Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1915-01-16

come to buy back that stock
-Oh. no. I'm satisfied with my bar
gain
But. Timothy explained innocently,
4 have discovered that it has value
in excess-very much in excess-of
what you paid me for it,
The less reason them" Mark smiled,
why l should sell it back to you
But" Timothy swallowed hard and
down went pride, you don't under
stand 1t would be a great favor to
me- / have been careless-I may as
well speak out and say that / am a
very poor business man. 1 have lost
almost everything l inherited What
is 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 a new
start
And which is now mine"
Which is now yours, through hard
bargain-an inadvertently hard bar
gain, of course" Timothy added hast
lily 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. l said, as
one gentleman to another" Timothy
was guiltless of humorous intent For
myself 1 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 it a little late, after wasting
/ hCf in ri invention N
begin thinking of them? Besides"
Mark looked at his watch pointedly,
Il hardly see your right to ask me
| to give them the consideration you've
never given them"
| Timothy flushed painfully, rising.
You refuse, then?"
L do"
Then you had this stock in mind
| all along?"
If 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. If there's moth
ing else I can do for you-good day,
Mr.. Woodhouse'
so this is what you call a deal? l
| should choose another term. 1 shall
take enough of your time to give you
my view of it. You came to me to
get that stock, but you did not come
frankly You resorted to subterfuge.
| You fattered 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 it absurdly
cheap. But l suppose one need hardly
| ri NJ from
your sort"
Mark sneered AT least you felt
no obligation to particularly of con-
duct when you thought you were get
ting a good round sum for something
of no value at ALL
That" said Timothy with dignity,
Il supposed and you pretended was
practically a 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 it's own. 1t was
the first principality of industry
Swiftly as the sun seeks it's zenith
its leaders were rising to power and
prestige, doing big things in big
bold, precedent-defying fashion that
|
And above the others-in the estima
ton of all who did not march with
the army of steel-towered that giant
MacGregor, and in his shadow but toe
big to be obscured wholly, jeremiah
Quinby, their names and fame known
wherever the stout fabric was used.
After many years Quinby's projec
was a fact, the more splendid for the
delay 1t stood just across the stree
from MacGregor's library. This prox
? unity called for a comparison, b.
, which the Institute of Paleontolog.
suffered no whit. Somehow it's nobl
, lines and masses, in exact copy o
the Parthenon, seemed to suggest il
it's founder a simple majesty of char
acter not shared by the author of tn
2 elaborate library.
MacGregor could not have believe
' that a comparison was intended, sine
: he accepted an invitation to share wit
Ouinby himself and an ex-president @
n the United States the honors on tn
u | occasion of the dedication He, as di
C the ex-president, made a speech. i
I which he paid a high tribute to hi
brother in the great work of distril
i uting surplus wealth. This tribut
O Quinby, when his turn came, formal
|. assigned to the thousands of Qbscurel
faithful" who had given thei
d strength, their courage, their patienc
g and talent, nay. oft their very live
q to upbuilding the industry which mad
this project possible Some of hi
l. hearers interpreted this merely as tn