Daily Yellowstone journal. [volume] (Miles City, Mont.) 1882-1893, 1886-02-24
THE EIGHT FORTY-FIVE.

Everybody outside the office of iona
than Greysark & Co., East India mer.
-chants, of Rood-lane City, knew Mr.
Jonathan Greysark simply as very
~well-to-do bachelor of +5-fresh-faced,
well-dressed, genial, and affable as man
,folerably well fitted out with the good
things of this life, and unhampered by
ties and encumbrances 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 steadin.ss and business knowledge
in no small degree helped Jonathan Grey.
Aark to his enviable position in the com.
, lnercial world; he had served the house
faithfully for upward of twenty years,
yet he was still simply clerk, in which
position, despite frequent prayers and
petitions. Mr.. Greysark was apparently
determined to keep him until the time
came for dispensing entirely with his
services. Altogether, poor Penn's life
was by no means happy one.
Jonathan Greysark lived at Brighton,
and came up to town every morning by
the s:45 express. In this famous train
no had acquired from long usage a pre-
scriptive right 10 a particular seat in a
particular compartment of a particular
carriage, and the guard suffered a consid-
cradle reduction in his weekly largesse if
she allowed stranger to usurp his place.
But the old guard having shunted else
where, and a strange official who knew
mot Jonathan having been substituted, it
80 happened that one morning Greysark,
his rug on his arm and his paper in his
hand, staggered gravely and magisteri-
ally up to the carriage only to find his
particular compartment-and in fact his
very seat-occupied. Under ordinary
circumstances he would have resented
this unwarrantable intrusion in an I'M
mistakable manner; but upon this occa-
sion rs the occupant was a pretty, mod
estly-dressed girl of IS or Whereabouts, he
could only vent his feelings in grunts and
scowls and bet:lke himself to another
seat. But when the next morning he
found his plac' similarly occupied his po-
sition became embarrassing, and only the
girls pleasant face checked audible ex-
preston 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 and
raging away to another carriage, not
only contentedly went into the same one,
sbut passed a much greater part of the
hour and a quarters journey in looking
ut the girl over top of 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 into an omnibus for
.fhe Mansion house; and in three weeks
time it was noted that he chatted as cas-
1y and Familiarity with her as if he had
Known her for years.
In short, it became very evident that
the wealthy bachelor of Rood-lane was
cnamored 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
feminine perspicuity assured her that her
Admirer's behavior was inspired by the
md told him that her name was Phyllis,
that she was student at the South Ken
cington school Of art, and that she re-
sided at Brighton with her aunt.
Miss Phyllis" said Greysark one
morning, as they walked along the Lon
don bridge platform, ~as some sort of
assurance that only entertain the most
genuine feelings of respect and-and adj
miration for you, think that | should
mention that my name is Greysark. that
] am the head of one of the most re-
spected houses in the city of London. and
shat as am quite aware that an acquaint-
ance of this casual nature is apt to give
rise to erroneous impressions in the
minds of people who only judge by APP
pearances, With your permission nothing
would give me greater pleasure than to
call upon your aunt at Brighton"
At 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:
Il am sure that my aunt would be de-
lighted to make your acquaintance, Mr..
Geysark."
Accordingly, on the following Sunday
Mr.. Greysark, instead of performing his
usual weekly duty to society by an after
noon lounge on the green, betook him
self to Regency square and was ushered
into the presence Of smiling, gray
haired lady, who might have stepped
from an ancestral picture-frame, and
who received him with the stately ur-
banity of a courtier of the old school.
Being man of business, Jonathan Grey
sark lost no time in beating about the
bush, but plunged at once in medals res,
described the origin of his acquaintance
with Phyllis, expressed himself in such
happy language, blew his own trumpet
IN such pleasant, unassuming manner,
declared his devotion in such fervid
phrases, In fact, put matters before the
old lady in such an attractive light, that
she was completely won over.
@Of course, Mr.. Greysark,- she said, In
reply, -as / am only.the girls aunt,
have no direct authority in the matter.
Dut If Phyllis regards your suit as favor
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