The balance I will pay when I have sold the
house and furnishings, as with my dearest husband gone I no
longer have any incentive to keep on working. I am tired. It is
a good safe stock paying 4-1/2 per cent. and I would advise you
to keep it and also put the Ins. money into the same stock. A
very nice man in the Life Ins. office said it ought to pay more
if the business was better managed. If you turned your talents
to the express business you might learn to manage it yourself
because you always had a fine head for such things, and by
owning a lot of their stock you could get the other
stockholders to elect you to be one of their directors, which
would be a fine occupation for you, not too hard work and
plenty of time to read good books which I hope you find same
now of evenings in place of frittering away your time with
associations of a questionable character, and ruining your
health by late hours and other dissipation though I know you
were always of good habits.
"Affectionately,
"Aunt Clara.
"P.S.--It has rained hard for two days."
There it was! Money _came_ to you. Federal Express was only a name to
him; he had written it sometimes at Breede's dictation. But his Aunt
Clara was old enough to know about such things, and he would follow her
advice, though being a director of an express company seemed as
unexciting as it was doubtless respectable: what he had at times been
wild enough to dream was that he should be the principal owner of a
major-league baseball club, and travel with the club--see every game! If
he should, temporarily, become the director of an express company, he
would have it plainly understood that he might resign at any moment.
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