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because everybody says you are s,ah

because everybody says you are sliGh
fine business man yourself"
Il should like to O., something real.
| ly worth while" SAID the girl after
little pause. Il like people who do
something worth while"
so do l." said the man, with obvi.
Gus meaning.
Mr. Gormly," she exclaimed i'm
petuously, why don't you do some
thing worth while?"
| Gormly smiled. my dear young
| lady" he extraordinarily, he was
old enough to be her father, he
thought half sadly, as he noted his
| form of speech have the largest
! sto1o AZ the %"o:c!!35 have agents In
every civilized country and many that
are uncivilized. l own and control q
| fleet of steamers. have my private
wooden mills, and silk mills and fac
tories. | suppose there are ten thou
sand people in my employ. ! can give
you check for another million for
|
wish it. and"
These are all very well, Mr.. CORN
ly." said the girl gravely. They spell
tremendous material success; they
show your ability and acumen; in the
eyes Of the world they count for a
great deal; indeed, ! find lately that
they are counting more and more:
' hut
thing after all. What is money, what
are power and influence? My father,
for instance, was born with more than
he could possibly spend, more than he
knew what to do with, inherited from
thrifty ancestors who had the wit to
buy land when it could be bought for
a song, He has influence, power.
What does it amount to? / want him
| to do something, really to do some.
thing in the world for the good OF
mankind ! am preaching to you just
as I preach to him
DO you look upon me as you would
a father?" asked Gormly quickly.
Why. no. not exactly. Certainly
not" answered the girl.
am forty-foui, you know"
No, ! didn't know; but what if yot
are? You are still a young man. My
father is fifty-fve, and l don't call him
old"
! Wonderful consideration from TWEEN
ty-two." said Gormly smiling.
Well" resumed the girl, 81 was
saying that you ought to do something
in life. You have made yourself. You
started with little or nothing, if ] may
believe the newspaper accounts of
you"
Have you been reading them?"
Every word" answered the girl
Il was quite proud of being able to
say to my friends that l knew you and
what they said about you was true"
| Never in his life had Gormly been
happier than at this frank, spontGn-
eous expression of approval.
You ought to put these great tai
ents of yours at the service of your
| fellow men; not in buying and selling.
| but in doing something for then," she
ran on.
| Don't you think that in selling
them honest goods at fair profit. In
| telling them the strict and only truth
about what you have to sell. in allow
| ing them the utmost freedom of re-
turn and exchange, in providing gen.
erously for employees. is doing serv-
| ice to your fellow men,"
Certainly. it is. 1t is doing service
to the little world which you touch
a larger world perhaps than most OF
us can touch. But | want you to do
something. | want every man aud
every woman who has the ability to
do something, in a great, splendid
way
But what would you have me dc?"
II don't know" answered the girl.
Il don't know what | would have any
body do; but there are so many things
| to be done, so many wrongs 10 be
righted, so many things to be achieved.
The great man goes out and makes
opportunities. Part of his greatness.
| take it, consists in seeing what there
| is to do. Ruskin says somewhere that
to see something. If I were a great
woman, | could answer your question
better: but am only
81 think you are a great woman"
said Gormly softly, and l would be
perfectly willing to take your answer
and abide by it,
Il would not have it that way" an.
swered the girl dreamily. When my
father asks me what I would have bin
do, / say to him. Go and ser He
laughs at me; most people laugh al
me. You don't Mr.. Gormly''
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