Charlevoix county herald. (East Jordan, Mich.) 189?-1953, 1906-11-17
CHAPTER iil.-continued.

All rlShA- said l.. And from lnaC
minute ] was almost silent. IL was
something IN her tone and manner
that siIencetl me | suddenly realized
that wasn't making as good an inn
preston as had been Gathering my
self
When IA man has money and is will
ing to spend IL, ne can readily fool
himself into imagining he gets on
grandfy with women. But | had bet
ter grounds than that for thinking
myself not unattractive to them. as
FuTe- Women had liked me when |
had nothing women had liked me
when they didn't know who ! was.
l felt that this woman did not like
me. And yet, by the way she looked
at me i'm spite of her efforts not to do
so, could TED that ] had some sort
of unusual interest for her. Why
didn't she like me? She made me feel
the reason didn't belong TO her
world NY ways and my looks offend
ed her. She disliked me a good deal;
she feared ME a little. She would
have felt safer ii she had been graft
flying her curiosity gazing in at me
through the bars of cage.
Sam-not without hesitation, as |
recalled afrerward--left me with her,
when i sent him 10 bring her brough-
am up to the broadway entrance. AS
she and I were standing there alone,
waiting in silence, | turned on her
suddenly, and hlurted out: You don't
like me-
She Redeemed little. smiled slight
Ky. What quaint remark" said
she.
hooked straight at her But you
shall
Our eyes met Her chin came out
"a little, her eyebrows lifted. Then.
I'm scorn OF herself as well as of me,
she locked herself in behind frozen
haughtiness chat ignored me. "Ah,
here is the carriage" she said. | fol
lowed her ~ the curb she just
touched my hand, just nodded her
fascinating little head.
See You Saturday, old man" called
her brother friendlily. My lowering
face had alarmed him.
That party is off, said l. CURLY.
AS ! had formed the habit of dis
missing the disagreelble, soon put
her out OF my mind. But she took
with her Iny JOY in the taste Of things
couldn't gel back my former keen
satisfaction in aH ] had done and
was doing. The luxury, the tangible
evidences of my achievement. no long
or gave mo pleasure; they seemed to
add ~ my irritation.
worked myself mp, or rather. down.
"a such mood that when my Office
hoy cold mc Mr.. Langdon would like
me to come rU his Office as soon as
Il was convenient snapped out
The hell hc does Tell AR. Langdon
LII be glad Go see him here whenever
he calls That was stupidity. pre-
mature assertion of my right to be
treated rs an equal. | had always
gone To- Isangtsoa, and to any other
OF the rulerss vd finance, whenever
had got suRyEpons For, while
vas rich and powerful. I held both
wealth and pourer. in sense, on suf-
ferauce; knew that, so long as |
had no absolute control Of any great
department or industry, these rulers
could destroy me should they decide
shat they needed my holdings or were
not satisfied with my use Of my
power. uTls surprised when Lang.
don appeared in my Office q few min
utes later
He was III tailish, slim man. care.
fully dressed, with bored weary
sOok anil sSsH, bored way of talk
ins- had atw avs said that if | had
not been mysslf I should have wished
to be Lsn9lon-
His EXPIRE ssiOn. as he came into my
office. was one of cynical amusement.
as If he We're saying to himself: Our
friend Blackjack has caught the swol-
eu head at last" Not suggestion
of liz huruoF. of resentment at my i'm.
pertinences--fr,r. in the circumstances,
' had been guilty of an impertinence.
lust langEih- amused patience with
She fraiity oS n friend. Il see" said
nc, thar ypE have got Textile mp to
So
He was The head of the Textile
trust, which had been built by his
brother-in-iaw and HAD fallen to him
in the confusion following his broth
er-in-Iaw,s death AS he was just then
needing some money for his share in
the National Coal undertaking. ne had
directed me To push Textile up toward
par and unload him Of two or three
hundred thousand shares--hc. or
course, td rcpurchase Che shares after
ne had taken profits and Textile had
dropped hack to its normal so.
TN have iS MP 20 9S by the middle
OF next month said l. And there
i think we'd better STOP
stop at ahurt 90" said he. That
will give NC ali I find I'll need for
this Coal business. don't want to be
bothered wRzA bunting up an invest
.ment"
shook nay head. Il must put It up
to within a point or two of par" I de-
clared- Tn my public letter I've been
saying IL woah 60 above 81, aud
never deceive nav public