The Miller press. [volume] (Miller, S.D.) 190?-current, 1914-02-12

81 always thought, Mr.. Rawn." said
she. that you played a dangerous
game. so long as you simply trusted
that he'd do anything you told him."
yes, | see it now. But he always
was odd-he always held something
back. | tell you, he's crazy! Now
he's either just crazy over his fool So
cialist ideas, or else he's going to hold
out for a squeeze. In the first case
you can handle him. In the second,
can.
You see-l couldn't tell IA direc
%torate," he went on; but there was
always something lacking which
couldn't handle myself. We need him
and we've got to have him! You car
get him, know you can. You can dc
anything you like. You're wonder
full"
She sat and looked at him, her lips
still parted in the same enigmatIc
smile which he did not like to see. bur
she made no answer.
What's wrong with him." he went
Ol hLItuldNCtJ W nat uOtS it Oag IL
the trouble. anyway? And is it the
truth that he's got overhead current?'
She nodded. "Of course, | know
something about it from my work in
the office. Yes, he told me that he
had done what you have all been try
Ing to do so long. He said he came
over under power from the overhead
just as he told you"
He may be lying, for all we know
You can't look at a car and tell where
its charge came from. Electricity is
electricity, to all intents and purposes
What | want to know is, what he's got
against US, anyhow, Jennie?"
We'll, for one thing. he seemed
troubled because Grace would not &c
back with him. He seemed to think
that you and the life you could give
her had been the reason for her aban
doning him"
Why, what nonsense! Grace hasn'
abandoned him! And | only got hel
over here because | needed her my
self-before-well, before we were
Aiib ANu. w IN hdS 10 ldhG AdAe u
me, I'd like to know? And you say HI
complains of that"
That vas one of the things"
But Grace would go back? She's
none too we'll pleased now, since yoJ
and | have taken charge here. She'C
go back to Charley tomorrow if ht
asked her-why, I'd make him take
care of her, of course. The trouble
with him is, he values his own person
al affairs too much. That's no way Il
begin in the business world. A mar
has to lend everything to the one pur
pose of success. Lock at me, for In
stance"
She did look at him, calmly, coldly
without the tremor Of an eyeiid, with
out raising her hand to touch him a.
he stood close by. without indeed ma
king any verbal answer. A Sigh
shudder passed over her. visible il
the witch of her shoulders.
IT'S getting ~cooleT!" he exclaimed
III fetch a wrap for you" And 81
fastened away. obsequious, uxorious
~ iS "ANoso huH WIN hIl
But Charley never would take am
counsel from anybody" resumed ne
presently. Hes always been tract
able enough, that's true; never raised
much of a disturbance until tonight
don't see why he cut up so ugly now
He's not crazy over Grace, and if the
truth be told, Grace isn't the sort O
girl that a man would get crazy over
You're that sort"
Perhaps not" she smiled family
Just the same, Grace's attitude ma,
have started him to thinking. Wher
he began thinking he seemed to con
clude that all the world was wrong.
And he's starting in to set it right.
He's going in for the uplift stunt, Ell
That's the way with a lot Of these re
formers! They want to set the worl(
right according to their own ideas
They don't pay any attention to the
men who keep them from starving.
made that boy-what he's got he owe.
to me-"
Indeed! How singular! He say!
that it's just the other way about
that what you have you took from
him! He says you want to tax,
more-more than your share-fron
things that belong to everybody"
What's that! What's that. Wei!
now, Of all the insane idiocy | eve
heard! Good God, what next! Him
Charles Halsey, the man | brought vi
with me! Jennie, | never heard thu
like of that in all my time"
but il that's the way he feels
now's not the time to argue that will
him!"
But, good God. the effrontery-'
"All the world is full of effrontery
MIR. Rawn." she said-continuing {,
address him formally. as she Away,
did. Its buy and sell. Everythin,
we get we pay for In one way O
another. Even IL we took power GU