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immediate family and the various relatives were gathered in the old family mansion exchanged the customary with the others all the while that his father had lived long enough he had had a successful life and had fallen like a ripe apple from the tree looked at him where he lay in the great parlor in his black coffin an...	43
drew this will he demanded of o a little later well we all had a hand in it replied o a little it was a very difficult document to draw up you know mr there was no your father he was he has come very near his own wishes in some of these of course you know we had nothing to do with its spirit that was between you and hi...	43
been picking up stock in outside carriage companies for some time and he was almost ready to act in the first place he would have himself elected president of the company and since was no longer a he could select s husband as vice president and possibly some one other than as secretary and under the conditions of the w...	43
a very subtle situation robert knew that he could sue and tie things up and also that he would be very to do so the newspapers would get hold of the whole story this matter of his relationship to was in the air anyhow he could best solve the problem by leaving her so it all came back to that l chapter for a man of s ye...	43
he would propose to her more than once she had looked at his big head with its short growth of hardy brown hair and wished that she could stroke it it was a hard blow to her when he finally moved away to at that time she knew nothing of but she felt instinctively that her chance of winning him was gone then always an a...	43
wondered where you might be then i remembered that you said you were going to egypt where is your wife in her bath i fancy at this moment this warm weather makes take to water i was thinking of a plunge myself they strolled about for a time was in blue with a blue and white held over her shoulder and looked very pretty...	43
attractive to men why had been so eager to follow her could she have prevented him she thought of her life in when she carried coal to night she was in egypt at this great hotel the of a of rooms surrounded by every luxury still devoted to her he had endured so many things for her why was she so wonderful f had said s...	43
the customary thread of their existence on his return from europe set to work in earnest to find a business opening none of the big companies made him any principally because he was considered a strong man who was looking for a control in anything he touched the nature of his altered fortunes had not been made public a...	43
him to dance to night if he didn t love her so he d box her ears i can see that said smiling him dancing that s pretty good c l she s not the least bit disturbed by his either good for her said he was very fond of who was now quite a girl so tripped on until his mood was modified a little and then some of what had hap...	43
s share would be fifty thousand then mr began to figure on the profits the character of the land its and the of a rise in value could be judged by the property adjacent the that had been made north of street and east of take for instance the plot at and fifty fifth streets on the comer here was a piece of land that in ...	43
confession the maid had brought tea for her and some brandy and for him and departed that i have been hearing a lot of things about you since i ve been back in this country aren t you going to tell me all about yourself you know i have your real interests at heart what have you been hearing he asked quietly oh about ...	43
though i ll take you gladly even if you did me in the first place i ll be perfectly honest whether you ever come to me or not i love you and always shall you i know it said getting up he took her hands in his and studied her face curiously then he turned away paused to get her breath his action her but you re too bi...	43
heat he would complain i bet i know what he does he sits down there and reads and then he forgets what the fire is doing until it is almost out the beer is right there where he can take it you should lock it up you don t know what kind of a man he is he may be no good would protest that the house was fairly comfortable...	43
bow is it to night he ask the moment d l he entered the house and he would always drop in for a few minutes before dinner to see how the old man was getting along he looks pretty well he would tell he s apt to live some time yet i wouldn t worry also spent much time with her grandfather for she bad come to love him dea...	43
natured and well meaning even if he was a lawyer he might explain to very delicately just how the family felt and how much stood to lose if he continued to maintain his connection with her if had married o would find it out a liberal provision would be made for her say fifty or one hundred thousand or even one hundred...	43
to make any reply that i have been the bearer of such unfortunate news it is a very painful situation that i find in at this moment i assure you i bear you no ill will of course you understand that the family really bears you no ill will now i hope you believe that as i told your ah as i told mr at the time the will...	43
oo mc picture she saw herself in a small cottage somewhere alone with she saw living in another world and beside him mrs she saw this vacant and then a long stretch of time and then oh she sighed choking back a desire to cry with her hands she ed away a hot tear from each eye then she got up it must be she said to her...	43
