Western Carolina Democrat and French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1913-1915, 1914-02-12

information that you were on your
way to Egypt
Good old Rankint" muttered Broad
way, and decided, then and there, to
raise his buffers wages once mor
He said the only word that you had
left for me vas a p~rofance request
that / go to-er-weH, wen not re-
peat it,
I'll make that raise a twenty, not
a ten," Broadway reelected.
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 Elk
pansively.
Still" said Pembroke, II 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 I'M
~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 a ~glittering eye. That a
full, able, very modern business per-
son was rather notably surprised by
the young 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 / fell for your rush football,
business methods yesterday and
agreed to SELL said Broadway, his
voice assuming an extraordinary sing-l
song, to his friends unusual, to him.
self astonishing, to Pembroke discon-,
certing, and, in later years, a cele-;
brated thing, ST 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 whenj
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. ]
II 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 I'M
phasis which Broadway, this day sat.
urated in the soul Of oratory, was Civ:
ing now to certain words.) st didn't.
know it was the purpose of the con-
Germ with which I was dealing to
throw out of work hundreds of men
that owed to that thing I 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
which Broadway was putting into this
extraordinary line Of talk to the trust
agent were all new and beautiful to
him.
Lots of things I didn't know yester-
day, Mr.. Pembroke" said the young
man in conclusion, 'but I've found
them out since then. and that is why
I've broken my world
Pembroke's impassiveness was ruff
fed; there was not the slightest doubt.
of that. /:
On Josie's face there was a look of.
admiration which was balm to Broad
ways soul; the judge had listened
with a mouth continually opening
wider; Wallace was frankly triumph,
ant.
"You didn't think that l could talk
that way, did you?" asked Broadway
Of his adversary. Then, to Wallace:
How was it?"
Great"
"Great?" said jackson. cit was
wonderful! l never knew it was in.
me" He was completely satisfied
with Broadway Jones. He whirled
again on Pembroke. GO on, say some
thing else"
But Pembroke kept a stony silence.
Tell you what III do,s' cried Broad
way, 'T1l talk you for a thousand dol
lars a side"
Pembroke scorned this proposition.
Plainly he was not a sport. Then /
am to understand the price is"
The salesman will state the price.
I'm the owner"
81 don't consider any commercial
trademark worth q million and a half
of dollars" Pembroke said with en-
phasis.
Neither do T." said Wallace cheer
fully.
STILL" said Pembroke slowly and
coldly, "even in business we some
times desire to satisfy our pride. 1t
has always been the ambition of our
company to control this output. For
ten years we have tried to absorb &
into the Consolidated without success.
I have communicated with my people
in Ohio, and, while we feel and know
the price to be highly exorbitant. we
have decided to take it over. / am
prepared to bay.
well, we are not prepared to sell"
raid WaIIana slowly and emnhatfc4l1y