Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-08-26
Miss Graham's b
y r eprical

John Graham hardly figured out sufi1-
| GENTLY to pay his debts And like
many another girl who has been
brought up in luxury. Helen Graham,
aged twenty. had her choice between
being poor relation" or going out
| into the world to make her own living
| She had acted as her fathers secretary
for years, and in that position had mas
| tered both stenography and typewrit.
ing.
1t wasn't the girls good looks or am.
bition that secured her a place after
meeting with many failures. She hap.
| pened into the brokerage office OF
| Sweet & Son just as one of their -four
| or five typewriters had tainted away
| and had to be sent home. At the end
| of the week her place was made perma.
nent. and the austere and dignifed Mr..
| Joseph Sweet astonished his good look
Ing twenty hve-year-old son by saying.
| Tom, I think Miss Graham trife
superior TO the ordinary girl, and you
may advance her salary couple Of dol
lars week II she holds out as she has
| begun"
When he saw at Tom was casting
| Sleeps eyes in the direction of the lat.
| est arrival he remarked:
Thomas, / hope you won't encourage
| Miss Graham 10 engage in converse.
ton with you. She is an employee. yon
/ know
| But a lady from head to heel. IA
ther." replied Tom as he toyed with his
| pen.
| 1T is possible, Thomas-it il posi-.
BILE; but all female employees are ladies
nowadays I really think. my boy. that
| you ought TO administer a snub to
| keep her in checkr'
| Tom took a day to think the matter
| over, and then administered the snub
| by asking Miss Graham to lunch with
| him. The senior Mr.. Sweet happened
to see them together on the street.
| Tom had refused to snub and he de.
cided to do 1t himself. That very aft
| ernoon he took advantage of an oppor-
| tunify 10 say:
Miss Graham. am so well satisfied
| with your work that shall advance
| your salary. / think I have heard
some of them say that there Is a clean.
| cheap restaurant around the corner.
and suggest that you lunch there In
| the future"
Tom renewed the invitation after a
| day OF two. but it was not again &C
| cepted- He could not make out just
what was wrong until the father e1-
| planned:
Thomas. / attended to that little
snubbing matter myself few days
ago, and you may have observed that
| Miss Graham seems to have profted by
IL Please don't forget your dignity
| again"
IL was the first time in her life that
| Helen Graham had been snubbed- She
decided that she would pay it back
| with interest IL the opportunity was
ever Afforded 1t came with surprising
swiftness. A week hardly passed when
| the senior partner entered the Office
| with anxious face and sat down beside
| his son 10 say:
Tom, / have confession to make.
I hare put about 800 90 into the BIS
Ing Sun mine 10 find that my interest
VIII be worthless unless I can secure
a majority Of the stock Of the Red
| Dog mine That mine was a dead 'un
long ago. but It's charter Is still alive.
and it controls the water privilege.
Here arg the names OF ssverzi parties
who may be possessed OF shares In
the Red Dog Call In Miss Graham
and dictate letters 10 them ar oacs, IL
you please"
Miss Graham was called, and Tom
had lot dictated twenty words when
her heart gave a sudden bound The
Red Dog mine had been one Of ths
chief causes % her fathers financial
ruin Among his papers she had found
certificates Of stock 10 the value Of
half q million dollars She couldn't
tell WHY M Joseph Sweet was 80
anxious 10 PICK up this STOCK. but she
would bide her tine Al the end o.
the week she g1eri@9 OF tie junior
p2r1rer-
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