Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1903-02-25
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or to 4.aymer's knowledge of her
would you mind telling me how
much it wasp" a.
Not at all; it was sos
$50 much as that? Somehow, /
have never thought of Mr.. Griswold
as IA capitalist. But 1t was good
investment for him, wasn't it?"
ut would have been if we had not
had this strike
She paused again, and again as
saulted as one who will not be daunt-
ed.
How much has the strike cost you,
Mr.. Raymer?''
"A great deal more than it would
at almost any other time. We had a
number of time contracts with for
FIXTURES, and they have lapsed, of
course. One hundred thousand dol
lars wouldn't more than make us
whole again"
$50 much as that! All of Mr.. Girls
wold's money, and more" So much
she said. and then she was silent I'M
til her nervousness began to be con-
tagious to Raymer. At length she
said: You know Mr.. Griswold pref
ty well, and love him; and 1 know
him pretty well, too, and-and like
him. Did he ever tell you how he
came to have so much money!"
why, no. In fact, / never thought
enough about it to be curious. From
the little he has told me about him
self l have gathered that he inherit
ed something from his father, and
that accounted sufficiently for his
means"
Now Griswold had been more con-
ever been with his business partner.
SO she knew the story of the slender
patrimony, and of it's spending. But
what has here been written down of
Margery Grierson has been ill-written
if it has not shown her to be far
more discreet than her sex or her
age would bespeak. And because she
was wiser than her generation, she
went swiftly aside from Griswold's
affair
II think that is all I had to say"
she said,> rising again. "All excepting
| one other thing, and that is harder
to say than all the rest"
Raymer rose with her and took her
hand again.
"After what you have done, it
mustn't be hard for you to say any,
thing to me, Miss Margery."
But this thing is hard-for me.
not for you. You say you keep your
| account at the Wahaska National
Keep it somewhere else, Mr.. Ray
mer."
He bowed in ready acquiescence.
I ''1'll transfer it at once-and without
asking why l should do it," he agreed
| ''But-but it is right that you
should know why" she faltered. "My
| father does not like you. Need
say more?"
He pressed the hand he was still
holding and smiled down upon her
from his athletic height.
you needn't have said that much.
have good cause to know it. And
that makes your loyalty and good
ness of heart all the more wonderful
to me, Miss Margery. l hope the
time will come when l can show you
how much / appreciate"
She snatched her hand away and
turned from him. Though he meant
it not. he was slipping into the con-
ventional attitude and it was more
than she could bear just then. Good.
by" she said, abruptly, and before he
could offer to help her she ran out.
sprang into the low phaeton and
drove rapidly away.
! Raymer stood at the office door and
watched her out of sight. Then he
went back to his desk and sat down
to fall into musing excursion which
led him far away from the matter in
hand-the matter of the strike and
its probable composition in terms of
peace. At the end of the reverie.
one of its conclusions slipped into
| speech.
| They may say what they please
about her-the mother and Gerty-
and the most of the things they say
are true; but away down deep in her
! heart. under nobody knows what a
sandbank of trouble and hard-living.
] there is vein of the purest gold.
| I guess / couldn't say that if / were
in love with her; and yet"
ITO Be Continued