The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-11-24

/ OK absence, IN TACT trouble you too
much medical certifcate."
He was greatly relieved after this let
ter was sent by special messenger with
the key Of his desk and quite refreshed
when a clerk came up with the chief
condolences
an excellent young gl' oflc d5n'8 Vsry
promising indeed and would he
step upstairs for a minute will
I excuse this undress in circumstances
really L will not speak any more.
Those notes, Mr. Lighthead, will make
fo ra iaea q nnd plain PLAIN ana e. hope ,i
my dutiful respect to the. board,
and kind regards to the chief clerk
It was kind of you to come, most
This young gentleman came into my
was much impressed:
Really this kind of thing-Perkins
gasping in bed and talking in his old
fashioned way-knocks one out of time
don't you know? If he had gone on
Like him in the office? L should think
SO. You should have seen the young
fellows today when they heard he was so
IL OF course we laugh bit at him.
Schedule Perkins he's called-because he's
SO dry. and formal; but that's nothing.
With all his little cranks, he knows
! his business better than any man in the
department.; and then he's gentleman,
dye see? could not say rude thing or
do a mean thing to save his life-not
made that way, in fact.
Let me just give you one instance
show you his sort. Everyone knew that
he ought to have been chief clerk, and
that Rodway's appointment was. sheer
influence. The staff was mad, and some
one said Roadway need not expect to have
a particularly good time.
Perkins overheard him, and Clipped
in at once. Mr.. Roadway know his
dry manner, wagging his eyeglass ali the
time-'iS our superior officer, and we are
bound to render him every assistance in
our: our power, or and then he was splendid.
say, has retired. but the worst of it is
that as Perkins has once passed over he
will not succeed.
l say" said Lighthead, hurriedly, turn
ing his back and examining pipe on the
mantelpiece,. do you think he is going
Just chance, 1 believe. Have you
been long with him."
That's not tits what he's done for
a-for fellows. Strangers don't know
Perkins. You might talk of him for
year and never hear anything but shop
Then one day you, get into hole, and
%Oid by nG yo SaE anG and he erE Wheeled
round. g Rather, and no palaver either,
with money and with time and with
other things that do fellow more
airs. There's more than one man in our
office has cause to bless Schedule
Perkins.
one chap out of the biggest scrape he'll
ever fall into. Do you mind me smok-
ing?" And then he made himself busy
with matches and a pipe that was ever
going out for the rest of the story.
well. you see, this man, clerk in our
office, had not been long up from the
country, and he was young. Wasn't
with the older fellows.
HE got among set that had suppers
in their rooms, and gambled a bit, and
was stone broke.
ITS not very pleasant for fellow to
sit in his room a week before Christmas
fore the holidays, and all through his
own fault.
IF it were only himself. why he might
but it was hard on his mother
it's always going out, this pipe-when he
was her only son, and she rather
believed in him.
"Didn't sleep much that night-told me
himself afterwards-and he concluded
that the best way. out was to buy opium
in the city next, day, and take it-pretty
"Cowardly rather. of course, but it
might be easier for the mater down in
Devon-his mother, 1 mean-did I say
affair would be hushed UP, and she would
have his memory clear.
'As it happened, though, he didn't buy
chance; for Perkins came round to his
desk and asked this young chap to have
a bit of dinner.
HE had the jolliest little dinner ready
you ever saw, and he insisted on the fell
low smoking, though Perkins hates the
very smell of baccy' and-well, he got
the whole trouble out of him. except the
opium.
Dye think he lectured and scolded?
Not a bit-thats not Perkins-he LETT
the fool to do his own lecturing. and
he did it stiff. I'll tell you what he said:
Your health must have been much tried
by this anxiety, so YOU must go down and
spend Christmas with your mother. and I
would venture to suggest that you take
her suitable gift.
"'With regard to your debt you will
had been explaining a schedule. to take
it over, on two conditions-that you re-
pay me by instalments every quarter
and dine with me every Saturday even
ing for six months
''She what he was after? Wanted to
keep the fellow straight, and cheer
him up; you've no idea how
tai stories as ever you heard-and he
declared that it was a. pleasure to him.
at am rather lonely he used to say
and it is most kind of a young man to
sit with me- Kindv'
what was the upshot with volr
friend? Did he turn over new leaf?''
HE will never be the man that Per-
best, and is rising in the Office. Perkins
swears bv him, and that's made a man
of the fellow.
Hes paid up the cash now, but he can
never pay up the kindness-confound
those wax matches. they never strike