White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-05-19

| do the job very thoroughly in that
length Of time," he commented mildly.
'Oh, of course" Mariner admitted
II wouldn't expect to stay in every
town and wait till the results came in
I'd give them chance to take it If
they wanted it, though"
Edward glanced around. Edith had
| slipped out into the shop.
Mariner" he said, "for just five
minutes, let's talk plainly. If you're
advocating this trip to the coast as a
selling program, you're talking non
sense. There's more buying power up
| Sheridan road from here to Milwau-
kee than there is along your whole
| route between Kansas and California
We haven't begun to cover Cook coun-
ty. By the time we have covered it,
We'll know definitely whether we've
got anything or not. We've both been
Sinking. You've done nothing for
weeks; nor I either, so far as the vital
need Of this business is concerned,
until yesterday.
Yesterday I was out in the street
myself. I didn't sell much, but it was
the most instructive day I've ever
lived through. I knew now that our
thing can be sold, and know I can
sell it. What's more, can make the
statesmen sell it. My proposal is that
we give up our grand ideas for the
present and go to work. 1 mean to.
Pm putting it up to you"
"Well, I won't have itw Mariner
growled. II can't stand this place, nor
this-peanut business! I've had about
all can stand of you, Patterson, if
it's plain speaking you want. I've got
on to big thing. I've put my hearts
blood into it. I've been working over
it twenty hours day, and when try
to tell you about it, you won't even
listen.
"And then you tell me I've been
Sinking; propose to make peddler
out Of me That's the way people are,
here in this part of the country. Out
where my wife is visiting they are
different. She's met some people out
there with money who don't think in
terms of nickels. BY the time I've
driven my car with my new vaporizer
on it out there, across the plains and
the mountains and the desert in win
ter, I'll be able to show them that I've
got big thing"
To say to the man, 1T was you who
persuaded me to put my savings into
this peanut business, and If you turn
| tail now and run like yellow dog, as
| you propose, you're a self-confessed
fraud"-to say that and lot more
was on Edwards tongue while Mariner
talked.
But when he. ceased talking, the i'm
pulse to retort died away. AS he sat
there, with hanging head, his face
working and his hands clenched, he
was merely pitiable.
| Suddenly he looked up. II beg your
| pardon, Patterson. I don't mean what
I've been saying. Between this new
invention of mine and my-and my
wife, I'm beside myself.
patterson, don't know what she's
doing out there. l don't know what
she may do. I'm not proper husband
for her; I'm not what she deserves.
But I've got to hang on. I've got to
| go out there. Cd! I ought to be
there now!'
Edwards gaze fixed itself out the
window. You couldn't look at man
while he was saying things like that.
There was another silence.
II don't mean that, either" Mariner
went on again. Ill can't seem to
talk at all this morning without run
ming wild. OF course there's nothing
serious. 1 don't want you to think
that for minute. But about this
choke. / think there's real chance
to open up some new territory. I'll do
the very best by it that can. At the
very least, can make it pay my way"
"How much" Edward asked MIN
thoughtfully, "how much money would
you need?"
ITO start with? Oh, not very much"
II don't mean that" Edward told
him. II mean for the whole trip"
Mariner smiled wryly. ITO be rid Of
me-" he commented, "for good and all"
'Ive got to know" Edward said.
Eyes, of course" Mariner acquiesced.
you're right from your point of view.
Five hundred dollars? I'll earn that
in commissions between here and Kan
sas City. But that'll be enough, 1
guess"
"Well, If you earn more than that,
III be glad to pay it-after the orders
come in and the bills are paid. / won't
honor any drafts, though" he added
bluntly, ION prospects or promises"
Mariner nodded. "That's under
Stood" he said "But about that
check. Can have 1t now? If ]
can, III start tomorrow"
II can let you have it," Edward
said, just about" He wrote it on
the spot and Mariner put it in his
pocket. His manner had changed. His
face seemed actually to have filled out
little.
"You're a good snort. Patterson" he