Show yoseph 0 GUIR GREEK andnis DAUGHTER ENRY i KITCHELL tn WEBSTER COPY rl R I 1 G HT by the Q MERRILL CO CC synopsis SYNOPSIS CHAPTER I 1 joseph greer a black bearded pirate of fifty having dincov discovered a process of extracting fiber fr flax ax straw la in made director of 0 a Us big om corporation for years dis mistrusting distrusting trusting men or of affairs greer has played a 9 lone hand now new holding what ho he consi considers aers the ine winning cards he Is willing to sublet hia hl wits to to protect hla his ltv own interests joe has foisted his bis own secretary upon the company henry craven a bank clerk related to john williamson the millionaire backer of greers now new company Is instilled installed as LS treasurer of the now company with the generally ene rally understood purpose ot of watch n greer joe jo cultivates his friend skip hip rl joo joe tolls tells jennie that he h has a wife in california and that she to Is about to divorce him in addition he discloses that he has a daugh ter ler now nineteen years old whom he has never seen but whom be Is determined to have come and live with him and enter society by means of lite his money CHAPTER III to pavo pave the way for ills his daughters appearance in society joe je roes goes out to a weekend week end party at williamson house where he meets violet johns john wife and Is strongly drawn to her while he bo finds his friends friend to bo be very friendly who when at home CHAPTER rv Beatr loo arrives and proves to be a handsome but spoiled creature very much like her ber father joes attempts to have her form social connections are not well received by his hi laurater laurater dau rater rater who displays vast digno no rah anc e 0 0 f etiquette CHAPTER V in despair at his lack of p polish 0 J JOB 0 e turns to violet lelet williamson his is p partners a r t n ers w wire fe for or ala violet Is strongly attracted b 17 y joes originality presently they f ind sid themselves deeply involved in a flirtation which Is halted by greer when on the brink of destruction violet abed fe teellar line herself scorned becomes infuriated at joe and 4 the batters lat plans rewarding beatrices social career appear decked rec ked ed even eten then his troubles were not over v r tor for beatrice beatric was a long time getting ready when she came out the men me continued to insist that the message was a mistake one of them in particular a fellow named ware was as the he worst lie he had bad tried to put me in n my place when we were ready to start I 1 helped miss greer into tier her place and this ware slipped into the drivers beai beat said she had bad asked him to drive her home what with the extra drinks they had all taken after coming coining out of the water it was dangerous bustness business I 1 stepped around to his side of the car and grabbed hla his wrist giving it a bad wrench ile he squirmed out of the car and tried to hit me that was what I 1 had been waiting tor for for months rd rather have had bad him sober but it was good enough I 1 got in twice on ahls right eye and I 1 think I 1 broke ills his nose then I 1 lilt hit him in the pit of the stomach to finish him off all inside of halt half a minute the lite rest want any then I 1 jumped in and drove home evidently though the drive home to furnish many details she bile was pretty excited one way and another he be summarized presently but when she quieted down doan she was sort of dopey just like you saw her I 1 stopped at a cafeteria on the way down and tried to get her to come in and aad have some black coffee but she and I 1 want ant to start anything conspicuous id have tried harder but I 1 thought there was a pretty good chance it if mr greer aa was going to tc have a long business talk with you that I 1 could get tier ber home I 1 ahead of him happening the way it did was just exactly wrong what I 1 thought at the time jennie said mid im not sure though that it happen just exactly right to make her father put his toot foot down dowa on her lie asked and shook his head skeptically 1 I dont believe it do dw anybody any good to be showed up op looking worse than they really are specially not when young and a man like that like mr greer will always sort of halt half believe the worst about it every time he gets raid mad hell show her that he be believes bellev ca it I 1 never estr thought I 1 had much of a chance chanca but when I 1 look at the kind bind of chance ashes bad 1 ashes a fine girl aiss macarthur Ua cArthur pol poisoned I 1 he H had more to say about her now he B was fairly started to which jennie listened only half attentively shed taken to t swimming and diving as naturally as a seal bora in her it was shed ahta never learned at all until she he came cam to chicago and she could drive a car as far as mere driving went as well as george himself she was II as quick as lightning she bad all the pluck in the world and never lost her head bead shed have made a wonder of in an aviator it shed been a man and she ih was a lot smarter than most men took after hw her father in that george supposed opposed unconsciously and to jen ate alt rather pathetically he was giving himself away hand over hand before hed hd brought her back to joes apart ment hed given tier her a lot to think about this was the better part of two