The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1924-04-11
Joseph Greer and His Daughter

It's been that way, practically. for a
long time"
"YOu said that day at Henry's that
1t wouldn't have meant much to me-
what | hadn't done the other time. 1t
would have. but / didn't know 1t
then. This is as new q. thing to me
as 1t Is to you. It's changed every
thing. That means It's got to come
out somewhere. You've trusted me,
and you can go on trusting me. but
we can't stop here-and we aren't
going into the ditch"
81 don't know where we are going"
she said, hopelessly. There's no
place we can CO."
The words ended In a sob, and in
an instant she was in his arms. He
kissed her, too-not as he had done
on the earlier occasion, but gently,
rererently almost.
| I'll wait" he said. II think you're
the gamest thing in the world; and
when the time comes, and you're
ready, you'll do the thing that's there
In front of you to do. I'll wait till
| then"
She rose then, and they walked
slowly toward the house. But before
they got within the luminous zone
from the lighted windows, she stopped,
and kissed him fugitively once more.
She uttered little laugh as they
moved on again.
Were acting like a pair Of chill
| dren," she said.
1t Is true one would hardly have ex-
pected just this white flame of ro-
nance from these ingredients.
Joe went back to Chicago early the
next morning, and left for the North
before the end of the week. He
didn't see Violet again until October.
Henry Craven went up to the Will
liamson's for the weekend over the
first of August, and had a very jolly
time until John caught him in he gun
room. He noted Johns reluctance tc
come TO the point of it. Finally he
said, Il think you had better indorse
your shares in the Greer company,
and bring them around to me. Then
if 1 decide to dispose Of mine, can
sell yours, too"
| Sell it?" Henry echoed, astounded.
"Oh, it's like every other business"
John went on, evenly. Its ques-
ton Of getting in and getting out at
the right time-and usually the time
for getting out is too short. I'd hate
to have to go ashore and leave you
behind. You know all about that
| trick Greer played to get control
Well, whenever 1 find myself in one
of these industrials that I don't con-
| troll, | always wear a life-belt, that's
all. And l think you had better put
yours on, too. It's just as you like. Of
course"
"Of course III bring you tie shares"
Henry said. They're really yours,
anyhow. I've never paid for them"
But he knew he wasn't Disgusting his
profound unhappiness over Johns
suggestion. He got up, literally a
trifie giddy, and moved toward the
| door. "All right" he added, It'll bring
all my shares to you in the morning"
said, the words checking Henrys hand
upon the latch. ''This has got to be
kept absolutely quiet. If Greer or
Miss Macarthur should catch on to
what's in the wind, there would be
the devil to pay. Better not speak of
or Violet" Henry nodded, and went
out.
Jennie's principal concern that sum-
mer was the problem of marketing the
raw flax which they were under con-
tract to buy as 1t was delivered during
the fall and winter by the subsidiary
companies. There was going to be a
lot of it-over thirty million pounds
and the only comfortable way to
handle it would be by securing in adj
vance contracts with jobbers or spin
ners, under which they could keep it
turning over as fast as 1t came in.
She and Henry had, as well as they
| could, attended to the preliminaries
of this undertaking. They had sur
veyed the whole textile field more or
less. They had made promising follow
up campaigns in all quarters where it
seemed likely that an interest in their
product could be aroused. The textile
world had shown no lack of interest
in the Greer process. Engineers came
out to visit the laboratory, mills took
their samples, letters came In from ev-
erywhere.
The only disquieting phenomenon
about all this activity was that it
never got beyond the preliminary
stage. BY the middle of September
Jennie was frankly alarmed about it.
And in Henry this alarm was amplified
manifold.
1t troubled them both, too, that they
couldn't arouse Joe to the seriousness
of The situation.
After fruitlessly urging Henry to
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
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