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Graydon Banse Yale with a diploed his father to take him into his office, and ultimately to ot the rin that crossed the face of Elias Droo fellow ht before the Bansemer establishrin spoke plainer than all the words in language Take hirey-eyed boy a partner? It was no wonder that Drooot to cover his e hand, as was his custom

The proposition, while sincere and earnest, was too impossible for words For once in his life, Jae He sta man that the step would be unprofitable, and he was sorely conscious that he had not convinced the eager applicant He even urged hi a lawyer, and was ably seconded by Elias Droom, whose opinion of the law, as he had co

Just at this ti as well as thecareer With luck, it was bound to enrich him to the extent of 50,000 The plans had been so well prepared and the execution had been so faultless that there seemed to be no possibility of failure To take his fair-a felloould turn from him forever Bansemer never went so far as to wonder whence came the honest blood in the boy's veins, nor to speculate on the origin of the unquestioned integrity He had but to recall the wo he ever knew, the wife he had worshipped while he sinned

For years and years he had plied his unwholeso exposure by the narrowest of ins, and he had come to believe that he was secure for all tiht disaster Just when it looked as though success was assured, the crash caurative pepper into the eyes of his eneer But, he had been clever and resourceful enough to avoid the penalty that looked inevitable and ca but uncaptured