hours she gave joe all the time she could in which to get the girl sober and reach an understanding with her assuming any understanding whatever was possible she looked for m hard ard to tier her return to that flat as to the crater of an active volcano but her foresight here was altogether ier at fault joe himself let her in carried her bag to the room that was to be hers and asked her when she was ready to come out into the library tor for ft a smoke with him trim he said was asleep ills mood was strangely slack and his manner quieter than any she could remember in him lie ile knew how she hated taking tills this job he said but it be for very long by the middle of september he thought hed be able to be at home again permanently except for short trips meanwhile jennie possessed his full author autho but keep her for me if you can 0 jennie ity over everything trim understood this and agreed to it seemed to be glad rather than otherwise that jennie was coming since she had been lonely as the devil ashes got though he told her the better halt of that original thousand I 1 sent her tucked away somewhere and it if she really makes up her mind to quit you wont be able to stop tier her no more could 1 I of course do its as well as ive done I 1 guess and it she goes I 1 wont lay it up against you rut but keep her for me it you can jonnie jennie av are you sure she asked it a comfortable sort of question that beatrice understood what you expect me to do I 1 mean that she will understand der stand it when she wakes up in the morning and finds you gone and me here was she sober enough to understand it isthan what you mean yes ot of course she was she very drunk when burns brought her in dazed more than anything else and rattled at seeing me I 1 gave her some thing that fixed tier her up right oft off one sort of doctoring I 1 know all about anyhow merciful heaven I 1 never ever thought id need it tor for my own daughter thought though then he went on and told her that trim had found out the crowd quicker than he had himself ue ile had had a long talk with her and they had decided to start with a clean slate it il was more his fault than hers anyway then he be drew from her ber georges account of what had happened ills face darkened as though it did not match up with what trix had told him hill so jennie shortened her story quite ault a little uneasy as shed been all the while she talked she was utterly unprepared for the line joe took when she finished the first thing to do tomorrow morning he be said Is to let him go see to that will you let him go I 1 she cried incredulously george burns alter after what thes hes done tor for you today you dont want me to do that joel joe I 1 w do IV it defiance arouse hiru him at all rn ril let him know tonight then that lies hes discharged guess be better any way lie ile said it without conviction but equally without any sign of wavering be the first really unfair thing ive ever known you to do joe it you really do it I 1 dont believe you will you cant reward a really fine service that way why if shed been drown drowning trig and hed 1 I know all that he interrupted and ill reward him too you can write him any sort of recommendation you like tonight and ill sign it write him a krcilek twi for a thousand dol J as anif and f ill 11 hit book beret youve always kicked on my keeping him film as a chauffeur you said he was too good for it well now im doing what youve always wanted me to do that thousand will get him two years schooling if lie he wants it or set him up in a little business for himself liny him a taxicab anything he likes As a reward tor for what he be did today nothing unfair about that Is there the only string on it isthan hes got to keep away from me find my daughter I 1 dont want him around Bec because abse lie was wised up in that moss mess mora or less lem else liow how did lie he know how bow to find her na as easy us as that why they believe when lie said lie he had a message from me you can se see that yourself 1 for that matter why did trim keep all that end of it lark dark slie she did youve given it away you know 1 I told her we were going to let bygones be bygones start with a clean slate well we arel im never going to ask tier her another question even about this but it if she or you lins bus got any idea ril keep a man working tor me as chauffeur whom ashes jet get to know tier her as well as lie he seems to youre making a big mistake 1 I really believe jennie sold said deliberately libera tely that george burris burns chauffeur 0 or r not Is the best friend beatrice has today I 1 belleve believe ties hes got the best influence over her lies hes certainly done more than either craven or 1 I though weve were worried and wondered and done what we could but hes really held out a land to tier 1 I guess its only a guess of course well now youve said it yourself lie declared 1 I wont have her making friends with a nian man like that F friends baha ball three thre months of a friendship like that and father gets a telegram from crown point saying were married theres one in the newspaper every morning but its a tiling thing that going to happen in my family and a tip you can bet on and when you hire a new chauffeur tomorrow see that you ou get one that there wont be any temptation to hold hands