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"Hasn't it occurred to you," he asked, at last, "that you could leave your affairs in Hargous' hands, and still turn over to your mother-in-law whatever sums he paid you?" "Yes; but she wouldn't take the money unless she thought it was her very own." "But it isn't her very own. It's yours." "I want to make it hers.
First, Monsieur Hargous is not an American, and you are; and I'd been told that Americans always like to help one another " "I don't know who could have put that notion into your head." "And, then, from the few glimpses I've had of you I will say it! I thought you looked kind." "Well, now that you've had a better look, you see I don't. How much money have you got? You haven't told me that yet."
"These are my securities, and I'm told they're very good." "And do you take them round with you every time you go shopping?" "No," Diane smiled, somewhat wanly. "They've been in the hands of the Messrs. Hargous for a good many years past. They are entirely at my own disposal not in trust, they said; so that I had a right to take them away. I thought I would just bring them to you." "What for?"
I remember him perfectly a handsome old fellow, who had lost an arm in the Crimea. He used to do business with us when I was with Hargous in the rue de Provence. Having impoverished himself in a plot in favor of the Comte de Chambord, somewhere about 1872, he came utterly to grief in raising funds for the Boulanger craze, in the train of the Duchesse d'Uzès.
"To keep them for my mother-in-law and pay her the interest, or whatever it is." "Why didn't you leave them with Hargous?" "I was afraid, from some things he said, he would object to what I wanted to do." "And what made you think I wouldn't object to it, too?" "Two or three reasons.
I admit it's worse than I thought. But all the same I know that when people have high reputations other people trust them and help them through. Banks do it, don't they? Isn't that partly what they're for? It was Pierpoint & Hargous who helped Lulu Sentner's father. They stood behind him. She told me so. I'm positive that with your name they'd do as much for you.
If I refuse you to-morrow as is probable I shall I'll send a man with you to see you and your money safely back to Hargous." He touched a bell, and a young man entered. On directions from the banker the clerk left the room, taking the bag with him; while Diane, feeling that her errand had been largely accomplished, rose to leave. "You can't go without the receipt for your securities.
P.A. Hargous, the present proprietor and holder of the privileges granted by Mexico, signifying his assent to and acceptance of the terms of its provisions. There is also an abstract of title to him from the original grantee and copies of the several powers and conveyances by which that title is derived to him.
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