Thomas County cat. [volume] (Colby, Kan.) 1885-1891, 1886-03-25
LOVE AND BUSINESS.
Why the Head Of Great House
Took a Partner.

Every body outside the Office of Jona-
than Greysark & Co., East India mer-
chants, of Rood-lane City, knew Mr..
Jonathan Greysarll simply as a very
well-to-do bachelor of five-and-forty-
fresh-faced, well-dressed, genial and
affable as a man tolerably well fitted
out with the good things OF this life.
and unhampered by ties and encum-
ORANGES should be. But Mr.. Philip
Penn, whose days were passed within
the Office, regarded his wealthy and
popular employer from somewhat
different point OF view. Mr.. Penn had
by his steadiness and business knowl-
edge in no small degree helped Jona-
than Greysark to his cnviable position
in the commercial world; he had served
the house faithfully for upward of
twenty years. yet he was still simply
clerk, in which position, despite fire.
Iuent prayers and petitions, Mr.. Grey
sark was apparently determined to
keep him until the time came for dis
pensing entirely with his services. Al
together, poor PENIS life was by no
means happy one, for, in addition to
his commercial troubles he had an
eternally grinning domestic skeleton in
the shape of 4 blackguard brother, who
had stood in the felOn'S dock on a
charge of extensive forgery, had passed
many years in prison, and who now
could only be kept quietly in the back
ground by the allowance which the I'M
fortunate Penn made him out of the ex-
ceedingly moderate salary he drew from
the Rood-lane office. Greysark knew
this and was also aware that tar
nished name was an insuperable bar to
his clerk S advance in any other line of
life; so he meanly took advantage of
the fact by getting Il most unfair
amount of work out of Penn. and pay
ing him Il miserably inadequate salary
for it.
Jonathan Greysark lived at Brighton.
and came up to town every morning
by the $40 express. In this famous
train he had acquired from long usage
a prescriptivc right to particular seat
In particular compartment of par
tlcular carriage, and the guard suffered
considerable reduction in his weekly
largesse if he allowed stranger to
usurp his place.
But the old guard having been shunt-
ed elsewhere, and a strange official who
knew not Jonathan having been substi-
tuted, it so happened that one morning
Greysark, his rug on his arm and his
paper in his hand. staggered gravely
and magisterially up to the carriage
only to find his particular compart-
ment-and in fact his very seat-occu-
pied. Under ordinary circumstances
he would have resented this unwar-
rantable intrusion in most unmistak-
able manner; but on this occasion, as
the occupant was pretty. modcstly
dressed girl of eighteen or Whereabouts,
he could only vent his feelings in
grunts and scowls, and betake himself
to another seat. But when the next
morning he found his place similarly
occupied his position became embar-
RAISING, and only the girls pleasant
face checked audible expression of his
discomfort The same thing occurred
the morning after and the morning
after that, and the young S:45 bucks.
who. of course. regarded the affair as
capital joke, remarked that the great
man. instead of rampiag and raging
away to another carriage. not only
contentedly went into the same one.
but passed much greater part of the
hour and a quarter 5 journey in looking
atthe girl over the top of his news
paper than in studying the city article.
In fortnlght's time it was observed
that he handed her out. carried her lit
tie parcels and saw her safely into an
omnibus at the Mansion House: and in |
three weeks time it was noted that he |
chatted as easily and familarv with |
her as if he had known her for wears.
In short. it became very evident that |
the wealthy bachelor of Rood-lane was
enamored o: the young lady When
his attentions first became marked she |
assumed the proper attitude of unprc- |
tected virtue, and confined TIER answers
to rather curt monosylables: but when |
her feminine perSpicuity assured her
that her admirers behavior was in
spIred by the most honorable inten-
tons, she unbent and told him that her
name was Phyllis, that she was a stu
dent ut the South kensington School of |
Art. and that she resided at Brighton
with he, aunt.
Miss Phyllis" said Greysark one
morning. as they walked along the
London bridge platform. '.as some sort
of assurance that only entertain the