Show BUSH FOR WEALTH brokers failure in business leads to happiness through strange inheritance by ey GERTRUDE MARY SHERIDAN warren talcott took a last look at the long counting room that had once been his but was so no longer some men inen were erasing the sign talcott co stocks and bonds from the glittering plate glass windows he passed the elevator starter who holt hit ed him by gently catching his arm I 1 ve heard of it mr talcott he eaid said his voice quivering sir my wife didn dian t 1 sleep all night over it she says there s a room for you un der the roof you helped us save all your life long it if you it 11 take it thank you nodded the broker tell your wife nife its such people as you that make a man think there s some good in the world men turned and noted the tall graceful figure as talcott passed there was aldays something royalin royal in his bearing even with failure written that day against his business career a dauntless courage showed in his kindly steady eye A bootblack boott boot flack bRack rhom hom he had started in business ran after him winning the ever indulgent smile of the generous gene roLs broker mr air talcott he said hurriedly I 1 ive ve got a savings bank book that bays says three hundred dollars 1 I 1 want mant to loan it out you see I 1 see you are a good loyal friend interrupted talcott placing a gentle band hand on the shoulder of the grateful cripple the speaker walked rapidly from the business center finally be he bought the most secluded corner of an humble restaurant and sat down to think frame and face relaxed as he drew out his pocket book it contained only a few dollars all that was mas left of 0 a magnificent fortune his mind ran back over the past few months lie ile recalled the warning of his doctor overwork ork he ile remembered how he had one day given a wrong order an other when the floor of the stock ex change had gone all black before bin min and he had made a confused error in f business judgment and lost oer two 0 you are almost rich again hundred thousand dollars then th the e verdict of the doctor nervous col lapse and now tho the crash anyhow he had paid dollar tor for dol lar he ile tried to think of hard work 4 a constitution rebuilt but x ever again the mad rush for wealth holding in the end only bitter dust and blight talcott had brought halt half a dozen letters from the office he ile opened them in turn five were of no conse quence the last one startled him it announced that an old pensioner of his james gregory living in another city had died leaving him his entire estate apply at once to Dock kery bate bates attorneys twenty four hours later the senior member of that firm escorted the broker to a secluded city court in the center ot of a vacant lot stood a large covered wagon magon it had windows like a house and was divided into three living compartments seated on the grass reading from school books were three small bos near by was a young lady of about eighteen she AN se ving and four little girls mere ft ere copying her industry mr air bregory has left you two horses horsep and that wagon mith w ith all hands included said the lawyer grimly in addition here is the deed already re corded in your name to a six hundred and forty acre tract of wild land a hundred miles from here up near the pin eries erles and this Is my legacy murmured the perplexed talcott exactly miss gregory will explain 4 the details and the lawyer left him 0 talcott advanced towards the young ildy dy ai at d introduced himself he ii A fancied he had never seen so kindly and peaceful a face her simple etory story was soon told her dead ta fa ther an eccentric had taken in charge gradually some homeless t irp orphans hans them and herself he had worked traveling about the country countr j in the wagon and doing odd jobs as a tinker when the broker asked her as to her plans tor for the future she only looked helplessly and pathetically aim him warren talcott did some thinking then as if he had suddenly and re tre fre come to the threshold of an odd new nev inspiring life le 1 e realized I 1 d that his pensioner had made him his legatee confident that his old ft fi end would mould work out the problem aright they talked for over an hour clout blant ly talcott told of his real situation he suggested a plan he ile needed rest a change the doctors had said here it was ready made to order they would go to the farm as he called it it was their only tangible inheritance he went am away ay for a time sold bis his watch match and other jewel ry handed a roll of bills to miss gregory and said there Is room for me with the boys you must be the purse bearer and housekeeper the motive atou fathers life was to ave these poor little outcasts it Is a noble purpose I 1 shall try to continue his plan talcott went to sleep that night feeling the great load of a broken pa t lifted from his mind the odd tl e new the unknown life attracted him he ile awoke with a headache the nert next morning the react on had come by noon he h had a fever by nightfall he was delirious for him the next twenty days mere a ere a blank he ile awoke to find him hi nelt elf weak and emaciated lying on a bed in the boys end of the wagon he glanced from the window As far as his eyes could reach was a level emerald stretch grass flowers trees everywhere everow here two of the boys were carry ing a pall of water mater they passed out of sight around to the other side of the wagon from that direction there came the clang clang of metal sounds founds talcott tried to arise he sank back mith a in scantly from the wagon living room a I 1 form came into view it was N as miss gregory wonder eyed and grateful talcott learned how the brave little woman had nursed him hid h id carried out tl tle e plan of the journey to the farm here they were the children industry indus Indu trl ous and happy and oh ohl such grand and fortune and her eyes danced as she to d him of it A railroad Is build ng ablit richt through your section she explained and the wagon agon stands on the new town s te A nan rian has been here daily to see about selling him some of the property the man appeared next day he ile looked talcott over shrewdly then he said I 1 eee see you are a keen business man EO III talk sense I 1 am a land specula tor III give you ten thousand lars tor for a quarter section and fifty per cent of m hat I 1 make on another quarter section selling town lots you mea i replied the broker gently twenty thousand dollars and seventy five per cent I 1 gaess I 1 ve figured wrong said the speculator 1 ou re up to snuff well I 1 in ready to trade and what Is your plan now mr air Talcott 7 9 abbed the motherly guar lan than of the little coterie of children a few davs later lou I 1 ou are almost rich again I 1 hall chall bu id a nice roomy home ans answered talcott aid and we me mill ft ill all grow up ian the country my dear good nurse and true friend I 1 have found hope and ambition TV here 1 I thought there was mas noth ng but de ealr I 1 hare have boand love too t ill 3 sou ou share tho the new home as my N wifel if e and when the blushing audre audrey gregory answered yes war ren calcott felt that he stood at the portal ot of a veritable eden copyright 1912 1012 by W 0 G chapman |