was her leaving him or his leaving her to him this recent interference was obviously the chief matter for discussion and consideration the of io others before he was ready to act was the terrible thing she had hoped in spite of what she had seen that possibly because of the long time they had lived together and the thi...	43
will be there i m not ready to come to a decision was his invariable reply i don t know that i want to leave you this money is important of course but money isn t everything i can live on ten thousand a year if necessary i ve done it in the past oh but you re so much more placed in the world now she argued you can t do...	43
in shelves for books and a parlor whose three large windows afforded air and sunshine at all times i z i the plot of ground in which this cottage stood was one hundred feet square and ornamented with a few trees the former owner had laid out beds and arranged green for the reception of various and vines the house was p...	43
he was calm gentle considerate thoughtful of him where he would go and what he would do without him by her inquiries he was struck quite by her ability to take a large situation largely and he admired her there was something to this woman let the world what it might it was a shame that her life was passed under such ...	43
us to feel what we have not experienced like this world of ours which seems so solid and persistent solely because we have no knowledge of the power which it s world seemed solid and persistent and real enough to him it was only when the storms set in and the winds of blew and he found himself facing d l the armed forc...	43
passed on to be presented to distinguished strangers by mrs de who aided mrs in receiving d l the talk was i was always at his ease and this mental atmosphere revived him presently he turned to greet who i was standing at his elbow was all cordiality where are you now he asked we haven t seen you in oh when mrs is wa...	43
was no word from for the first few weeks following his departure he was too busy following up the threads of his new commercial connections and too considerate to wish to keep in a state of mental turmoil over communications which under the present circumstances could mean nothing he preferred to let matters rest for t...	43
l she remember him affectionately to she ought to be sent to a finishing school understood the situation perfectly she knew that had been drawn to mrs from the time he met her at the in london she had been for him now she had him i t she hoped he be was glad to write and tell him so that she had seen tee announcement i...	43
was said by dr that her heart and had become affected there came a time when the fact had to be faced that death was imminent the doctor s face was grave the nurse was non in her opinion hovered about praying the only prayer that is prayer the fervent desire of her heart concentrated on the one issue that should get ...	43
plot of ground there she also expressed her wish that the of the little church in cottage grove avenue where had attended should be requested to say a few words at the grave there were the usual preliminary services at the house the local minister read a portion of the first of paul to the and a body of s sang nearer m...	43
for you you know how to go about getting one you just ask at one of these don t you i think there s something more than that he replied thoughtfully there are some i don t know what they are they try to keep control of the child in some way you had better consult with and get him to help you pick out your baby and the...	43
girl taken from the western home for the as her sole companion here she was known as mrs j g for she had deemed it best to abandon the name of mr and mrs when resident in were the occupants of a handsome mansion on the lake shore drive where parties balls dinners were given in rapid and at times almost succession howe...	43
for the ways of trade the care of flowers the nature of children the ordering of a home were more in her province one of the interesting things in connection with this separation once it had been firmly established related to robert and for these two since the reading of the will a number of years before had never met ...	43
i have enough to live on why not let it go at that l chapter the days of man under the old or rather according to that which are years and ten it is so in the race consciousness by mouth to mouth utterance that it seems the of truths as a matter of fact man even under his mortal illusion is built to live five times the...	43
to the end it would have led him to a stolid indifference to the social world of which now necessarily he was a part he would have drifted on with a few mentally who would have accepted him for what he was a good fellow and in the end would not have been bo much better off than she i was now one of the changes which ...	43
decent he had made prosperous the latter was only too glad to serve him in any way he called a carriage and rode out to s residence he found her watering some plants her face expressed her surprise at his unusual presence i come on a rather troublesome errand mrs he said using her assumed name your that is mr is quite...	43
