Digital heart book

The energy and aptitude which I
displayed throughout delighted and surprised my father,
and I believe, although I say it, whose tongue should
be tied, that they alone prevented Muskegon capitol
from being the eyesore of my native State.
Altogether, I was in a cheery frame of mind when I
returned to the commercial college; and my earlier
operations were crowned with a full measure of success.
My father wrote and wired to me continually. "You are
to exercise your own judgment, Loudon," he would say.
"All that I do is to give you the figures; but whatever
operation you take up must be upon your own
responsibility, and whatever you earn will be entirely
due to your own dash and forethought." For all that, it
was always clear what he intended me to do, and I was
always careful to do it. Inside of a month I was at
the head of seventeen or eighteen thousand dollars,
college paper. And here I fell a victim to one of the
vices of the system. The paper (I have already
explained) had a real value of one per cent; and cost,
and could be sold for, currency.


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