The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-02-11

| company in page advertisements in
many leading newspapers published a
complete report of the method by
which wheattiaka was manufactured.
In this report it was shown that three
! times during the process the food was
touched by human hands,
The wheato company pointed out to
| the public the danger of contamination
and pollution of the food through this
agency and further declared that
wheato was manufactured by the most
Clearly process which could possibly
| be used.
| The effect of this advertising was to
cut the sales of wheatfiaka in half at
| once. Hugh Immediately ordered the
entire process of manufacture changed.
but he realized that it would be some
time before the food recovered from
| its slump.
| For the time his campaign against
wheato was abandoned. He was too
busy endeavoring to hold his own bust
ness together to bother much about the
| enemy
| 1t was rather discouraged Hugh
who came upon the girl for the second
time as he plowed through the deep
snow in his big car.
Arrayed as before, she was standing
| just inside the gate leading to her
| home. The house where she and her
| widowed mother lived was big affair,
| a half mile or so down the road from
| Hugh's home
The girl actually smiled as she saw
Hugh's disconsolate and haggard face
why, it's the breakfast food man."
she laughed. ''Have you come to mar
~ me, Mr. Food?" she asked gayly.
"Not yet" replied the man doggedly.
"But I'm going to some day Heavens,
how | love your he cried as he gazed
hungrily at her flushed face. 81 never
| knew what it was before to love. Now,
when l can't have you right when /
want you my whole being cries aloud
for you
| The giSl, her face all afame, laughed
again, this time rather constrainedly.
Really you are a very original lover,
Mr.. Food she said. ''None of the 9th
er men has ever said such things to
me SO unconcernedly."
'Who are the other men?" demanded
Hugh fiercely Then he laughed at
himself. TIN hardly in a position now
to ask" he went on. "But I'm going to
win cut I'm going to win at that fac
tory, and then I'll come and win your
He jerked the lever forward, and the
great car shot away.
However, despite Hugh's confident
prediction, he found it exceedingly diff
ficult to win out in his fight against
Wheato. In fact, the campaign went
so severely against him that in short
time he found himself facing failure.
It was then that the girl rose upper
| most in his thought to the exclusion
even Of his business worries. Finally
doggedly he went to see the girl her
self.
She entered the room in her home,
| where he awaited her, with a smile on
| her lips. She became serious instantly:
| though, when she saw his haggard
! face and the new lines lately etched
| in it.
Dear" said Hugh abruptly, give
come to you now in a different mood.
For the first time in my life face de-
feat in my business, and I know now
I realize that l cannot win you
ut is to tell you that l still love you
and that some time, when l have be-
gun life anew, I'm going to return and
try, as best can, to win you. l want
to apologize for the manner in which
have courted you heretofore
For moment the, girl looked at him;
then, averting her eyes, she spoke
| quickly:
i know exactly how you stand in
your business" she said. 81 am the
cause Of it. Don't interrupt me- Just
before my father died he purchased
controlling interest in the WheatO COM
pany, and the fight which was waged.
against you was at my instigation. l.
4 thought hated you"
Hugh rose abruptly, but the girl hur-
| ried on. &
you need lose but little, after all"
said the girl. '"The demand for wheato
has increased, so that additional fac
tories are imperative. We will take
over your factories for a price that
will let them out, or we will consoli-
| date with you
Bother the business!" cried Hugh,
jumping to his feet. "You-you don't
hate me?'
NO." murmured the girl.
"Then is it-can you possibly
The girl looked upward at him slyly.
What Hugh saw there gave him cour-
age.
"Well consolidatep' he cried, great
joy in his voice, and he ratified the
consolidation with a kiss.