The Huron Expositor, 1921-12-09, Page 7e'
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T.
Tembarom
By
Frances Hodgson Burnett
Toronto—William Briggs.
(Continued from last week)
"My name's Tembarom. T. Tembar-
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It 'sounded like the crudely artless
interruption of a person whose per-
ceptions left muoh to be desired. T.
Ternharom knew what it sounded like.
If 'Palliser lost his temper, he would
get over the ground faster, and he
wanted 'hien to get over .the ground,
"I'm afraid I don't understand,"• he
replied rather stiffly.
'There was a fellow I knew in New
who used to sell type -writers, and he
hada thing to say he used to reel
ofr when any one looked like a cus-
tomer. He used to call it his 'spiel.'"
Palliser's quick glance at him ask-
ed ghestiona, and his stiffness did not
relax itself.
"Is this New York chaff?" he in-
quired coldly.
"No," Tembarom aa'id. "You're not
doing it for ten per. He was."
"No, not exactly," said Palliser,
"Neither would you be doing it for
ten per if you went into it" His ,
voice changed. He became slightly
'haughty. 'Perhaps it was a mistake
on my part to think you might care
to connect yourself with it. You have
not, of course, been in the position to i
comprehend such matters."
"If 1 was what I look like, that'd
stir me up and make me feel had,"
thought T. Tembarom, with cheerful i
comprehension of this, at least. "I'd
I
Lave to rush in and try to prove to I
him that I was as accustomed to big;
business as he is, and that it didn't
rattle me. The way to do it that
would come most natural would be to
show 1 was ready to buy a big a block
if stock as any other fellow."
But the expression of his face did
sot change. He only gave a half -awk-
ward sort of laugh.
"I guess I can learn," he said.
Palliser felt the foothold become
firmer. The bounder was interested,
but, after a bounder's fashion, was
either n rvous or imagined that a
show of hesitation looked shrewd. The
slight hit nade at his inexperience in
investmei ` had irritated him and
made him feel less cock -sure of him-
self. A slightly offended mariner
n ight be the best weapon to rely
upon.
"I thought you might care to have
the thing n:. ae clear to you," he con -
binned inditi•cren.tly. "I meant to ex-
plain. You may take the chance or
leave it, as yea ljke, of course. That
is nothing to me at this stage of the
game. But, after all, we are as I
s..id, relatives of a sort, and it is a
gigantic opportunity. Suppose we
change the subject. Is that the Sun-
day Earth I see by you on the table?"
He leaned forward to take the paper,
as though the subject really were
dropped; but, after a seemingly ner-
vous suck or two at his pipe, Tem-
barom came to his assistance. It
wouldn't do to let him quiet down
too much.
is no Van ,Morganbilt," he said
hesitatingly, "but I can see that it's
a big opportunity --dor some one else.
Let's have a look over the prospectus
again."
Palliser paused in his unconcerned
opening of the copy of the Sunday
Earth. His manner somewhat dis-
gustedly implied indecision as to
whether it was worth while to allow
oneself to be dropped and taken up
lie turns.
"Do you really mean that?" he
asked with a certain chill of voice.
"Yes. I don't mind trying to catch
on to what's doing in any big scheme."
Palliser did not day aside his sug-
gestion of cold semi -reluctance more
readily than any man who knew his
business would have laid it aside. His
manner at the outset was quite per-
fect. His sole ineptitude lay in 'his
feeling a too great confidence in the
exact quality of his companion's type,
as he summed it up. He did not cal-
culate on the variations from all type
sometimes provided by circumstances.
He produced his papers without too
obvious eagerness. He spread them
upon the table, and coolly examined
them 'himself before beginning his ex-
planation. There was more to ex-
plain to a foreigner and one unused
to investment than there would be to
a man who was an`Ehglishman and
familiar with the methods of large
companies, ,he said. He went into
technicalities, so to speak, and used
rapidly and lightly some imposing
words and phrases, to which T. Tem-
barom listened attentively, but with-
out any special air of illumination
He dealt with statistics and the re-
sulting probabilities. He made ap-
parent the existing condition of Eng-
land's inability to supply an enorm-
ous and unceasing demand for tim-
ber. He had acquired divers excel-
lent methods of stating his case to
the party of the second part.
"He made me feel as if a fellow had
better hold on to a box of matches
like grim death, and that the time
wasn't out of eight when you'd have
to give .fifty-seven dollars and a half
for a toothpick," Tembarom after-
wards said to the duke.
