too, became uneasy on one occasion and requested him to call at the on the site of Tillotson's store. his one-tenth interest, and hesitated three days before refusing it. telephone stock out of the bank, and give me in its place your note for Railroad companies offered Vail a salary that was higher and sure, if he at once to pay his urgent debts. He was thoroughly discouraged and sick. "Lent Bell fifty cents," "Lent Hubbard twenty cents," "Bought one bottle salaries were paid in full. Often, for weeks, they were not paid at all. the contents of a dinner-pail. Each one of the little group was beset by him on the street and asked, "Have n't you got a good leather business, attend to it and quit playing on wind instruments." Sanders's banker, beer--too bad can't have beer every day." More than once Hubbard would Mr. Sanders?" "Yes," replied Sanders. "Well," said Hale, "you had better thirty thousand dollars. I am expecting the examiner here in a few days, bank. "Mr. Sanders," he said, "I will be obliged if you will take that In Watson's note-book there are such entries during this period as telephone business in England; and that he must have a thousand dollars the magnificent building of the New York Telephone Company stands to-day Then, in the very midnight of this depression, poor Bell returned from England, whither he and his bride had gone on their honeymoon, and the talk of Haverhill. One Haverhill capitalist, E. J. M. Hale, stopped have gone hungry had not Devonshire, the only clerk, shared with him announced that he had no money; that he had failed to establish a Month after month, the little Bell Company lived from hand to mouth. No taunts and temptations. Watson was offered ten thousand dollars for would superintend their mail business. And as for Sanders, his folly was and I don't want to get caught with that stuff in the bank."