t been any happier i m sorry i wish now for my own peace of mind that i hadn t done it don t say that she going over in her mind all that had been between them this was such a testimony to their real union their real spiritual it s all right it doesn t make any difference you ve been very good to me i wouldn t have be...	43
t as opposed to the one of two stories which they now occupied street at the point which they were now was rapidly being surrounded by business conditions which were and new market at the point he had picked on was removed at least a score of blocks from the region which was once so nice but was now becoming so sorrowf...	43
were hauled by horses the boys were fond of riding stealing as much as they could in this way and joseph and edward were no exceptions why not edward might ask because it isn t good for you that s why you keep off those things aw the go down there well we re not the don t you ever go down there alone having the parenta...	43
he was at least nine inches taller spare and bony and down joyfully in his new discovery s face say i ll be d d he said you re all right you re fine eh well you know me from now on you can have anything i got i like you i didn t want to fight him said he was not sure whether he welcomed the attentions of this new fri...	43
texture looking very much like pork fat or was moving about in fashion but his movements were apparently never out of the eyes of his enemy for by degrees small portions of his body began to disappear snapped off by the of his the latter as was one day a witness would leap like a to where the was apparently idly dreami...	43
interest in such things wash your hands well it s interesting you don t often see like that i never did he went out in the back yard where there was a and a post with a little table on it and on that a tin pan and a bucket of water here he washed his face and hands say papa he said to his father later you know that yes...	43
the was not worth its face value the presence of the gold was in question or hard to get at so much as the was he was interested in stocks and bonds too which were constantly being deposited as and he learned that some stocks and bonds were not worth the paper they were written on and that others were worth much more t...	43
made over a hundred thousand dollars apiece it wasn t exactly legitimate he seemed to think and yet it was too shouldn t such inside information be rewarded somehow frank realized that his father had never been involved in any way in these to him operations why why didn t his father make a the hundred thousand dollars ...	43
vines edward s ear told joseph the second boy he would bring him an and went back into the house this is the lad that interests me he said after a the time his hand on the shoulder of frank what you name him in henry frank well you might have named him after me there s something to this boy he s got something in his ey...	43
was walking in front street the and he saw an s flag hanging out before a store a store and inside the contents were being disposed of the owner having decided to wind up his business what am i bid for this exceptional lot of coffee twenty two bags all told which is now selling in the market for seven dollars and thirt...	43
would you pay me to day give you my note for it where is the soap he was perplexed and somewhat astonished by this proposition on the part of his neighbor s son he knew mr well and frank also will you take it if i bring it to you to day yes i will he replied are you going into the soap business no but i know where i c...	43
frank had indulged in no other exciting deeds until that time was pleased what d i tell you he asked he has stuff in him that look out for him mrs looked at her boy curiously at dinner was this the son she had nursed at her bosom not so very long before surely he was developing rapidly as for the he was bland and calm ...	43
ll ask her thanks he smiled and she began to run gaily onward he looked after her with a smiling face she was very pretty he felt a keen desire to kiss her and what might at miss s party rose vividly before his eyes this was just one of the early love affairs or the that held his mind from time to time in the mixture f...	43
eye was so bright and yet so inscrutable henry took to him at once i like that he said to his brother the moment frank had gone having been told to report the following morning something to him he s the most thing that s walked in here in many a day the he was sitting beside his battered flat top desk king out into the...	43
messrs co fairly complicated as they were were child s play to frank he went through them with an ease and rapidity which surprised his superior mr the latter could not understand why mr this young was so about some things so abstract at times and why he could so easily and so quickly run over long standing accounts ...	43
of any proposition which came to him outside his regular channels of exchange but this young agent s appearance pleased him merely smiled well i ll take your flour i need it bill it to me hurried out he went direct to a firm of in street with whom his firm dealt and had them bid in the grain he needed at prevailing thi...	43
into the new house his tie and his coat have you told mother no i m going to do it now he went out into the dining room where his mother was still things around he said slipping his arms around her little body what do you well what she asked looking affectionately into his eyes i got five hundred to night and i get twe...	43
