The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1909-07-03


company in page advertisements in
many leading newspapers published a
complete report of the method by
which wheatflaka was manufactured.
In this report 1t was shown that three
times during the process the food was
touched by human hands.
The wheato company pointed out to
and pollution of the food through this
agency and further declared that
wheato was manufactured by the most
cleanly process which could possibly
be used.
The effect of this advertising was to
cut the sales of wheatfaka In half at
once. Hugh Immediately ordered the
entire process Of manufacture changed,
but he realized that 1t 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,
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
ry 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 girl, 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
Ell men has ever said such things ts
me so unconcernedly."
who are the other menT demanded
! Hugh fiercely. Then he laughed at
himself. 'I'm hardly in a position now
to ask" he went on. But Pm going to
win out. I'm going to win at that fac
tory, and then I'll come and win youv"
He jerked the lever forward. and the
| great car shot away.
However, despite Hugh's confident
prediction, he found it exceedingly diff
fcult to win out in his fight against
wheatO. In fact, the campaign went
so severely against him that in a short
time he found himself facing failure.
1t 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 smile on
her lips. She became serious instantly.
though, when she saw his haggard
face and the new lines lately etched
In 1t.
Dear" said Hugh abruptly, I've
come to you now In different mood.
For the first time in my life / face de-
feat In my business, and l know now
Il realize that cannot win you.
1T is to tell you that still love you
and that some time, when l have be-
gun life anew, I'm going to return and
try. as best i 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:
"A know exactly how you stand in
your business" she said. II am tho
cause of it. Don't interrupt me. just
before my father died he purchased a
controlling interest in the wheato com
pany, and the fight which was waged
against you was at my instigation.
- tiIvugnt ns..cu yOd.
Hugh rose abruptly, but the girl hur-
ried ON.
"You need lose but little, after all, y
said the girl. "The demand for wheato
has increased, so that additional fac
tories are imperative. We will take
,ver your factories for a price that
viii 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 consolidated" he cried, great
Joy In his voice, and he ratified the
consolidation with kiss.