The Alaska citizen., 1910-11-21
George Randolph Chester
 In Saturday Evening Pos
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 .- Na. ugr until the appearance et The salad thai any alIusiou Was ma.e to business. and then Garland, anaH au impatient signal from Stone #rr.3 .u Bobby with the aaaNity i which he was a thorough master.
 Mir sharp. tells ne that you run,.tea taking dip into the pub lie utilities line" he suggested.
 instantly three of them bent an al .onIio4 lpya Bobby so strained that I. miga. have been palpable eveu to him had ro. Stone suddenly light eI a mach 10 attract their attention, gLG p1are1 at them
 T have already decided. said Bobby frankly. seeing no reason for fencing. M. legal and business ad- risors tell me that f would be good investment. and l am ready to .ake hold Of rhe BrighHiEht Flee Tie as soon a- the formalitieS can be arranged"
 stoa, rrantci his approval and immediately aroa looking at his watch.
 aPlea-oa To haze met you Mr. Hgruit" lr rumhlcd hoarsely, and took his .eat and hat Sorry ! .arr stay. Promised 10 meet a man"
 .Comiug hack" asked Garland
 ~AIteht." responded the other and was gone
 X soon a- Stone had left the trihe of strain that had been apparent prior 10 Bobby'z very decided state meu- -nat he would go into the bus mess ~as lifted. and Mrs. Sharpe, pink of cheek and sparkling cf eve and exhilara-cd hy the wine 10 her u.most If purely physical attractive ness. moved when the coffee was served tn chair between Bobby and Garland. and. gifted with a sa.rriHg charm, eXcrted herself to 'he utmost 10 please the newcomer. She n.zzIol Bobby The woman was qu entirely Eew type to him. and he r#gd not fathom her.
 Wftl tle clearing of the table mare champagne was bought and B-lhF began To have an uneasy tread of "noar-orgic." such as was associated in the minds of the know ing ones with this crowd. sharpe, however. quickly removed this fear. for. pushing aside his own glass with n bare sip after f had been filled. ne Gra@ forth a pencil and produced some papers which he spread before Dolby.
 aI tmaetusd that you would have r. very favorable report on the GHeh.lfeht Electric" he said with q
 mile. SO took fhc liberty of hriug.ne along an outline of my plan If rcorranilation. If Mir. Car land and Mr. sharpe will excuse u- fir taking shop We nigh, glance over them roactHer.'
 Your" =c}fish." popted Mrs. Sharpe c4i'e l9erily. b1t, neyerthe- les. she turned her exclusive at .ren' .an 10 MT. Garland for the time being
 With considerable of interest Bob- by plunged into the business al hand Here was a Well-establishel concern that had been doing husi- ness fer three decades which had been paying ten per cent. dividends for years. and which would doubt less continue to do 50 for many years 70 come An opportunity to obtain control of il solved his prob lem of investment al once and he srroye to approach its intricaCies with intelligence. He became va gucly aware. by and by. that just behind him Garland and Mrs Sharpe were carrying on a most animated conversation in an undertoue inter spersed with much laughter, and once, with start of annoyance, he overheard Garland telling slightly risQuc story, at which Mrs. Sharpe laughed softly and with evident relish He glanced around inyolun tarily Garland had his arm across the back of her chair, and they were leaning toward each other in Q close proximity which Bobby re tleCted with sudden savageness could not possibly occur if that were his wife; nor Was he much sOftened by the later reflection that, in the first place, woman of her type never could have been his wife. and that in the second place, it was not the man to blame, nor the woman so much as Sharpe himself Indeed, Bobby somehow gained the impress sion that the others flouted and de spised Sharpe and held him as a weakling
 His glance was but feeting one, and he turned back with a look Sharpe, noting. miSinterpreted
 T had hoped" he said, to go into this thing very thoroughly, so that we could begin the reorganiZa- ton at once, with the preliminaries completely understood; but if We are detaining you from any engagement, MT Burnit--'
 Not at all not at all" the high ly-interested Bobby hastened to as sure him. T have no engagements whatever tonight, and my time Is en- tirely at your disposal"
 Then let's drop down to the the- atre,' suddenly interposed Mrs. Sharpe You can talk your dust-dry business there just as we'll as here. Billy, telephone down to the Orph- cum and see if they have q box"
 Bobby was far too unsuspecting to understand that he had been deliberately trapped. Though not of the ultra exclusives. his social po- sitiOn was an excellent one and he had the entree everywhere To be seen publicly with young Burnt was a step upward, as Mrs. Sharpe saw it. in that forbidding and painful social climb
 Bobby started with dismay when Garland stepped to the telephone. but he was fairly caught, and he re- alized it in time to check the invol- untary protest that arose to his lips He had acknowledged that his time