Show wall street to south ferry by H IRVING KING copyright C FOSDICK was a clerk town down in tile alio financial district and his boarding house was vas well over on tile the west side in the twenties tho the firm of catherwood by which charley was employed w was as run by old man jameson a white side whiskered autocrat robbins bobbins had died years year and years ago catherwood had died about two years before charley come camo to tho the farm find and the business was waa continued by ills his heirs two sons and a daughter whom no one seemed to know much about now every day at a certain hour punctually to the minute by trinity church clock for lie he was a betl methodical person C harley charley left tho the office walked up wall street turned down broadway and proceeded to south perry ferry where be took the avenue L and every day as lie ho passed a largo large office building on broadway there emerged a young woman of about his own age smartly clad and to charleys eyes exceedingly beautiful the fair and efficient unknown was always accompanied by an older woman less plainly dressed the couple followed the same route as charley broadway bowling green whitehall street lie ile watched and found that they entered the staten island ferry house they neither bowed nor spoke of course but they became quite like old friends after a while at last the barrier fell it fell with a little handbag which the young lady carelessly let fall and which fosdick picked up and restored to tier her with its ills best bow arid and a few wall chosen words to bo be rewarded ded with a bow and a smile after that the young 1 lady ady bowed when they met then it became a how do you do rind and after a long while the youth negotiating tits hla approaches pro aches slowly but skillfully lie was permitted to join tho the young lady indy and tier her companion to in the dally daily descent to the ferry the young lady called herself miss bliss susan knox and introduced tier her companion as miss white while site she tallied talked freely enough but when charley came to think it over the fact that she was employed in the ollice office of the smithson son estate was about fill all the information regarding tier her that lie he had acquired whereas lie he realized that by skillful questions and leading te ia marks she had find extracted from him the most minute details of tits his private affairs as well as all the he could afford with regard to tile business of his firm regarding tile latter she seemed strangely curious and charley was as wax in her hands they were wee getting perilously near the susan aud and charley stage when something happened been the matter with you all tile the week said bliss knox suddenly one day as aa they were passing the standard oil OH building things Ti lings going wrong at the office the fact to Is said charley 1 I think ill throw up my job and then ile he told her that from things which had come under tits his cognizance in the course of tits his office duties lie believed that old man jameson had been using the firms money to speculate with and was about due for a smashup well better keep your job a while sald said she here we are at the ferry good day the next day charles fosdick had the shock of tits his life miss bliss knox and miss bliss white appeared at the office of Cat catherwood berwood robbins and were shown in to old man jamesena Jam esona esons private sanctum and mr catlin chief f of the office S taff staff a veteran e employee whom jameson find always kept do down wn was sent for when the two women finnely left tile the office they were shortly followed by jameson Jam esou who ajo looked neither right nor left as lie went out then came out of the private office mr air catlin who posted up a notice to the effect that mr jameson Ja ineson having resigned mr air catlin was appointed nia manager nager in his place miss bliss susan knox was miss bliss susan catherwood nor her two brothers choosing to live most of the time in europe had given tier ner power pomer of attorney for the affairs of catherwood Cather wod robbins the smithson estate consisted d of dwelling houses and other build buildings left to susan by tier her mother susan being of a business turn managed this herself keeping for the purpose a little office in the building from which charley had seen her emerge masu white was her secretary charley went down broadway the day of susans visit to the catherwood It office with tits ills head in a whirl no ko miss bliss knox triet met him but miss bliss white did and acidly commanded him film to accompany her to staten island there in a fine old house overlooking the narrows susan explained matters to him film As for jameson she said his judgment of values was vas sound but as I 1 propose to have him using the firms money for speculative pur poses I 1 lot let him go I 1 propose to keep a closer supervision of the firms affairs after till tills so I 1 shall not be able to handle the smithson estate how would you like to take ray my place no they were not married at once it was not until charley had managed the smithson estate entente for a year Y nr and it waa two years before the nami of the wall street firm vre changed change to Cu therwood Fos fosdyck dIcU |