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Rh buying properties sure to advance and holding them for a time. His practice with all his investments was to sell at a fair profit and not to wait to get all the advance, but let other people have the chance for a part of it, taking the money and profit he had made, and reinvesting again in another locality to repeat the turnover in the same way.

There was no jumpy luck in all this, nor favored knowledge of conditions beyond the opportunity and reach of other men. It was his thorough organization of himself to look for and think over existing conditions, and the use of plain, common sense in acting thereon.

He worked hard and long, and in fact more zealously than in the days he was storing up the first hundred thousand.

Fifteen years now follow that this modest, unobtrusive man, with a genius for money-getting, buried himself contentedly in delving, digging, mining and storing for the poor and weak, for whom he had accepted a charge from his Maker. His body constitutionally weak, his life wearing thin, confined to the narrow spaces of an office, his chosen food but