What Tembarom was thinking as
he listened to him was that he was
flat getting over the ground with
much rapidity, sad that it Was time
something was doing, He had not
watched him for weeks without learn-
ing divers of his ldiesy'ncraeies.
"If be thought I' wanted to know
what he thinks I'd s heapnorther not
know, he'd never tell me," he specu-
lated. "If he gets a bit hot An the
collar, he may let it out. Thing is
to stir him up. He's lost his nerve a
bit and he'll get mad pretty easy."
He went on smoking and listening,
and asking an unenlightened queabion
now and then, in a manner Which was
se far from being a deterrent as the
largely unillumtnated expression of
his face was.
"Of course money is wanted," Pal-
liser said at length. "Money is 01-
, ways wanted, and as muoh when a
scheme is a success as when it isn't.
Good names, with a certain character,
, are wanted. The fact of your inherit-
ance is known, everywhere; and the
fact that you are an American is a
sort of guaranty of shrewdness."
"Is it?" said T. Tembarom. "Well,"
he added slowly, "I guess Americans
are pretty 'good business men."
- Palliser thought that this was,evoly-
ing upon perfectly naturallines, as
he had anticipated it would. The
fellow was flattered and pleased. You
could always reach an American by
implying that he was one of those Who
specially illustrate enviable national
characteristics.
He went on in smooth, casual Lauda -
ition:
"No American takes hold of a
scheme of this sert until he knows
jelly well what he's going to get out
of it. You were shrewd enough," he
: added significantly, "about Hutchins•
son's affair. You 'got in on the ground
floor' there. That was New York
forethought, by Jovel"
Tembarom shuffled a little in his
chair, and grinned •a faint, pleased
grin -
I'm a man of the world, my boy—
the business world," Palliser com-
mented, hoping that he concealed his
extreme satisfaction. "I know New
York, though I haven't lived there.
I'm only hoping to. Yotir air of in-
genuous ignorance is the cleverest
thing about you," which agreeable
implication of the fact that .he had
been privately observant and impress-
ed ought to have fetched the bounder
i1 anything would.
T. Tembarom's grin was no longer
faint, but spread itself. Palliser's
first impression was that he had
"fetched" him. But when he answer-
ed, though the very crudeness of his
words seemed merely the result of
his betrayal into utter tactlessness
by soothed vanity, there was some-
thing—a shade of something—not en-
tirely satisfactory in his face and
nasal twang.
"Well, I guess," he said, "New York
did teach a fellow not to buy a gold
brick off every con mean that came
along."
Palliser was guilty of a mere ghost
eta start. Was there something in
it, or was he only the gross, blunder-
ing fool -he had trusted to his being?
He started at him a moment, and
saw that there was something under
the words and behind his professed
flattered grin — something which+
must be treated with a high 'hand.
"What do you mean?" he exclaimed
'haughtily. "I dont like your tone„
Do you take me for what you call a
'con man'?"
"Good Lord, no!" answered Tem-
barom; and he looked straight at
Palliser and spoke slowly. "You're a
gentleman, and you're paying me a
visit. You could no more try on a
game to do me in my own house than
—well, than I could tell you if I'd
got on to you if I saw you doing it.
You're a gentleman,"
Palliser glared back into his infur-
iatingly candid eyes. He was a far
cry from being a dullard himself; he
was sharp enough to "catch on" to
the revelation that the situation was
not what he had thought it, the type
was more complex than he .had dream-
ed. The chap had been playing a
part; he had absolutely been "jolly-
ing him along," after the New York
fashion. He became pale with humil-
iated rage, though he knew his only
defense was to control himself and
profess not to see through the trick.
Until he could use his big lever, he
added to himself.
"Oh, I see," .he commented acridly.
"I suppose you don't realize that
your figures of speech are unfortu-
nate."
"That comes of New York streets,
too," Temearom answered with delib-
eration. 'But you can't live as I've
lived and be dead easy—not dead
easy."
Palliser had left his chair, and stood
in contemptuous silence.
"You know -how a fellow 'hates to
be thought dead easy"—Tembarom
actually went to the insolent length
of saying the words with a touch of
cheerful Jcorufidingness—"when te's
not. And 'I'm; not. Have another
drink."
There was a pause. Palliser began
to see, or thought he began to see,
where he stood. He had come to
Temple Barholm because he had been
driven into a corner and had a dan-
gerous fight before him. In anticipa-
tion of it he had been following a
clue for some time, though at the
outset it had been one of incredible
slightness. Only 'his absolute faith,
in his theory that every man had
something to gain or lose, which he
concealed discreetly, .had led him to
it. He held a card too valuable to be
used at the beginning of a game. Its
power might have lasted a long time
and proved an influence without lim-
it. He forebore any mental reference
to blackmail; the word was absurd.
