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Show EAST SALT LAKE TIMES. MUD VY. NOVEMBER Joseph Greer and His Daughter JENNIE By HENRY KFXHELL WEBSTER MAC ARTHUR Greer, a pirate o ( fifty, a proceaa of bavins dlacovered exiravling fiber from flax atraw, a of director big corpola niada For yeara dlatruating ration. men of affaire, Greer hae played a lone band. Now holding what be conaldera the winning carda, ha la willing to aublet hla wlta To protect hie own to wealth. Interest!, Joe haa foiated hia own Jennie MacArtbur, aecretary, Henry Craupon the company. ven. a bank clerk related to John back-t- r millionaire Willlamaon. the of Greers new company, ia oflerel by Willlamaon the position of treasurer of the new company, with the generally understood purpose of watching Greer. Wimldii t you like to office. Mr. (.raven, before we your followed her down the you g corridor ,llUlUl,,lin ' vcmure.U4ly Ue with wus Mr. Ferris' office," she aid as she ushered him Into a room that was Just tlie conventional lhis and ground-glas"lie wus treasurer of the old company. At least." she added without u smile, "he was railed treasurer." He perce! led plainly enough that she meant to tell him something, and waited, with a trepMution l.e was afraid wasn't quite concealed, for her to s box-stal- CHAPTER Continued. I Be bad no gnawer ready, and ahe a moment later to add the Iluw capstone to tbe fanciful edifice. do jrou know, alie naked, that there Isn't aoiue one else lie wanta your place In tha bank forr I haven't any proof that be doesn't, But that ha aald then, gently. went on his history, lie's real kindness and during tha last fifteen years, If he ai we' vs found In anybody. treats me aa a pawn It's because that's what 1 really am on the bualneoa " "Xou're three times as Intelligent aa ha is," aha protested. ho reminded her. go was father, "Intelligence Isn't the thing they play tbli gam with. It wanta a certain itnpldlty, really, to keep you munching away at It all day long like one of John's Holstein. Father couldn't do that ; couldn't keep hla mlfcd on It. Ht didn't hate It until those last yearn, because lie began by getting the better of It. Well of course, I illilu't And until John that way. begin showed me this chance today at lunch, It looked as If I never would get the better of It, short of retiring on a wretched little pension when I was s or so, too old to have any life left. This thing, of course, may fill. I suppose you're right, that It's mors than likely to. But, If It doesn't, It's a way out. It's a chance to live a little, while I've still got sometdoesn't squire with shown us aa much pood-wI- chess-boar- . sixty-flv- " He pulled up short. He'd communed with himself In thin strain often enough, but saying such hed never heard hlinnelf things aloud. The meeting the next afternoon was, so far as Its actual proceedings went, a dull affair, the Inevitable legal hocus-pocu- s occupying moat of the time. Two lawyers were present; a man aimed Nathan, who seamed to be Greer's attorney, and, across the table, young Craig from Aldrich's office, who aeted at first as secretary of the meeting. Sometimes they differed solemnly and, It seemed to Henry, Interminably, over a trivial matter of phrasing. Sometimes one of the principals took a hand. Once Henry heard Crslg say to John Willlamaon: "Mr. Aldrich will accept this. He gave me on It It sperinl memorandum might, from the solemnity with which hi spoke, have been a special tablet from Muunt Sinai, and John nodded with an air of complete satisfaction, hl momentary uneasiness quite banished. To Henry, trying hard to keep wake, this seemed mildly ludicrous. Bnt Greer sprang n sensation along is tht middle of the meeting. Of the Permanent directors, three, by agreement, ware to lie elected at bis nomination: himself, of course ; his law Jr, Nathan, and J. MacArthur, who 11, also by agreement, to be made wetary of the company. When the 1 only meant," she explained, "that u always so full of the one '"mg that happens to be on his miml i hat the rest of us have to catch hold Just anywhere and fill In." After she had gone be dropped down Into the swivel-chai- r his swivel-chai- r now feeling the imperative need of a few minutes lu which to get himself But before the process of together. recollection had fairly found time to begin, he lieurd steps Greer's, he was sure come down the corridor and turn Into the secretary's office next door, "Oh, hello!" he beurd her suy. I thought you'd gone. The other aald It was Greer Godan afternoon !" and frey, what plumped down