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The Exeter Times, 1879-4-10, Page 7"I'!IL 10, 1t79 WUU' AEL. GARORAVE'S HARVEST. CIIAPTLR UL -•.-Contin uel soma TIIING ABOUT THE GA0GRAV16S. Further, Mr. Gargrave had not only run throue"lt Ills fresh petrimtln:y, hat In reply, his egents said he was quite correct in imagining that the amassing of large fortunes in trade was the exception, and the oompassing of merely a moderate income, or some- times no income at all, the rule. "Sue. cess depended,' they wont on to state, "not merely noon individual talent, but tx(tatusted his fresh credit.' From the this circumstance in which the Indlaldll- tirue when aisle nephew came cf age til possessed of talent chanced to be things had been a little "difficult" for the elder man., =sand when things begin "'Very deeended upon a good to be ''difficult' they generally end by becoming unpleasant. , "If that fellow lives muck longer," alae said to his wife, "1 shall have to go into the (sn.ette." "The sooner the better, dear, I should think," she answered, with ex• * etsperat•iug senitatiility, "and then we shall be rid of those dreadful people 'aa ho are elwo a now asking us for Iiitnhey." , 1 While aff•t.irs worn thus once more ,on the vere t of mitre when, in foot, mothing but the Bi ayloy property•cuuld have staved Mr. Gargrave, news carne to Euglard that a new physician had ;been so successfully treating the young l,oir that there was every trope of his 'l•et being restored to health, ".Poor thing!" said ally Gargrave, pityingly referring to his sister-in-h►w.i •"Santa quads has got hold of her, It 'doubt, now. Very likely the improve -t anent she speaks of is but the final flicker." It was a very hopeful flicker, at all .events. Letter succeeded to letter ;, and finally 1lrs. Gergrane announced% beginning. A fair start was most im- portant to a young titan. The office ho entered, the commercial education the received, were matters which sotne- times provled of vital importance." 44Ttlat: all eoun de very sensible," said Michael Gargravo'e godfather. "Write and asst them, Mr, Tunstall, if you please, whether by chance they harpen to know of all office where a young fel- low who has never given hie attention to stub matters could be trained into beeeening 21 successful merchant." Duly the letter was written, duly the reply cauls back. Quite by chance Mr'T'uustall's London agentsdid happen to know of a ficin willing to receive the son of a gentleman (this was uuderlinredl, and instruct in all the details of a most prnfhtabe business, for the moderate premium of two hundred and fifty pounds. The usual peeuniery eonsid• oration they recbived was five hundred; but as they (Ur. Tan%tail's currespond- eute) were iuterested about the matter, the firm world tape half that amount. Twelve mouths, they considered, alight trach any person of ordinary ability all that elle and her son, Isla) was very .nisch better, trnsted to return to Eng_ lend ill the course of the following summer. Hare was a contingency no one had over taken into calculation. That '().ren Gargrave shonld recover Would have seemed the wildest of all wild im- aaieines, and Set her he was recover- ing. lIo whose life had boon thantght scare'ly worth a day's purchase was as likely to live as the best of them. It was horrible, beat it way true. Mr. Gargrave might rave and bltasphetne ; I regret to say he did !both ; but his ut- terances cauls not alter facts. He said dreadfal, unpardonable things—things whi h corning later to the mother's ears she never forgot and never forgave. As for the creditors, they were '1'neither to hold nor to bind,"they were simply farions. They esllod their debt- or harder names by far than he had called his nephew; and, in fine, from a storm of writs and clamour of furi- ti a�onts tongues, Mr. Gargrave retired to /the Continent, where he was in doe lime followed by Mrs. Gargrave and the junior members of Vila family— "hone of them, be it underst•nod, quite destitute of the hope that they might :yet return to England in triumph. After all, there was but a life be- tween them and Brayley, auel who could tell ? THE TIMVS "Oh ! it's you, is it ?" said Mr. Owe - screw, eerelessly. "Step this way,will you?" and he opened the door of his. own sanctum, .After a little while he rang his bell, and, saying that he would be engaged for home time, observed that the clerks need wait uo longer. Next morning, when the clerks ar- rived at business, they found the shut., tern up, and one of the yesterday's neon in calla posseusion of the mahogany fittings, the many drawered tables, the Turkey carpet, and the tutee safes. Mr. Casserow, iVlr, Gfinton, the Co., or their money they never saw again. The game, which had not been seta cesesful, was pleyod out, and all the young