The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1914-10-30


come to buy back that stock"
"Oh, mol I'm satisfied with my bar
gain"
But, Timothy explained innocently,
Il have discovered that 1t has value
in excessively much In excess-of
what you paid me for It."
The less reason them" Mark smiled,
why | should sell 1t back to you"
But" Timothy swallowed hard and
down went pride, you don't under
stand. 1t would be great favor to
me. have been careless--I may as
well speak out and say that l am a
very poor business man. | have lost
almost everything inherited. What
10 left is mortgaged almost to full
value, except this stock which now
find ! can sell for enough to clean up
my obligations and give me new
i start
And which 10 now mine"
Which is now yours, through hard
bargain--an inadvertently hard bar
gain, OF course" Timothy added hast
ily The troubled look In his eyes
deepened. And now come to you
as one gentleman to another, to ask
you to release me from It."
That would hardly be business
like"
! But this Is not business. / said, as
one gentleman to another" Timothy
was guiltless Of humorous intent. For
myself shouldn't think OF disturbing
any advantage your interest In my
work might accidentally give you. But
| TO my wife and daughter, who are
entirely dependent upon me, this would
mean much"
Isn't 1t little late, after wasting
your substance In riotous invention, to
begin thinking Of them? Besides"
Mark looked at his watch pointedly,
II hardly see your right to ask me
TO give them the consideration you've
never given them"
Timothy flushed painfully, rising.
You refuse, then?"
Il do"
Then you had this stock in mind
all along?,
III you'd made as shrewd a guess
before" Mark grinned.
Il was told you are apt to do this
sort of thing"
The loser In a DEAL" Mark re-
minded him coldly, always finds
something to criticize. II there's moth
Ing else can do for you---good day,
Mr.. Woodhouse"
so this Is what you call deal?
should choose another term. shall
take enough of your time to give you
my view of 1t. You came to me to
get that stock, but you did not come
frankly. You resorted to subterfuge.
You battered me. You took advantage
of your inside knowledge of its value
and of the fact that I'm rather a fool
In such matters to get 1t absurdly
cheap. But / suppose one need hardly
expect particularly OF conduct from
your sort"
Mark sneered. AT least you felt
no obligation to particularly of con-
duct when you thought you were get
ting good round sum for something
OF no value at ALL
That" said Timothy with dignity,
Il supposed and you pretended was
practically gift to science. ! shall
keep you no longer, SIR
And Timothy stalked away. For sew
eral days Marks familiars observed |
in him an unusual irritability OF tenn.
per.
Steel had come into its own. 1t was
the first principally of industry.
Swiftly as the sun seeks its zenith.
its leaders were rising to power and /
prestige, doing big things In a big,
bold, precedent-defying fashion that
stirred the world to just admiration.
And above the others-in the estima-
ton Of all who did not march with
the army of steel-towered that giant
and in his shadow but too
big to be obscured wholly. jeremiah
Quinby, their names and fame known
wherever the stout fabric was used.
After many years Quinby's project
was d fact, the more splendid for the
delay, 1t stood just across the street
from MacGregors library. This prox-
Unity called for a comparison, by I
which the Institute of Paleontology
suffered no whit. Somehow its noble
ines and masses, in exact copy OF
he Parthenon, seemed to suggest in
It's founder simple majesty of char
icter not shared by the author of the
elaborate library.
MacGregor could not have believed
hat a comparison was intended, since
he accepted an invitation to share with
Quinby himself and an ex-president OF
he United States the honors on the
occasion of the dedication. He, as did
he ex-president, made speech, In
which he paid high tribute to his
brother in the great work of distrib4
lting surplus wealth. This tribute
luinby, when his turn came, formally
to the thousands of obscurely
who had given their
strength, their courage, their patience
and talent, nay. oft their very lives,
% upbuilding the industry which made
his project possible" Some OF hts
hearers interpreted this merely as the
100 great modesty of superlatfye tri-