The Huttig news., 1914-05-02

l turn. Your MT Wilson. your secre- i tary as he represents himself to be, | and whose impertinance. by the way. 1 is beyond description has had the audacity to state that I should have to do business through him or not at all"
 Those were my instructions" Jack. son answered, never wavering
 q should like to understand the reason for so unusual an arrange ment.'
 Well" said Jackson, you want to buy something that I own. He's the salesman, that's all" He paused wondering at his own great brilliance John Wanamaker owns store, but he doesn't wait on the customers, does he?"
 This was unauswerable. It dum- founded Pembroke; it delighted all the other hearers, saving only the two secretaries, who were bent above their tasks with nervous diligence
 Broadway himself laughed outright.
 How was that?. he asked Wallace in a whisper.
 You're immense, on the square" said Wallace, with intense apprecia- tion.
 Pembroke was not thus impressed He was offended. He was evidently ready for offence from any quarter. You are fiippant, sir, he said with a grave scorn. You gave me your word that the deal would be consummated at two o'clock yesterday afternoon The price was settled and agreed upon ny both of us.
 Jackson sat in silence. regarding i'm with an innocent. unwavering at ention which very greatly disconce..t- ed him.
 T returned by appointment 10 your New York apartment. with my law yers and papers ready to sign and Tpon fnquiring from an insolent butlet as to your whereabouts received the information that you were on your way 10 Egypt"
 Good old Rankin" muttered Broad Way, and decided, then and there. to raise his buffers wages once more.
 He said the only word that you had left for ne was a profanee request that ! go to-er-uell. we'll not re- peat it.
 I'll make that raise twenty not a ten" Broadway reflected
 Believing you to be a man of in- tegrity,' Pembroke went on. ''unfor- tunately for me I had no witnesses present at our closing of the bargain
 Broadway continued to smile ex- pansively
 Still, said Pembroke, "I ask you, as man to man, is your word worth less?"
 Broadway looked at him with an 1 intensity of gaze which required three stretehings of the neck to bring about. When Pm doing business with un- scrupulous people, yes. he answered.
 Pembroke, shuddering, turned to his stenographer. Have you got that, John?" And John nodded
 Got that Henry9" Broadway de- manded of his man And Henry nod, ded
 Then Broadway walked the floor. keeping the astonished Pembroke fix ed with a glittering eye. That care full. able, very modern business per son was rather notably surprised by | the young man. Somehow he seemed ! to have developed since the hour, so short a time before, when first he had encountered him in New York city
 When I fell for your rush football business methods yesterday and agreed to sell." said Broadway, his voice assuming an extraordinary sing song, to his friends unusual, to him self astonishing, to Pembroke discon- certing, and. in later years. cele- brated thing. T wasn't aware of the low, contemptible tricks to which your company had stopped in order to put my poor old uncle out of business His voice thrilled with feeling when he used tkose touching words my poor old uncie." His poor old uncle'' would have been emphatically sur prised had he been there to hear that thrill
 ''I didn't know it was the result Of the business blows you'd dealt him that sent him to his grave" q am endeavering. by means of hyphens, to indicate the lingering, scathing em- phasis which Broadway. this day sat- urated in the soul of oratory, was giv- ing now to certain words) T didn't know It was the purpose of the con- cern with which l was dealing to throw out of work hundreds of men that owed to that thing I was selling their very means of livelihood, food 1 for their babies, education for their growing sons and daughters" Even Wallace looked al him amazed. The tremolo, the emphasis, the feeling which Broadway was putting into this extraordinary line of talk to the trust agent were all new and beautiful to l him.
 Lots of things didn't know yester- 1 day, MT. Pembroke, said the young man in conclusion, but I've found them out since then and that is why i I've broken my word" Pemhroke's impassiveness was ruf- ned; there was not the slightest doubt of that.