with ile he was sure she have any trouble with beatrice she understands that im backing you up whatever you do and that it wont do her any good to appeal to me over your head I 1 dont hellove shell try it but if she does I 1 promise it wont get tier her anything your veto goes with me but the child going to to do jennie asked desperately of the tao universe rather than joe what is there she can do ills answer was that slie she could do any of the things decent people erdl ordinarily did she was to cut out drinking dancing in tough cabarets and nocturnal joyriding joy riding she was to steer clear altogether of the gang she bl had ad been running with but even after these deletions there was still plenty left as far as lie he could see it seemed to jennie that two people could hardly be brought into close quarters in a situation more thoroughly false and hopeless than this that joe had left tier her and beatrice in for three days she avoided discussion with the girl though whether this was tactics or cowardice on her own part she feel sure she was anxious not to take a line until she could work one out that showed promise of getting them somewhere trim who had never particularly liked tier her undoubtedly detested her now an attitude therefore appropriate to a friendly guest and comp companion n would be so glaring an affectation as to lie be to the girl insufferable yet the only obvious alternative a middle aged pose authority made easy by bits of encouragement orders sugar coated into the form of adnice and suggestion would drive her to open rebellion it if not jennie reflected ted to homicide da meanwhile ling in low going early to the office and coming back just in time for dinner bringing home work to do in the evening sticking to a casual preoccupied and not tone in the ithe strictly unimportant conversation she addressed to the girl she found a modus ills eivend establishing itself on the first til it morning looming at breakfast in reply to a domestic question raised by the butler upon the tentative presumption that she was now the lead head of the household she had told him to go on taking ills orders from miss greer as usual 7 after dinner that same night beatrice brought the question up explicitly anson says you told him I 1 was to go on giving tile the orders Is that what you meant heavens said gald jennie looking round tier her paper 1 I dont dona know anything about running an establishment I 1 like I 1 ke this have to do that does that take in the cars to too and the new chauffeur jennie ignored the overt evert resentment of the last phrase why not she said ive no use ube for or him I 1 drive my own owal P it struck her as she plunged back into her reading too suddenly she was aware tor for good that tier her young word ward looked a bit let down it if shed been lumur luxuriating lating in the close confinement bread and water theory tills this treatment was sound as far as it went put but it went nowhere near far enough it insufficient material even for small talk let alone real companionship jennie found tier her rule to do nothing and to say nothing not liing except when there was something perfectly obvious for tier her to do or suy say xvi wearing larIng pretty thin finally after their thild third dinni i together a meal eaten dismally through in almost total silence beatrice exploded 1 I think after thlu she sall said 11 taj have anif my meals in tn my loom 1 I cant stand toils its too ghastly it is ghastly jennie agreed and its ridiculous ive had all I 1 can stand of it myself of ill all the preposterous post erous idiotic things your father ever did chucking you and me together like this is the worst I 1 dont know what to do about it any better than you do te re been afraid to open ray my mouth for three lays days for fear of getting worse with you than I 1 was and I 1 was in badly enough already im ready ready to try saying everything that comes into my head and see what happens it cant bg be worse than this perhaps if you do the same thing we may get somewhere 11 tris trim had been staring nt at her from the first words in blank simple incredulity qt at first later through a tangle of contradictory surmises and doubts slie she went on staring for a while after jennie had done all right slie she said at last lis Is what im thinking if you hate it like this and think its idiotic of father to have asked you to come liere here why did you do it imi im terribly ond fond of him jennie answered instantly not the way I 1 im terribly fond of him jainta answered instantly guess you thought thou glit I 1 was when you you first come came out here ive never been in love with him and lies never tried to make love to me nut but theres hardly anybody ive cared for as much as I 1 do tor for him and theres nobody on gods green earth that id go as far for in the way of doing what lie wanted me to lie ile looked so perfectly sick and helpless liel pless last saturday night over what had happened that it nover anver occurred to me till hed gone offhand left me here that id had bad any choice in the matter youre on his side too the girl remarked you dont care anything about me youve made that plain enough crough from the first D dont ont hint jennie commanded I 1 cr crisply s ply weve made a good i tart talking out lets keep it up |