For Love or Gold? The Story of a Great Department Store — page 74: what you’re looking at

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OD SO Tat OSS han leet D rn ~ Wate » CHAPTER XIV. MR. FORBES TALKS ON RELIGION. _ About two hours before the meeting of Faith and young» Denton, Duncan Forbes returned from burying his son, and sat down disconsolately in the library of his handsome residence. Although only the junior partner in the firm of Denton, Day & Co., still his interest, together with his salary as superintendent of the establishment, brought him in every year a princely income. Then there were other investments of a varied nature, | all of which had proven more than ordinarily successful, yet now in his hour of sorrow he could feel no atom of thankfulness, and every hour of his busy life seemed to him to have been wasted. As he sat staring at the fire he could hardly restrain his feelings, for the words “God will punish you” were ringing in his ears even more clearly now than when he first heard them. He tried to &0 over the incidents of that morning when now—desolation. a poor applicant in his office had wrought such havoc with his conscience. | He remembered the five hundred dollars of which he had been robbed, and he also recalled vaguely the con- - versation he had with a woman inspector in the store im-_ mediately after. Then came the message regarding his -son’s condition, then the death chamber, the grave, and The door opened softly and a serv- ant entered. She bore a tray upon which were laid a number of letters. , After she had gone Mr. Forbes rose and looked them over. He did so listlessly. ness. The first three were business letters, \ (E(o) m (é boo He had no heart for busi- referred to him by phe, (S:c