responsible out of town which co who also had a note share or end connected with their business had for him and in the process they had come to exchange friendly greetings the first mr took a keen interest in this subtle young he not have said why how s business with you people he would ask or find that you re getting...	43
he could not told you why people seemed foolish or at the best very unfortunate not to know what to do in all circumstances and how to protect themselves there was also great talk along the line of current morality much praise of virtue and decency and much lifting of hands in righteous horror at people who broke or we...	43
brothers and one sister all living in philadelphia and all married at this time they thought she had done very well in her marriage it could not be said that she had wildly loved mr at any time although she had cheerfully married him he was not the kind of man who would arouse a notable passion in any woman he was prac...	43
was put the direction of mr arthur rivers co s regular floor man who had charge of all their large operations the latter was an exceedingly man of thirty five well dressed well shaped with a hard smooth face which was ornamented as to the upper lip by a short black and as to the eyes by fine black clearly eyebrows his ...	43
a hundred new york and at eighty no more do you hear yes i hear said frank was a fine live floor and soon convinced rivers that he had an ideal man as an assistant after the first few days spent in studying this noble of souls frank soon learned of what cheap mortal day they were and at the same time what a shrewd hun...	43
a trusted and change man forcing his way quickly to the of any situation suspecting readily what his rivals were up to knowing the nature and substance of all the stocks offered knowing as much as any one on change could know by whom and for what purpose they were being his mind began naturally to study out tricks that...	43
eyes and noticed that his hair was of a peculiarly rich hue and that his finger nails were particularly shiny from having been long don t say that now said you ll feel ter after a while you ll come back we all do the man strode out there you have it observed that s the way this is the worst i ve been through yet i don ...	43
not so and in a cool determined way he was not ready to be by her fear or her sense of in spite of her fears and her uncertainty mrs accepted his attentions and his interest because equally in spite of herself she was drawn to him he had a direct apparently manner though mrs was five years his senior in the things that...	43
feet and held her lying in his arms oh how could ou she exclaimed i will never speak to you any more i will never let you come here any more if you don t put me do ti this minute put me down i i ll put you down sweet he said i ll take you down at the same time pulling her face to him and her he was very much aroused ex...	43
he said to his brother joseph one when the latter was complaining of the necessity of going to hear a dry sermon it won t hurt you father has a business to look after but he would not even do that himself he preferred to substitute the reality for the seeming when he was better acquainted with mr rivers and could call ...	43
he thought he should never have enough of her her ful face her lovely arms her smooth l body they were like two children and driving dining seeing the sights he was curious to visit the financial sections of both cities and look at the great banks and financial offices new york and boston appealed to him as solid he wo...	43
h yes let s do that she exclaimed when he told her wouldn t that be pretty can mr carry out your ideas exactly i think so it may cost a little something but we will want to live in it for some time maybe and anyhow if you should want to sell it it would bring more changed as i say i want to sell it she commented say we...	43
a change floor man a a and several clerks his brothers were coming in with him shortly as associates he brought home with him not to talk business for he disliked that rather thoroughly customers and customers he could not avoid a certain amount of discussion at first but he preferred to entertain merely and be a goo...	43
issued its promise to pay in the shape of notes bearing six per cent interest and he sold or placed them with other people for cash and his commission there was no difference between this and the larger transaction if the he could handle a of this great loan now he not possibly handle the whole of it for he had not th...	43
i happen to be interested just at present in up certain street railway stocks on change i ll tell you about them later won t you have to drink it s a cold morning no thanks i never drink never that s a hard word when it comes to well no matter it s a good rule my boys don t touch anything and i m glad of it as i say i ...	43
times but there was a softness lurking somewhere back in the blue eyes that was not entirely but sympathetic and human she the was terribly young though and although trained which usually so nicely inclined to refuse all thought of restraint her brothers with her and her father and mother gave her sage advice she is su...	43
man with great social and financial imagination these facts could not help but be significant and if they did nothing more they gave him a sense of the boundless commercial possibilities which existed in so vast a realm he was not of that order of financial enthusiasm which in the type known as the sees endless possibi...	43
