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The Huron Expositor, 1926-01-08, Page 7.01 o• t or, o • 0( 4 11 ee, eee ,eiee • -4 a 04 • a. 3 T fIff° 4t4"0011 :',X0*. -*a lig -"es late0444'*91.3.4se3ef t#it ;')rad1%.0..- • bfia„:.,Hieeikeweep standrn s 'Weak ok :his gt.e4e 4aight have circled bar; iJoid. he', fell uddto,treenhlirtOi Yteir: Alerned fowaldliiM•,and her deep eyee Peemne- suddenly wide and full of light --:a light not reftected 'only fremi. H'e had cut i ehort his nniereree tbe surieet but shining from within. ee__, course to mine to- BeitSillie•Breitlietee At once emboldened and mak twice at the • invitation TOM `"'Shell, -MA lout above all young -and intense, the" from the' first 0 had takeii 'hoy burst out fervently: "If I had hine.under the'Jieitig paternalis •a -anything to ofeer Yon, Hope Grg""e eBarbieite grinned Sardonically and nd, dearest, what things I would alV 'bitterly now as he looked back, with I, :4, s • Aee- .21%* • rehaaVeckhl Ar:Mt 4s10., :1)40°001"'-• a* et."O'llO*04 flip, affeMed- to:ebelotifee ;Must 'Pee -Squarely met VieliCisiA1N0 •10.4 Itir'13arbOur Sev- ensethie. geeneed such a day. iThe news that had shaken his per- tonal- *Old "gave poignancy to th' reviewing of his ibusiness life a this admission of its failure. • to you!" . 'You have one thing" -her voice was low and vibrant, and, it seemed te intoxicate him to a madness of joy ,="that no one else •can ever offer r6e." " "I have only a love that's all of me," .he broke out vehemently. "And lime is a thing lots ' of fellows will e* r yon-felloWs who have all the (le est besides." "You're the only one who has your love to offer," she told him. "And that's the only 'love I want." Then his arms went out and closed and he felt her lips againet`his, and, the sky and sea and, ,woods became their .13layalings,,andethe world their eiceletPrve Omni*. , Presently she said, "but you have another year at college yet and after that you have to get started in busi- ness. We'll have to wait a long time •won't we?" "No," he declared with a sudden decisiveness that made his -well- shaped features go at a breath from boyishness to mature responsibility; "this is my last year at Harvard." "But there's still your degree, "I'm through college, nonetheless. To -morrow I go to New York and see Mr. Snell. He's' dropped in on me once or twice when he's been in Bos- ton on •business. There's an opening there for me -whenever I'm ready - not a big thing bat a start -,and I'm ready ' now. I've got to get my life launched, dearest -now that I know what course I'm trying to shape." "But I don't want you to break • "I'm tot breaking off, dearest, Pm Bre:elf:beg 'in -breaking into life -sand with what I know now Pm not afraid. I'm going to Beverly Brothers and they're going to call me 'our Mr. -Sevens', but before we end up, Hope dear, it's going to be 'our Beverly Brothers'." Barbour Sevens was looking down a vista of some elapsed years on that iline now in the small New York a- partment in which he and Hope had begun their life together. The place had been big enough or the roots and branches of love to spread and blossom and grow strong. It had served for the testing of a vision. and the fulfilment of a dream, .thut even Paradise was not large en - ugh oe secure enough, to remain un - invaded. • This morning the invasion had eome to Sevens, though Hope had known of it sooner, and it had poisoned the. air until Barbour Sevens felt him- self strangled. The blow had fallen es he had ris- en from the breakfast table, ald Hope had risen with him and hesitated in something she was about to say. She had hesitated only a moment, and then she had spoken with an as- pumption of casual znatter-of-fact- nese. "The doctor won't come to -day," she .told- him. "My bronchitis has been stubborn but he doesn't have to look in on me so often now." "Thank God," exclaimed Sevens. "And now that you are on the mend ,I can admit how badly seared I wale" She smiled, and there was a wist- fulness in her eyes that he did not miss. Suddenly he , drew nearer and took her in his arms. "Were you frightened too, dear?" he asked tenderly. She shook her head, and then, forc- ing her words, she went on: "Dr. Maxwell wants me to see Doc- tor Galvin." _ • Galin! That was enough. Gal - vin's pame was a synonym for ex- ' 'Plorition •into deeper • troubles. Gal- • vin wits the big limg.specialist, 'and, Bere'rens• found himself 'gulping with ,a zudd0eparalysia of panic at his heart. ....14,11adnt been prepared for that. He :Onellied hie lipsand they closed again 'lath -oat 'Words. It seemed that the , eeevegald‘ wag “reeling to the ealianity of 4krtceeirke and voleario. the