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In one way, I feel sorry for the old fellow, but he brought the accident on himself. What a shame that a man with his education couldn't have remained honest and straightforward. "As I said above, Pelter, Japson & Company, are going to give up business here. Just the same, I don't like Pelter's actions at all.
"What do you mean?" demanded the broker, and hanging up the telephone receiver, he, too, arose. "Never mind what I mean, Mr. Pelter. If you will give me no aid, I'll find my father alone," and having thus spoken, Dick marched from the offices, leaving the broker staring after him curiously. "Hum! Looks like a smart young man!" murmured Jesse Pelter, to himself.
Pelter ignored Tom's father entirely. And yet the youth knew that his parent had fifty thousand dollars or more tied up in that very company! "I'd like to know some of the people who have invested in this stock," said Tom, after the matter had been talked over for nearly an hour. "I will give you some names," was the broker's reply, and he wrote them down.
There was a great deal to do in the way of protecting a number of rather uncertain investments which Pelter, Japson & Company had made for Mr. Anderson Rover while they were his brokers. "It's a mighty good thing that we got after Pelter, Japson & Company when we did," was Erick's comment. "If we hadn't, they would have put us in the worst kind of a hole, even if they had remained honest.
"What is it?" asked his brothers. "That old irrigation scheme the one run by Pelter, Japson & Company, of Wall Street, New York." "Why, I thought dad had dropped that," said Sam, in surprise. "He tried to. But they held him to some agreement I don't know exactly what. They wanted to get more money out of him if they could." "And you think he went to New York on that account, Dick?" asked Tom.
"Well, Banksie," said Sim, "Sadie's been more particular about her young men since that night. We've been married twenty-five years, and I guess I'll let you come up and eat this evening, anyway. She lets me bring most any old pelter home." "Gosh, boys, I can't." "Say, what are you? the porter on that varnished car down there?" demanded Sim. "Won't they let you off a minute?"
At the dock lay a rowboat, with a man who looked like a sailor at the oars. Pelter and Crabtree climbed down into the boat, which was quickly shoved away. Then the sailor took up the oars and commenced to row out into the broad river. "Now we are stumped!" murmured Tom, as he and his brothers watched the departure of the rowboat from behind a shed at the inner end of the dock.
Can I see him?" went on Dick. "Mr. Jesse Pelter was staying here, but he has just gone he went about an hour ago." "Is that so!" cried Dick. "Can you tell me where he went to?" "Well, I er I don't know," faltered the woman, and eyed Dick sharply. "I have a very important message for him," Dick hastened to say. "I must see him at once." "Oh, in that case you'll find him down at the docks.
"Are you working in New York?" asked Tom, following an awkward pause. "I haven't anything to do just now, but I am hoping to get a situation soon," answered Barton Pelter. "I've got to be going now," he added, and after a few words more, he made his way to the elevated station at the entrance to the Brooklyn Bridge.
"This is certainly one on me," he confessed, frankly. "I looked that safe over very carefully, too. I should have discovered that;" and his face showed his chagrin. Then he was told about the Pelters and about Japson, and he agreed with the Rovers that he had best try to locate Barton Pelter and his uncle without delay.
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