Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1924-02-22
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You would not have thought from
his face-from his meaeer face and
cold eyes and slightly obique smile
that Jasper Haig, standing and then
sitting inside the broad plate-glass
windows with the other celebrities
IN his greatly celebrated club on Fifth
avenue, was looking for a woman-a
young woman. Such things have been
done before, no doubt, from that same
high posltIon-but not. you would
have said instinc;ively. by the owner
OF that face. And yet that was the
fact. Jasper Haig most astute of law
yers. manager OF the great Gorgam
Trust Fund-was doing that. 1t
seemed TO him. forever.
Faces-faces Faces of young wom-
en- They were before him now day
md night. And not at all TO his llk-
Ing. This was no quest of pleasure.
II was matter OF grim business. And
not matter-more than that--that he
could delegate. like most of his bust
ness, now, 10 some subordinate. In
this vital and really desperate under.
taking of his. only himself and one
other could be employed. and that
other-Heaven knew-was worse than
useless. So everywhere that younger
specially young working
women, who might be weary, a little
tlred-looking-either congregated or
passed, Jasper Halg In the last few |
weeks had come and come again |
studying them. In the department |
stores. factories, even; in the great
railroad stations, and here again al.
ways on Fifth avenue, the great high
way or woman But never yet that
particular woman. that type he must
nave !mmediately-if she were to be
of any usel
The last tide of the women was now
'boing from Fifth avenue. The morn
ne food OF bright-eyed shoppers, in
motors and out the slower stream of
he promenaders of the afternoon. had
'ome and gone; anu now flowed hv
ne last and most likely for his pur.
'oses--the tide of girls from the de-
artment stores; and farther down
crow them. hurrying home, the great
81 OF them ALL the tide of the factory
'ofkers. There below, according 10
heir agreement, the second man
'ashr"ueS Rutherford, the other party
interest In the Gorgam Trust Fund.
atehed-f indeed he were In condi S
on to. Jasper Halg could not be SIRE Il
this. But he himself. always re- Il
hDle and devoted TO his Immediate r
irpose. sat stlll his eyes fixed upon J,
nm avenue and the passing girls. the al
rls IN black. II
In the center Of the street flowed
the endless. almost terrifying melee m
motofs-the nat-topped limousines /
the returning business men. the an
xies and their sharp -nosed. sharp.
Ell Young pirates of drivers with The IN
coping cigarettes In their dislllu. M
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ling mp DE slope from the soufh
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