The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1921-04-01

bay-window. you wait and see what
comes nit the comniddee room out.
80 up to tie oyyice."
When I was left alone in the row of
lobby chairs with the snappy one
was scared stiff for fear, now that he
didn't have anything else to think of,
he'd catch en- the fact that l might
have overheard. But apart from Civ
ing me one long stare that made my
blood run cold he didn't seem to no
tice me much. and after a little he
got up and went to sit on the other
side of the big rotunda whore he could
watch the elevators going and coming.
/ guess he had lots Of patience for
l lad 10 have. had been sitting in
my corner for two full hours when
l saw tie boss coming down the broad
marble stair With Mr.. Chadwick.
Mr.. NCrcross held ID a finger for
me, and when I jumped up he gave
me q sheet Of paper; a Pioneer Short
Line presidents lctter-head with a
few lines written on it with a pen and
Il sort of crazy-looliing signature under
them.
Take that to tie Mountaineer job
Office and have five hundred of them
printed" was the boss order "Then
make a copy and take it to MI. Can't
rell the editog, and ask him to run it
in toInorrow's paper as an item Of
news. if he feels like it, When you
are through come down to Ir. Chad
wick's car"
Since The thing was going to be
published, and I was going to make
copy of it, / didn't scruple to read
it as I hurried out to begin hunt for
the Mountaincer Office. It was the
printers copy for an official circular,
dated at Portal City and addressed to
all officers and employees of the
Pioneer Short Line It read
EFFECTIVE at once, Mr. Graham Nor
cross is appointed general manager of
the Pioneer short Line system, with
headquarters at Portal City, and his
orders will be respected accordingly.
breckenridge Dunton,
president"
We had got our jolt, all right; and
leaving the ladder aud the Friday start
out of the question, I grinned and told
myself that the one other thing that
counted for most was the fact that
Mrs. Sheila Macrae was widow.
/ chased like the dickens on the
printing JOB, because, apart from
wanting to absorb all the dope I could
as I went along on the new job, |
knew I would be needed every minute
risht at BIr. Norcross' elbow, now that
the actual work was beginning.
Luncheon was served in the Alexa,
ana they kept the business talk go
inc like a house afire while they were
eating. the hurry being that Mr.. Chad
wick wanted to start back for Chi
cage the minute he could find out if
our connecting line east would run
him special.
"Now for few unofficial things,
Graham. and we'll call it a co." he
said. "You are to have an absolutely
free hand in the management and tie
operating. What you say goes as it
lies. and Dmtcn has promised me that
there shall be no appeal, not even TO
him.
Il imagine he didn't say that will
incly," the boss put in, which was the
first intimation I had had that he
wasn't present at the directors meet
ing in the hotel.
no, indeed; nothing was done will
ingly.' / had to swing the big stick
and swing it hard. But I had them
where they couldn't wiggle. You are
to set your own pace and You are to
have some money for betterments,
I offered to float a new loan on short