The Alaska citizen., 1910-09-05
George Randolph Chester
 In Saturday Evening Post.
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heights, I suppose. Well, I'd like to do it. The governor deserves it. But, you see I'm so beastly thick headed. Now, Agnes, you have per fectly stunning judgment and all that so if you would just and he came to an abrupt and painful pause.
 Have you brought along the con tract?" she asked demurely Honest ly, Bobby, you're the most original person in the world. The first time was to marry you because you were so awkward, and the next time be cause your father thought so much of me. and another time because you have whole bothersome crowd along; then you were tired living in a big, lonely house with just you and your father and the servants Now. it's an advantageous business arrangement. What share of the pro- fits am l to receiver"
 bODDyS lace nau turned req. put he stuck manfully to his guns.
 All of them, he blurted You know that none of those is the real reason" he suddenly protested. "It is only that when l come to tell you the actual reason I rather choke up and cant"
 You're a mighty nice boy, Bob by" she confessed. Now sit down and behave, and tell me just what you have decided to do.''
 Well" said he, accepting his de feat with great philosophy, since he had no reason to regard it as final, "of course my decision is made for me I'm to take hold of the business. I don't know anything about it, but don't see why 1t shouldn't go straight on as it always has" Possibly" she admitted thought fully; but I imagine your father ex- pected you to have rather a difficult time of it. Perhaps he wants you to, so that a defeat or two will sting you into having a little more serious purpose in life than you have at present. I'd like, myself to see you handle, with credit to him and to you, the splendid establishment he built up"
 If l do," Bobby wanted to know, will you marry me-"
 That makes eleven times. I'm not saying, Bobby, but you never can tell"
 That settles it. I'm going to be a business man. Let me use your phone a minute" It was one of the many advantages of the delightfully."- informal Turkish alcove that it con tained a telephone and in two min utes Bobby had his tailors Make me two or three business suits," he or dered. Regular business suits, 1 mean, for real business wear-you know the sort of thing-and get them done as quickly as you can, please. There!" said he as he hung up the receiver. "I shall begin tomorrow morning. I'll go down early and take hold of The John Burnit Store in earnest"
 You've made splendid start" commented Agnes, smiling. Now tell me about the polo tournament" and she sat back to enjoy his enthusiasm over something about which he was entirely posted.
 He was good to look at, was Bob by, with his clean-cut figure and his clean-cut face and his clean, blue eyes and clean complexion, and she delighted in nothing more than just to sit and watch him when he was at ease; he was so reStful, so certain to be always telling the truth, to be always k'ng a charitably good-hum- ored view of life, to turn on whole some topics and wholesome points of view; but after he had gone she smiled and sighed and shook her head.
 Poor Bobby" she unused. There won't be a shred left of his tender little fleece by the time he gets through"
 One more monitor Bobby went to see that afternoon, and this was Biif Bates. It required no sending in of cards to enter the presence of this celebrity One simply stepped out of elevator and used his latch-key. It was so much more convenient. En | terning a big, barnlike room he found MT. Bates, clad only in trunks and canvas shoes, wreaking dire punish ment upon punching bag merely by way of amusement; and MT. Bates, with every symptom of joy illuminat- ing his rather horizontal features wide brows, wide cheekbones, wide nose, wide mouth, wide chin, wide jaw-stopped to shake hands most enthusiastically with his caller with out removing his padded glove.
 Whats the news, old pal?" he asked huskily.
 He was half a head shorter than Bobby and four inches broader across the shoulders and his neck spread