Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1886-03-11
LOVE AND BUSINESS.
Why the Head of a Great House
Took a Partner.


than Grcysark & Co., East India mer-
chants, Of Rood-lane City, knew Mr.
Jonathan Greysark simply as very
wcll-to-do bachelor Of e-and-forty-
fresh-faced, well-dressed, genial and
aGablc rs n man tolerably well fitted
out with the good things of this life.
and unhampered by ties and encum-
brances should be. But Mr. Philip
Penn, whose days wore passed within
the Office, regarded his wealthy and
popular employer from a somewhat
different point of view. Mr.. Penn had
by his stcadiness and business knowl-
edge in no small degree helped Jona-
than Greysark to his enviable position
In the commercial world: he had served
the house faithfully for upward of
twenty years, yet he was still simply a
clerk, in which position, despite fire.
quent 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 10
his commercial troubles he had an
eternally grinning domestic skeleton in
the shape of n blackguard brother, who
had stood in the felons 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 un-
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 clerks advance in any other line of
life; so he meanly took advantage of
the fact by getting n most unfair
amount Of work out Of Penn, and pay
ing him a miserably inadequate salary
for IT,
Jonathan Greysark lived at Brighton.
and came up to town every morning
by the S:45 express. In this famous
train he had acquired from long usage
prescriptive right to a particular seat
in n particular compartment of a par
ticular carriage. and the guard suffered
considerable reduction in his weekly
largesse If he allowed a stranger to
usurp his place.
But the old guard having been shunt-
ed elsewhere. and q 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 a pretty, modestly
dressed girl of eighteen or thereabouts,
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
a capital Joke, remarked that the great
man, instead of ramping aud raging
away to another carriage, not only
contentedly went into the same one,
but passed a much greater part of the
hour and a quarter journey in looking
at the girl over the top Of his news
paper than in studying the city article.
In fortnight's time il 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 familiary with
her as II he had known her for years.
In short, Il became very evident that
the wealthy bachelor Of Rood-lane was
enamored Of the young lady. When
his attentions first became marked she
assumed the proper attitude Of unpro-
tected virtue, and confined her answers
10 rather curt nronosylables; but when
her feminine perspicuity assured her
that her admirers behavior was in-
spired by the most honorable inten-
tions, she unbent and told him that her
name WAS Phylls, that she was a stu
dent at the South Kensington School Of
Art, and that she resided at Brighton
with her aunt.
Miss Phyllis" said Greysark one
morning. as they walked along the
London bridge platform, ''as some sort
Of assurance that only entertain the
most genuine feelings Of respect and
and admiration for you, / think that
| should mention that my name is
Greysark, that am the head of one Of
the most respected houses in the city
of london. and that as lame quite aware
that an acquaintance of this casual nat
ure Is apt TO give rise 10 erroneous i'm
pressiOns In the minds of people who
only Judge by appearances, with your
permission nothing would give me
greater pleasure than 10 call upon your
aunt az Brighton.
Al the mention Of the name Greysark
the girls Color deepened somewhat,
and she raised her eyes TO his face for
few seconds Then she said:
II am sure thatmy aunt would be de-
lighted 10 make your acquaintance, Mr..
Greysark.
Accordingly. on the following Sum
day Mr. Greysark. instead Of perform
ing his usual weekly duty 70 society
by an afternoon lounge on the Green,
beto0k himself 10 Regency square and
was Ushored into the presence Of
smiling. gray-haired lady. who might
have stepped from an ancestral pict-
uro-frame, and who received him with
no stately urbanlty OF courticr Of the
I'd school. Being man Of business,
IonaffAn Greysark lost no time in |
Beating about the bush, bat plunged at
once ~ ncdias rcs, described the ori-
gln q hls acquaintance with Phyllis