Show x TWO I 1 PILLARS OF SOCIETY I 1 was mas neither bebing nor hearing bioni the Eller father or son but as I 1 knew why I 1 was not disquieted i I 1 had bad made them temporarily easy in their ir finances just urt before that dinner and thea the baing fatuous incurable op flutists were probably imagining they would never need me again I 1 did not distl them until monson and I 1 had pot got my illy education ho bo well mell under way that eien I 1 always severe lit in self criticism and now was corn com belled to admit to myself a distinct change rot foi the better when my education seemed far enough advanced I 1 sent for sam lie he after r hla his footless fashion dian didn t bother to acknowledge my note ills barlin account with me was it at the moment I 1 turned t to hla his father I 1 had bad my cashier se send d him it a formal tipe t pe written letter signed sig ne it blacklock Ulac klock co ca informing him that his account was waa oyer overdrawn dran and that we would be obliged if he would give the matter his immediate attention 11 the note must have reached him the following morning but he did not come i antil after waiting three days I 1 we bent him a sharp demand for a check for the biance due us A pleasing arla at c looking fig ure he maie made as he entered my office offic with his bis aar tr of the man whose hands have never known the stains of toll with lite hla manner of having always receive ceide deferential deferent idt treatment there was s no pretense pre tenee in my mv curt greet lus lug my tone of deaytch deam yom Int lAcus sir air and lie be gone for I 1 was both buff bud arid much irritated against him 1 IT I guess you want to bee our cashier ahler ahl cr 1 said 1 I after giving him a hasty absent minded hand shake my boy out will take you 0 to o him the old do nothings face lost loat its lt confident condescending expression ills lip quivered and I 1 think were tests in hla his bad dim gray green eyes I 1 suppose he thought hla his a profoundly pat pathetic betic ease case no doubt ho be hadrit t the remotest conception what he really was and no doubt also there ate aie many who ho would honestly take bib view As if the tact fact that hat lip was mas loin with mith all pos possible bible advantages did not make him and his plight inex disable 0 N no 0 in ill dear bald he li now its easily as he ha hal I 1 con descended how to clinge and bow to condescend ate aie taught at the same school the one he had gone to all his life it Is voi 1 I want to talk with and first I 1 owe ome vou roy my apologies I 1 know sou 11 make allowances for ono one who was mas never trained to business methods I 1 ve always alwag it been like a child in those matheia you frighten me said bald I 1 the last gentleman who came throwing me oft if my illy glaid with ith that plea was shrewd enough to get awai with ith a large sun sum of my hard earned money besides and I 1 was laugh lug ing though not too good ile I 1 ma noticed that ou oil gentlemen become baue about bu business bubines sines only when the he balance Is 1 against ou oil hen ben it it a in lour faaoi vou ou man inakak to g I 1 our minds on oil business ion h to col elect lect to 10 the lim hl fi action of a cent lie ife heartily echoed nn nin laugh haugli I 1 on onla iv iba I 1 acle ht h u i said bald in it IlO mevel I 1 ve come collie tu to ask bour in ill diligence I 1 it nave have be bc n here before e but thos who ho ome UK im have been pi put it bilig me off and I 1 aln lit rt r of f tho of veolie people whom bout Us it s to JILS 1 HH id I 1 d lik hk to 0 o in iou ov fin fai ill lid i sald said I 1 sli tiding that last little hint flint lit ah u H daiy tiff sheds trin lain but N vom account nc has flit I 1 eon een iu ill at an tor brato foi unah narl a illon til now I 1 kin oiin 11 ino ine a few dan davs it longer was ia lit his calv cepl as aa if we 16 w ie debrui sing a trifle hy by m dav a mill N haven I 1 bt oil to see it m vet net only this iny illy wife was mw uon wondering dering when vilon soud comp collie jou ou i litto illo capal voted her Blac blacklock klok cant vou dind with us ua night no 11 at alight inore ero having in fit a few people I 1 think 3 aoud on d like to met meet glad to 10 come collie said bald I 1 m wishing to be lid ild of ill him now tint my pont point ava auf gained NN well ell let the hie account stand opt open a for the pi benti rather think your our i blocks at aie e going up tip give my ro re gards he ladles ladies please especially to aliss anita lie ile winced but thanked me graciously beave me his hig soft line fine hand to tc shake anti and departed as aa eager to be ott od as I 1 to bo be rid of him bill sunday next at eight were his last voids dont don t fall us that la in the file tone of a king ad dressing bonio obscure berbon chorn ile he had commanded to cobit it in may 4 y be that old Ell ersly was wholly tine ancon 0 n of his falleaf fancied ed he was treating me as if I 1 were at al most an all equal but I 1 suspect he rather his in annei with the tha idea of impressing upon me that in our deal lie be was giving at kaat 1 as as aa much in ich as I 1 my petti pett and inevitable success with nith that helpless creati creature ire added amazingly amazIng lv to that dan geroud elation which as I 1 can call now see had been growing in me avei since the day rot roebuck buck yielded fielded so i nad c lid lly fly to my demands as to national nation a co coal a ille whole trouble with roe me was via that up lip to that time I 1 had won men all ni in vie loiles by tie plain plainest cst kind of straight away haid bald work I 1 wits was imagining my self victor in contests of wit against wit when in fait fad no one with any especial of brains bad ever opposed me all the really strong men had aten helping me because they found me useful but rot foi my self in the case of I 1 find no excuse li for myself lie he sent for me and told rue me what share in national coal they hey had de dc filed to give me for my c mines langdon and melville sald said he think me too liberal far too liberal my boy hut but I 1 insisted in your case I 1 flit we vie afford to be gen bious as well as ag just all this with an all air that was a combination of the pastor and the parent 1 I cant even offer the excuse of not having seau that he was ft as a hypo cilta I 1 felt UK his hypocrisy at once and my first I 1 was to jump tor for my breastworks hut but instantly my vanity got behind me held me in the olen oien I 1 pushed roe me on toward him it if vou nott will notice almost all confidence gaines rely for success chiefly upon enlisting a man mail a vanity to play the traitor to his judgment so instead of reading ills his liberality libel aliby as plain indof or of intended it treachery I 1 lead ead it its as plain gresens of mi im own greatness and of 0 the fe feir ir it had implied in old roebuck laugh with ith me it if you like but before you laugh at me think carefully are fully those hone of 0 you who mho have ever eer put yourselves hes to tc the test on the flold of action think carefully whether you have never found that 3 bour our head deL decoration oration which you thought a biown was in icalla the peaked ana billed cap of ohp fool to be continued |