The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1943-01-27

Tinker said that he had no new
projects at the moment. He
might, II he found one. find Il
useful to engage assistance. Anc
in the meantime he would exam
inc John Frye's record and at
tainments, in his own way, anc
privately.
Within a month, John Frye
was summoned to another meet,
ing. Norman Tinker waste
neither time nor words arriving
at the point:
II have learned - ii doesn't
matter how of certain land:
in the State of Washington
which may yield valuable de-
posts. l have convinced myself
that you can be of help to me
But it is necessary for me tc
conduct my examinations witt
the greatest possible discretion
Again, the reason does not mat
ter. And so ! make you a pro
posal:
You and I will 60 to thi:
country I speak of, and explore
its possibilities. And you will be
written in for one-third of any.
thing we may find"
Which was a generous thing
to do, indeed.
John Frye was immensely
pleased. He was not q man OF
force and he had never been
seasoned to many of the stern
realities. Life had accommodate.
ed him to a philosophy of &C.
quiescence, and to a slight shock
of surprise when any fortune fell
his way. II Norman Tinker bad
offered him a decent weekly
wage, he would have been salts
fled. How wonderful to become
partner!
1t would not, perhaps, be ex-
aggeration to say that John
Frye was a weak man. Not NOR
ally, of course, but tempera-
mentally. He was easily led by
stronger men. But, like all peo-
pie who are called weak, he had
q perverse alloy of the thing
which is known as stubborn
ness. And now this stubborness
took fire in q condition which
he offered to Norman Tinker.
He was overjoyed at the op-
portunity. But he would not
think of going on the expedi-
ton unless he could take his
family with him. This was moi
in Norman Tinker's book, and
he scoffed at the notion 1t was
absurd, and furthermore 1t was
dangerous, he said. John Frye
said, in reply, that his wife and
children were absolutely neces-
sary to him after his year in the
wars.
So the strong man and the
stubborn man Wrestled the mat
ter, and the strong man surrend-
cred because he, also possessed
of stubbornness though Of a diff
ferent weave, was determined
that John Frye was his man.
I remember that cabin as II q
precisely detailed painting of il
were upon the wall before my
eyes at this moment. 1t was like
paradise. The Douglas frs thai
reached their magnificent spires
toward the sky, the swift colo
water, the b e asts that came
down to stare at us, the trout
and the salmon that smelled SO
fine against the smell of coffee
in the evening.
And I remember as wildly
that night John Frye came in,
very tired, with a sack full OF
new samples. They were, he
said, from a rather curious out
cropping in the next valley. He
and Norman Tinker went to the
workbench which they built in
the end of the room, and got
down vessels and tools and bot
tied chemicals, while at the 9TH
er end of the same room Martha
Frye hummed to her baby girl
and the kissing of the frying
pan was loud in the air.
The next thing, two men were
staring at each other and saying,
Good Lord, man - that can't
be true!"
The new and curious outcrop-
ping which John Frye had found
was thing of inestimable
worth. Early next morning the
two men were gone, and they
came back changed altogether
from the two men of yesterday.
For they were rich indeed, and
the excitement OF that knowl-
edge was a grave thing to bear
lightly.
Martha Frye joined eagerly in
their excitement, opening bot
tie of red wine which she had
saved ga inst an illness and
sharing the toasts TO fortune
which were lifted in loud voices.
Even the boy which boy was
I - caught more than a touch
of the fever and grew red with