The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1912-10-14
PLUGGING A LEAK
The Story Of Faithful Old Employee
Who Was Faithices

A good locking young fellow Of per-
haps thirty-fve, welt dressed and pros
porous in appearance came into the.
office of the Burns Agency one day
Just as the Office manager and myself
We're going to lunch
81 want some help in a queer stu
alton, and came here, though what
have got is probably a little out OF
your line,' he said
what is TT" asked the manager.
well, 1t isn't anything that i would
care to talk about here where any
body who entered might hear ME,
said the stranger emphatically III
you can give me a few minutes of
your time in private secluded OIL
fee. out OF sight and hearing OF every
body, | may convince you that I've
got Il case you can take. and II don't
III pay you gladly for the time spent
in hearing my story"
The manager promptly led the way
to an ante room, and shutting the
door. SIT down and said: We'll, let's
have it,
The man looked at me question.
ingly,
One OF our men" said the manager
GO to your story"
Well, said the man, my name is
Hilary Bronson Of Bronsonville, Pa.
You've heard OF the Bronson Chem
zeal engines? Wei, we make them
jEe Bronson Chemical Engine com
p&ny My father started the bust
I'ess before | was born. He made a
great success with it. as you know.
He invented the Bronson engine, and
not only invented it, but made sue
cess at manufacturing and selling It.
Two years ago, when he was seventy
Two years old, he retired from bpsi-
ness and TURNED the company--the
management OF it-over to me-"
Mr. Bronson paused and looked
neryously around the Office and at us.
Gentlemen, are you sure that no.
body can hear us? And have ] your
word that what tell you viii be a
secret between u.s."
He regarded us both suspieiohsly.
Well said the manager. IF you
can't trust us absolutely it wouldn t
be good sense on your part to tell us
your story. But you know the repu.
tation that this agency has It never
could have gained such reputation
Mr.. Bronson, IL it ever--even once
had violated a clients confidence"
mo. certainly not" said Bronson
relieved But you understand, what
I've got TO unburden is something
that absolutely puts me in your pow
er. You could ruin me, understand
If you cared to use my story against
me. So you see how careful I've got
to be-"
MT. Bronson" said the MANAGER
every day in the year we are en-
trusted with that same kind OF story
You think you are an exception
Everybody does. You can trust us as
fully as you can trust yourself"
Thank you, said Bronson. "Youl
pardon my caution, I'm sure"
Mere common sense" we said to
gether. Go on"
Bronson crossed his legs and be
gan.
IT'S long story, but I'll make 4
as short as / can, have told yot
that two years ago my father retiret
from business and turned the man
agement of the Bronson Chemical En-
! CINE works over to me. But the
story goes long time further bach
than that. 1t goes way back to thu
time ] was In college. II was a bat
boy, a mighty bad boy, at school
| had been sort OF village pet at hom,
| ---yon know: son OF the man WIKI
| made 3ronsonville and heir to tn,
big factory. and all that. | came Il
school spoiled, completely spoiled. M!
| father thought | was little wild
| but he didn't know what bad kid |
| wps he'd been raising.
| We'll, when came to college som'
of the prestige that had gainet
among bartenders and gamblers IL
/ small towns around Bronsonvill,
came with me. There was bunel
In school that was OF about the Sam
/ l., hattlnd INV atrt "a