heavily on her desk. "Well," Greer went on after striking a match, 1 guess we're really started, at last. I don't believe there's any more d d that they can think of. Bee you tomorrow T" he How about dinner up at the asked. ffi.tl My train doesn't go until midnight." "I can't come to dinner. Bnt lunch Is ai; right, if you like, and the rest of the afternoon. "D n It, Jennie, can't you leave the one decent workday In the week alone?" "You have too many workdny as It Is. I'll be there at one, but 1 won't wait Bo If you're at work and don't feel like stopping, you needn't." One o'clock, then. Oh, all riglit You're an Infernal tyrant, Jennie. Bo would you be, Joe" (or did she rail him Joey), if you got the chance, I (suers. " Mr. Gr-- . 1 The next moment Henry heard her going. Then, before he could move or door wns think, tlie communicating thrown open, and Greer, at peace with the world, came In upon him. He gave Henry an amiable smile, pleased to find him there. Before speaking he devoted a moment to a prodigious yawn and stretch. Well, be aald, as be squeezed the water out of hla eyes, that's over. We're through with that sort of You hoa'rum for a while, anyway. found It as dull as I did; I could see that. Lets go somewhere and have a I'm chin and a drink, he added. drier right now than this country will ever be." Greer piloted him back Into a sort of grill where, apparently, food was to be had aa well aa liquor. Greer ordered bourbon for hlmaelf, and Henry chose a pot of orange pekoe. "What do you make of Williamson V Greer asked abruptly. Make of him? Henry echoed. "Why, I don't know. Ive known him, lmd taken place and they ero ready to go on as a directors' meeting, John turned to Greer and iked: If lie'a to secretary he ought to be here to ink charge of the minutes. Can you W hold of him?" Greers answer was to tilt hack In hla sml, Tr Ming, reaching around without pres a button on hla desk. Henry guessed In that Instant, from fleam hi his eye, that something going 1 1) huppen. nn ofllce boy When answered the Jlwr' said, "Ask Miss iiiicAr-n- r to come in." ,,u'r-- ' was nothing unprere- wnteil uhiuit It, of ruutsc. Plenty of i ; ' of r"ofllrers,rret0 rectors But that HI rompnnlra should they re been Into electing her in the "' this gave them a sense of . John anil Grog- wJr r!!.,l,in 1 :( looked pretty blank. Greer Psuimi ii. ,1 a n fr 0IM, M,( H.rius to tu ti ii, xj with nn open grin. r ''""r "lamed Just then, and she l c11' up, of course. and r Introduced them around. nn, ii f nut Iler npp,.!iri,nee. ll,,llr ''utely reassuring. She took ns " 'l it's chair at Greers riglit j, 1,1 " ,,r 1,1 too cleunly directed ou mi Ii "lm ii m a rursory look through g'1,,,sK1,1ld her nhresst of tlie situn kn''w her huslneas; st km.'i easy to see. 1"' not, Henry felt, quite a, V'' nf hnslnesa woman he wna in,,, with. Her dress had a 1,1 In which they, as I to'1. h . ,,'l,nn,,,, . sreful avoid. gt,t"n ' nieetlng brake up, Henry'a "I hal by the meticulous ail-a- s juI' hi"1 "f 1,1,1 n,uw' before putting o. r.imti IV, , M MacArthur 'W-'unity, almost an Invitation. ' lp 'oiiie up and speak to him. a j He Married a Couein of Mine. 1 , ' j 4 i ' : i : 1 i ; ! i'ui nol sure iiune ur,.lc it is you fn.l 1 m mid wl...t tiiciii," Henry said, sipping hi um uni! fcc..ng queer!)- at ease lir the mu . mein w.ih hia "1ie worked fur them, ss you suy, a good part i,f my life, but ilieyie never struck me us -- ciiigmm.c. especially. Gf course, l hey re aiy own people But y.iii re ci:.i,- r.ght ihm l a, net of them J June been if 1 ivtiid," l:e aided. "I here you are.'1 sa:d Greer; "lli.u's something. suppose musics Just n form of ci.iiiiiccriug. really, it 1. a. pens in pe one that a manonlycan't make u linr.g j.y unless lie's a son of freak. Well, ihcu, you're a musician; 1 in an engineer. Bui wlmt tlie del 11 are they? What do they we? What do they think they lh, money, of course, hut no ney's nothing hilt a way of gening things done. W hut is it they're trying to get done? If I laid Williamsons money I'd do something with it. So would you. 1 douht if lie even has fun wlih It. Not as much as 1 huie on perhaps a twentieth as much. Hound and round lie goes looking for safe Iniesinicnts for an 111101110 (huts already five or six time what he can spend muklng more work for himself all the time." I suppose," Henry put In, that It's ronlly power lie wania rattier than money. The other man snatched the word away from him. l'ower I 1 uniler-stan1 ower, or I think I do. Bower Is what can be used to move something. Well, now, see here I Here's a man who's gut a liolihy for buying electric storage-cell- s and charging them, and he goes on collecting more and more of them and you go to him and say. 