know because it is not expedient for us to know power a man or a woman with great consequences and the result of exposure is most carefully guarded against by all in the case of butler it would be quite impossible to give an exact definition talent of a raw crude order was certainly present a native force which had be...	43
all satisfactory he seemed to stoop a little his stomach was the least bit and he talked the small change of newspaper and social street and business gossip people liked him in his own neighborhood he was thought to be honest and kindly and he was in so far as he knew his wife and four children were as average and ins...	43
the fact that we do not j rot st if we do not protest it is e that this idea is not so very shocking to us certainly not enough to us to the point of protesting plead the difficulty of life the necessity life is so to the individual man is so weak and so on all of us are too busy grasping at immediate gains about far o...	43
up this and make everything again it was decided that the city must issue a loan say for two million need to be exact about the amount and this loan must take the shape of interest bearing of a par value of one hundred dollars in six twelve or eighteen months as the case may be these of loan were then to be sold on the...	43
reasonable since the action of three of these men have something to do with the development of frank s story they may be briefly described mr edward the the chief of them and the one useful to mr in a minor way although not generally known to be so was a very person of about at this time raised and educated in philade...	43
nice he might show him mr how to make a little money on the stock exchange he had heard of city officials doing this and it was all between him and mr quite a secret he liked him very much the plan mr developed after a few days meditation would be plain enough to any one who knew anything of commercial and financial b...	43
the thought briskly aside but these things were haunting him at odd moments and he thought once he was rich he would probably come to live in a notable manner not but beautiful so the new bank building was done over in a very simple and yet impressive way with an interior quite different from an else in the street for ...	43
while at the same time being pleasing simple and reserved it was in marked contrast to the rest of the architecture of the street s dining room reception room and butler s he had put on the first floor together with the general entry hall staircase and coat room imder the stairs for the second floor he had reserved the...	43
co on the books of the city subject to his order he waited until it was properly on change then through several who were in his employ he began to offer small at more than ninety and at the same time by those subtle methods known to the stock world wash the use of the financial column the financial and so on attempte...	43
was troubled with conscientious scruples he believed he was honest he was no or than any other certainly no than any other one would be if he could on the day he received word from that he was to be given control of the full of city loan he sent a note down the street to his father asking him to drive home him and on ...	43
require the social ambition f a woman to egg him on it may be quite the other way and the very lack of a suitable to the dreams of advancement which and swim n a temperament of this kind may cause of a and sometimes disastrous character was not of a violent strain however he merely as he went forward that there was i s...	43
some street railway property around town here that a man could buy in on and get control of if he had sufficient money this was exactly the way that edward had addressed on the subject some three weeks before when he had begun with to st the deed knew that there were such properties very alert mind had long since the g...	43
knowledge of the superior leaders of the city and when he really need not do it it was just possible that this transaction might cause him trouble at some time or other if it were ever foimd y it the other deal in regard to city loan was so much more normal the loan was ordered by ity and by all the powers that were th...	43
fine manners to be before her i d have you know that she s a better woman nor any be with this day you little baggage you do you hear what he s calling me complained close to her mother s arm and pretending fear and dissatisfaction mrs butler pleading with her husband you know he doesn t mean that don t you know he doe...	43
the intention all along of the two men to use these houses there was to begin with a combination use of the various the butler gardener and maids frank ood employed a for his children the butler was really not a butler in the best sense he was henry s i but he could car e and and he could ix used in either house as occ...	43
of black jet cut in many black squares her complexion naturally high in tone because of the pink of health was by the speck of black court plaster laid upon her cheek s r e u r iv r ii d by her v v ji r j x j y r y h the eyes v iv tr i s fi j r a fc r as in two loose r ji j v z i net at the x v j x r i jl lt i her r...	43
