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