Easy Money (Chisholm)

Easy Money
By A. M. Chisholm
Author of “Quite Contrairy,” “Where Friendship Ceases,” Etc.
Mr. Chisholm's humorous stories are always full of "point,” and in this one there is a moral you can’t miss. He tells how a gilt-edged proposition aroused the cupidity of a seaman who, though retired, was yet not immune from the get-rich-quick fever
CAPTAIN TREGASKIS sat at a table in the refreshment-room of the Dog and Duck Hotel in Southport. The table was a point of vantage, commanding a view of Southport’s main street. At the moment, save for an unobtrusive individual in far corner, Captain Tregaskis was the sole occupant of the room. A glass of whisky and water stood before him, and he pulled contentedly at a brier pipe of heroic proportions.
His afternoon glass of grog and a pipe was a habit of long standing, and his seat at that particular table a part of it. He derived a certain calm satisfaction from watching, unobserved, the doings of his fellow townsmen. Later some old cronies would perhaps drop in, and there would be a four-handed game, after which supper and a quiet evening. The captain’s life was methodical and well ordered.
Smoking contemplatively, he did not observe the appr

Đọc bản gốc tại Wikisource tiếng Anh