fellows who had learned the business of addressing circulars and copying letters were adrift on the world of London. ]?or, as a rule, they were not merely dupes, but poor dupes, and the amount necessary to teach them "business knowledge," under the auspices of Messrs. Casserow & Co., had been rais- ed with difficulty by friends and rela- tives, in most uses badly off them- selves. Att0. iu vain 1llieI ael Gargrave search- ed for employmeub. He advertised ; he answered advertisements ; but there was a beautiful unanimity in the way ueop'le refused to have anything to do with him. And when lie came to consider dis- passionately the extent of his own ac- quirements, he could not avoid think- ing that people had reason. "I can read and write and cipher," he thought ; and that is about all. Employers would be very foolish, in- deed to have anything to do with me ; though nay poor father believed 1 had but to come to Loudon to .conquer." One day, when returning, thorough. ly disheartened, from places where ° 5 o I" seemed the stereotyped answer ou men's lips, he chanced to see stuck up in the dirty window of a pokey little wholesale glass warehouse a pa- per on which was written iu round hand, "A. boy wanted. Apply within." After a minute's irresolution he cros- sed the threshold, and then paused to see what would happen next.. At a desk in the bacicgrotand sat a man who, on catching sight of him, came forward and said, "What may your business be, sir ?" "You want a boy," explained the 'young fellow, pointiug to the legend iu the window.', •""Nell, yes, I do," confessed the oth• er., reluctantly, as one who felt he was being driven to many an irrelevant and unnecessary admission. "Will you take me?" "If you think you can play any of yourijokes hero you're mistaken, and will find yourselfao, swell or no swell. Colne, get °ut of .hie,",and the irate trader voluted a very dirty hand to- wards the door. "Pray do not be angry.. I ntn not joking. I never fait less' like joking in my life. I want work, and as I can't get man's work, let me try if I am able to doboy's. I do not care what it is —Ill, :sweep out this place now, if you like; it looks as if it would be the bet- ter for it—only try me." With his legs a Imttle apart, with This hands thrust deep in his pockets, with a perplexed frown ou his forehead, and a very dubious expression in his eyed, Mr. Holding surveyed the iedividnal who made this propositisu, but at last he said, "Well, suppose I do?" "You won't repent giving nee the chance." "Very well, then, you shall have a trial; but, remember, you will have to work." ""All right. What should you like me to work at first ?" and I'lr. Michael Gargrave was looking about him for a convenient nail nn which to hang his ' coat and hat, when his employer arrest- edt tlliat purpose. "I must have a reference," he said. "If'tlhe angel Gabriel came asking for a satiation, I would not take him un• less he gave me ono." •"I am not an angel," answered Gar - grave, laughing; "but I dare say I can give a satisfact:Iry reference." "Hr. Holding said nothing in reply ; but he watched wit'E1 shrewd, observant eyes the young fellow as he wrote down an address, it was necessary for him to learn ; bet the arrangement could be extend• ed beyond that 1'erit,d, if agreeable to both parties., in which case the yonn; geutletnstn'3 services would be acknowl- edged with a suitable honorarium. Very triarnphantly Mr. Tunstall read this letter to these iuterestod in its coutints. "Fine opening --fine opportunity," romiarked Mr. Gargrave;; "but they might es wall ask ale for two bemired and fifty thousand, or., indeed, two hundred and fifty millions." "It is very good of your .friends, Mr. Tunstall," said Michael; but you must see yourself it ie,vs ray father suggests, impossible for me to accept the offer." "Look here, Michael," broke in his godfather. "If you metal to work and break through all this wretched tangle, I will help you. My income is only an anunity, as you know ; but I have sav- ed some few hundreds, and they may as well be yours now as when I ane dead and gone. Now do not say a word, please. If yon wish to get to wcrk, Mr. Tnnstall and I will settle all the preliminaries." And so, without much more talk, at .vas settled. The generous old gentle, man,riskiue his hardly -saved hundreds; and Michael, fell of hope, and.zeal,and faith in himself, and London, accepted This godfather's o'er as frankly as it was frankly tirade. So to London lie went. After a short time the found lodgings in Wal- worth, and %vented thence; each work- ing morning, totthe offices of Messrs. Casserow, Minton& Co., Martin's -lane. After his firstintroduction to that establishment he wrote a glowing ac- count of its stories to his father. "There's so maeth plate•glas sand pol- ished mahogany and Iacquer work that (MA'S senses are fairly dazzled," he said. "'Erich of the partners has a private office, the floor of wtlicihis cov- ered with a Turkey carpet. Even in the waiting -room there is a library table as large and far handsomer than theft at Brayley. The "ineseenger" wears n livery, and is resplendent with silver 'buttons. There are?five yonug fellows in the office, each of whom has paid a premium to come in, varying in amonnt from three hundred to six hundred pounds. 