New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1906-01-03

asked what his first name was he had
explained that Kelly was enough.
If tell you the rest, you'll be callin'
me some KID name, an I'm a man
now" he announced. I'm goin, t. earn
my own, livin'.' The cashier whimsi-
cally entered him upon the payroll as
Z. Mr.. Kelly: and so it had stood.
Kelly had graduated to the dignity of
long trousers and considered himself
veteran in the service of Edge & Lut-
ton when Kathleen came, dainty. sen
sitive little woman, fresh from business
school and yet very much IMMERSED in
the waysso} business.
She Won Kelly's heart by calling him
.'Mr. KellN 81 and thereafter any of the
boys Wllo CARED play trick on the new
typewriteEs invariab bly, turned up at the
office tie day with a bruised lip or
a blackened optic. Few of them played
more than one trick, for when he was
but six kelly could thrash any eight
year5old ypungster on the block.
KafifeSSi III unmindful of his cham
snerely noticed that the boys
were ter behaved, and told her
mother TINT life in business Office
was not as hard as she had supposed it
would be. cts so very different from
what we thought should have to go
through with" she explained, "and the
little Kelly boy is just dear
Later on, when Luton began to take
notice Of the pretty typewriter, Kath-
leen changed her mind, but she did not
tell her mother Of the invitations to
drives and the theater. 1t was hard
enough that Mrs. Lansing should be
compelled to do without the luxuries to
which she had been accustomed during
her husbands life without having to
know that the money that procured
their bare livelihood was earned at the
cost of keeping silent under covert in
suit.
Luton was careful not to make his
oyertures too patent, and only Kelly
say the little things which made zath-
leen's work so hard. She put aside his
invitations with a quiet dignity that
admitted of no argument, and Luton,
firing at last Of a campaign Of courte-
sy, began to find fault.
1t was he who dictated most of the
correspondence, and there were letters
to be copied over because of some triv-
ia mistake. Night after night Kath-
leen had to remain copying letters, with
only Kelly for company. And when at
last she sought the street she never
knew that only Kelly's presence saved
her from further attention from Lut-
ton, waiting in the cafe across the way.
She thought it merely one Of Kelly's
little scourtesies, never suspecting that
Kelly. idling at the window, had seen
Luton crossing the street and had di-
vined his intentions.
But while Kelly's presence saved her
from trouble in one way it increased
her burden in another, for Luton,
smarting under his rebuff, grew more
vindictive. The firm was in a pool in
7. and M. g., and the operations were
conducted from the Office Somehow in
spite of caution some facts leaked out
prefnaturely, and the whole operation
resulted in a crash from which the firm
barely escaped with whole credit.
The whole Office was uneasy That
there was suspicion that some Of the
clerks were believed to be guilty Of
treachery was apparent, but John Edge
would not have any one discharged I'M
til his guilt was proven.
sWe must be careful for awhile" he
had said to Luton, when the latter
urged wholesale dismissals, ''but if we
let every one out wescould never again
command the confidence of our en-
pl0yees. y
Tuition let the matter drop, but when
itfwas decided to make raid on Mem
phis preferred and the news reached
the exchange almost before the confer
ence was broken up, even the senior
partner was forced to admit that some
thing must be done
Luton very promptly discovered that
Kathleen had access to all correspond
eace of the firm and that it must have
been she who in some manner had
gained the knowledge that had resulted
in a gain of thousands to some one on
the outside
Even then Edge did not want to work
on circumstantial evidence.
Take it easy, George" he urged.
Watch her carefully, but do not dis
miss her. And Luton had smiled un-
der his heavy mustache. He had an
idea thatz9e could kill two birds with
a single stone.
That red headed kid seems pretty
nick with the typewriter" he said. ST
shouldn't be surprised if they worked
1ogether. You remember he brought a
elegram in just as that Memphis deal
was put through"
"kelly?" said Edge why, he's a
part Of the Office
Il All the same, could show you
Edge waved a protesting hand. He
could not believe in the guilt of any
one in the office
VERY WELL" he said YEARLY, ST
leave the matter to you
That afternoon Kathleen waited aft
closing time to finish off her book.
lly, as usual, constitus ed himself her
ort, but he could not resist the temp
ion To- Sfoa1 a orocsc, tho ctroof IN orof