The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1913-12-18

course, your duty TO her and tn the
| company is to make a success OF pour
work. Think OF the business. my son
| There is no good comes of selfishness.
! Try to be Just. And for Gods sake,
also, try to get one Of those machines
done!"
Halsey only sat and looked at hin.
darkly for a time, making 40 reply.
1T seems to me that | a never get
you to understand, Charles" resumed
Rawn, that things are not the way
they used to be before we came here
to Chicago. I'm a bigger man now
than | vas then. I've grown these
last two or three years, my boy. !
should not be surprised IL eventually
| were obliged to make my residence
in New York, II not abroad. We are
rising in the world, rising very fast,
Charles. Do you want to go UP with
the RaWns, or stay down with the
Halseys in this world? Besides, In
this case you ought 10 respect the
wishes Of your own wife. You want
to remember, my dear boy, that my
daughter, Grace. is half Rawn as well
as half Johnson. The only trouble
with her is, the Rswn half has not
yet had its innings"
Halsey turned and stared at his
wife. He found her sitting with her
dark eyes fixed, now on her father.
TO- wandering hither and yon over
the rich surroundings in her fathers
home. To his intense surprise, she
had as yet issued no veto to this calm
proposal to which they all had list
ened. In his surprise he forgot COM
ment of his own. What caused him
greatest surprise of all was his secret
feeling that he was o so reluctant
to this arrangement as he ought to
be! He pondered Grace, her sour Wis
age, her morose air. He recalled
countless angry, irritated words. He
mime charm. 1t took all his resolution
not to question why he had ever
made this choice. Almost he began
a certain comparison.
Now let this end It," resumed John
Rawn. Let comforts, and let luxu-
ries. come where they have been
earned. It's the Rawn half OF Grace
that has earned the luxuries, Charles,
II ! am willing to give them to her.
Take what you al get, my son. OF
comfort and luxury in this life-after
you've earned them. But earn them
first. Your place is over there at the
works. This is your opportunity. Fall
in Nui4h M p1anu and I'll nnrr,y ~
along. Don't try to hold Grace over
there when she belongs here. Don't
be selfish, Charles"
He relented just a trife. 81 don't
say this is going to last forever. Pull
off success owe there for us. I'll tell
you what I'll do-the day you can
charge a storage battery from one of
our second current receiyers-fnished
and in place there in the factory-and
run 1t from the factory up here, I'll
make you a present Of fifty thousand
dollars"
Ard about Grace" All! that
comparison
She'll De a good deal closer to you
then than she is now. She's half
Rawn, l tell you, Charles; and love
ip a cottage does not suit the Rawn
blood to-day!
but I'll tell you" his face light
ened a bit at the jest you can go
on with your brotherhood Of man ideas
over there at the factory. | hope you
love them-those brothers who are
trying to ruin me and this company!
Try them out-associate with them
love them all you can. Compare that
life with this, my boy; and when
you've done your work, for which you
are paid-when you can charge one
that life to this, on the strength of
your brains and your W ability, as
have come here myself-why, | say
I'll give you a slice of a million dol.
lars! Then you can compare that life
| with this, and see how you like the
two. I've made up my mind already
about that! So has Grace!"
, Halsey turned once more to his
| wife. She had changed in the last few
minutes. Her eye was brighter, her
color higher. She was gazing not at
her husband nor at her child, but nj
| these rich surroundings.
II wonder if could play one of my
old pieces on the piano any more
now?" she said gaily, rising and walk.
ing to the seat Of the grand piano
which stood across the room from
! them. I've been SO busy"
(TO BE CONTINUED)