Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1921-09-23
CHAPTER xV-Continued.

But you said you had forgotten her
name"
80 I have-her married name. And
what's more, ! mean to keep on for
getting il.
There was no mistake about the boss
frown this time.
THAT won't do, Upton he said
kind Of warnIngly.
ut will DO well enough for the
present. I'd marry her tomorrow, era
ham. II she were free, and there were
no other obstacles Unhappily there
are two-besides the small legal diff
fculty; she doesn't care for my money
having a little of her ow9; and
she happens TO be in love with the
other fellow"
I guess the boss was remembering
what Mrs. Sheila had told him in that
confidence before the back-parlor fire,
about its being all off between her and
Collingwood, for he said Il think you
are mistaken as to that last"
"No. I'm not mistaken. But that's
neither here nor there Neither you
nor I can send Colingwood to the
penltentiary-that's a cinch Where
fore. I'm advising YOU to quit, walk
ont jump the job"
At that the boss took fresh brace,
rlghtng his swing chair with snap
You know very little about me,
Upton, II you think I'm going to throw
up my hands now, when the real pinch
has come. have a scheme-f II
could only be worked. But 1t can't be
worked on a rising market BY some
trick or other, the Dunton people are
boosting the stock again. 1t went up
three points yesterday
Mr. Van Britt grinned They're
dlscounting the effect OF this little po-
litlcal deal-which will at least rope
YOUR reform scheme down, II il doesn't
do ANYTHING else. What you need IS
a good. old-fashioned cataclysm Of
some sort something that would fair
ly knock the tar out Of P. S L. secur-
tiles and send them suffering down
the toboggan slide In spite Of anything
Uncle Breckenridge could do to stop
them; down TO where they could be
safely and proftably picked up by the
dear public. Unfortunately, those
things don't happen outside of the
story books If they did, II the earth
quake should happen along our way
iuf now. don't know but I'd be dis
loyal enough to get out and help II
shake things up bit"
After Mr.. Van Britt had gone, the
boss put in the remainder Of the dag
Hike worklngman skipping the nooI
luncheon as he sometimes did wheT
the work drive was extra heavy Mean
while. as you'd suppose, rumor wa
plenHfuIly busy, on the railroad, an'
also in town.
Bv noon It was well understood tina
there had been radical change i
the management Of c. S & w. an
that there was going to be a genera
strike in answer to the sIashing cut T.
wages. slipped uptown to get
bite. and heard some Of the tall
It was pretty straight most Of il
which shows how useless 1t Is to TT
10 keep any business secrets, nowi
days.
For example the three men at N
table In the Billiard grll-room-the
didn't know me or who was-kne
TINT n council Of war had been Gale
IN the railroad headquarters, and thi
Ripley had been pulled in by vii
from Lesterburg. and that we we
rushing along hurriedly to provi'
storage room for the wheat shlppe
in case Of a tle-up, and that We we
arranging to distribute railroad COZ
many coal In case the tie-up shou
bring on fuel famine-knew all the
things and talked about them,
They we're facts, as far as III
went-these things. The boss hadl
been idle during the forenoon, and
Kent mo the drive straight through
agittGng time Word was brought
during the afternoon by TarbelI fl
the Hatch people were wiring
Kansas City and Omaha employme
agencies and placing hurry orders
strIkp-hreakers. The boss answer
this was a peremptory wire to
passenger agents at both points
make no rate concessions whatever
any kind for the transportation
laborers under contract II was
shrewd little knock. Labor OF Il