A Lonely House. Page 40.
LIVING TOO FAST;
OR,
The Confessions of a Bank Officer,
BY
WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
(Oliver Optic.)
Author of “In Doors and Out,” “The Way of the World,”
“Young America Abroad,” &c. &c.
ILLUSTRATED.
BOSTON:
LEE AND SHEPARD, PUBLISHERS.
NEW YORK:
CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM,
1876.
COPYRIGHT,
By WILLIAM T. ADAMS,
1876.
Electrotyped by C. C. Morse & Son, Haverhill, Mass.
PREFACE.
The story contained in this volume records the experience of abank officer, “living too fast,” in the downward career of crime.The writer is entirely willing now to believe that this career oughtto have ended in the state prison; but his work is a story, and hehas chosen—perhaps unhappily—to punish the defaulter in anotherway. Yet running through the narrative for the sake of the contrast,is the experience of a less showy, but more honest youngman than the principal character, who represents the true life theyoung business man ought to lead. The author is not afraid thatany of his young friends who may read this book will be temptedinto an “irregularity” by the example of the delinquent bankofficer, for it will be found that his career of crime is full of remorseand positive suffering.
Dorchester, July 1, 1876.