One used what fell into ones hands.
If Tembarom had followed. his lead
with any degree of docility, he would
have felt it wiser to save his ammuni-
tion until further ,pressure was nec-
essary. But behind his ridieolous
rawness, his foolish jocularity, and
his professedly candid good humor,
had been bidden the Yankee trickster
Who was fool enough to teink he
could play kis game through. Well,
he could not. '
During the few moments' pause he
saw the situation as by a photographic
flashlight, He leaned over the table
and anpplied himself with a fresh
brandy and soda from the tray of
siphons and decanters. He gave hini-
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"No," besnewered, "you are not
'dead easy.' That's whyI am going
to broaeh another subect to yon."
Tembarom wait refilling Ills Pipe.
"CO ahead," he said.
"Who, by the way, is Mr. Strange..
ways?"
He was deliberate and entirely un-
emotional. So was T. Tembarom
when, with match applied to hie
tobacco, he replied between puffs as
he lighted it:
"You can search me. You can
search him, too, for that matter. He
doaen't know who he is himself."
"Badluck for him!" remarked Pal-
liser, and allowed a slight pause again.
After it he added, "Did it ever strike
you it might be good luck for Some-
body else?"
"Somebody else'?" Tembarom puff-
ed more slowly, perhaps because his
pipe was lighted.
Palliser took some -brandy in his
soda, ,
"There are men you know," he suse-
geated, "who can be spared by their
relatives. I have some myself, by
Jove!" he added with a laugh. "You
keep him rather dark, don't you?"
"He dosen't like to see people."
"Does he object to people seeing
him? I saw him once myself."
"When you threw the gravel at his
window?"
Palliser stared contemptuously.
"What are you talking about? I
did not throw stones at his window,"
he lied. "I'm not a school -boy."
"That's so," Tembarom admitted.
"I lam 'him nevertheless. And I
can .tell you he gave me rather a
start "
why?"
Palliser half laughed again. He did
not mean to go too quickly; he would
let the thing get on Tembarom's
nerves gradually.
"Well, I'm hanged if I didn't take
him for a man who is dead."
"Enough to give any fellow a jolt,"
Tembarom admitted again.
"It gave me a 'jolt.' Good word,
that. But it would give you a bigger
one, my dear fellow, if he was the
n•an he looked like."
"Why?" Tembarom asked laconi-
cally.
"He looked like Jem Temple Bar -
holm."
He saw Tembarom start. There
could be no denying it.
"You thought that? Honest?" he
said sharply, as if for a moment he
had lost his head. "You thought
that?"
"Don't be nervous. Perhaps I
couldn't have sworn to it. I did not
see him very close.
T. Tembarom puffed rapidly at his
pipe, and only ejaculated:
"Oh!"
"Of course 'he's dead. If he wasn't"
— with a shrug of his shoulders—
"Lady Joan Fayre would be Lady Joan
Temple Barholm, and the pair would
be bringing up an interesting family
here." Ile looked about the room, and
then, as if suddenly recalling the fact,
added, "By George! you'd be selling
newspapers, or making them—which
was it?—in New York!"
It was by no means unpleesing to
see that he had made his hit there.
T. Tembarom swung about and walked
across the room with a suddenly per-
turbed expression.
"Say, he put it to him, coming back,
"are you in earnest, or are just say-
ing it to give me a jolt?"
Palliser studied him. The American
sharpness was not always so keen as
it sometimes seemed. His face would
have betrayed his uneasiness to the
dullest onlooker.
"Have you any objection to my see-
ing him in his own room?" Palliser
inquired.
"It does 'him 'harm to see people,"
Tembarom said, with nervous brusque-
a'ess- "It worries him."
Palliser smiled a quiet but far from
agreeable smile. He enjoyed what he
put into it.
"Quit so; best to keep him quiet,"
he returned. "Do you itnow what my
advice would be? Put flim in a cem-
fortable sanatorium. A lot of stupid
investigations would end in nothing,
of course, but they'd be a frightfte
bore."
He thought it extraordinary stupid
in T. Tembarom to come nearer to
him with an anxious eagerness en-
tirely unconcealed, if he really knew
what he was doing.
"Are you sure that if you saw him
close you'd know, se that you could
swear to him?" he demanded.