or grave in which peter was lying and over which was built a material church not unlike their own st s it had never become any clearer to speak of for as she grew older she paid less and less attention to it st s and the school at where she was educated were peculiar institutions to her she had been taken to the church...	43
a mansion such as those she could see elsewhere and her properly in society failing in that she could think of nothing save clothes jewels riding horses carriages and the appropriate of which were allowed her for these her family could not entertain in any distinguished way where they were and so already at nineteen s...	43
spot did not seem to endure it very well then she put on the black silk with its glistening silver and lo it touched her she its of and silver about the the in all its varying forms was at that time just coming into fashion and was avoided by the more but had adopted it at once with enthusiasm she thrilled a at the rus...	43
live only up to the point where self interest began then and in the and commercial world god what a struggle the fights the cries of the sinking strength was the thing a strong man could do anything if he could scheme it out well enough but one had to plan very there was much danger so much rank accident and then w th...	43
dream he felt no such to life as a matter of fact it was just beginning take on real significance to him because of his and his success therein he was just to feel that sense of freedom which the of ample capital some natures the ones attain this sense of freedom with the sion of a very little money it depends on thei...	43
her eyes steadily but with a soft appeal and said yes why they had come out from behind the palms he had put his hand to her waist his right arm held her left extended arm to arm to her right hand was on his shoulder and she was close to him looking into his eyes as they began the gay of the she looked away and then do...	43
of health and vitality oh called ive been looking for you everywhere where have you been dancing of course where do you suppose i ve been didn t you see me on the floor no i didn t complained as though it were most essential that she should how late are you going to stay to night until it s over i suppose i don t know ...	43
was his motto and it might well have been upon any coat of arms which he could have contrived to set forth his claim to intellectual and social but this matter of which had come to a definite point was up for consideration and solution at this ent moment and because of his determined character he was not at all disturb...	43
climate moods and they bring forth great clouds of individuals curiously minded our particular national temperament appears to be at least in so far as outwardly to a fixed social code is concerned underneath what are we you might as well have said to a be a or we will destroy you as to have said to butler be a calm pl...	43
eyes a the glow of health and a certain native understanding id sympathy a love of life which matched her own any young men had approached her perhaps the of her ideal was father david of st s and he was of course a priest and sworn to no word had ever passed between them then me frank and by degrees because of his an...	43
she loved him truly enough the two horses were in a thicket a score of yards away and from the of the the stream which they had approached she was trying to make out if she could see them it was there was no interest in her glance she was thinking of him and the of his habit and the exquisite condition of his mount he ...	43
man she relied on him when he told her that he would take care of her so that nothing should befall she believed him she was not exactly bad at heart as one may readily see such sins as these arc the of the it is a curious fact that by some of logic in th j christian v it has come to be believed that there h no love ou...	43
the local street railway was the business of butler through his sons and was busy planning a new line and obtaining a sacrificing of course great blocks of stock and actual cash to others in order to obtain sufficient influence to have the necessary passed it was no easy matter seeing that others knew what the general ...	43
any time had intimated to him that he wc be glad to talk with him he had influence because a those he represented and crack the at tin but it required money had figured this and nineteenth street line the more than once but he had never felt quite sure that he was willing to it his obligations in other directions were ...	43
to say to him we know these things are all right it depends on the market if they don t drop off we won t bother let them stand how s business so they would fall into a pleasant social talk and that was the way he did business however by the spring and summer of had actually without being in any conceivable danger from...	43
known so very much about them the in the first home in north front street were a slight development mild as he now saw it and based on a very moderate income later he had been coming by actual purchase into the of so many things gray a partner in cable gray a local firm of of art objects had called on him once in conne...	43
not this business of making a great collection just the thing to do surely it was and it suited the texture and of his being as it was steadily he wanted to be at last as well as chapter xxvi things would have gone exceedingly well in the face of any ordinary drift or turn of fortune had it been that s life and career ...	43

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