'What are you going tu do with all this? and he say, 'Oh, I'm r Suing to run a outfit to charge more cell. Couldn't you take him before a Judge and get a conservator appointed on the strength of that? of course you could. Well, what's the difference? Wliut doe Williamson want to run? The city? He could. If he liked linger Sullivan did. A railroad? A leumslilp line? An ojx-ri- i I A harem? company? don't cure wlmt. But It ought tu be something." lie illuminated till statement with a dazzling grin, but went straight on : Wllliuiiison get a hound ri'iHirt on me and reads it, or, fur ull 1 know, hires somebody else to rend It for him, and sends me word lie'll go In. But In all this time three months, mind you he's never come out to our laboratory on the West side, where he could have seen the thing done, actually done under conditions. He doesn't rare about how It's done. Nor, for that matter, what we do. Any damn thing In the world that would show the same profit between raw material and finished product, and the same demand, would Interest him Just ns much It would be the same thing to him. "Cellulose fiber Is one of the nmst Interesting things In the world. I've been thinking about it, off and on. ever since the first time I found myself In a tropical Jungle. And the things you can do by dissolving It, or by matting and compressing It, or by using It as a binder In plastic substances there's no end. And we're Just at the beginBut ning. back In the Old Testament. It might be putty for all Williamson pu.-.i.n- - coMip.-iuuin- d motor-generato- cares or prunes." lie Interrupted himself here to take another drink, and Henry said : You're partly right, of course, but he knows more about that process of yours than you think. And he knows he's not a technical mnn. It inny he caution as much a lack of Interest that's kept him sway-.- ' Greer caught that Instantly over the Henry glass. edge of his found that glance of his curiously stimulating. eWlon Where la MacArthnrT -- He you see, for a grent many years, married a cousin of mine." "Hurried, la lie? Greer reflected. Then. "IJvJng wlih hla wife?" "Yes," lie mild, Henry Jumped. "till, yea. cerluinly." P,n of Apparently, from Hi a means no corollary. It whs by view, aisur-micHut, having received Henry's on the point, lie wus content to let It drop and go back to the main theme. fel"Well, I don't get any of these 1 flnunclul gang. the ; said he lows," It. with away don't see hw they got themselves I don't see how they keep on their side. know I you're alive. Oh, weren't you? hank, In the You were And they put you in here to keep in no more like eye on me. But youre 1 1 nn' them really thn There well enougi at the meeting. when we today times dozen a were hwith both wanted to say. To -1 seen ex But you've worked for 'em, could close to, so I thought msyhs you artswer." tell ms the !' r. al'.e.i! 3 r... A : ,i fads, o bow ever, rather th.,1 ! Imitations may be dangerous s!:e bad fa i.u k out g.irdei! lUe lulter, sbe could :i. e be wus a; erb ill .11 ciiliy iio't u .1 t'1.11 i..civ na 1.0 d.i ai .In- w,.i-,iM' moral c.'i.id a!Trcl U'ii el m' .v her ivoiioiiiii. Mai;:. SI.i'iI guile u.tli JtV oil iiiuuy a IiIikuic ali!r.gti'n. New York, uu.l flip f,i i!m h i.i'iv, uii.i u. e Grimily aspect of Mich ail adieu: in e. or of her guiug to dale ulotie Willi bim In Ids flat, neicr disturbi-her ill Hie Icaul. A smile like tl.e one which bad so exercised of lli'iir (lie spceuialiic file'll tb'inon ai Hi Ii. nil Mice! lug wax the .11 cn!) iribiKc k:c eier paid to llio Moloch of propr.d). t pack-trai- and 1 .'.'n i, Anyhow," Henry went on, he told me lilmaiif quite u little about It shout tbe bug. be railed It, thut you'd discovered." 111!" said Greer, putting down Ills glass, "I didn't dlseover any hug. Im I hired a fellow liot s bacteriologist. a young professor of botany at one of tlie universities, and fold him In dlscoier It. It look him more than n year, mill If I hadn't been there to speed him up It might lime taken him They're queer birds. Ion, twenty'. these pure siientisis, when it entiles to that. They don't care wlmt anything's for any inure than the bunkers care how It works. It Isn't till a man like me come nlong ami takes one In one hand and another I11 the other unil cracks their heads together thut anything really happen lu the world." The Inward grimace Henry allowed himself st Ibis must linve shown some reflection