Middletown transcript., 1914-05-16

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She nodded.
Whats his name?" asked Broad
way. in whisper
Henry"
Broadway was content. With a
grand air and several protrusions Of
the neck, he ordered: Take the entire
conversation, Henry" outdone by
anyone like Pembroke! He thought
not!
'Are we to talk in the presence of
all here?" asked Pembroke calmly,
coldly, disapproyingly. He was very
cautious.
I'm satisfied, II you are" Broadway
answered. "Sit down. Judge"
Very well, Mr.. Jones'" said Penn
broke gravely. 'Mr. Jones. am not in
the habit Of doing business through
hirelings." He cast ecornfUl glance
at Wallace, who smiled sweetly in re-
turn. your Mr.. Wilson, your secre-
tary as. he represents himself to be,
and whose impertinance, by the way,
is beyond description, has had the
audacity to state that l. should have
to do business through him or not at
ALL"
Those were my instructions" Jack
son answered, never waVering.
81 should like to understand the
reason for so unusual an arrange
ment"
Well" said Jackson, you want to
buy something that own. He's the
salesman, that's all" He paused,
wondering at his own great brilliance.
John Wanamaker owns a store. but
he doesn't wait on the customers,
does he?"
This was unanswerable. 1t dunn
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 whisper.
You're immense, on the square"
said Wallace, with intense apprecia-
ton.
Pembroke was not thus impressed.
He was offended. He was evidently
ready for offence from any quarter.
You are fiippant, sir" he said with
grave scorn. you gave me your word
that tho deal would be consummated
at two o'clock yesterday afternoon
The price was settled and agreed upon
by both of US"
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him with an innocent, unwavering at
tention which very greatly disconcert-
ed him.
Il returned by appointment to your
New York apartment, with my law
yers and papers ready to sign, and
upon inquiring from an insolent butler
as to your whereabouts l received the
information that you were on your
way to 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 me was a profance request
that l go to-er-well, well not re-
peat it."
'Tll make that raise twenty. not
ten," Broadway reflected.
Believing you to be a man Of in
tegrity," Pembroke went on, "unfor-
tunately for me l had no witnesses
present at our closing of the bargain"
Broadway continued to smile ex-
pansively.
STILL" said Pembroke, 81 ask you,
as man to man, is your word worth
Iess?"
Broadway looked at him with an
intensity of gaze which required three
stretchings of the neck to bring about
when I'm 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, Henry?" Broadway de-
manded Of his man. And Henry nod
ded.
Then Broadway walked the floor,
keeping the astonished Pembroke fix
ed with 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 time before, when first he had
encountered him in New York city.
When 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, Il wasn't aware Of the
low, contemplate 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 those touching words my
poor old uncle" His poor old uncle
would have been emphatically sur
prised had he been there to hear that
thrill.
Il didn't know it was the result of
the business blows you'd dealt him
that sent him to his grave" Il am
endeavoring, by means of hyphens, to
indicate the lingering. scathing en-
phasis which Broadway, this day sat
urated in the soul OF oratory, was Civ
ing now to certain words) Il didn't
know it was the purpose of the con-
cern with which 1 was dealing to
throw out of work hundreds Of men
that owed to that thing was selling
their very means of livelihood, food
for their babies, education for their
growing sons and daughters"
Even Wallace looked at him amazed.
The tremolo, the emphasis, the feeling
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