Parker, Gilbert, 1860-1932 / 2008-07-28 00:00:00

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THE MONEY MASTER
By Gilbert Parker

EPOCH THE FOURTH
XVI. MISFORTUNES COME NOT SINGLY
XVII. HIS GREATEST ASSET
XVIII. JEAN JACQUES HAS AN OFFER
XIX. SEBASTIAN DOLORES DOES NOT SLEEP
XX. "AU 'VOIR, M'SIEU' JEAN JACQUES"
XXI. IF SHE HAD KNOWN IN TIME


CHAPTER XVI
MISFORTUNES COME NOT SINGLY
Judge Carcasson was right. For a year after Zoe's flight Jean Jacques
wrapped Sebastian Dolores round his neck like a collar, and it choked him
like a boaconstrictor. But not Sebastian Dolores alone did that. When
things begin to go wrong in the life of a man whose hands have held too
many things, the disorder flutters through all the radii of his affairs,
and presently they rattle away from the hub of his control.
So it was with Jean Jacques. To take his reprobate father-in-law to his
lonely home would have brought him trouble in any case; but as things
were, the Spaniard became only the last straw which broke his camel's
back. And what a burden his camel carried--flour-mill, saw-mill, ash-
factory, farms, a general store, lime-kilns, agency for lightning-rods
and insurance, cattle-dealing, the project for the new cheese-factory,
and money-lending!
Money-lending? It seemed strange that Jean Jacques should be able to
lend money, since he himself had to borrow, and mortgage also, from time
to time.
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