In hi face, perceptible to Greer, for nlinost Instantly, with a shrug snd a smile, lie went on: a "That sounds like brag to yon. It Is. But we're trying to get aren't we? Tlie sooner we do, the belter all around; Isn't .tint the Idea? Well, then, you mny as well know that I think I'm a better mnn than John Williamson or any of his crowd. I think you are, too. and that you knmf It. He Inherited Ills money, didn't he? "Wasn't old Nlok Williamson Ills fahad ther? Well, the old mnn. I the goods. Bnt his son why. hes had everything done for him. Turn him out In its woods without a guide and Ier-hnp- gui, '., lie 1 d. ui bo- could keep alive u line he could li.ne 1., no I bis lii ng wiiti hi hands , . f for a profession at .i:: c ume. Weil, 1 did that, t,iui I ic done Hie other. And 1 could do u ii.i.ii if 1 hud 10, though I an: l;fi 0..i old" s was gon"Billy !" Henry's uiiic. He'd been thin'..:!:,- - of tlie man 1 ,.ow ' go on. hing a Joaeph SYNOPSIS. It wus appear. i'.:. - 111. Copyright by The l!obb,. Merrill Co. bleck-beerd- 2.1. 1923 !:::i.-.-i- ic - u a contemporary Giver nodded. count," he suid. I've lost ii-- lie puused ro!!cct!cl oii-l::s CHAPTER II drink, and gaie Henry a clianee he bad uncomfortably been waii.ug lor. The Better Half. "Of cuuree," lie sn.d. couldn't Joe Ini iled her 10 xucli a dinner one Keep alive In the woods c. liter, not niglu in May about a iiionlli nfler the even long n John. hardly directors' inocling, und nil bin a few haie kept aliie, 1 10 Hir.r.tl. eieu In diiyx of Ills rciui-- from a trip to tlie the ordinary way of eiim.aiioii If 1 NorfliwcM where lie'll been engaged In hadn't tiecn helped. And the person settling the last details and lotting who gave me that lie'p, wlih a tbe com raefx for tbe construction of was John tbeir flax faiiorics. ungrudging Liiidiu-ss- , Williamson.'' Invitation of tills sort weren't so "Well, your game's a different game very frequent, and they generally had from his and from mine," Greer said. a real occasion. He had something "You're like some other pvple I he wanted to tulk with her iilumt ho know, writers und painter and such. said. "Oli, It's got nothing to do with All you really aak for is a chance to any of Gils." He smiled ss lie added look on. But you can ice what Bin on leaving her, "I'm going to surprlss driving at, gild these fat people you, Jennie." couldn't have their good Oh, they A dinner at Joe's tint, whatever Its side, 1 know," he conceded. That's occasion, deserved to tie treated aa a more than I'd have admitted twenty party, so she went home a 111 Be early years ago. I was a good ileal of a from Hie office there wuan't so very sorehead at thirty. I Iihi! s grudge much to do these days and dressed in a leisurely and luxurious manner la a satin frock which she bad bought, luckily, only tlie week before. J emits candidly enjoyed dressing up, and one of her few grievances sgalnst tlie sort of life she led was that II offered as few opiMirt unit lea for this Indulgence, , The dinner was at and 't was still broad daylight when she perked her little coupe In the elds treet nearest Joe'e doorway. In tli doorway ahe found Joe'e chauffeur waiting under Ida employer's orders for her to drive up so that he might take her car Into the gunige and bring It around uguln whenever olie wanted it. He was a prepossessing youngster who bad taken this Job on getting demobilized from the army a few weeks The Irregular hours und previously. Hie touch of variety about It made It, Jennie siipimai'd, less unat tractive tu I1I111 than most of the berths uM'n to a mnn In ills position. But be wns too good, site thought, for this sort of thing taking Joe's actresses 1111 Joyrides In the niiihI! hours of the morn"Youre tbs Only Stenographer In ths ing, nnd so on ; und she iiiiulo a menWorld, Greer Told Her. tal mile, as ahe npoke to him, of a Joe to find that used to keep me awake nights resolution to against the gang thut bus everything something belter for film to do. Hie name wan George Burns. brought tu them on a plutlcr. 