The Romance and Tragedy

gland my feeling of dislike for my

rth at least five hundred dollars per month to the

mands on his father-in-law he kept himself in funds to provide for his extravagant living, and it seemed to me hi

was doing all the business, earning all the money that was made, and this man was entitled to fifty per cent of the n

signed by him with the firm's name, and in response to my inquiry as to the meaning of it, he told me it was a little matter h

ugh I had to borrow the money to make the payment, I did

llowing morning, knowing that I was rid of the leaden weight which Mr. D

in its place went up anot

, which is the key-note to a broker's success, I found my yo

maller orders. This was a great trial and I could not but feel it an injustice. Still, there was nothing I

was the questionable methods of a f

rham had held well in hand for many years. This I had expected, but I did not count upon my

f principle based on the idea that "the laborer is worthy of his

rk increasing the strength of my position where it was already established,

hat I had made about twenty-five hundred dollars, as compared w

much larger income than I had ever before earned, it was so far b

the prospects were good I started the new year with

incidents occurred tha

he oil refiners, all of whom have since

m the first I had struggled to get a share of it, without having made them, after a year of const

e I had captured it. This was the entering wedge, and throughout the year, although not getting more th

s, for it was the commencement of intimate relations wit

ling changed in consequence of investments in a mining stock, both by the firm and by its most

ndred thousand dollars, and though this sum was insignificant to people

done with the Boston dealers; but the most important phase of this connection was the fact that Tatnall controlled the selling of

my solicitation made me a proposition which I promptly accepted. The competing firm

at Boston by a sailing vessel. This was before the days of the telephone,

d as follows: "Closed, contracts coming, competitors conquere

osing words meant me to remember that "one swallow does not make a summer,"

t meeting and I found him a delightful man, a typical Bostonian. He

cident of his visit wh

tormy and his salutati

e; fine day for birds

same remark. Before the day was over I concluded I was not l