The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1897-03-14

prophets shall arise. Don't let that
trouble you, Edna. If our wills be-
come seriously opposed we will come
here to the downs and talk it all over
I'll warrant we'll hit on compromise.
But suppose a compromise were not
possible?"
Dear me, Edna, what's on your
mind? You are talking in genralities
and thinking in particulars. What is
it, my girl?''
! Edna shook her head.
L don't know why it is" she said
at last, but ]. feel afraid of the fu-
ture 1t seems so uncertain, and ]
should never like anything to come
! between u.s.
Nonsense, Edna, what should come
! between us? All that is merely a little
touch of the pessimism of youth, &C
centuated by the doleful fact that you
are now woman of independent
means. Suppose our stubborn wills come
| into collision, as you fear, do you
know what will happen?'
WHAT"
'Well-it's an awful thing for IA
| father to say to a daughter-but I'll
| give way. Think of that, What a
| humiliating confession for me to make
/ "a man who has REFUSED to bulge an
inch before thefunited demands of
!
! the pathetic entreaties of my own
employers. If that isn't victory for
small girl. what is?'
"Oh, no. cried Edna, her eyes
quickly filling. I'll give way-even If it
breaks my heart"
Her father stopped in his walk and
grasped her by the shoulders. The
girls head dropped and she put one
hand over her eyes.
AT n inc
at the back of all this; and L wont
ask you what it is~ my pet, but some
day you'll tell me- perhaps.
He drew her to his breast and, push
ing aside her hat, caressed her fair
hair lovingly. eff your mother were
alive dearest, we-well, there is little
use of either grieving or wishing. We
must make the best of things as they
are. But don't bother about the stub
born wills, Edna; we'll cross that
bridge when we come to it. You see,
we are both competing to see who
shall give way first, and there's moth
ing very stubborn about that Now,
my girl, I've disarranged that pretty
hat, and a stranger who didn't know
might think you had been crying. This
will never do. Let us talk sensibly,
for l imagine that before long I'll have
all the fighting I need to keep me in
form without having a contest with my
only daughter"
what do you mean, father?"
ooh. there's the usual ferment
among the men. They are seething
and foaming and vaporing, and L feel
1t in my bones that We'll have another
strike before long"
Led by Mr.. Marsten?"
"By him, of course. But I'll beat
him. I'll crumple him up so that he
will wonder why he ever started the
fight. It's a pity to see him waste his
energy and his brains in hopeless
struggle. He's clever and indefatlg-
able, but a visionary and an enthusi-
asst, and when he stops dreaming OF
impossibilities he will be most valu-
able man."
What impossibilities, father?"
asked the girl, almost in a Whisper,
gazing at the ground.
THE impossibility of men hanging
together on any subject for more than
a week The imposSibility of warding
off treachery within the ranks. The
impossibility of keeping down. the Jeal-
ousy which they always feel toward
a man who is their evident superior
in education and ability. However he
got them, Marsten has the manner
and instincts of a gentleman. The
men are not going to stand that sort
of thing, you know, and they Will fail
him when it comes to pinch.
IF you think so well of him, why
don't you offer him a good position in
the works and let him turn his ability
toward helping your
MY dear girl, you have guessed one
of the cards that is up my sleeve. l
intend to make Marsten my assistant
manager-but not now. He will be a
valuable man when he awakes, but
not while he is dreaming. He must
be taught his lesson first, and only
hard knocks can teach him that. The
boy thinks he is going to be a leader
of men, whereas he is merely serving
his apprenticeship to become assistant
manager of Monkton & Hope, Linn
tied"
But suppose he succeeds? Suppose
the next strike does not fail? The men
held together more than a week last
time"
THAT was because they were lead
by a demagogue of like calibre to
themselves. There is a large faction
among them who hate MarSten, and
Gibbons is their leader. have fought
Gibbons, beaten him, insulted him.
trampled him under foot, yet today
Gibbons loathes Marsten while he re-
spects me as such a man always re-
spectS one who has knocked him down.
Now you will be surprised to hear that
1 have taken Gibbons into my employ
and am giving him better wages than
he ever received in his life before.
More than that, when he recommends
a man / promote that man, and it is
getting to be understood that Gibbons