The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1886-03-17
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 Greysark simply as very
wcll-to-do bachelor of tive-and-forty-.
fresh-faced, well-dressed, genial and
atlablc as a 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 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 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 a happy one, for, in addition to
his commercial troubles he had an
etcrnally grinning domestic skeleton in
the shape of BLACKBOARD 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 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 most unfair
amount of work out Of Penn, and pay
ing him 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 particular seat
in a particular compartment of 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 strange official who
knew not Jonathan having been substi
tutcd, 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 circumstance
he would have resented this unwar
rantable intrusion in a most unmistak.
able manner; but on this occasion, as
the occupant was pretty, modestly
dressed girl of eighteen or Whereabouts,
he could only vent his feelings in
grllnts and scowls, and betake himself
to another seat. But when the mex,
morning he found his place similarly
occupied his position became embar
RAISING, and only the girls pleasant
face checked audible expression of hi.
discomfort. The same thing occurred
the morning after and the morning
after that, and the young $40 bucks
who. of course, regarded the affair a
a capital joke, remarked that the grea
man. instead of ramping and ragin!
away to another carriage, not only
contentedly went into the same one
but passed much greater part of tn,
hour and quarters journey in lookin.
at the girl over the top of his news
paper than in studying the city article
In l fortnight's time it was observed
that he handed her out, carried her lit
tie parcels and saw her safely into al
omnibus at the Mansion House; and il
three weeks time it was noted that h,
chatted as easily and familiary will
her as if he had known her for years.
In short, it became very evident tina
the wealthy bachelor of Rood-lane wa
enamored of the young lady. Whei
his attentions first became marked sh
assumed the proper attitude of unpro
tected virtue, and confined her answer
TO rather curt monosylables; but whel
her feminine perspieuity assured he
that her admirers behavior was in
spired by the most honorable inten
tons, she unbent and told him that he
name was Phyllis, that she was a stu
dent at the South Kensington School o
Art, and that she resided at Brighton
with her aunt.
Miss Phyllis" said Greysark on
morning. as they walked along tn
London bridge platform. 'as some sor
Of assurance that | only entertain tn