New-York tribune., 1908-12-13

the one member of his family know best, | should
saw yes" returned the man.
l. But there is no doubt about you, said the
woman You have made yourself. You started
with little or nothing, if l may believe the news
paper accounts OF you
Have YOU been reading them.
Every word" answered the girl was quite
-l1d OF being able say my friends that knew
You and hat what they said about you was true.
NEVER in his life had Gormly been happier than
~ at this frank, spontaneous expression OF aP-
proyal ,..... .,..o. ,r-,a4 4.r.-+s Of YOURS
at the service of YOUR fellow not IN buying and
selling but in doing something for them, she ran on
Don't YOU think that in selling them honest
only truth about what one has to sell IN allowing
them the utmost freedom of return and eXchan2e
in providing generously for employees IS dong
service to ones fellow men!
world YOU touch larger world perhaps than most
of US can touch. But l want you to do something;
| want every man and every woman who has the
ability to do something in a great, splendid way.
But what would you have me do! ..1 -.
Il don't know" answered the girl. don't
know what | would have anybody do; but there are
so many things to be done, SO many wrongs TO De
righted so many causes to be espoused and adVo-
cafed so many things to be achieved. The great
man goes out and makes opportunities Part OF MS
greatness take it, consists IN seeing what there IS
to do. Ruskin says somewhere that the greatest
thing ANYBODY can do is to see something II were
a great woman, could answer your question better;
Il think You are a great woman" said Gorm1y
softly, and l would be perfectly wiling 10 take
YOUR answer and abide by 1t
L would not have it that way answered the
girl dreamilv when my father asks me what
would have him do | say to him, Go and see. He
laughs at me; most people laugh at me. You don t,
Mr. Gormly"
that of late ! have had similar thoughts want to
do something for humanity he went on slowly.
For seven months and one day, to do something
great and splendid has been my aspiration
Seven months and one day! exclaimed the girl
why, how curious! That's the time that has
elapsed you said, since yOu-l
The very time Miss Haldane."
Il don't understand
1t is easily explained. There are certain people
who stimulate to achievement, who awaken our
ambition who quicken our hope, who Don't You
understand? You have put something INTO my life
that it lacked All these long years | see now that
/ have been preparing being prepared to do some
thing. l needed just the FLIP to the imagination
that you gave me. Now l want to do something
for-you Miss Haldane.'
For me, Mr- Gormly:"
For you and my fellow men; for your approval
and theirs You see you have brought in touch
with a state of being of which l knew little. l
not born into your society. Until / saw you, had
no desire to mingle in it If | had been person of
enough consequence before YOU awakened me for
the world to have noticed, it would have called me
woman hater. Save in a business way among my
employees and among the people to whom | sell l
literally and actually knew women. | have not
taken vacation, except business trips abroad for
twenty-five years. For instance, this IS the first
time in all that long period that | have stood alone
in a and talked socially, by her gracious privi-
lege. terms of outward equality with a woman.
Cant YOU understand how you exert a influence.
how you have brought a force into my life and
that from my acquaintance with you results
certain TO come!
HE sat down in a chair on the other side of the
IL fireplace as he spoke, bringing himself level
with her. She looked at him with curious intensity
His face was averted from her, he searched the
depths of the fire with his direct, somewhat fierce