"You're extremely nervous, aren't
you?" Palliser watched him with
smiling coolness. "Of course Jem
Temple Barholm is dead; but I've no
doubt that if I saw this man of yours
I could swear he had remained dead
— if I were 'asked."
"If you knew him well, you could
make me sure. You could swear one
way or another. I want to be sure,"
said Tembarom.
"So should I in your place; couldn't
be too sure. Well, since you ask me
I could swear. I knew him well en-
ough. He was one of my most inti-
mate enemies. What do you say to
letting me see him?"
"I would if I could," Tembarom re-
plied, as if thinking it over. "I would
if I could:'
Palliser treated him to the far from
pleasing Smile again.
"But it's quite impossible -at pres-
ent?" he. suggested. "Excitement is
not good for him, and all that sort of
thing. You want time to think it
over."
Tembarom's slowly uttered answer,
spoken as if he were still consider-
ing the .matter, was far from being
the one he had expected.
"I want time; but that's not the
reason you can't see him right now.
You can't see him because lie's not
here. He's gone."
Then it was Palliser who started, 1
taken totally unaware in a manner
which disgusted 'him altogether. He i
had to pull himself up.
"He's gone!" he repeated. "You!
are quicker than I thought. You've
got him safely away, have you? Well. 1
I told yon a comfortable sanatorium
world be a good idea"
"Yes, you did." T. Tembarom 'heli -
toted, seeming to be thinking it over
again. 'Mats so" He laid iris pipe
aside because it had gone out.
He suddenly sat doves at the table,
putting his elbows en it and ,61sT
in his hands, with a harried oi[eot of
wanting to think it over In a sort of
withdrawal from his immediate aur-
soundings. This was as it should be,
His Yankee readiness had deserted
him altogether. .
"By Tavel you are nervous!" Pal-
liser commented. "It's" hot surpru-
ing;-thougglhh. I can sympathise with
you." With a markedly casual air ise
himself sat down and drew Iris docu-
ments toward Mm. "Let us talk of
something else," he) said. He .prefer-
red to be casual and incidental, if he
were allowed. It was always better
to suggest .things and let them sink
in until people saw the advantage of
considering them and you. To man-
age a business matter without open
argument or too frank a display of
weapons was at once more comfort-
able and in better taste.
"You are making a great 'mistake
in not going into this," he suggested
amiably. "You could go in now as
you went into Hutchinaon's •azairs, 'on
the ground floor.' That's a good
enough phrase, too. Twenty thousand
pounds would make you a million.
You Americans understand nothing
less than millions"
But T. Tembarom did not take him
up. He muttered in a worried way
from behind his shading hands,
"We'll talk about that later."
"Why not talk about it now, before
anything can interfere?" Palliser per-
sisted politely, .almost gently.
Tembarom sprang up, restless and
excited. He had plainly been plan-
ning fast in his. temporary seclusion.
"I'm thinking of what you said a-
bout Lady Joan," tie burst forth.
"Say, she's gone through all this
Jem Temple Barholm thing once; it
about half killed her. If any ona
raised false hopes for her, she'd go
through it all again. Once is enough
for any woman."
His effect at professing heat and
strong feeling made a spark of amuse-
ment show itself in Palliser's eye. It
struck him •as being peculiarly Amer-
ican in its affectation of sentiment
and chivalry.
"I see," he said. "It's Lady Joan
you're disturbed about. You want to
spare her another shock, I see. You
are a considerate fellow, as well as a
man of business."
"r don't want her to begin to hope
if—"
"Very good taste on your part."
Palliser's polite approval was admir-
able, but he tapped lightly on the
paper after expressing it. "I don't
want to seem to press you about this
but don't you feel inclined to consider
it? 1 can assure you that an invest-
ment of this sort would be a good
thing to depend on if the unexpected
happened. If you gave me your
check now, it would be Cedric stock
to -morrow, and quite safe. Suppose
you—"
"I—I don't believe you were right
—about what you thought." The
sharp -featured face was changing
from pale to red. "You'd have to be
able to swear to it, anyhow. and I
don't believe you can." He looked at
Palliser in eager and anxiou, uncer-
tainty. "If you could," he dragged
out, "I shouldn't have a cheek book.
Where would you be then?"
"I should be in comfortable cir-
cumstances, dear chap, and so would
you if you gave me the money to-
night, while you possess •a check-
book. It would be only a sort of
temporary loan in any case, whatever
turned up. The investment would
quadruple itself. But there is no
time to be lost. Understand that."
