled newt, which now eeecud to him to be
days old. Then ha begea to—epeot every
body, ereo the crutbed prerid—l and dlreo
torn What ooold be eaaler, Marge aaid to
himself, than for theae shrewd fellowa to an
load quietly before they left New Tart, and
then geO oat of reach eo that they ooold not
render any aapport in ease of a Weak! Be
bad beard of eocb things before. It certainly
was wnpicious that the ermh aboold have
come the very day after they got away from
the telegraph wlrea Likely enough they now,
throogb their broken, wore quietly baying
op all the stock that wae being offered, to
“peg it op," little br Utile, to where It had
been. The mere suspicion made him want to
tear them limb from limb, to organise a
lynching party, after tbs fashion of the Nr
ritnry they were in. and get rev—ga If not
justice
It was rather a dismal party that vetarnod
to Mew York from the trip ever the I. *
W Tbs president, fearing indignant west
ern Investors, and Nill more the
reporters, whom be knew weald lie In welt
for biro until they found him, quietly aban
doned tbe train before reaching Chicago, and
went eastward by eome other roata A lew
nf the more hardened operators began teea
courage each other by toiling of other beeaks
that had be— the making of the men they
Irst ruined, hot they dropped their en—nlksg
reminiscences when Merffepproaohed them;
they bad only contempt for a man who from
ble manniT evidently wee « completely
“cleaned cat” m to b>»W»»<«rtiaK
mo in a snail way. Tha majority, how*
mr, seemed as badly off aa hlmeelt Soma
of them were k> dapreaaii that when tha
•look of cigar* provided eeperlalty lor tha
azeonion «u exhausted they actually bought
common plpee and tobaooo at a way •tattoo,
and indtMtrloumly poieoned tha inn n Bant air
for hundred* of milea
Thla, than, wee the and of Marge's dream
of Wealth I Occasionally, hi other days, ha
bad loat small anna in Wall etraet, bnt onty
ha and hia brokar knew of It; no owe ever
knawia what line of atooh he operated. Bat
now—why, had not his nama bam printed
again and again among thorn of B. k. W.h
strongest hackers! Bvary ona would know
of hie misfortune- haoooid no longer poaa as
a ahrawd young Owmoier. mnoh teas aa n
man with as large aa inooaM aa ha hadtfawe
Would that ha had not haan so BoaeaHad
and careless as to mao tally giro op LnM*
who now, (or soma reason, persisted hi a»
peering in hia mind's eyal Had ha given
half ae mnoh attention ta her aa la & Ik W.,
•ha might now be his, and the* we ditty
earth might be oak Awl Iran wanted
looking op, tool How could any ona not a
lunatic have bacoma so devoted tooSaneeaa
to throw away a oartaiaty t for she had bean
a oartaiaty for him, ha believed, hod ha
ehoaan to realise Alaal with bar, as with
B. * W., ha had been too alow at realising.
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