CHAPTER, XIX. UNKNOWN

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 274, 20 June 1888, Page 6

CHAPTER, XIX. UNKNOWN

On Uh> morning nttrr Mr Uuigluy s little dinner Abtley kept lnS appointment, at Mr Turner's ollice. 'Mr Turner had promised, a^ the reader doubtless remembers, to give him sue', udvice as? lay i" his power. ' And you have this four thousand pounds, intact, you tell me, Mr Bci wick?' .said Mr Turner. ' Oh, yes,' replied Astloy. 'Now, the main thing is whether you would really like a station lite ; it i& very jolly for those who do, bnb I have generally tound that men accustomed bo a city life and mercantile pursuits sive not the men who make the best country bottlers. Of course, if you go in wifch Escombe it will not be like going into a new place which you would have to improve and bury yourself in, as it were, hscombo is frequently in town, too much I think : bub ] sup-po.-e lie knows what he is about. Ho has, as doubtlesb you are aware, large interests

in town, and this perhaps brings him in oftener than he would como otherwise. ' ' That is ' one of the reasons ho mo for wishing ho much that 1 should join him fTe says — bur. perhap.s 1 I ought no! to monj/io}i it ' * If it i.s anything about his connection with J. ami Co. 1 know exactly how he: stands. Jncleed, it wa.s by my advice he went into the tiling at. fust.' * Well, then, there can be no haim in my tellin" you what ho say.s He. s ;i y-, the tliiiif/~bothei.s him ; that lie is not; cut, out tor tii at kind of work, and thai 1 should be nt infinite soivice to him, that my knowledge- of moieautilc business would be or more real j-etvieo to him than thon-and 4 - ot pounds." « And so, ( ha\o no doubt, it would, Mr Bciwiek Yes, well.' .said Mr Tinner, leaning back in hi* ehau, - m> udwco is r/*'i !<l< tllij lake ICscombu'ftoiloi ; you could not /)</ betto?. As to youi .sciuplos about want ot capital and experience. I think _you may nv.ik»' yom nuud oassy. That ftscomhe will deal liboially with >ou I do nol doub>, \mt '■ ! looking at it puioly in n bu-ine-s IjoJjl, it is to hi- advantage Lo do so- -to >ont mutual ' advantage. Ot couiso, aecoidm<j, to the amount yon put in, so i ) piopoition will bo your piolits ; that you imiH ;u tan<_;c u ith JCscoinbe \)on'l be o\(i m ( iipulous : FCsfombr Knows wii.ii, In is .ilioul lie would not b( j-o anxum- fbont n. it he did not cou^tdet you m c\eiy way nutabk As to his inuidsiup blinding him, <h»> i you believe it, :hol- no fool. liusine-s is bici nrs-., und I'^fombe, who i-> l>nt a yoini-j, m. in, h.i s shown (Jiioii'Jiouh that he i.s .i thoM>M'/h business iniin. \ou i,.i!i i dv better, ant I i think I may .safe!) si\ >ou willneMi lune -vi h a eha'iLc .i^.iin This is the best advice I can i^ivc you and it I talked till doomsday i could nol siy n\on 'Tiiank you, Mi Tin not ;' -aid AM lev : "it, is >ci v of }ou to lake -o nun h i,)()ub)e alx;itt me.' ' XoL at all. ?\o\ei k t that woid b' mentionod between u- /. e<;» unions a- lilmi I was to be *o b.unboo/.led, h,t\e eau-id i/o/i double ; anything I (an do tor \ou in tlie iuture in ai^y \va.> will f, r i i e me infinite jileusuie, 1 ;\-suie sou i like >on, Mi lierwiek, I do indeed:' and the old «;enllu»uiu's \oiet .shook with unioiie-u .i 1 - lie held out his hand U> A^tlt \ — ' that ym \\i\) (low oil 1 have no doubt whatevci, and \(ni hii\tMU t > \eiybest wi-li<stoi \om >iiC'('.'-s, l^ook vn ( his evening <it m\ hon-i ii>ou.ue lUnna nolhui", and iff me j»k tcriL mwi lo Mi- Tin nei , and bntei KM-ombc •Thank j on, Mi Tin urn , I -hail In l>a]ij>\ 1o nmic, and f thnvk i (an pi niiii-e I !.<t K-.( iimliu w ill also t in the aMeiuoon \-tleyauii il-combe had a lon;.' talk to«ielhei about the p.u inei-lup, which ended in then < ailing <m l^eoinbe s soheitoi- and making an appointment to) tin Joilowin'^ day I^eombe pointed ottt to \-tle\ thead\isabteues-.otln-cou-uhmj; a -olieitoi mi the niai'u who should att. toi him ; he sjuudd not i« eomniend one to him, he mu-t lind one out foi hnnseli A^t ley aeeoidin^ls icpaited to theofliee >>t Mi lLill, the sobeiioi to wlioui he had bit/iiylit a littet" ot iutioduetion lunn Ju^ tneud l!i t \a:iL lie had on!) supposed thab tin- Mi Hull had piupo-dy tiea'etl him shabbil\. He lnipht pel ban-, atiei all, icali) ha\e been siiddenh < ailed m(<» the count i) , w hen he w iotu that kttei. Ntdl tlu\ had met s L -\eial times -mcc. and ihe in\Uatiou ro dinnei had ne\ei been le peated. llowivei, be that as it iniyht. A-tley thought that U Mi Hull liad fallen nitoeiioi about, him it wa> onh naunal, and it need not atleet then bu-me— icla tion-. So he placed the matter in Mi Hall's hatuLs, and hud no icasou to com[ilatd. In lhee\<nin<_i our friends chopped in at Mr Tuiuei s. whole the} met with a eouhal welcome, a \tr\ ]oll> e\enm<4, and accepted an imitation to dine on the tot kn\ mi; Tnesda\. Theie w v i- stdk ot eour-e, one gioat and apparently m-aumounlabh obstacle lo his pei fret happiness, lint he tuistud thai tune would woik uonde/s in \}»^ }i-..)eet He mu-t wail and ho^e He knew hi- fnend? .it ll'Mucu ouldne\ li icst until they had eleaieu him Then, ah' then what happme-.-would be Ins ' Hut he dated not duel) too much on -neb thought-. ('Job' i imhttw '/. /