Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-09-01
a MANS HEARTH
By ELEANoRM INGRAM, Author Of The Twice American" Etc
I see Mr.. Adriance . Come Vi

before I see Mr.. Adriance . Come up
to my private office now; Cook can
manag here.f for an hour without you.
am astounded, vel ~bewildered,
Andy-Mr. Adriance-"
TRY. Tony" suggested the other
with his sudden smile.
So while the indignant Cook strug-
gled with double duties, Adriance and
Mr.. Goodwin sat opposite one another
in the latter's private Office. and held
long converse.
With the exception of the Master
son side of the affair, Adriance told
the story without reserve. He-hoped
lence. but he actually won more than
he had imagined possible. Mr.. Good
win vas excited and interested as he
had not been for years. When Adri-
ance concluded. the other was quite
the most agitated of the two.
you will not tell my father today
Of my presence here, you will give
me time to do so myself"
II will do better" said Mr.: Good
/ adept you, as it were. Mr.. Adri-
ance-"
Tony"
Tony, I will train you to succeed
me here. I wish much to retire. as I
have told you. Ny wife and I've
have no children-have long planned
to travel; we have eve selected the
places we would visit and the routes
we would prefer to take. 1t has been.
Mr.. Adriance would o listen to my
desire to leave. He declares there
is no one he could trust in my place"
Pride colored the thin old face. "His
esteem flatters me: but now ! will
give him a successor whom he a
trust. It is very suitable that you
should have this position. l will say
nothing to him, as you wish: but do
YOU enter my Office here and study
me. I will myself take charge of
that"
Astonished in his turn. and deeply
touched, Adriance took the offered
hand.
'of course you know I can find no
words Of sufficient gratitude, Mr..
Goodwin. II you will indeed be So
good you shall not find me lacking
SO far as my abilities reach
They have reached quite far al
ready said his senior. dryly.
What appeared a calamity had be-
come strange good fortune. MI.
Goodwin readily satisfied any doubt
he might have felt of Tony's iden-
tity. Next morning when he would
have gone to his usual place, a clerk
stopped him and took him to Mr..
Goodwin's private Office, where a
desk awaited him.
"Of course it is all my name, or
rather my fathers" Adriance said to
Elsie that night. There are a score
Of ~cleverer men than I already there
who will continue, I suppose, plod-
ding on as they are. Cook is n of
them. But ] am not altruistic enough
to throw away the luck I have been
born into, I am afraid. l shall take
all Goodwin will give me, and if my
father refuses to keep me there. at
least the training will make me- more
fitted to earn our living in some 9TH
err place."
Man. you have not enough vanity
to nourish you properly" Elsie grave
~ told him.
Mr.. Goodwin proved a harder task
master than Cook or Ransome. He
entered upon the education of Tony
Adriance with an enthusiastic zest
tempered with a conscientious severity
that made him %exacting and metz
culous in detail. Adriance was fond
enough of the outdoors to miss the
motor-truck at times-there were
even hours when he thought wistfully
Of Russian Mike; but he learned rap
idly under the forced cultivation.
Nowlhe saw how superficial bad been
the knowledge of the factory on
which he had prided himself in the
shipping room. and how absurdly in
adequate to the management of the
great place he would hays been had
his father put in his hands. But un-
der Mr.. Goodwin he was becoming in
actually what he once had fancied
himself to be. incidentally the teach
er and the student grew cordially at
tached to one another; and as this
attachment was obvious. as the new
maj wa known in every department
where he was e to gather eSperi-
win called him Tony his identity
was soon no secret in the factory. But
the senior Adriance never came in
personal contact with any member
Of the force except MI. Goodwin. so
this was a matter Of indifference.
Adriance continued to be entered on
the books as a chauffeur, and received
the corresponding salary.
The genuine chauffeurs whose com
rade Andy had been looked c%urioualy
after him and whispered among them
selves when he CHANGED to pass' al
though his greetings to them were, the
same as always. Cook dropped TIE
use Of ANDY and said "sir" If the
young man spoke to him suddenly.
Mr.. Goodwin advised his pupil to let
such things pass without comment.
Either Anthony's position would be
assured and demand such Difference,
or he would leave the factory alto
gether;. in either case protest would