True Riches; Or, Wealth Without Wings

next few years, we will pass over that time without a record. Some changes of more or less importance hav

ay homeward. An errand for his wife led him past his old place of business. As he moved along the street, opposite, he noticed a new si

ille. His end in doing this was to gain the favour of Jasper, and thus secure the place left vacant by the departing clerk. He had succeeded in his purpose. Jasper offered him the situation, and he took it. Five years afterward, in which time Jasper had made money

creased, and with the increase had come new wants. The condition of Mr. Melleville's business gave him no encouragement to hope for a larger income while in his service. Several times during the last two years he had ma

the air, when a hand was laid on hi

ard! How

of his friend, returned

asked the latter. "It is months, I believe

d Clare, "and anchored

ime is p

rofitably, I hope

ered; "as to the profit-if you mean in a

till with

es

hat s

hund

How much fam

but the fourth brings us three hundre

is som

It is qui

me of it-your old friend Jasper has just given one of

am a

s doing f

ing money,

at situation, you would have been the partner now. And, by the way, there was rat

hat wa

dealings, and left him on that account. I hadn't given you

s of doing business, an

ou heard

o do with his modes

is employées, I was expect

ing to do that, you

the simpl

od in your own light. But for this extra bit of virtue, for which no one thinks a whit t

own position than in hi

evinced surprise. "He is

ar, in the way

ou say tha

so far forgets the rights of others as to tra

e tramples on the

go, fair dealing between man and man is a virtue in a clerk that would in nowise recommend him to the position of an associate in business. His partner must b

es such men are by

aware

whom I know, that, as the world now is, n

than I am re

nd shrewdest ge

t, and self-denying. The eagerness to get rich fast is the bane of trade. I am quite ready to admit t

he friend; "you certainly don't mean to bring t

ld for all of us if this l

selfish, how is it possible to

ealing?" said Claire,

" was the half-

e seen the fact noticed in one of our papers, that an unfaithf

her trunk a number of valuable art

the public. Now, there are many ways of stealing, besides this direct mode. If

tain

ods to sell, and you wish to purchase them. In the trade I manage to get from you, through direct misreprese

oubt

ved you of a portion of you

make up the morality

? By your own admission, every businessman who tak

aire. It wouldn't do to talk that righ

y n

ome people feel bad; and others

e inclined to justify sharp dealing, on the ground that all were sharpers-quoting the saying of some, that no honest man could trade successfully in the present time. For the direct stealing of a few articles

laugh. "Your mind has fallen into a morbid state. But you will get over

g man turned

honest, is to live in obedience to social and divine laws; dishonesty is the violation of these. Is it possible for a diseased body to give physical enjoyment? No! Nor can a diseased mind give true mental enjoyment. To seek happiness in the possessio

his feeling was increased by his observation of the fact that Parker had been advanced to the position of a partner to his old employer. It seemed like a reward for unfair dealing, while honesty was suffered to remain poor. The young man's enlightened reason-enlightened during five years' earnest sear