The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-03


pleaded, "to make restitution for dam
nable state of affairs. It's only fair to your
self to save your business from possible
wreck"
Griggs made no reply. Suddenly the cash
Ter 9 tones changed to tones of almost friend
Illness.
'Balt We always been at odds with
the world. j know why--and often I can
hardly blame you. Yet, on the other hand,
simply because one woman hurt you, nearly
twenty-five years ago. You shouldn't make
Yourself miserable and extend your in
fuence TO every ono near you. You We never
been happy, Bait, simply because you havs
never tried TO make any one else happy You
have never been cared for because you never
have shown others that you care anything
FOR them. Suppose you try TO change things
suppose YOU give these employees who have
worked hard for you what they deserve, and
see if You don't feel better for it. Won't
YOU trv it, Bait, inst this onceT''
1T seemed, all in a moment, that the lines
of the bankers face had become tangled It
seemed that emotions were fighting within
him for mastery, and that the struggle was
deadlv one. Ii seemed that lost some
thing long buried had risen again and that
It's presence had brought with il keen, a
poignant pain. Twice bis lips opened then
closed without word. The hands clasped
and the banker hunched forward in his chair
seeming to start at the wrinkled reflection OF
his age worn, suspicion crodei face, in the
shining surface of his desk. Then he turned
his deep, sunken eyes calling the oashaer
to him.
iOyy tn qfrb ll ynJ,rr Cd
words. A smile flashed across his face, his
eyes lighted.
"Thanl you,' came heartily "E1l tei
them
The door opened He was gone. leaving
Griges alone with his thoughts of the present
and the thoughts of the past. which, begun
by one, had Increased to millions They were
not pleasant ones, those memories, yet for
some strange reason there seemed to have
into his heart a salving sensation which
eased their pain. Suddenly his mind changed
He found himself thinking Of foolish things,
wondering what those employees would say
when thev heard the news, what Miss Her
race would do-whether she would look at
the tired, stopped bookkeeper with the same
light in her eyes that Griggs had once seen
IN the eyes Of a woman, or whether
Griggs started and directed his Dyes to
the desk before him 1t seemed that a multi.
Jude of voices were speaking-no, it was
singlng-singng from the outer office, borne
to him through the banded receiver, still CON
nected with tho cashiers desk and stu in
operation. Singingl
The little clock on the wall struck four
softly rs If it had become a chime accom-
Danimcnt. The bank was closed. 1t could not
DO some customer humming as he waited for
the cashier, Besides there were many voices
Tho employees. And singing singing IN
strains which sent their roIlicking melody
through the photographic instrument in bur
rying, pleasing refrain. the booming voices
of men, tempered by the soprano of a girl
1t ceased. hush There came the tones
of the cashier. Griggs grasped the instru-
ment and placed it to an ear.
Gentlemen, owing to the generosity OF
Mr.. Griggs, / am enabled to announce thu
engagement Of Mr.. Calvey and Miss Hor.
race. and To-
What was that which broke In? Tho
banker s eyes grew wide Cheers Cheers,
and for him. for Griggs whom men bad hated.
He had heard himself called generous. That
vas much But cheers, cries of happiness In
which his name formed part! Generous,
iood! The words found place within his
,rsin and fingered there. The song had
tarted again, and almost unbeknowpst 20
Imself the banker allowed n foot to tap once
n twice with the rhythm of the music. They
ad called him good! Grggs, all at once, dis
ovcred something wrong with his lips. He
,as smiling. He found something wrong
'ith his heart-a queer fullness, sublime
Oi
Through the receiver came the song,
.ronger. mere powerful The hands of the
anker gripped tight and for long time he
ruggled against that something which was
to overwhelm him. Then, like
le wall which is the strongest always before
ne crash his defense wavered, crumbled, and
III before the great wave which swung over
nd about him, the wave of-what be did not
now. Suddenly mis- arms went out and be-
IN TO swing. Suddenly the smile that had
,und his lips discovered his eyes and made
cm twinkle in the Joy OF it. Suddenly his
outh opened and the cracked, neglected
ice. foreign to song. Joined in the chorus
aieh was tearing its way through the re-
ver and into mis- heart:
- For he s jolly good fellow,
He's jolly good fellow,