The Best Policy

"Why, Jennie," he explained, "I stand alone between the company and a loss of over four thousand dollars. I know that this man is dying; I know that, if I pay this premium, the...

In the afternoon he put in an application and suggested that, as a matter of business convenience, he would like to be examined at once. Two days later he was politely informed...

Nevertheless, Adolph, the shrewd fool, finally found the man for whom he was searching. A man may nearly always find trouble if he searches for it industriously, and Adolph was...

Without finishing the sentence, Harry knitted his brow and shook his head. It was not a pleasant thought--he told himself it was an unjust thought--but, as he had gone in to win...

"I know what's the matter," she wailed. "I didn't think of it at first, but I did afterward, and I've been crying ever since. I have heart trouble; that's why he didn't want to...

His thoughts being thus turned to Murray, he went to see him, in the faint hope that he might interest him in the plan. Murray had money to invest. But Murray deemed the risk to...

"It's great," commented the lawyer. "You've got a great head on you, Schlimmer. Not one man in a thousand would have thought of it. We'll all even up, but they would have been m...

It was six months later that he was notified of the sudden death at the Sixty-fourth Street flat of Elmer Harkness, who had a policy in his company. Instantly the details of the...

In some amazement, the broker apologized and retired, and Murray began to wonder what would happen to him if Mrs. Tucker ever did get enough of the stock to make her influence f...

"Mrs. Vincent," he said, "you will pay this sum to Shylock out of the policy, and you will pay all the bills, including the cost of the funeral, which I advanced. You will not d...

An Incidental Comedy 1 An Incidental Question 25 An Incidental Tragedy 47 An Incidental Speculation 73 An Incidental Favor 99 An Incidental Error 123 An Incidental Failure 149 A...

"Jonas Kalin has been here for two days under an assumed name," he reported, "but his identity was discovered only after he had taken the night boat back to Chicago. He left a l...

Previous experiences made Murray quick at jumping to conclusions in such cases, and he now thought he had the explanation of this unusually prompt call. The woman was stylishly...

"I thought so," remarked Murray sarcastically. "Somebody died, and you want me to take it on faith that he was the Thomas Moffat who once was insured in this company. Although I...