Iron County news. [volume] (Hurley, Wis.) 1913-1950, 1913-10-18

He was solemn man In his home,
or at least for the most part silent
| He ate all the beefsteak there was on
the table when there was but enough
for one, which latter often was the
case, Tor his wife had need to be fru.
gal At times he would purchase a
solitary ticket to the theater and go
alone. Yet he was generous. and al
ways after his return home he would
with fine feeling tell his wife what he
had seen.
After the birth OF Grace Rawn, theft
daughter, which occurred within tbs
first year of their welded life Laura
Rawn had something to interest her
for the remainder of their days. Her
horizon widened now immeasurably;
indeed to the extent of giving her a
world OF her own wherein she could
dwell apart quite comfortably; one
in which her husband had no part
Simple and just in her way Of thought.
she accepted the truth that without
married life. without her husband.
this new world could not have been
her own.
AS to the child herself, she grew
steadily and normally into young girl
hood. In time into young womanhood.
not given to much display. reserved
of judgment as well as of speech. oft
times sullen in mood, yet withal step
or so higher than her mother on the
ladder of feminine charm. She had a
clean, good family rearing and a good
grammar school education. At about
the time her father came to be a man
of middle age, Grace fell into her place
in the clerical machine of the railway
office where he worked; for very natu-
rally, being an American girl OF small
means, she took up shorthand. and
was licensed to do violence.
The head of this family, as be at
tanned additional solidity Of figure.
grew even heavier of brow, trod with
even more stateliness about his APP
pointed duties. At forty-seven years
of age his salary was but one hundred
and twenty-five dollars month. That
showed only the lack of wisdom OF
others, not unfitness in himself.
And yet all this time success was
lying In ambush, as it sometimes does.
ready to spring forth at the appointed
hour
1t was this. focused suddenly and
by the lens Of accident
INTO a burning point of certainty,
which marked the air and attitude Of
John Rawn one evening on his return
to his home at the conclusion of his
days work
Laura" said he, Laura, it's come!
I've got the idea. It's going to win
We're going to be rich. I've believed
it all along. and know 1t now! Laura
look at me-didn't l always tell you
so-didn't l know"
For some time Mrs. Rawn said moth
ing in answer to her husbands dec
laration. She had known such things
before.
But today there was something so
sincere in his air as to take her be-
yond her own forced Insincerity with
herself.
What is It. John?" she demanded
You cant understand It. Laura,
but listen. Give the people something
they haven't had; get them so the,
have to have it. We can't go fast
enough. But we're going faster Wen
90 twice as fast
That's my business. That's my
invention. That's how I'm going tc
get rich.
Laura. I'm going tc make 1t pos
'ible to gear up our national life, to
double its present speed" he went or
;avagely.
She leaned back in her chair. sigh
ng DO you think I could have a
silk dress, John?" she said at length, |
Ter mind overlapping vast intermedi- /
tie details.
MY God, woman!"
She sat, trying to rise to the pitch |
# such ambition. but succeeded only /
n remaining commonplace How (
lid YOU come across it. john" she /
.sked after a little.
THE truth is. | picked 1t up from |
word or so heard in chance con- |
'ersatiOn-two young fellows from the |
engineering department were talking |
omething over. That young chap
famed Halsey. Just out OF some col
eye, fun of fads. you know"
Il thought YOU said this was your .
'wn idea?"
1T is my own. What is thrown
way deliberately. and picked up. ia
nine, II I see the value OF it, Young .
ialsey didn't know. He's just Wis
0nary"
"Halsey-Charley Halsey Of the Of
ces? He's been here-I think Grace
you see, the Personal Injury Office.
'here she works. is just across the
all from the Engineering-
Well it's no difference. I'm going
o take care of the affair myself"
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