Show FIRED THE 1113 boy dropped hla his head and eov cov brej his face with his hands to hide the tears which lie he could not dot keep back lie ile was trying to realize what it all meant cant I 1 have another chancer chance he ha asked youve already had bad many chances the older man answered and bouve lot them slip by lie ile was not a bad boy with vicious habits lie ile had simply wasted his big time foolishly thoughtlessly with silly girls and purposeless lazy boys lie ile had meant to work to do the job assigned to him to change hla big methods there thera was still plenty of time te le was sure in which to fix it all up and then he be al awakened wAkened suddenly to the fact that he was badly in debt that his work had not bean done temptation came and he was not quite honest abot quite square he had stolen to make good his obligations 1 I 1 had to pay up he explained and I 1 stop to think now he had lost hla his job and he was facing his failure and his disgrace ile had done more hard thinking in 24 hours than in all the pi previous evIous years of his big careless thoughtless life 1 I do not mind the punishment or the humiliation tor for myself lie he said 1 I deserve it all and more it if it can be so fixed that I 1 can bear it alone I 1 shall be satisfied I 1 want to keep it from the folks and especially 1 want to kee keep p it from mother someway Som away I 1 dont believe lie lieve she could bear to feel that I 1 had beba dishonest it Is a fallacy of youth that the individual alone suffers for his own sins and delinquencies what happens to you happens in equal in measure ensure to all those related to you your family your associates your friends your neighbors all suffer slitter with you your penalty falls more heavily upon me and upon my boys mother a father wrote oly oaly this week than upon him this seem fair but its true and it Is the way ot of the w world rid no man lives unto himself alone it Is a fallacy of youth also to deceive himself into believing that one can evade paying the price of loafing and laziness and neglect aegle ct of obligation and of dishonesty and dissipation one always py pays heavily it there Is delay in the rendering of the account it if one seems to have escaped the penalty OM may be sure that when he Is finally called upon to pay as he ultimately will be generous gene roua interest will be added there la Is no eo e cape |