The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1930-11-28

them, James, no longer able TO with
stand the importunings of wife who
was with child, accepted a position Of
apprentice in Pittsburgh law office.
which had been obtained for him by
his coal merchant father-in-law
That is the beginning. If ever a
man was predestined for commercial
success that man was James Morrell.
AS his father-in-law, who had in the
beginning secretly despised him. put
it, everything that Morrell touched
turned to gold, and the curious part
of it was that it did not seem to he
due to any genius that the fellow
brought to his work.
There was something of a chained
wild beast about MOrrell. He en-
dured his success in much the same
way he endured mis- environment, his
wife, and even his child. He saw il
piling up about him and he let il pile.
He stood in the courtroom declaiming
in behalf of the great corporations he
represented, and it sometimes seemed
to him that some one on the outside
of him was doing the speaking, while
he, the shell of an individual, stood
there caring not at all.
1t could almost be said of James
MOrrell that he did not turn a hand.
considering the magnitude of his So
called achievements. He had an eye
for the law, and tongue that could.
on the proper occasion, grow eloquent,
but so had other men of less success.
When she was thirty, Rachel Tay-
lor, who loved the life of creature
things, creature comforts. and crea-
ture magnificence, saw herself slowly
climbing toward the very pinnacle Of
such attachments.
james Morrell was easily the fore
most lawyer of the state to say moth
ing of the prospects of political power
and position which lay ahead.
They used TO say Iaughingly of
Rachel Taylor Morrell that she hal
more than once referred to her hus-
Ddllu tIlC VI Tie
United States.
Be that as it may, there was no
doubt that the beautiful reddish eyes
of Rachel were directed toward the
seat of the mighty which she expect
ed Morrell one day TO occupy. One as
pect of realization came to her in
vicariOus way while James was still
in his highly successful role of cOrpo-
ration lawyer. The lovely daughter
of the James MorreIIs, Annice, aged
plane with the only child of one OF
the great oil magnates of the world.
In Rachers opinion, that was the
greatest plume in the cap of the Nor
rells that had yet been planted there.
Ten years later, the two grandchil-
dren of the James MOrrels had been
presented with trust fund of five
million each by their paternal grand
parents. and James MOrreII had fas-
tened on his wife a lifetime income
that amounted to over one million a
year.
Two months subsequent to this Ie-
ga act, the cities of Pittsburgh and
New York awakened one day to head
lines announcing the mysterious dis
appearance of James MOrrell. Secret
searchings had been going on for over
a period of weeks before the general
alarm was finally given out to dis
quoted world
After months of publicity, search
ings ard expeditions of secret service
men to various parts of the world.
the publicity was suddenly huShed up.
Mrs. Morrell resumed her naughty
impressive life as social leader. News
papers, for one reason or another. left
off their playing up of this meaty story
of disappearance of James MorreII.
1t was whispered about among those
"in the know" that it had cost Mrs.
James MOrrell a kings ransom TO
thus stamp out the conspicuous hap
pening of her husbands disappear
ance.
The truth of it, of course, was that
James Morrell had finally been fer
retted out, playing his ukulele in
fantastic harbor cafe at MarseiIles.
After one conference with her hus-
band, Rachel Taylor MOrrell, who had
a good head on her, realized the fu-
tility of attempting to bait or lure or
threaten her husband back into his
proper setting. AS she talked to him
in his slit of a room in Marseilles, she
realized that here was a man twenty
five years younger than the one who
had left her a few months before;
here was a man who had grasped
back his happiness after it had all
slipped from him; here was a beloved
vagabond in his proper setting.
James Morrell is pretty we'll forgot
ten now. even by Rachel who divorced
him and is married again.
He may be found tinkling his way
through the different Bohemias of the
world. His ukulele is always with
him and his worldly possessions are
the few pennies that jingle in his