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THE MYSTERY OF MR. E. DROOD.

An adaptation.

By Orpheus C. Kerr.

CHAPTER XVII.

Insurance and Assurance.

Six months had come and gone and done it; the weather was as inordinately hot as it had before been intolerably cold; and the Reverend OCTAVIUS Simpson stood waiting, in the gorgeous Office of the Boreal Life Insurance Company, New York, for the appearance of Mr. MELANCTHON Schenck.

Having been directed by a superb young clerk, who parted his hair in the middle, to “just stand out of the passage-way and amuse yourself with one of our Schedules for awhile,” until the great life-Agent should come in, the Gospeler read a few schedulistic pages, proving, that if a person had his life Insured at the age of Thirty, and paid his premiums regularly until he was Eighty-five, the cost to him and profit to the Company would, probably, be much more than the amount he had insured for.  It must, then, be evident to him, that, upon his death, at Ninety, the Company would have received, in all, sufficient funds from him to pay the full amount of his Policy to the lady whom he had always introduced as his wife, and still retain enough to declare a handsome Dividend for itself.  Such was the sound business-principle