perspective of results, on those first days. Then, despite' his own unassuming good nature, there had been heart-burnings in the °Mee and talkearnong older employees of "Tom Shell's pet." Then old Silas Beverly had died and Shell, who had played the "sedu- lous ape" through these years of studying his 'whims>. stood in his stead. It was the position toward which he had built, this finding him- self at the head of the 'concern and answerable only to it board of ditec- tors. "Now," Barbour Sevens had thought "my opportunity has come." To -day he remembered how that thought had intruded itself even while he, with his fellow workmen, had stood by the grave where the old chief was being buried. "Yet ifel could think of my own prospects as the funeral ritual was being recited,"•fie mused with a grim- ly set jaw, "I thought of them solemn- ly enough and in terms of the service I meant to give. And I gave the service." He had given the service. He had given it so well and with such a sin- gleness of purpose that Tom Shell had been only a figure -head and he himself the originator of policies. In the old days, Shell had been some- thing of a sycophant to old Silas, obeying orders with machine -like ex- actness and seeing that others obey- ed them, too. Now he found himself falling more and more into the habit of relying on the quick mind of his subordinate for the'smattness and in- itiative that he could. not summon from his own slower and more cum- bers-ome processes. He told himself that Sevens wits given to experimen- tation and that this trait would be dangerous if allowed free rein, but that, subjected to his own sounder judgment, it became a convenience. The truth was that he had acquired the habit of the follower and.. could now display no -quality of leadership save pompousness. Barbour remembered the morning soon after the funeral, when, Shell had moved into the mahogany -panel- led office that had been Beverly's and had given him a desk in the adjoin- ing room, filet had been Shell's own. They had talked that morning and out of the conversation, Sevens ha brought a sense of bitter disillusion- ment. Fre could not now recall the exact words in which the older man had couched his opinions, but he could re- member the chill bhat had settled a- bout his own heart with the recogni- 'on of his chief's self-seeking nar- rowness. It was obviously Tom Shell's idea that history should repeat itself. As he had studied and emulated Silas Beverly so, he thought, Sevens should study and emulate him -though that was hardly candid. What he wanted from Sevens was not emulation but assistance of an importance beyond that expressed by his title or his pay. He believed that Sevene, in giving Such service, should Submerge his own personality and satisfy himself with looking toward the succession when his chief stepped aside in re- tirement. Shell overlooked -since its recogni- tion might be mortifying -the feet that Sevens brought to his position assets of alertness and initiative wield' he himself had lacked, and that he preferred to climb by other means than the ladder of toadying. Since then the house of Beverly Brothers had grown. The soundness of its business policies remained un- shaken and its verve showed an in- fusion of youth.' The directors, who cad this result in immutable figures Andered tribute' to Shell and knew nailing, or ilex% to nothing of the annonymous figtire that etoed behind Shell as the operator, stands behind the curtain of the puppe‘show. In theory such a situation need not be long endured by a man of ability and spirit. In fact it is often enclet- ed. "I might have pulled out long ago," reflected Sevens .now' "But the fact is I didn't. I suppose other fur hous- es could have used me, hire I'd have had to begin over frail the bottom. Here the big ehanee seethed always fust around the corner -arid somehow the Beverly -trade mark -Melted like 00 1 e '$ttrati AS 1.4 it 0 hi 'the • gift )etbr 41 11 113 half hour lawt he took leis in the hall, he felt man Who had under - ;a Made hira a h Avenue eine that wee ott ..‘: eine flinched of *AVE!, estell.:Viai'l.:" 'The ntst own fla. 1 suppossX kiddediii- ei1 tifoilit:fetUgh get/ into the idea that *hen I'd be. sweitW '," 06titet just a shade More indispeasable b4totVM . ;Auld write my orTn, conttaatP 11 '41P "" • $ 7 "le • 'a. = • 111 leipa 'eleleeLe, $11l 1441 41 I, tit • iNaE 7A, 4,44 V.? V, •I 3 11 .o4 - fir 144 14 11 4MA 41 4, 4-1 A a 1) 3 a4 I v"r„ „Te'0.04-4ii-..4"PPreelable:PortiPx.).:Of 4iiat1411r thought- of the Organizaefen•aa:*.a'In' e.• 44 41 41 11 11pl 1' . 4 r 0 itk feeling tisn."4l 4'06: 31(74 • :**aitt m4.0 a PrO$1,44. chine so soundly engineetOd that it for advancement?” could almost Icnn.