1 caunnt yet quite melee out -what the business is. So far, no one of us has done anything ex- cept direct 'circulars ard copy letters." Time naesed on, lir. Michael Gar - grave still flailed to make out what the business was. He had become almost perfect ir, the matters of addressing circulars and copying letters, and was longing for a change of occupation, wherr one afternoon two persons cams into the office and asked to tee Mr. Casserow, failing Mr. Casserow, Mr. r(prlinton, failing Mr. Minton, the Com Ipw)y, and failing the Company, the Manager.. CHAPTER I.V. MICHAEL GARGRAVE. 'When the dark day% come, friends .are sometimes conspicuous by their .absence ; but at first around the Gar - .graves friends, such as they were, gath- ered in numbers. To say truth, people could not Soe lieve in the extent and thoroughness of the collapse. Many persons found it impossible to believe that Brayley was, virtually gone from '11r.. Rekeby Gar grave; others could not credit the ex- tent of his folly. A time, -of course, arrived when everyone realized that 11fr. Gargrave's sun had gone down in darkness—that for him there would be no more casks and ate, though his son way gone into the City to "make his 'fortune." "What is to become of hliollael ?" .asked that young mate's godfather 'when the collapse occurred. "He, poor fellow ? Oh'1 he'll have 'to go ou 'Change, or something of that. hind. It is a new thing tier Gargraves 'to become tradesmen , but if I were a :younger man I should devote myself to ;business. I should, indeed." Business in the 'estimation of Mr. ,7.tokeby Gargrave beluga sort of gold - nine very easy indeed•to work, though it could not: be regarded otherwise than infra dig. to labor an it. "He will want some capital, though,. -wont he ?" suggested the other, whose ideas on the subject were almost as :.hazy as those of the man he addressed. "Capital ? No. no ; that is not •needed iu trade. Things are bought and sold withont a shilling of actual honey changing hands. Ali that its required is to know where to buy and where to sell," When the fatiiily solicitor was con- sulted on this point, he expressed some ;doubts as to whether Mr. Gargrave's view of commercial 'matters could be regarded as (pito correct ; 'out, as le also bad beard of fortunes being made by beggars—of millionaires who bacl originaliy been possessed of precisely five farthings whoti they crossed Lon; cion Bridge, he felt chary of expressing any very decided opinion', and eonte'tat- 7 After be had been a month in Mr,. Holding's service he wrote to his god• father an account of the collapse of Casserow & Co,, only too Happy to tell the kindly old man that his money had not been totally thrown away. "I am doing very well, indeed," be said. Mr. Holding pays me a salary ; he is very kind ; and I awl in a fair way of learning something more about business then directing envelopes and copying letters." From all which it will probably he itiferrid that Michael Gargrave was made of quite arothor metal than his purposeless, oxtravagant,foolish father. Veh'y bitter had been the young fel- ow's experience when the creels came. Very hard things were said to him by irate creditors. Home truths were told without consideration or delicacy —truthe that made him wiesee, but that proved of incalculable benefit, nevertheless. Roughly — very roughly — he was shown that there aware other interests in the world besides those of the Gar. graves. People thought it none the less hard to be "robbed of thei money" by "a set of swindlers"—so some of Mr. Gargreve's creditors ex- pressed the transaction—because th chief swindler was a "fellow whose an- cestors wore chain armor in the thir- teenth century," to quote poor Jame Hannay's definition of a gentleman. No. If it were righteous that man's children should suffer for hi sins (and though he could not under stand the reason for this hard truth h accepted its necessity), it was quit just that Rokeby Gargrave's eldest born should have to Bern the bread h ate, and be thankful he was atble to ge bread even on such terns. Though scarcely more then a lad, h faced his difficulties like a man. Wbe lie went to Mr, Holding's he was still like David, "but a yontb, ruddy an of a fair countenance ;" and it neigh have torched anyone acquainted wit