T. Tembarom broke out into a sort
of boyish resentment,
"I don't believe he did look 'like
.him, anyhow," he cried. "1 believe
it's all a bluff." His crude -sounding
young swagger had a touch of final
desperation in it as he turned on
Palliser. "I'm dead sure it's a bluff.
What a fool I was not to think of
that! You want to bluff me into go-
ing into this Cedric thing. You
could no more swear he was like him
' than—than I could."
The outright, presumptuous, bold
I stripping bare of his phrases infuri-
I ated Palliser too suddenly and too
much. He stepped up to him and
looked into his eyes.
"Bluff you, you young bounder!"
he flung out at him. "You're losing
your head, You'rernot in New York
streets here. You are talking to a
gentleman. "No," he said furiously,
"I couldn't swear that he was like
him, but what I can swear in any
court of justice is that the. man I
saw at the window .was Jem Temple
Barholm, and no other man on earth."
When ke had said it, he saw the
astonishing jolt chance his expres-
, sion utterly again, as if in a flash.
He stood up, putting his hands in his
.pockets. His face changed, his voice
changed.
"Fine!" he said. "First-rate! That's
what I wanted to get on to."
CHAPTER XXXIV
After this climax the interview was
not so long as it was interesting.
Two men as far apart as the poles,
as remote from each other in mind
and body, in training and education
or lack of it,- in desires and inten-
tions, in points of view and trend of
being, as nature and circumstances
could make them, talked in a lang-
uage foreign to each other of a wild-
ly strange thing. Palliser's arguments
and points of aspect were less un-
known to T. Tembarom than his own
were to Palliser. He had seen some-
thing very like them before, though
they had developed in different sur-
roundings and 'had been differently
expressed. The colloquialism "You're
not doing that for your health" can
be made to cover much ground in
the way of the stripping bare of
motives for action. This was what,
in excellent and well-chosen English,
'Captain ,Palliser frankly said to his
host. Of nothing which T. Tembarom
said to him in his own statement did
he believe one word or syllable. The
statement in question was not long or
detailed. It was, of course. Palliser
saw, a ridiculously impudent flinging
together of a farrago of nonsense,
transparent is its effort beyond be-
lief. Before he had 'I-ieeve infa-
nte* with the distillptly� ."ne.ty"
ensile, he burst out Iso fig.
"That ie a good. 'spiel my dear
chap," he said. "It's as good a 'epic'
all your typewriter friend used to
rattle of when be .thought he saw a
customer; but I'm not a cuatomer.
Tembarom hooked at him interest-
edly for about ten seconds. His;,
halide were threat into bis trousers
pockets, as was his almost invariable
custom. Absorption end speculation,.
even emotion and excitement, were
usually expressed in this unconven-
tional manner,
"You don't believe a darned word
' of it," was his sole observation, -
"Not a darned word;" Palliser
smiled. "You are trying a 'bluff,'
which doesn't do credit to your us
ual sharpness. It's a bluff that is
1 actually silly. It makes you look
like an ass."
"Well, it's true," said Tembarom;
"it's true."
Palliser laughed again.
"I only said it made you look bite
an ass," he remarked. I don't pro -
1 fess to understand you altogether,
because you are a new species. Your
combination of ignorance and sharp-
news isn't easy to calculate on. But
they is one thing I have found out,
and that is, thatx When you want . to
play a particular sharp trick you
are willing to let people take you
for a fool. P11 own you have de-
ceived me once or twice, even when
I suspected you. I've heard that's
one of the most successful methods
used in the American business world.
That's why I only say you look like
an ass. You are an ass' in some re-
spects; but you are letting yourself
look like one now for some shrewd
end. You either think you'll slip out
of danger by it when I make this
discovery public, or you think you'll
somehow trick me into keeping my
mouth shut"
'`I needn't trick you into keeping
your mouth shut," Tembarom sug-
gested. "There's a straight way to
do that, ain't there?" And he in-
delicately waved his band toward
the documents pertaining to the
Cedric Company.
It was stupid as well as gross, in
his hearer's opinion. If he had
known what was good for him he
would' 'have •beep, clever enough to
ignore the practical presentation of
his case made half an hour or so
earlier.
"No, there is not," Palliser re-
plied, with serene mendacity. "No
suggestion of that sort has been
made. My business proposition was
given out on an entirely different
basis. You, of course, choose to put
your personal construction upon its'
"Gee whiz!" ejaclulated T. Tem-
barom. "I was 'way off, wasn't I?"
