Show oo 0 MEETING all ibeal IDEAL by GEORGE ELMER COBB this ti is no time for a pillow fight turn urn on the hot stuff 1 and live give those thoss people to understand pal pat they va vacate catal I 1 these wen won the word words that tha t expressed the forcible mandate ut of john job brooks mine own owner er and demoa whyte did no not t like them one bit he lie aled thorn them leee less than ever when be readied the destination to which be he had L len lien ien bent sent life 1 order orders bad had been strict the P rooks company c operal ed ad a big mine st t coketon coneton Co keton some squatters had built wilt their poor shacks hack on a R little plat of grou ground nd near the mine they were to be evicted I 1 ii t they went willingly whyte waa was au AM theorized thorl zed to pay for the removal of 0 their household traps to any location reasonably near it not their rude hull huts were to be pulled down ov over er their heade heads and they could shift for A refined businesslike young maa man with the world all before him th the 0 con secretary of the millionaire coal operator na as good an engaged to hie his haughty but beautiful daughter portia might heedlessly and selfishly ignore what he saw at coketon coneton Co keton HI ills wae was a free sterling nature however he lie delivered his message to the un fortunate squatters in a kindly sor rowing way more than one of the group found him an interested coun bellor and many of them shared pity ing charity from his generous purse one case particularly appealed to him I 1 in an old cottage that had once been the home habitation of a little farm whyte came across neva dorris and her brother gabriel tho the first moment his eyes rested upon the clear ear ap ir there came a day nest faco face of the girl something stirred within him OB vs if he had met an ideal she was as compo composed zed modest business like she indicated that it if the law lav ordered them to leave the baeume they would obey yet her lip quivered and there was a latent flash of half resent ment halt half indignation in her eyes mr air drooks brooks might have spared us she said it was my dead father who first discovered the coal here I 1 cannot tell how for he died suddenly but before bis his death I 1 know he be had some important business negotiation negotiations with the company he once owned this ground I 1 was amazed when nhen he lit died to find that he had left us noth ing shall I 1 present these facts to mr brooks suggested whyte gently 1 I have written to him twice in la regard to the matter responded the girl he ile has never deigned to notice nolice my communications I 1 have man aged to earn a pittance at sewing my poor brother crippled in one arm the result of an over blast in the mine li is given work there I 1 do not wish to antagonize the company so we will ill move but I 1 feel that we have daht my fathers father h death obscured somehow vernon whyte all the waa wa home could not get the beautiful self sell reliant neva out of nis his mind then thelt two d day later in looking over somo som papers in mr bytes box in the vault he made a discovery that made him quail and brought to his mind with renewed intensity the sister and brother at coketon coneton who bad had so inter ested him it is in incredible it la Is inc ho he fairly gasped as he glanced over a document in his hand 1 I have something of importance to say to you sir air he announced to mr brooks entering his private office quite by accident in searching tor for an important receipt I 1 came across a document among your private pa pers pere it shows that the property at coloton supposedly aup yours Is really owned by the heir heirs of martin dor dar rig tw t w 0 A where anere to tho papera quavered the millionaire springing to his f feet pale palo as ahee it prove proves more proceeded incisively there ha has been forgery representation robbery in the fcc titrous transfer anifer tr of that property to the company john brookd brooks broke down HI his crine ing nature wae was ai a be he ad quitted fraud aa as be he excused it on the ground of buit iness policy dont be a fool whyte he eald your alary salary will be five thousand at the next director mating to retrace our well 01 OT r mutate would we cant can t criminal oo m mean ea U a d do 0 that you know tou you must in all fax barnese tar nese ruess and honor we must not and will not we are am powerful to crush where wo will D de O 0 care careful full I 1 dont spoil your bright business 1 career by giving way to sentiment forget the incident there there ii in portia too but portia made aware at 0 the cir briefly coldly informed her lover that ehe she would aide side with her fat lather hrair the engagement was broken and whyte while hile disappoint ed waa was thankful that ho he had fathomed the cruel nature of portia brooks in timi tims 1 I suppose you will insist upon making us trouble observed brook somewhat uneasily no replied whyte quietly 1 I 1 simply resign my position return you the incriminating document and leav it to your conscience as an to future action in the promises prom laes that was the end of the business dream of vernon whyte he ile had thought it all over and bad had made r noble resolve within a week he wai was employed as an office clerk at a to town n two miles from coketon coneton Co keton his big first step taken towards coming into the life of the defrauded dorris family in a practical way within another week meek he had man aged it so that he wan a boarder at the now small but neat home of which neva dorris was the mistress it came about to naturally that there seemed no purpose in it then began a life in which whyte cheered the lowly louly existence of the lister sister and brother and learned to forget the past and learned more of the aart a soulful nature of the girl he wae wait beginning to love and one fair sumer eve he tol told neva that she was all in the work world to him she cried oa ou his shoulder as she realized how nuch that meant to her and thu man who had de do ter mined to male up to her all of the comfort and luxury the stolen lan ian might have brought her felt repaid for his efforts how now they planned for the future how happy was neva in ing an humble but happy home and then great news came from the mine day brooks had visited it and got caught amidst the fire damp he ile was as dreadfully burned bis his eyesight gone forever but his life was saved poor crippled gabriel had borao borne the senseless victim on his shoulder through a mile of tunnels bringing him at last to the surface my brave brother and poor mr brooks said neva in her gentle sym pathetic way she never knew new what his cruel heartedness had cost her she never understood that almost a royal for tune awarded her brother by the con science stricken millionaire really wp ep resented restitution all she knew was that ehe she had won a man for her husband whose tender love was a grateful balm after all hei her lonely life of toll and sacrifice copyright by W 0 G Chap chapman maIL |