. Le romantisme et la tragédie d'un homme d'affaires bien connu de New York. réaction tohis aimable invitation, j'ai appelé à son bureau, et que ma main hegrasped J'ai senti que j'avais trouvé un ami-comment grand un ami que je ne puis savoir. Le premier appel a été suivi par de nombreux autres, l'andI a toujours accueilli avec le greetingthat est né de sincérité et engendré par la véritable amitié.Il a pris un vif intérêt dans mes affaires, de discussions withme mes plans pour redevenir un moneymaker,et était toujours prêt à donner un coup de main à bridgeover les points durs qui étaient plus ou moins fréquentes. Parmi les autres affaires prospec

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. The romance and tragedy of a widely known business man of New York. sponse tohis kind invitation, I called at his office, and as hegrasped my hand I felt that I had found a friend—how great a friend I did not then know. The first call was followed by many others, andI was always welcomed with the cordial greetingthat is born of sincerity and sired by true friendship.He took a keen interest in my affairs, discussed withme my plans for again becoming a moneymaker, and was ever ready to lend a helping hand to bridgeover the hard spots that were more or less frequent. Among other business prospects, there was heldout to me the possibility of becoming manager of abranch office of a New York Stock Exchange firmin Washington, D. C. This position I lost in com-petition with a man who had already an establishedclientele. Then came an offer from another Wash-ington concern, an opening in a congenial and re-munerative business, that would give me only asmall income to commence with, but which through THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBRARY A8TOR, LCWOX ANDPLDF-N FOONOAHOWi, . UJ o Q (-DZH(0UJ Io From God and the King 263 a prospective early reorganization of the concernpresented great possibilities. This I accepted. As soon as it was decided we were to settle inWashington or its vicinity, came the longing for acountry home, not only as a matter of choice, butthe practical side appealed to us. We believed we could make a farm certainly self-supporting and probably a paying proposition. Ouramateur experience in earlier years had always beensuccessful. We did not think there was much to bemade in farming, as it is generally understood, butthe farm would give us our living and certainspecialties we thought could be relied on for profit.Hot-house cucumbers, cold frame violets, mush-rooms, and last, but by no means least, the puttingup home-made, in glass of vegetables and fruitsfor sale to private buyers. In this department mywife is a master hand. In our prosperous days shealways superintend

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