The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1916-07-25

at this brief meeting Nor was he
less pleased whom Tom asked leave
TO ca' on Edna. nor when, during
| the next few months, the youth was
an almost nightly victor in the tidy
little living room, OF the Carr cot
tage.
Love had dawned. and courtship
WAS quick to follow-an ardently
adoring SWANS wooing Of girl
who met his loverly advances half.
way
II was very sweet. very innocent,
very blissful. this love affair. Both
| Tom and Edna were terribly In
earnest. With each II was first
love. as well as love at first sight
Tom did not actually propose. be-
cause he was not Yet earning
enough money 10 add tho expense
OF a wife's support to that OF a sis
ter and a mother, But he worked
all the harder at the mills, in order
TO rise 10 a position with a salary
that would permit him 10 marry.
in addition u his present heavy ex-
penses.
In the meantime lie rpent his
every spare moment, at Ednas
home And he cat gnt 8ll-toobrief
glimpses OF her at noontimes, too
For. since meeting Tom. she had
taken 10 carrying her fathers lunch
to the mills nearly every day.
Pm going TO own theEe mills,
some day" no once told her. Il feel
II in my bones. I'm following In
dads foot steps. and am advancing
every bit rs rapidly as he cid. Your
father says so. I'm going the whole
distance, before I'm done. But long
before reach the goal itself. I'll
have the right To say something to
you that Ia rather say than any
thing else IN the world. tie so
hard not 10 say It! But, at the rate
they're advancing me, I'll soon have
the right to-"
Edna understood. And she was
we'll content TO wait-for years, II
need be-for the day when he
would be able to tell her OF his love.
But neither OF them realized in what
strange manner that avowal was 10
be made.
Kelly, the easy-going old superin-
tendent OF the mills, retired on pen
sion In his place the directors ap-
pointed n man who had won an Gu
viable record for efficiency In an
other citys mills. His name was
Agnew Graham. In age he was
about rs. He had a reputation for
slave-driving and for wringins from
the mills a list OF results that were
highly gratifying 10 the stockhold-
ers. Concerning his personal char
acter. some rather unsavory stories
were adrift. But the directors were
out for results. not pertonal up
rightness, so Graham was employ
ed
At first glance. Tom Clark dislik-
ed the new superintendent. The
man seemed 10 him overdressed.
domineering, coarsely handsome
and with a look that filed Tom with
vaguely hostile distrust
And within a month there was
not man In any department Of the
mills who did not irdorse every un-
pleasant thought that Tom had ever
had about the new boss. Indeed.
Graham was probably the test.hated
mill superintendent in the state.
He worked the men cruelty hard:
he was forever nagging at them and
blaming then and docking their
wages for imaginary deIinquencies
lie showed plainly that he Regarded
them as 4 brcd Of animal utterly in.
fcrior to himself He wreaked petty
gIudgcs against such OF them as he
did not chance 10 like. He leered
ut their daughters and young sis
tiers, on the street. In way that
made Them want TO kick him.
Ito BE Continued)