The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-06-17

'Ipil me, eHlu MI W. ''N'i
little pause; you're native
Yorker: do you know this man
lingwood?"
"only by hearsay. lie is what
English friends call a piooi
bounder'--fast yachts, fast motor-'
the fast set generally. It's pl
bad case of money-spoil, fancy =
say he wasn't always a tola' los'
"Did you ever hear that he
marriedT
"Oh, yes; he married KENT
girl some years AGO: ] don't feh
Der her name. They say sne $
him for about six months ana
dropped out. ! suppose he needs
ing for That
Al this the boss Went a step lar
saying: "He does, indeed, Upton
happen to know the young won
That was when. Mr.. Van Britt
his own little bomb-shell. $50 ~
he answered quietly.
but you said you had forgotten
name p
$50 I have-- hcr married name.
what's more, ] mean to keep on
getting it,"
There was no mistake about The
frown this time.
"That won't do, Upton" he
kind of Warningly.
ut will do well enough for
present. I'd marry her tomorrow,
ham, if she were free, and there
TO other obstacles. Unhappily t
are two-hesides the small legal
flculty; she doesn't care for my m
having little Of her own;
she happens TO be in love with
other fellow"
l guess the boss was rememlh
what Mrs. Sheila had told him in.
confidence before tie back-parlof
about its being all off between her
Collingwood, for he said ; Il think
are mistaken as to that last"
"No, I'm not mistaken. But II
neither hare nor there. Neither
nor | can send Collingwood to
neutrality-suspicious. a cinch. WI
fore. I'm advising you TO quit, J
out, jump the job"
At that the boss took q fresh b.
righting his swing chairwitn a S
"You know very little about
Upton. if you think I'M going 70 q
up my hands now, when the real p
has come. ] have scheme
could only be v3.loa. Put il can
worked on q r.2iHg marhet By 5
trick or other tie nunton people
boosting the stock again. It wen
three points Yesterday"
Mr.. Van Britt &rilned. 'Tht
discounting the effect Of this littlS
littcal dcal-which viii at least 4
your reform scheme down, II it dof
do anything else. What you nee
good, old-faSllioaed cataclysm
some sort something That would
ly knock the tar out Of 2. S. L. sc
tiles and send them suffering d
the tobo2gan slide in spite of anyt
Uncle breckenridge could do to
them; down TO where they could
safely and proftah!N picked up by
dear public. rr: eaaately, t
things don't happen outside of
story books. If they did, il the ca
quake should happen along our
just now. l don't know but I'd be.
loyal enough to GET out. and bel
shake things up a bit,n
After Mr.. Van Britt had gore,
boss put in the remainder Of the
like a workingman, skipping the /
luncheon as he sometimes did "
the work drive was extra heavy. M
while, as you'd suppose, rumor
plentifully busy, on the railroad,
also in town.
BY noon it was well understood
there had been Q radical change
the management of c. S. & w,
that there was going to be a gen
strike in answer to The Slashing GU
wages. l slipped uptown to ge
bite, and ] heard some of the t
1t was pretty straight, most Of
which shows how useless it is to
to keep any business secrets, nc
days.
For example: the three men a
table in the Billiard griff-room-
didn't know me or who I vas
that a council OF war had heens
in the railroad headquarters, am
Ripley had been pulled in by J
from Lestcrburg, ard that wef
rushing along huri'tedly to pr
storage room for the wheat ship
in case Of a tie-up, and that we
arranging to distribute railroad {
nany coal In case the tie-up- sht
bring On a fuel fomine-knew all Il
things and talked about them. II
They were facts as far as
went-these things. The boss la
been idle during the forenoon and
kept up the drive straight through
quitting time. Word was brought
during the afternoon by Tarbell /
the Hatch people We're wiring
Kansas City and Omaha employn
agencies and placing hurry orders
strike-b breakers. The boss answer
this was a peremptory wire to
passenger agents at both points
make no rate concessions whatever
any kind. for The transportation