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The Romance and Tragedy

Chapter 10 MY PARTNER RETIRES

Word Count: 1016    |    Released on: 06/12/2017

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

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1 Chapter 1 THE FIRST ROUND OF THE LADDER2 Chapter 2 I MEET MY AFFINITY3 Chapter 3 A CO-PARTNERSHIP DISSOLVED4 Chapter 4 AND THE ANSWER WAS YES 5 Chapter 5 WEDDING BELLS6 Chapter 6 THE FIRST REVERSE OF FORTUNE.7 Chapter 7 THE COMING OF THE STORK.8 Chapter 8 THE NEW PARTNER.9 Chapter 9 SUBURBAN LIFE.10 Chapter 10 MY PARTNER RETIRES11 Chapter 11 A YEAR OF SUNSHINE12 Chapter 12 AN IDEAL LIFE13 Chapter 13 PROSPEROUS DAYS14 Chapter 14 NEAR THE DARK VALLEY15 Chapter 15 A SUCCESSFUL MANEUVER16 Chapter 16 REDSTONE 17 Chapter 17 OUR NEIGHBORS18 Chapter 18 AN UNEVENTFUL YEAR19 Chapter 19 THE STREAM BROADENS20 Chapter 20 RETROGRESSION21 Chapter 21 THE DAM GIVES WAY22 Chapter 22 THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM23 Chapter 23 A FEW WEAK FRENCH SPECULATORS 24 Chapter 24 EXCITING TIMES25 Chapter 25 COME AND DANCE IN THE BARN 26 Chapter 26 AN IMPORTER AND DEALER27 Chapter 27 SAD HEARTS AT KNOLLWOOD28 Chapter 28 NEW FACES29 Chapter 29 A SHORT YEAR AND A MERRY ONE30 Chapter 30 A VOUCHER31 Chapter 31 TWO SIDES TO THE QUESTION32 Chapter 32 THE PANIC OF NINETY-THREE33 Chapter 33 FAREWELL TO REDSTONE 34 Chapter 34 A SUMMER ON THE SOUND35 Chapter 35 MONMOUTH BEACH36 Chapter 36 THE SHIP FOUNDERS37 Chapter 37 THE FAMILY AND FRIENDS38 Chapter 38 W. E. STOWE & CO., INCORPORATED 39 Chapter 39 THE STRUGGLE COMMENCED40 Chapter 40 THE STRUGGLE CONTINUED41 Chapter 41 THE DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN42 Chapter 42 BRIGHTER DAYS43 Chapter 43 SMOOTH SAILING INTO ROUGH WATERS44 Chapter 44 THE TYRANNY OF THE JURY LAW45 Chapter 45 BITTER TRIALS46 Chapter 46 AT THE BRINK OF THE GRAVE47 Chapter 47 AGAIN AT THE HELM48 Chapter 48 A NIGHTMARE49 Chapter 49 RETROSPECTION50 Chapter 50 A DREAM51 Chapter 51 FROM GOD AND THE KING 52 Chapter 52 A FOUNDATION PRINCIPLE