The Argosy, October 1906 — page 114: what you’re looking at

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ahead! z said the Ss Ss can see that. copies, and these posters if you want _ them;°but pay me the $14.50 due before = take away the other two hundred and fifty copies, or the plates.” On these easy terms Clay carried remainder of the forenoon in seeing the “pated for the ones of “ Little Lillie — Lee.” _He sold Saran but ten copies, how- ever. Few stores did business on a cash _ basis like the Mastodon; but that order _ helped him dispose of nearly a hundred copies of the song on commission. He _. saw, however, that this was bound to be duced. : “The only way to. make money in music publishing is to get out an enor- mous edition and have a dozen people wns tise. five hundred, we'll only have. made - thoughtfully. _ But in a minute he plucked up courage. | “printer. 3 = “You'll make your word good, young — Take two hundred . trades-people whom he had already pre- _ eighteen dollars , and he shook his i = away his bundle of songs and spent the a slow. way. of getting the music intro- 3 singing it around the country, and adver- - Now, if we sell every copy of this = ‘That deesn’t matter. We didn’t ex-. = -pect to make on this edition. I forgot _ -that. We have the plates. Hereafter -__ -the songs wen’t cost us more than half as much apiece. But—by Jove !—we >. sorely need capital.” . And that lack set his active mind to greater exertions. He had two problems on his. hands—the matter of the song, and that of the musical comedy. ~“QLerd!”’ he thought. “If we once got the shew on the stage we could in- = _terpolate the song in it—’twould go great -—as_a-sextette, or something. The words lend themselves to something in the -. ‘Fleredora’ style. By Jove! I have it!” And he had. But after a bit of inde- cision he decided to keep it to himself— ~ not even to tell Brent yet; follow suit. pee _- spare hours pushing the song business, most of his time was taken up with his duties as secretary. light. And they were not and I shall While Clay was busily engaged in = E. ~~ Old Mr. Borrow could be a very ex- =" oe a acting taskmaster if he wished. Clay’s -work seunied 3 never done. de w sure of his freedom in ‘the evening. | Besides, he knew that his employer relatives ( all but Miss Kendrickson, at — least) were not -pleased_ that he should be with the old man. . They evidently suspected undue- tutitences and believed that Clay would manage to wheedle the old gentleman out of some of his money. Clay learned a deal more about this unhappy family as the days passed. Old ‘Borrow spit out about them with fury now and then. Indeed, sometimes his tirades would have been good testimony on behalf of the insanity plea, had the Borrows, small and great, heard them. Twice Clay- refused George Borrow ‘entrance to the suite in the Amboyne — Hotel. Once on the street the nephew accosted Uncle Daniel. Call a ‘policeman ! call a police-- man! ” cried the old gentleman, SS his stick and beginning to turn purple — es with wrath. : == el swear | will do se—and go to the : station to press the Faces you don’t let . him alene!” Clay told the ,ounger ‘Bor- _ row, and the latter sheered off... _ Clay had to take the old ene into a drug-store in the -neighborheod, _-and it was an hour before he had recov- ‘ered his composure. Warned by Miss Kendrickson, Clay fe ared to have young Borrow see his. uncle in one of these fits. “As sure as he does i will 1 apply for a guardian, or try to shut the old man up. That will kill him,” ¢ eclared the sculpter selemnly. | It was knewn to Clay, too, that the family had endeavered to have the old gentleman examined, quietly, by several expert alienists ; but Mr. Borrow had dodged all such traps. He had a faith- ful old physician in whom he had confi-— dence and could net be weaned from him sufficiently to consult any other practi-_ = tiener. ; Then. letters began to come to ‘the old gentleman. — George Borrow. probably did not know that Clay acted ae es as a The letters asked _ for” money. ——_ . Pac , ™“ Sate ~ _ mean trick hile yout “Bota ie = = played Hopworthy i in regard to | the situa-— tion —— him 8 Mr. ‘Slocum, the ZS