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Updated: June 9, 2025
To begin with, I went home and broke the news to Aunt Helen and Aunt Agnes that my husband to be was to pass the evening with us, and for the moment did not break to them another bit of news I had heard before leaving Mr. Chelm, that the Honorable Ernest Ferroll, having made a large fortune in the stock market through the agency of Mr.
I was struck by the number of applicants for employment. "Give us something to do, and we can get along. We want work, not money," was the too frequent petition, for it was just this class of persons whom Mr. Chelm found it most difficult to assist.
Next day, Dale failed disgracefully. Of course Mr. Prime feels bound in honor to pay his customers their profits, which happen to exceed his capital. There is the whole story." "I see. And what do you advise me to do?" I asked, after a pause. "Do?" Mr. Chelm shrugged his shoulders. "I do not see that you can do anything." "I can pay his debts."
I felt an eager desire to say he had already promised that the speculation in which he was now engaged should be the last; but that of course was impossible, without disclosing my secret. How should I ever have the face to make confession to Mr. Chelm when the time came, if it ever did come?
I felt that it would amuse me immensely to become a female clerk for a few weeks and see the practical working of a business house, and above all others of this particular one. I felt sure that I could prove myself tolerably useful as well, thanks to my experience under Mr. Chelm; and there was no knowing what might come of it all if I should develop a taste for banking.
Several times already, on this account, she has helped young men who were in straits; and when I told her your story, and what you were ambitious to do, she clapped her withered old hands together and said, 'I will give him a chance, Mr. Chelm, I will give him a chance! He reminds me of my Tom. And that is how it came to pass. There is the long-and-short of the matter. Accept?
Chelm, and give me time to think." "Not a bit of it! The letter can wait. Say you accept, and be done with it!" "Very well then, I accept. We are gentlemen of fortune, Ike, and you shall have a new silver collar to-morrow." It is not necessary to describe the details of the interview further. An hour elapsed before the final arrangements were made and Mr. Prime left the office.
"Not if he be made to believe she is ancient and homely. Besides, how is he to know it is a woman?" "Forgive me, Miss Harlan, but no one except a woman could invent such a project. It fairly takes my breath away. How much of your capital do you propose to embark in the enterprise, the whole four millions?" "No, Mr. Chelm, I am not utterly irrational yet.
That is a romance to which I would say 'Amen' with all my heart." "Thank you very much, Mr. Chelm. But I will not obtain your connivance on any such terms. If you regard this as other than a purely business enterprise, I warn you that you will be wofully disappointed." "I shall have to take my chance of being right, just as you are going to take yours.
Have I omitted anything?" "You have stated the case exactly." "Humph! I should like to ask a single question. Is my benefactor a man or a woman?" "Another question like that would justify me in withdrawing the offer," answered Mr. Chelm with gravity. "My client wishes to have no identity whatever. Come, sir, my time is precious. I await your decision." "The proposal is so sudden and unexpected.
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