To these appeals, therefore, he turned a deaf ear.

But it was not long before he was obliged to yield to the pressure.

The fact was soon made plain to him that, if he allowed his name to remain on that ticket, the probabilities were that he would be financially ruined.

He would soon find that his boat would be without either passengers or freight; his oil mill would probably be obliged to close because there would be no owners of the raw material of whom he could make purchases at any price, and even his children at school would, no doubt, be subjected to taunts and insults, to say nothing of the social cuts to which his family might be subjected.

He was, therefore, brought to a painful realization of the fact that he was confronted with conditions which he had not fully anticipated.