New-York tribune., 1908-10-11
BY HENRY
KITCHELL
WEBS TER
Drawing by Rose O Neil Wilson

sss8 anywhere the bondage st the railway
@ timetable is dissolved for hIm. lie d..
s#@ IN short rhc r,s-eaenr tt modern yer
N SION of AladI.n's !auT he has only -
- think AMI to decree. an. the slaves OF the
go lamp 10 the rest.
A Yes all that was true. and smith knew
80 II but he meant to steal the lamp
So "I suppose YOU know. Beaumont
Ts began "that / own at present practI-
- eally the voting control III the Tropical
s%# Products Company i pa" Your last
annual report That's why ] sent for
Ss1 II hope vou we're pleased with the
sH showing we made" smith inquired
b The showing is al 4ht." said Beau
81 mont. If 1t IS justified hy the facts
tE don't believe that you have any
serious doubt Of that II You have It
all can easily be- sat at rest
Fn No." said Beaumont runtly,
/ Ill haven't But u was piece of Incredible.
III almost criminal stupidity to PRINT such
Ill figures III q formal report. without giving
II us any confidential summary of 1t III
advance Why the thing might have
become public in fact IT almost did be
come public But by quick work and
good luck we stopped 1t before It did
much harm A dozen men knc" It came.
however and were uuplclslntly curious
ae to why it was suppressed
Beaumont paused there for moment.
"a, If expecting Smith tp make some an.
sIvcr to offer some explanation. But the
Young man said nothing. and his dark
serious face which was turned scaWard.
offered no clue to what was going on III
his thoughts
4 don't know" Beaumont resumed whether
wa your fault or MCCrackeu'9 OF course We
lev- in q vague way what the situation was down
re McCrackcns instructions "erc 10 give E""
ainlv to understand what sort OF report was
trted What ! want to learn from YOU Is whether
ct l,r.tc1,ru did that or not DIdu YOU know, M
NTH that the company was To he repIganIzedS
d. Yes" said Smith quietly. j knew that
esscd it. at least
Then 1by" demanded Beaumont unless YOU
Iibcr,te1v intended to defy u.s. your employers
ID | am not disposed to think that very likely
nv did YOU send that report 'ouidn YOU see
at it would disturb the whole basis OF feadJuSt-
smith looked his big antagonist squarely in the
-e What | could not see. ne SAID quietly,
vas in just what way the basis Of readJustment
IS any affair OF mine.
FAUMONT met the look IL silence for moment.
hen rose heavily from his arm chair, crossed
veranda and rang the bell want Scotch
4 soda " he SAID, and ! guess YOU do too
70 the big CAPITALISTS mind there had been no
1bIqlItv in smith last words That they might
ssiI,ly be construed to mean that the young man
+ # his duty to manage the plantation as he was
red to do. and to tell the simple truth about the
;f,Its he obtained regardless OF the possible con
Iuences to a crowd of stock juggling hnanclera.
Yer occurred 10 ms mind at all As he understood
Smith had practically declared that he must have
price
And curious as it may seem, Smiths taking
this position raised him immensely III Beaumont 5
gard From the Lofty emincncc from which he
verned his affairs, Beaumont had cast occasional
lnces at Horse Island and It's manager The
ter ne had always conceived to be a rather stupid.
nest cheese pairing little chap who could safely
regarded as a negligible factor III the present
-upaign He had ordered that Smith be given
, opportunity to come in out of the ram, as 1t
re. but was not much surprised when he neglected
avail himself Of 1t
This theory Of his regarding the manager had
en- somewhat undermined during hls two days
~ at Georgetown. He had talked about smith
tn everybody he encountered, and there seemed