The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-01-18
CHAPTER vI-contInued.

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"All right" she went on; be o.
shocked as you likel l mean you t,
be. I'm trying to wake you up. In
nocence is a good thing to have, bu
It Isn't the only thing In the world
You'd lost yours long before you were
as old as she is. In more ways thar
you mean about her. You'd run
amuck. You'd got down, you've often
told me. to the edge of the gutter
You're proud of 1t. tool Because of
the way you built yourself up from
there. By yourself. Without any help
from anybody.
well. she's like you. You've said
that yourself. but 1 told you you'd
never be able to remember 1t. She's
got to find things out for herself, even
If she gets hurt, now and then, doing
It. Nobody can help her unless they
begin by trusting her to find her own
way. And II she sees that you DON'T
finds you watching her and spying on
her-it'll do her more harm than any
drunken lover could do her at the
end Of joyride. 1 mean that, Joe
literally"
His only answer. for the moment,
was to say that he wouldn't have be-
leved woman-a good woman
could have talked like that.
She uttered mirthless laugh. II
don't believe you know much about
good women / doubt If you know
one when you see one"
I'm not going North again." he
said, after heavy silence. There
were a few things l wanted to finish
up, but they can stand over. I've
got q job here; / can see that. Il
couldn't expect anybody else to do 1t
for me. She's my daughter; that's
the difference. I'm going to look after
her my own way. l don't mean to spy |
on her. She won't know I'm watching |
or asking questions. But I'm going to
known
With Joe home there was no longer
any need for Jennie to remain with
the girl and so she returned to her
own home. The first night she was
mfserably lonely. She wanted Trix.
ranging in, hugging her at haphazard,
sprawling on the chair-arm or the
rug, talking neither very wisely nor
very wittily. at random, yawning,
fondling her shoulder or her knee for
a moment with careless hand. and
saying she was going to bed. Naive,
pathetic, lovely, young, just beginning
TO find herself What right had Joe
to come trampllng into this little gar
den. just because a momentary casual
act of his. forgotten for twenty years,
had begotten her? His daughter, was
she7
Their conferences over the patent '
endured for days. 1t was
sense of the directors that an arrange =
ment should be made. Crawford n
made formal motion that the set v
Element be made, when 1t was made, 6
u stock. d
This put Joe In corner. Real dan h
ger always quieted him, and his argu-
nent. though forcible. was low-voiced n
ind eonciliatory. The fundamental G
iif1culty about organizing this COM a
'any, he pointed out, has been over cl
he question OF control. He had felt Il
t first that since he was putting his
Vhole fortune into the company and
vas to be its technical head he was
ntitled TO full control. 1t had been
nth the greatest reluctance that he
ad consented to a divided control,
n even fifty per cent In his hands
nd fifty In the hands of the asso-
Iates. He had relied upon a gentle
Ien's agreement that this balance
Mould not be disturbed by the issu-
nee of treasury stock. He felt that
lie payment Of the inventor in this
ock was dangerous to his interests
! likely to disturb that balance II
ould be much easier matter for
Corbett. and Crawford, or !,
cir friends, to possess themselves of
at stock than It would be for him.
e urged. therefore, in the interest of
ir play, that the cash price, or, rath-
the best compromise they could
AXE on cash basis. be accepted.
Question" Corbett murmured when
ey had heard him In silence to the
d. But Frank Crawford, after a
ance down the table at Henry GRAY
S troubled face, made little speech &C.
reinsurance. The agreement was
II a gen1emen's agreement. and tina
ere was no disposition on the part mu
any one to violate 1t. The control bra
d from the first been ambiguous, for
II would be no more so after the Lin
ok sale had been made. There was 5
reason to believe that the inventor tho
S not entirely dislnterested. Craw- cen
d was voting for a stock payment feai
h because he did not wish the COM fror
ly's financial resources depleted oacl
because he did wish the person The
strengthened, as he believed II pine
uld be by the enlistment of man nap
ose talents. as an inventor, had love
n so highly praised by their pres men
nj. avo'
he vote was then taken and fbe | drfy