The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-01-25
And In Henry this alarm was ampllfied

And In Henry this alarm was ampllfiet
manifold.
1t troubled them both. too, that the,
couldn't arouse Joe to the seriousness.
of The situation.
After fruitlessly urging Henry tc
run up and see Joe at the mills and
talk to him about the seriousness OF
the situation, Jennie finally agreed to
make the trip herself On her return
she refused to talk to Henry at the
office and they went out to dinner to-
gether. When the waiter had disap-
peared she came right to the point.
Henry, Joe's drinking too much, t"
Jennie said, bluntly. Henry made a
grimace at that. The picture her
words formed in his mind was OF
nightly bucolic carousals.
How did you find out about 1t 2" he
asked after a moment of unhappy medi-
tation. "Did they talk to you about it?'
"They don't know" she said. mo
body knows. He doesn't get drunk,
Henry. You wouldn't know, unless
you'd always known him, that there
was anything wrong He just drinks.
He's ashamed about It, But he needs
it, After he's been around with you
a while, he makes an excuse for going
away by himself to get it. because he
can't stand ii any longer without it.
1t just happened that 1 found it out.
and when did it made me-sick. No,
| didn't say anything to him about it.
What would be the use? It's been
going on long while, l guess. Since
before he went North this spring."
Henry remembered the drink he'd
seen Joe take after the April meeting
Something ought to be done about
It," he said. ''It's-ghastly, If it's
really as bad as it seemed to you"
1T is" she asserted. II am not mis-
taken about that. But mes the only
person who can do anything about It,
When he gets around to It, l suppose
he will. When he's got over the thing |
that drives him to It, II is CHASTITY, Of |
course, but 1 don't believe anything
like that will ever get Joe perma-
lently."
These revelations were so appalling
% Henry that he quite forgot what
Iennie's original errand to the North
lad been, along with the apprehen-
lions which had caused her to under
axe 1t. Not so, Jennie. however She
anne back to flax.
They aren't as happy up there as
hey were when Joe was organizing
hose subsidiaries" she told Henry.
They're furious over the way wheats
one down. They think it's all the
oings of the spectators. They're
Worried over tight money and the way
he banks are shutting down on new ,
redits. They think that's part of a
onspiracy, too. You see, practically
II those little fax companies Dor
owed the money that they bought the |
raw with. 1t was easy enough to /
ct then. But now the local banks ,
re wanting those notes paid up, and G
lat means that the subsidiaries won't /
2 able to give us any time at all. {
'e're all right for a while, of course, a
at this is going to run into millions, d
enry. And the stuff we're going to n
~, until we've established a market L
r it, isn't anything the banks will b
Ike for collateral, either "
A prediction of John Williamson's Il
abbed through Henry's memory like il
neuralgia. Sooner or later, this
an Greer will bite off more than he c,
n chew" Had he already done IT? N
enry wondered. And then Jennie d
artled him by mentioning John, her W
If. She had suggested that Henry Il
and talk to him. 81
Henry didn't much want to do this. d.
I'd been avoiding John of late on in iii
net rather than from any formidable I'll
ison. but this wasn't fact he cared h.