The Bellefontaine Republican. [volume] (Bellefontaine, Logan County, Ohio) 1855-1905, 1903-10-02
NUMBER 70
Miss Craham'S
- R Reprical

ciently 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 a 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 dignified Mr..
Joseph Sweet astonished his good look
ing wenty-five-year-old son by saying:
tom, l think Miss Graham a triie
superior to the ordinary girl, and you
may advance her salary a couple of dol
lars a week If she holds out as she has
begun
When he saw that Tom was casting
Sleeps eyes I'm the direction of the lat
est arrival he remarked:
Thomas, 1 hope you won't encourage
Miss Graham to engage in converse
ton with you. She is an employee, you
know"
But a lady from head to heel, IA
ther," replied Tom as he toyed with his
pen.
'It is possible, Thomas-it is possi-
BILE; but all female employees are ladies
nowadays. Ireally think. my boy, that
you ought to administer snub to
keep her in checkw
Tom took 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 it himself. That very aft
ernoon he took advantage of an oppor-
tunity to say:
Miss Graham, am so well satisfied
with your work that | shall advance
your salary. l think | have heard
some of them say that there is a clean,
cheap restaurant around the corner,
and l suggest that you lunch there in
the future"
Tom renewed the invitation after a
day or two. but ii was not again ac-
| cepted. He could not make out just
what was wrong until the father ex-
! planned:
Thomas. | attended to that little
snubbing matter myself a few days
! ago. and you may have observed that
Miss Graham seems to have profited by
IT. Please don't forget your dignity
again.
1t was the first time in her life that
D | Helen Graham had been snubbed. She
] | decided that she would pay il back
!, with interest If the opportunity was
t 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 to say:
5 Tom. | have confession TO make.
4 | have put about 100000 into the Ris-
! ing Sun mine to find that my interest
!. | will be worthless unless / can secure
majority of the stock of the Red
, Dog mine. That mine was 4 dead 'un
+ long ago, but its charter is still alive,
= and it controls the water privilege.
D | Here are the names of several parties
= | who may be possessed of shares in
D the Red Dog. Call in Miss Graham
and dictate letters to them at once, il
you please"
c Miss Graham was called. and Tom
4 had not dictated twenty words when
: her heart gave a sudden bound. The
q Red Dog mine had been one OF the
o chief causes of her fathers financial
r ruin. Among his papers she had found
certificates of stock TO the value Of
half a million dollars She couldn't {
!, tell why Mr.. Joseph Sweet was so
!, anxious to pick up this stock. but she
!, would bide her time. At the end of
a the week she queried of the junior
a partner:
How much Red Dog stock is want
ed to control matters:''
Half a million at least. hut so far
, we can locate only about $250.000
worth
Five minutes later the junior was
saying to the senior:
Look here. father. I'm sorry you
: felt 1t your duty to snub Miss Gra-
: ham. She can lay her hand on half a
million dollars worth of Red Dog"
Miss Graham was sent for. She was
:. not at all frustrated.
Miss Graham" he started off, "is II
" true that you know where l can Sc
cure half a million of the stock of the
Red Dog miner
1T is quite true" she quietly re-
, piled.
= "And may | ask who holds it?'
- "I do"
"H'm, l am astonished. You are
aware that need that stock-need II
p very badly. | have offered 20 cents
II on the dollar to other holders. Would
&c would you take that figure?'
ie ''I think | would-after you apollo
70 gize for that snub'
u My dear dear Miss Graham" be
10 gan Mr.. Joseph Sweet after choking
- for n moment. ''if ] said anything
about-about an advance of salary ol
about-about clean. cheap restaurant
TX l am sincerely sorry and earnestly
beg your forgiveness. and | couldn'
% do more If you were a duchess"
Is 1T is quite enough" replied Mis-
e Graham without the slightest loss o.
Id dignity.
s. There's one thing more" Tom in
n. terrupted. Father. Miss Graham hai
IN promised TO marry me"
80 Mr. Joseph Sweet had nothing {,
d. say. C. B. LEWIS