He
explained what it was, and I saw with shame and regret, that no
really honest man could join in it: I told him so; I told him plainly
I would have nothing to do with it. You may think what followed; the
deeds of partnership were not yet signed, and in short, in two or
three days more I found myself poor Jack Walton again--indeed, poorer
than I was before I was made one of the firm of Charters and Walton,
for I had lost my employment.
"Often and often I used to think that David said, he had never seen
the righteous forsaken; yet I was suffering while the unrighteous
were prospering. It was a sinful, and a self-righteous thought, and I
was obliged to renounce it; when, after some time of trial, a
gentleman sent for me--a man of wealth, and told me his son was going
into business on his own account; that he had heard of my character,
and of the cause of my leaving Mr. Charters; that he thought I would
be just such a steady person as he wished his son to be with. In
short, I began with him on a handsome salary; was soon made his
partner; married Mary, and had my snug house in the country. Mr.
Charters succeeded in that speculation; entered into several others,
some of which were of a more fraudulent nature, failed, and was
ruined.
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