The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-02-08

alcohol as q cure. nor fallen In Low,
with his antagonists wife. Unimagi
native, soft, ~irresolute, kindly, a. thes,
stall-fed folk seemed to him to be
their qualities are more than he car
cope with. They are truly gregarious
they are, by tradition and temper, col
ectors, haryesters. stowers-away; and
q man like Joe. who had no real In
terest In property beyond the dynamic
use Of 1t as a part Of the processes of
getting something done. stands little
chance against them.
There's another side to the thing,
though. II John Williamson's Jolly
little daughter Dorothy is ever swept
from her moorings by some storm OF
passion, as Beatrice was swept, into
an alien world, that experience will
be determinatiye for the rest of her
life. And II ever you find John hud-
died under a rug, s~huddering from the
exhaustion OF alcoholic excuses, de-
feated, abdicating under the broadcast
power of attorney his lawyers know
how to draw. you viii be safe in
p~rophesying that this is the end of
John Williamson. But Joseph Greer
and his daughter are actuated by a
livelier principle-kinetic, not static;
the river. not the reservoir. They
may come crashing down over the
falls-but they make their way.
Something about like this, though
not formulated In quite these terms,
was the conviction Henry Craven
found Jennie abiding In when he
talked with her about Joe for the first
time after the equalization. This was
not until the very end of November.
He'd been seriously Ill with bronchitis
and glad TO be-for three weeks. 1t
was not upon Joe. however. that their
conversation began.
She had greeted him with a double
and a spontaneous revela-
ton sot her pleasure in seeing him
about again, and her concern over his
illness. He flushed at her friendliness
and said as he took the armchair she
pulled up for him, Il ought to have
said my say before l let you shake
hands with me. Before I've finished
you may want to take 1t back" He
wouldn't be laughed out of this, either.
He took three envelops from his
one of them, he told her, vas
his resignation of his office as treas
lrer, and n his resignation as d.
rector. These he passed over to her.
The third he kept In his hand. about
he directorate, / don't care" he said.
I'll leave 1t with you, and If you want
o keep me on for a while, to avoid
only a minority of the board
why, I'll be glad to serve. When
'ver you want to make up a new
'oard, you can just fill in the date.
SUIT the other resignation, as treas
Irer, I've dated as of Noyemb-r first,
nd that you must accept. I'd have
OF out before if I'd been free to
% So"
Really there was III room for argu-
tent about this; the company in its
lip-winged condition couldn't afford =.
treasurer at a thousand dollars a
lonth She was horribly unhappy
bout it, all the same. and after a
m Of hesitation she
roke out: !
Henry, don't mind, please. but ;
hat are you going TO do?" ,
He smiled rather dryly after telling 7
err he didn't mind. II thought for a =
lille that l was going to have the q
ltisfaction of doing something decent q
my WI expense, but it doesn't seem !,
be coming out that way. Mr.. Nc \
regor-he's the president of Il Il
INK, you know-came to see me on =
S own hook night before last to see n
| wanted to come back to my old +,
b with them. Macs just a sprofes- n
onal banker, and he'd never come to a
e unless he'd thought | was-as good !.
he could get. SO | said I'd take it.
and there. II
"John was surprised-and seemed a
tie annoyed-when told him about =,
He said their idea had been to =.
We me the same job I'd had here, in :,
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