The Oakley herald. [volume] (Oakley, Idaho) 1908-1961, 1924-02-08
Copyright by The Bobbs-MerriI c,
CHAPTER Discontinued.

She broke off there, thinking If she
waited she could make him ask. but
he did not speak. The silence sud,
denly took ON the quality of granite.
She uttered. at last, a forlorn
laugh. 'Trix won't ask about you,
either" she explained. "She Is like
you, Joe. Getting more like you every
day Oh, it's a crime, that's what
1t Is! When two people adore each
other the way you do" She turned
on him with an impetuous gesture Of
appeal. "Joe, she isn't far away.
She'll come to you like alike a bird
If you'll just let me send her a ten
word telegram
His response to this was a veritable
snarl of anger, like that of a wounded
beast. "None Of that. Jennie. Drop
1t, and drop it quick. Ask her to
come and see me like thisi III see
her again some time. But it'll be when
I'm up not when I'm down like his.
I'll be sitting on the world again some
day, Jennie, and then wen see what
lTrix has to say. She had her last
shot at me when l was fiat on my back,
and what she did to me was aplenty.
Next time It's going to be different"
This brought him round to the old
refrain, his defeat by Williamson's
crowd and how IL came about.
I've been wondering" he said,
what it was gave 'em the idea Of
selling out in the first place. | sup
pose they must have got on, somehow,
back In August or so, to the fact that
l controlled the majority Of the stock.
and that made ZEN think about getting
from under. Wen, they know how to
keep their faces, that bunch
They'd known it longer than that"
she told him. Since before the April
meeting"
He stared at her. what makes you
think sol"
"Oh, Henry made 1t pretty plain
from something he said the other day"
She wished, uneasily, that she hadn't
started this, but 1t was too late to
stop now.
do you mean Henry himself knew
about 1t then?" he persisted, and she
a reluctant assent.
Henry Craven he repeated blank
ly. Henry Craven Why Jennie,
I'd have sworn | knew everything that
went on behind that little mans eye
And he's known, you say,
ever since way back last winter what
that bunch was cooking for me? He
liked me. too. He liked both of us.
And he never cared a d-n for them.
| know he didn't"
Hes loyal, though" she said. Hes
he most-scrupulous a I've ever
Known. His duty was to them. of
curse" 1
They're a different breed. Jennie" 1
he said at last. They're a herd. {
horns and showing among
themselves until an outsider comes
long, and Their they all face the same |
way and put down their heads. They |
now how to wait, too. Wait for
i'm, that's all they do. / made good
my process; made thirty million
POUNDS of valuable stuff out of some
hing that had always been thought
vorthless. but they got me. This
Nathan came in about then with
he power of attorney, and by the
ime II had been read and talked
yer and signed, Doctor Bennett APP
cared and made no secret of his dis
pproval of their business with his
atient. SO Jennie. as soon as II was
ossible. took her leave.
Joe stopped her on the way TO the
cor with a last reminder. Don't for
eft that errand / gave you. And be
.re and come back first thing to-
borrow morning and tell me about it,"
II won't forget" she promised. but
he went away with a sadly divided
ind. He had made ii plain that the
and fifty dollars he had asked
ar to get him was not going to be
entioned to Doctor Bennett.
There has not been. and OF course
Iere V will be, a next time" for
,e Greer, II one means by the phrase JIG
return-mateh with John Williamson
Id his allies. This story. which be-
inf a story can be said to begin tn
the April day in 1919 when they pl
ganized the company. ended on the 70
-iday in the fall when Jennie went tn
Williamson's office and signed. un- tn
r Joe's power of attorney, the con- mn
act the fnanciers offered her. They If
ere completely and finally the vic /
rs. The spoils of Joe's process for lie
aking linen from the straw that had mt
been burned in the fields be-
lged to them; not to Joe, whose th'
agination had conceived the proc pa
5; nor to the small. careful, mod Co
-ly prosperous folk who built the thu
lis; nor to the farmers who grew go
e flax. an
Reluctantly one comedies the i'm AT
liability Of any other outcome. ever
Joe had never summoned his dis yo'
bling daughter from California to PEI
e with him, nor sustained a con- Jol
II the brain and resorted to yo'