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"We are getting away from the other matter," Saunders reive hi es ot his start--the money he put in this bank? Well, I can tell you, and I'll bet he never did He started the Holly Creek Cotton Mills It was his idea I thought he was honest and straight He was going round trying to interest capital I never had a head for business The war left ers free, but a chunk of money came to my children--fifty thousand dollars It stood in their naal consent to handle it Mostyn knew I had it and was constantly ding-donging at me about his mill idea Well, I went in--I risked the whole ah he didn't hold ten thousand dollars' worth of stock Then I reckon you knohat happened He run the thing plusort of machinery had been put in It went from bad to worse for twelve months, then it shut down The operatives ht it in--my God, who do you reckon bid it in for twenty-five cents on the dollar? Why, the sa a nap in his fine private quarters back there now Then what did he do? Why, all at once he found that the ht and labor could be had Out of his own pocket with money he had , filled it with spindles and looes, and three years later the stock had hopped up to two for one, and little to be had at that He next started this bank, and here I sit in it"--the old lance--"without a dollar to h to keep rags on their bodies Say, what do you think--"

"I am afraid the courts are the only place to settle a ree," Saunders said, diploh a frown of sympathy lay on his handsorowled, pounding the floor with his stick "I did take it to law I spent the twelve thousand and odd dollars that I rescued fro him, only to discover that the law itself favors the shyster who has h to circumvent it"