The Arkansaw traveler., 1886-02-13
The Eight FOrty-FiYe.

c,ants ofRood Lane, City, knew Mir Jona- than Greysark simply as a very wen.to-do bachelor, of five-and-forty-fresh faced
 vell-dressed, genial and affAble as man to erably well fitted out with the good things of this life and unhampered by tres and ercumbrances should be. But MT
 Philip Penn, whose days were passed within the office, regarded his wealthy
 and popular employer from a somewhat different point of view. Mir. Penn had by his steadiness and business knowledge in no small degree helped Jonathan Grey sark to his enviahle position in the com mercial world he had served the house faithfully for howard of twenty years, yet he was still simply clerk, in which posi- ton, despite frequent prayers and peti. tiops, Mir. Greysark was apparently de- termined to keep him until the time came for dispensing entirely with his services. Altogether, poor Penn's life was by no means happy ore, for in addition to his commercial troubles, he had an eternally grinning domestic skeleton, in the shape of blackguaId brother, who had stood in the felon's dock on a charge of exten
 sive forgery, had passed many years in pY,son, and who now could only be kept quietly in the background by the allow ance which the unfortunate Penn made him out of the exceedingly moderate sal- ary he drew from the Rood Lane efiice Greysark knew this, and was also aware that a tarnished name was an almost in superab.e bar to his clerks advance in any other line of life t; so he meanly took advantage of the fact by getting most unfair amount of work out of Penn, and pay ying him miserably inadequate salary for it.
 Jonathan Greysark lived at Brighten, and came up to town every morning on the 8:4s express. In this famous train he had a .quired from long usage prescrip- tive right to particular seat in paiticu- lar compartment of particular carriage, and the guard suffered considerable re. duction in his weekly largesse if he al- lowed stranger to usurp this place
 but, the old guard having been shunted elsewhere, and 8 strange official who knew not Jonathan having been substi- tuted, it so happened that one morning Greysark, his rug on his arm and his pa per in his hand, swaggered gravely and msgisterially up to the carriage, only to find his compartment-and,i in fact, his very seat-occupied. Under ordinary circumstances he would have resented this unwarrantable intrusion in an unmis- takable manner, but upon this occasion, as the occupant was a pretty, modestly dress ed 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 somewhat embarrassing, and only the girls pleasant face checked audible expression of his discontent The same thing occurred the morning after, and the morning after that, and the young S:45 bucks, who, of course, regarded the afiAir as capital Ike, remarked that the great man, instead of ramping and raging away to another carriage, D ot only contentedly went into the same one, but passed much greater part of the hour and a quarters journey in looking at the girl over the top'oi his newspaper than in studying the city article. In fort nights time it was observed that he handed her out, carried her little parcels, and saw her safely int, an omnibus for the Mansion House and in three weeks time it was noted that he chatted as easily and familiarly with her as if he had known her for years.
 in short, it became evident that the wealthy bachelor of Rood Lane was en- amored of the young lady. When his attentions first became marked she as- sumed the proper attitude of unprotected virtue and confined her answers to rather curt monosyllables but when her femi- nine perspicuity assured her that her ad- mirer's behavior was inspired by the most honorable of intentions, she unbent and told hiTn that her hame was Phs His that she was student at the South Ken sipeton School of Art. and that she re- sided at Brighton with her aunt
 "Miss Payllis," said Greysark one morning as they walked along the Lon- don bridge platform, "as some sort of an assurance that only entertain the most genuine feelings of respect and-and ad- miration for you, think l should men, ton that my name is Greysark, that am the head of one of the most respected houses in the city of London, and that, as am quite aware that an acquaintance of this casual nature is apt to give rise to erroneous impressions in the minds of people who only judge by appearance, with your permiss,on, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to call upon your aunt at Brighton"
 At the mention of the name Creysark, the girls color deepened somewhat, and she raised her eyes to his face for a few seconds. Then she said:
 "l am sure that my aunt would be de- lighted to make your acquaintance, Mir. Greysark."
 Accordingly, on the following Sunday, Mr. GreysaIk. instead of performing his usual weekly duty to society by aa after- noon lounge on the green, betook him self to Regency square, and vas ushezed into the presence of . smiling, gray haired lady, xao might have stepped from an anceas4 picture frame. and who roceived him with the stately uYbanity of . courier of the old school. Being . nan q business, JonatAan Greysssk Lost