Argosy All-Story Weekly, July 7, 1928 — page 102: what you’re looking at

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Now Were Rich Every one wants money and imagines what he’d do with it. Do you think you would act like this husband or the wife or the children? By EDGAR FRANKLIN LEADING UP TO THIS INSTALLMENT \ YHEN old Prindle was dying, becatise he liked Henry Mor- row, he sold Henry his ancient house for the exact cash Henry pos- sessed, which was a remarkable bar- gain. His whole married life Henry had struggled along with his small ex- porting business; and his young look- ing wife Laura, his sensible eldest daughter Ina, his modern William and Margery, had been as comfortable as most in Wellmont, Long Island, and with the usual complaints. In an old wall safe in the new home they found shares of Manikoma oil stock, the sen- sation of the market; their shares hav- ing passed a one hundred thousand dollar value and still rising. Although Henry disappointed them by refusing to use it until he was sure of his right, a subtle change took place. Laura was bitten by the society bug, his children started a mad pace, and Henry’s home life was disrupted. In desperation, he moved into new and expensive offices, ordered new equipment, and supplied Jim Brantree, his brother-in-law, with money to have investigated the finan- cial defection in the Salton Company with which Brantree was accused and This story began in the Argosy-Allstory Weekly for June 16 242 Gomichbooks (C@