The Bienville Democrat. [volume] (Arcadia, Bienville Parish, La.) 1912-1980, 1921-06-09
TheWreCkerS
By
FRANCIS LYNDE
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Il business deal, II Is feall! l''H
sion, YOU know, crammed full OF good
things to struggling world. If you
10 Succppd-and | am sure you are
Going t0--yOu will leave this coinmu-
nifty, and hundreds of others, 'aSt'!
the better for what you are doing ana
demonstrating"
But that is mans point of view
the boss persisted. "llOw 90 you Se'
it! You are all woman. you kho" :
and your mixing and mlngIII1s-a'
least, since have known you-haS all
been purely social, How do you get
the biz overlook"
II don't SNOW. was foolish and
frivolous once, like most young girls
| suppose. Eut we all grow old'r;
and we ought to grew wiser. beSloeS'
the woman has the advantage OF the
man in one respect; she has time 10
think and plan and reason things Out
as 4 busy man can't have. Your PROB
lem has seemed very simple to me-
from the very beginning. 1t asked for
strong man and an honest one. YOU
were 10 take charge of Il piece o'
prourrty that had been abused ana
Knocked about and used rs a means
Of extortion and oppression, and you
were to make it good
Again, that is mans point OF
view.
, "Vh, no." she protested quickly
"There is no sex in ethics. Women are
the natural housc-cleaners, perhaps
but that isn't saying that a man can
! be one. too, if he wants to be.
, AT this, the boss got up and beSal
to tramp up and down the room;
t could hear him. | knew she'd beer
having the biggest kind of a JOB II
$ keep him shut up i'll this sort o
o abstract corral when all the time II
d was loving her fit to kill, but ar
\, parently she had been doing it, sue
l. cessfuliy. There wasn't the taInleS
IS breath of sentiment in the air; nc
k the slightest Whit. When she beSa
t, again, | could somehow feel that ST
id was lust in time to prevent his breal
to inc out into all sorts of love-'naK'h
II THE time has come, now, when &c
IS mist take another leaf out OF II
70 book" she said, with just the prop'
he little cooling tang in her voice. U
to TO the present you have been hamme
it, ing your way to the end like a Stro'
wi man. and that was right. But y
he have been more or less recklesS-tl
that isn't right or fair or just to a
w. of other people
| The tramping stopped and | hea
&c him say: Il don't know what y
mean
M ~ mean that matters have come
TIA such a pass now that you can't att(
AVA to tal'e any risks-personal risks.
ll the plan the enemy is trying does
An work, it will try another and III
|M desperate one.
|V you've been talking to Ripley"
Nl laughed. Ripley wants me to beco
WI q cun.toter and provide myself W
a body-guard. I'd look WE'LL wou'c
III 70 But what do you mean by the p
W the enemy is now trying"
1WM She hesitated a little, and then sa
VVl So shall make no charges, becaus
wi have no proof. But l read the ne
\ \ MINERS, and Mr.. Van Britt tells
\T something, now and then. You
" having a terrible lot Of wrecks"
NJ THAT is merely bad luck he
M joined easily,
wv "Rashness is no part Of true c
M age" she interpolated, calmly. a
u nriyate individual you might say
7 vour life is your own, and that
have a perfect right TO risk 1t as
please. But as the general man
VI Of the railroad, with a lot Of
friends holding Office under you,
can't say that. Besides, you are +
I ing for cause, and that cause
stand or fall with you"
"' "You ought to be member OF
Mrs new reform legislature that som
the our good friends think Is COMING
ond ,hp nike" he chuckled; but she Ign
rable the sood.natured gibe and made
i'm listen.
thing II was visiting day or two a
him conjtal last week, and there ar
know Anpnces at work that you don't
and aLout If the opposition can't
if vcur administration failure, II
ron. hesitate to get rid Of you in the e'
o the way that offers"
,a,s- There was silence in the m
90 IN den for minute or so, and the
ps for boss said:
AS usual, you know more tina
+r;ns are willing to tell me"
Il, in "perhaps not" was the proml
,ore swer. "Perhaps I am only tn
, ,,,,fo looker-who can usually see
> and rather better than the persons
,or IN " involved. Hitherto l have
" ooo, You to be bold, and then again
90 tho bold. Now l am begging you
a bit prudent"
"In what way!'
Careful for yourself. For ext
a." , Won walked out here this ev
- ''" WV, don't do that any more. CONF
~ 'v falkland don't come alone.
'' .. 7 could see his frown of dl'
luIi"S 49,. ,.,,,, VOL enough
. to go 'lieh'' ou@
could l'ere' ,,,o, !,
added "lh"re spoNe '"e @h,r tbn
feather that way, they'd have SO
in the cuse for potting me.
o,ouch There was a silence again.