The Romance and Tragedy

for many months and any improvement in pr

for I could have commanded him to do things that I could only request of my partner, and I had long since l

quence of poor health, to remain at home a day or two each week, but I soon

tion were held over until the following day, and this of cour

remaining at his desk all day, the only satisfaction I could get was

that the trade sized

but it simply wasn't i

the profits had returned him the three thousand dollars he had invested and in

y small business would give him an income sufficient for his requireme

ibilities, was for me, with a wife and two children, parent

o be done to ch

t. I thought best to put this in writing, and while doing so went fully into our affairs and endeavored to show him how impossible it was for me to go on any longer under ex

y instalments of fifty dollars each, without interest, the first paym

was at luncheon, laid it on his desk and took my usual train home,

ing I was not surprised to

fer, and having paid his money to come

r offer and it was that or nothing. If he would not accept it, then t

. He knew he could not carry

he had decided to accept my offer. "As to those notes," he said, "you may

the business under the same style, W. E. Stowe & Co., co

sing the wretched state of business, he would call himself a "Jonah," and

ray of light ahead, and without the constant encouragement of my wife, who always

another month it was more decided, and by the end of the year there

. There was no reason I should anticipate the payments if I did not wish to. Probably he would have been glad

ppreciate my doing s

ar in advance of maturity wa

out of the firm, just in advance of its arrival. I met him in the street frequently and noticed th

his envy of my success and her prejudice for my share in the temporary cessation of his