"I told you that professing to be an
ass wouldn't be good enough in this
case. Don't go on with it," said
Palliser, sharply,
"You're throwing bouquets. Let a
fellow be natural," said Tembarom.
"That is bluff too," Palliser replied
more sharply still. "I am not taken
in by it, hold as it is. Ever since
you came here, you have been play-
ing this game. It was you're fool's
grin and guffaw and pretence of
good nature that first made me su-
spect you of having something up
your sleeve. You were too unem-
barrassed and candid."
"So you began to look out," Tem-
barom said, considering him curious -
suddenly he laughed outright, the
fool's guffaw.
It somehow gave Palliser a sort.
of puzzled shock. It was so hearty
that it remotely suggested that to
appeared more secure than seemed
possible. He tried to reply to him
with a languid contempt of manner.
"You think you have some tre-
mendously sharp 'deal' in your 'hand,
he said," "but you had better re-
member you are in England where
facts are like sledge hammers. You
can't dodge from under them as you
can in America. I dare say you won't'
answer me, but I should like to ask
you what you propose to do."
"I don't know what I'm going to '
do any more than you do," was the
unilluminating answer." I don't mind
telling you that."
"And what do you think he will
do?'
"I've got to wait till I find out.
I'm doing it. That was what I told
you. What are you going to do?"
he added casually.
(Continued next week.)
Nothing . Else is Aspi m ---say "Bayer"
Warning! Unless. you see name
"Bayer" on tablets you are not getting
Aspirin at all, Why take chances?
Accept only an unbroken "Bayer"
package which contains directipns
worked out by physicians during 21
years and proved safe b millions for
Colds, Headache, Earaelse, Toothache,
Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Neuritis, Lum-
bago, and Pain. Made in Canada.
All druggieta sell Bayer Tablets of
Aspirin in heady tis boxes of 12 ath-
lete, and in bottles of 24 ,and 100. •
Aspirin is the trade mark (registered
in Canada) of Bayer Manufacture of
Monoaeeticacide,ter of 6alioylicacid. -
While it is well known that Aspirin
means Bayer manufacture, to assist the
public against imitations, the Tablet.
of Bayer Company wilt be stamppss4�
with their genera} - trade mark, fie
"Bayer Crow."
Predestined
to Succeed
NEARLY one million people live In Monteeuh
and suburbs. More travellers and tourists
Pass through and stay there, in ono
month, than stay hi any other Canadian city la
six months. It Is also the coming Conveatfos-
City of Canada.
Yet there are lees fireproof hotel bedrooms 1i.,.
Montreal than in one hotel—The Biltmore --
New York. Less than one thousand. in fact,
whereas Cleveland has 6.000, BuIIalo 2,000,
although neither Buffalo nor Cleveland are
Ocean ports or railroad - terminals.
For these reasons "The Mount Royal' Hotel Is
predestined to succeed. Traffic is already enor-
mous—more Is coming. It only remains to rep-
aid° for
Consider, too, the MPectorate. Do yon think
fifteen outstanding successful business men
would associate themselves with an hotel enter•
prise doubtful of success? Certainly not!
Then, remember, that the Hotel wIU be oper-
ated by the United Hotels Company of America.
This company has made a financial success of
every hotel it has managed. It turned the Rigg
Edward Hotel, Toronto, from a losing proposi-
tion into a profitable enterpriae for investors.
Consider, these facto, therefore, In the light of
making an investment in the 8% Coavertible
Debentures of The Mount Royal Rotel Company,
Limited, at par and interest, carrying a 80%
Conunon Stock Bonus.
For our part we have thoroughly Investigated
every phase of this investment and unreservedly
recommend it.
Every man or woman who has idle money, or.
money earning 8% or 4%, should consider at
once the advantages that will accrue trona La.
vesting in these 8% Convertible Debentures.
In short, you may invest In the a% Convertible
Debentures of The Mount Royal Hotel Company,
Limited, with the assurance that your money is
safe—your 8% Interest certain and your pros-
pects good for a sabetaatial proot from your
Conon Stock Bonus.
The price of the Debentures V par and interest,
tarrying a 30% Common Stock Bonus. Seed
your order now or write for full particulars.
Address:
of ss 8s M O n® OM 8! O M MB 11111
To W.A. Mackenzie & Co., Ltd.
I
38 King Street West, Toronto.
Dear Sirs : Please send me a Dopy of the circular describing '
the 8% Convertible Debentures of The Mount Royal Hotel Company,
I Limited, and oblige.
III Name in full
1
IFull address -
1
1
LPlease write
clearly.
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