his anteeedeuts to see hots bravely b took up his burden, and without cons plaint or faltering bowed his shoulder Failingas regards even the last- named personage, the better -dressed of the two concluded he would "wait a bit." When 'told the retnrrr of the firm that day was extremely uncertain he said that did not much matter to him, and he still thought Ire hes better "wait a bit." under it, Never brought up to know the valu of money,—for,.indeed, not a oreatur in Mr. Gargrave's household seems able to understand that there are bn twenty shillings in A pound --during hi first London experience he wasted al most as much as he scent ; not in r •)tons living er with any councsiou nese of being prodigal, bat merely b cause he had still to learn how to fi Ins expeniture to his income. Further, it was natural that th gorgeousness of Messrs. Casserow' surroundings should mislead levo, as t the stability of Ms own prospect What more certain than that at th anal of the twelvemonth his futu services would be "suitably acknow edged;" indeed, in illus goodness of h heart, Mr. Casserow once personall assured him that such should be t case. Thus it came to pass that,ecoromic though the fellow believed himself be, he computed everything upon t broad and liberal a scale. Hie lodgings were too dear, his lag lady too profuse in ber ideas. If 11 ft od were plait), it was expensive ; a he had always, perhaps, too mu small change 1n his pocket. At events, whatever the reason—and 1 could have given no reason for the fa he less than anyone, most likely when the collapse of Messrs. Gasse ow, Glinton & Co. came there was ve little left of the amount his godfath had given him to provide necessari daring his year of probationslaip, at that little he further diminished by loan to his landlady—an advance s called it, but as he had to leave lodgings and she her house befor fortnight passed aver their heads., p haps the word gift described more ea -irately the nature of the transactio Acoordiugly, when he asked perm sion to do "boy's wont" he was elm at hie last sovereign, and, as the s ary Mr. Holding gave coal& certai not be considered extravagant, Mich Gargrave often found the problem living difficult. But be never complained ; to lath or godfather, or employer he ne spoke of the straits to which he v reduced. Often he was cold, often was hungry, always his food was suffleiont, and he :cuuld have told S'urldays when lin walked miles a miles to kill the weary tune he forced to stay out, so that his landl ;might not suspect he had not wherewith to bny the dinners she p fessed herself Willing upon' the'seve day to cook. CHAPTER V. ran, ROLDING'0 VENTURE. After all, the whi=m heir•presnmp- tive of Brayley had neither to wheel a cart nor sweep out the warehouse. Mr. Fielding, having been grieved in spirit by long nod weary experience of the general iuefficeney, and self•stifficiency As be refused all off'eve of the news- of young Hien who came asisertiag they paper. 'the clerics telegraphed meaning could do everything, knew how to value looks to each other signifying their he- this'good•looking,wetl-maunerd strang- lief that the could not read ; end, as heer, who dial his best, and was most volunteeed no atter p't a tit•'eonversatiou,, ( earnestly willing and anxious to learn ; it was inferred that 'he and his corn- t ancd, .consequently, instead of taking penion were of unsocial dispositions. Michael at his vvord,be put him straight Abntrt five o'clock 'Mr. Casserow, to the' desk, tuacle him write letters, brtstling•into the office, beheld the .kir it copy accounts, and finallyiaiitiated him into. ithe mysteries of doubtfesentry, day,- edhimenlf by offering to write. toe.,M. who bad resisted all effortll to ,eget agpnts,,a nd malce.in,cluiriee. , 'athem,ipto the w{aj,tipg-room... • ( boplftaIid ledgetswerk. . ' woad.erfully ;;not quite so well as the' Youth kept frim •up, . lhowever--yot and a certain dogged' determines' and laudable pride which he inheri from some•forgotten ancestor, pnesi one of tho'•gentlemen' who had figu in chain ,arlxrour. "So lerry as the .seams of my east (Minot get white, 'he said long after- wards, when speaking about this period of struggle, "I felt I could bear any- thing. nything. Happily I had a good stock or clothes, and with care they taste& garments of the Israelites perhaps, but still almost miraculously. I3y the time they were so shabby that I felt ashamed to give them away. I was able to buy suits that did well enough for business, though they might have made a West -End tailor weep. .i net,.. er shall forget my poor father looking at me the first and only time 1 rau ov- er to )"'ranee to see him." 20 be continued. vairommemosemeuirammit Cu.gTamils l)EP.iRT.n1E.iYI. 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