Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1909-12-17

months half of the bakeshop posses
down here will be working for the
combination.
Philip looked serious.
rs that-is that necessary"
ITS the aw." said Haggleton
grimly. "the law In big things and lit
tie things, that the master mind
rules"
No doubt the arguments advanced
by Philip In his own mind to satisfy
his own uneaslness regarding Hag-
gletOn's methods would have been
met by other arguments had Gentle
been there to counsel him. but the old
diver had been away great deal with
the wrecking boats. And 1t was not
until the third week that Philip was
really brought face to face with facts
as they were. This came about
through his call on Margaret after her
return to Mrs. Binney's boarding
house.
Radiantly happy. proud Of her hero.
the girl had yet seen that very after
noon on her return a cloud gathering
upon the horizon of their future In
common. A bakers assistant whose
wife she had nursed through pro-
tracted illness. man, therefore. sorely
In need Of continued employment. had
appealed to her for intercesslon. 1t
vas serious news, and it was made
more serious by Gentle. who was
present. The news was that the bake
SHOP combination had done the assist
ant a cruel wrong by depriving him Of
his job in bakeshop on Madison
street. He was victim Of the knead-
ing machine. cast adrift and desperate.
Get another place? Where? He had
been to three other bakeshops where
men had been discharged on account
Of the very same machine. and two
of them were fathers Of families. That
was nice business for Philip Ames
10 be in. wasn't 1t, and he calling him
self friend Of the poor?
SO he rallied on and presently STUN
lied away. leaving message that
Philip could go straight to hotter
place than any bakeshop.
Gentle looked troubled. He hest
tated moment; then. as he met her
brave. comprehenaing gaze. he decid-
ed that she could help and that now
was the moment to do II. So be told
her exactly what was on his mind.
There was an old prOneness in Philip
TO money love. 1t was a fault that
had come through his father. who
was-well. she knew Mr.. Haggleton.
did she not: Philips mother was the
finest woman Gentle had ever known.
Il true womanly woman. In some
ways Margaret reminded him Of her.
and he was sure she could influence
him wonderfully for good II she I'M
derstood this danger. Philip was full
of the noblest ideals. His soul re-
belled at the uLfairness Of things. He
was fighter; but. alas. be could fight
two ways-selfishly and unselfshly.
Gentle felt that this was critical
time In Philips development. Had
Margaret not noticed how absorbed he
was In this bakeshop scheme?
"Its all Mr.. Haggleton's fault" de-
clared Margaret.
"Mr. Haggleton Is the OCCASION"
Gentle replied Judiciously; THE cause
is In the blood"
Margaret tried to draw from Gentle
facts about Philips mother.
Ibid she realize that there was this
other side to him?' she asked.
"Oh. yes. she realized It: she realized
It fully. And sometimes 1t frightened
her to think that with all her love
and care she could not free Philip
from this-this tendency to be like his
father"
How did she know he had IT,
Even as boy he was wonderfully
shrewd in making bargains with other
boys. tell you. Margaret" he went
on. there Is so much at stake here
that-well, the selfish Philip must not
win; the other Philip, his mothers sou.
must win"
"Oh, yes!" cried Margaret.
"Apd with your help he can win. but
we mustn't forget that the enemy Is
there to he reckoned WITH"
"You mean his fathers son?'
ranlfoI Gapf1o
All this had prepared Margaret for
q serious talk with Philip when he
called that evening. but when he came
she was quite disarmed by his attitude
of fondness and submission. He at
once admitted that be had been too
much absorbed by this bakeshop af-
fair. But now that the enterprise was
fairly started he could soon leave 1t
safely to "Mr. Jackson and without
fall he would set apart certain hours
every day for the further enlighten-
ment of Haggleton about the suffer
lngs and mIseries Of the poor.
Margaret was delighted and said to
herself that. after all, there would be
no such trouble as Gentle had fore
seen.
In furtherance of his good intentions
Philip bad talk with Haggl>ton the
next morning. Gentle being present.
and they made 1t clear TO old man
hat his bakeshop activities must not
oh. his attention from the problems
If poverty.
The talk inevitably drifted right then
md there into discussion Of the sur
,oundings In which laboring men work
I'd In general and the helpers of the
combine In particular
They ought to have shorter hours"
declared Philip. with time for exer-
Use and pleasure, and employers