The Spanish Fork press. [volume] (Spanish Fork, Utah) 1902-current, 1907-05-16
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10 Ndo
,.,a0 in her tone and manner
.Uanced me. | suddenly realized
~asn't making as good an i'm
!. os had been flattering my
,.o man has money and is will
w. snepd It, he can readily fool
N into imagining he gets on
\. with women. But l had bet
..ornds than that for thinking
n NOT unattractive to them, as a
women had liked me when l
,otbing; women had liked me
thew didn't know who l was.
that this woman did not like
And vet, by the way she looked
|. IN spite of her efforts not to do
could tell that l had some sort
,rus,lal interest for her. Why
4 che like me? She made me feel
,eason. | didn't belong to her
My ways and my looks offend
a. She disliked me a good deal;
feared me a little. She would
felt safer if she had been graft
her curiosity, gazing in at me
NH the bars of a cage.
lm-not without hesitation. as l
bed afterward--left me with her,
| sent him to bring her brough-
10 to the Broadway entrance. AS
and we're standing there alone,
linz in silence, / turned on her
euly and blurted out: you don't
me-"
redeemed a little, smiled slight
I What a quaint remark" said
hooked straight at her. "But you
h eyes met. Her chin came out
. HE, her eyebrows lifted. Then,
corn Of herself as well as of me,
locked herself in behind a frozen
khtiness that ignored me. "Ah,
Is the carriage" she said. / fol-
u her to the curb; she just
he'd my hand, just nodded her
mating little head.
Zee you Saturday, old man." called
brother friendlily. My lowering
had alarmed him.
That party is off," said I, CURLY.
! lifted my hat and strobe away.
had formed the habit of dis
Ting the disagreeable, l soon put
out Of my mind. But she took
her my JOY in the taste of things.
uldn't get back my former keen
faction in all | had done and
doing. The luxury, the tangible
ences Of my achievement, no long
ave me pleasure; they seemed tc
to my irritation,
Worked myself up, or rather, down
uch a mood that when my Office
told me Mr.. Langdon would like
% come to his Office as soon as
as convenient, snapped out;
hell he does! Tell Mr.. Langdor
e glad to see him here whenever
ais. That was stupidity. a pre-
fe assertion of my right to bt
ed as an equal. l had always
10 Langdon, and to any othel
ne rulers of finance, whenever
sot summons. For, while
nch and powerful, / held boil
III and power, in a sense, on SUI
lee' | knew that, so long as
no absolute control of any grea
Nment OF industry, these ruler
destroy me should they decide
'ney needed my holdings or wer,
satisfied with my use of IN,
L was surprised when Lang
sppeared In my Office few min
later.
was a tallish, slim man, care
dressed, with a bored, wear,
aau a slow, bored way of talk
1 nau always said that If | ha,
Ueen myself | should have wlshe,
Langdon.
oppression, as he came into m
was one of cynical amusement
De We're saying to himself. "Ou
niacklock has caught the swol
eau at last Not a suggestion
Humor, of resentment at my In
aence-for, in the circumstance!
oeen guilty of an impertinencC
"Isuld' amused patience wit
Tally OF a friend. 81 see," sal
'As' you have got Textile up
Il was the head of the Textil
"hleh had been built by hi
S'lh1aw and HAD fallen to hir
oohinsion following his brotl
lnn ueath. AS ne was just the
VS. some money for his share
osiohaI Coal undertaking, he ha
NV Nv me TO push Textile up towar
Rs as unload him of two or tire
~ thousand shares-he, {
.. "a 70 fepurchase the shares afte
knos 'aNen profits and Textile ha
In nv oSck to its normal so.
49,, 1aVe It up to SO by the MIDI
n, MONTH" said |. "And thei
tna wed better stop"
d s at about 90" said he. 9TH;
S sme me all / find I'll need Il
! bsroa business. I don't want to
4 su with hunting up an inves
!s,,S UN my head. 81 must put It I