1 wantShe told him her car wna all light ed them kicked out, to give better men a chance. But I've got over Hint. Iin where It wns, nnd Hint when she wee willing they should play their gums us ready to go shu wouldn't mind going long us they'll let me play mine. out to It alone, so If this was to have been Ida only duty for the evening lie Ills look belled his words, Henry might as well consider himself at libHe thanked her, but she thought. Hla eyes, smoldering, gazed erty. out urross the room. There wns f Kid guessed from his manner that ha fur thought, for John and his friends, didn't Intend to act upon her permission. In the snine moment she realperhaps. In I he look of them. Many persons leas given to analysis ized, and she Mushed a bright pink as than Henry Craven had speculated It broke over her, that the boy was n luring the past years about shocked. That lie attributed It must the relation between Joe Greer and he that a sinister interpretation to Jennie MacArlliur. They saw, Just as her visit. Once or twlre he'd driven Henry did, thut It differed somehow her home from the office when she'd worked lute, and they'd got to be quite from tlie accepted standard for busy employers and their ef- good friends. Tonight be seemed to see her In a new and rather lurid ficient, infallible secretaries. Jennie was competent, and long ago light. In the elevator she derided she'd she had made herself Indispensable. But that was only the beginning of It. say nothing about the encounter to She took to Joe from the start. What Joe, at least until she'd cooled down But he, enough to Is ugh over It npiieared to others as his truly temper never worried Jennie s meeting her In the hall ss the butK-- r bit. opened the door for her, had It all out He could think harder and faster of her In two mlnutea. than anybody else, and a long succesYYhat'a the Good Lord, Jennie I sion of rontucts with muddled minds matter with you?" he asked at sight or Irresolute wills drove him every of her. now and then frantic. Her method And to her Well, whnt Is?" be anwith him wns to let 1dm rave until he swered. You look aa If you'd just got the worst of It out of hla system, been kissed by a traveling man. and then grin at him. She learned At that, she luuglied and told him. the trick of tuning riuwn his letters That's a nice mess," he commented without milking them sound tunic and with a grin. "Here, give me your rolorUsi, ami before she'd worked for keys. And go and take off your cloak. him u your, he'd given up dictating al You know the room, don't you? I'll No, I don't he hack In a minute. together. "You're tlie only stenographer In blame him a bit. It's all your fa'il t." tlie world," lie said to her, apropos of He bad, It struck her, a rather smiie such performance as this. "Go thoughtful air when he Joined her a to (he bookkeeper and tell him your few iiiiiiiiii's later In the drawing-rooisalary is liiy dollars a week. Any He stood for n moment a little way time you think thut Isn't enough, say off, candidly regarding her before he you dare icuve me on spoke. so, lmt don You wear belli clothe any account. You belong to ine, sec He added. "You're nut thinking of go- than most of the women who have nothing to do lmt buy them. How do ing off and getting married, are you? When sin- - told him she wasn't, lie you manage It. Jennie?" She felt that her new frock was gave u vr: or satisfied grant which It wasn't often he carried with It the Implication thut vindicated, not try. slic'd showed the slightest consciousness of When he formed his company for what she wore. "I happen tu he the right size to the iiiaiiiifucturi! of nlrplnne pnrts, That's the he made her secretary of it und fixed weur models," she said. her salary ui six thousand a year. In nnswer. It saves a lot of trouble. "The riglit size um! the right every randiicutlnn of his business Interests lie gave her his whole confi- shuiie," he amended. "It's more than dence. which was something no one your clothes that looks good to ine." There whs the suine quality, oddly else, she was sure, shared with her, for he wus naturally suspicious nnd reflective for him, shout his gesture, for as he finished speaking he came secretive. I luring the whole seven yenrs, from up and took her by both hare arm tlie day when slic'd first gone Into Ills just above tlie elbow, gently enougli, private office to the day of the direc- us If he merely meant to hold her tors' meeting that Ilenry Craven at- there until the end of Ids train of tended, she had never considered thought. leaving Joe. She'd spoiled him. She'd endured much. She lind occasionally (luri-Shes nmetsen, hs answered. up to mutch the red of her linlr "Her name's Beatrice." and driven some rebuking home rutlis Into him. But, on the whole, herself enormously. slic'd enjoyed zest about the whole There was 0 0 HK CONTINUED.) mere thing that made It more than Eve sta the apple because there Job, a sparkle of variety, and a spice, were uo lqe cream perlor open. too, of danger. 1 11 1 SAY BAYER half-doze- fr 1 Qfiulne. 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