The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1886-03-12
LOVE AND BUSINESS.


Every body outside the Office Of iona
than Grcysark * Co., East India mer
chants, Of Rood-lanc City. knew Mr.
Jonathan Greysark simply as a yer,
well-to-do bachelor Of fivc-and-forty-
frcsh-faccd, well-dresscd. genial ant
affable as a man tolerably well fitted
out with the good things Of this life.
and unhampcrcd BY ties and cncum
brances should be. But Mr.. Philir
Penn. whose days we're passed within
the Office. regarded his wealthy and
popular employer from soinew al
different poiat Of view Mr.. Penn had
by his stcadiness and business knowl
edge in no small degrec helped iona
than Grcysark 70 his cnviable position
in the commercial world; he had served
the house faithfully for upward Of
twenty years. yet he was still simply 4
clerk. in which position. despite fire.
quent prayers and petitions, Mr.. Grey
sark was apparently determined 10
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 m
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 ofthe ex-
ccedingly moderate salary he drew from
the Rocd-lane Office. Greysark knew
this and was also aware that tar
nished name was an insupcrable bar to
his clerks advance in any other line Of
life: 80 he mcanly took advantage Of
the fact by getting most unfair
amount Of work ont Of Penn. and pay
ing him miserably inadequate salary
for il.
Jonathan Greysark lived at Brighton.
and came up to town every morning
by the s:i5 express. In this famous
train he had acquired from long usage
prescriptive right to a particular seat
In a particular compartment of par
ticular carriage. and the guard suffered
considerable reduction in his weekly
iargessc Il he allowed stranger to
usnrp his place.
But the old guard having been shnnt-
Cd elsewhere. and strange official who
knew not Jonathan having been substi-
tuted. il so happened that one morning
0rcysark. his rug on his arm and his
paper in his hand. staggered gravely
and magisteriaIly up 10 the carriage
only 70 find his particular compart-
ment-and in fact his very seat-occu-
pied. Under ordinary circumstances
nc would have resented this unwar-
rantable intrusion in most unmistak-
able manner: but on this occasion, as
the occupant was a pretty. modcstly
dressed girl Of eighteen or thcreabouts.
ne could only vent his feelings in
grunts and scowls, and bctake himself
% another seat. But when the next
morning he found his place similarly
occupied his position became cmbar-
RAISING. and only the girls pleasant
race checked audible expression Of his
discomfort. The same thing occurred
ne morning after and the morning
after that, and the young S:45 bucks,
VINO. 81 course, regarded the affair as
capital joke, remarked that the great
man, instead Of ramping and raging
away to another carriage, not only
rontentcdly went into the same one,
put passed much greater part Of the
nour and . quarters journey in looking
y me girl over the top Of his news
PAPER than IN studying the city article.