$1).0.1-1 fotehead. line/etas. HeenfidetetA*00ele*,'Weete0, .‘T,O,teltagtee:004 laehing in coriSig.;, tee* ' 14 iltliltiOgit**40,04iOliE liTYatffM. ...*?..:,•:wish to ectrne'i :4),:.40#10(140'witli.al' the init'lliineelf urnWIy -eYeeIennied hire, Ile had "As Opportue4tY Peor boy to whom Toni Shell dededoubtedleVe7'1*:9,00Pd at len deveuelesafed a chane, and it was "I served my seve*.'-.*4re for Rae e difficielfto sweep aside his early gra.- as it were. YetteeneMhst be patient' itude and reale that he had grown too.” to a larger stature and that Shell was The speaker sionedIfo swell a lit2e seeking to wring him dry. In other tle with perchinable,nNide as he ment- points courageoua, Barbour was in ally 4*evieve,4-lia MTh- 43uccess, theu,. self -appraisal timid, and it was Toni he fell again inte'quOtation. He liked, Shell of the mediocre mind, who to lard his talk .beembisticalle wlth rightly gauged that situation and us- trite and raemotiged ""Koti ed it to advantage. know, my boy, Tealso serves who 433 • - • only stale& and•wits.'"• CHAPTER IV Sevens la -Embed sPatle. "Serves Shell had held fixedopinions about whim?" he dmandd; then, without a young business man "making a pausing for an answer he went on: front." He had persuaded Svens, You like uetations, Mr. Shel1,. rather against 'his wishes and judg- Did you ever read Alfred Noyes?" ment, to join the club toward which 41Yes,1 the square -headed gentle - he Was walkiag now -walking with man nodded; then with a sweep of a' geimly set face to resign from a his hand began: membership that 'had profited him "'There's a barrel organ carolling nothing. Tom Shell always Winch- across the golden street---'" ed ,there, and Barbour could see hint "That's not the one I mean," his now, in his fancy, sitting self-com- junior cut hira short. "It's this: placently back at his table smoking , his fat, after luncheon cigar, a figure " great while ago there was of animal -like .selfishness and egotism. school boy, Hope, mused the young man, had He lived in a cottage by the sea, been bound to the cramping limita- And the very first thing he could re - tions of his own life, because they member had both been cheated and underpaid. Was the rigging of the schooners She still swore that he had given her by the quay.'" the one thing that no one else could ever give, but in his heart Barbour Sevens did not declaim his verse Sevens wondered whether he hadn't unctuously as Shell would have done done for her what he had once done Unconsciously he leaned forward and for Harvard: cheated her out of her spoke with a simple, almost passion - chance of scoring in life. ate intensity: To -day he was resolved on doing two things: he meant to lop off the "'He could watch them, when he useless expense of that club member: woke, from his window, ship and to talk so plainly with Tom With the tale cranes hoisting out Shell that no ambiguities could again the freight. stand between them. Heretofore he And he used to think of shipping as a had encountered evasions. To -day he sea -cook. meant to batter them down -because And sailing to the Golden Gate.'" to -day he was desperate. Perhaps, without realizing it, this was a time "It has a nice swing," said Shell when his impatience would once a- censoriously. "But how does it ap- gain lead him into the impetuosity of ply?" being off -side in a decisive scrim- "That's me," declared Sevens, with wage. To -day he would no longer a bleak and bitter empleteis. "Now suffer himself to be pat off. . for the actuality: He turned off of Fifth Avenue in- to the side street upon Which stood "'He is perched on the entrance to the club and paused London, in a writing room to scribble a few The Golden Gate is very far away. formal words of resignation. After They caught him and they caged him that he went to the dining room where like a squirrel, he knew in advance at what table He is totting up accounts and grow - Tom Shell would be sitting. Shell ing gray.' moved in an orbit of 'fixed habit as binding and as straitenede as that of a petty planet. He could be relied on to be occupying a given corner of the lunch room at a given hour, and to be lounging in a specified arrn chair by a particular Fifth Avenue window a half hour later. Sevens saw him at a table with sev- eral others, as objectionably typical of successful business -men as him - elf. The party had reached their office and cigars, and the inevitable dicussion, across crumpled napkins and filling ash trays, of the victory of the bootleggers over the Constitu- tion. Barbour ordered a small coffee at an empty table near by and im- patiently waited for his opportunity -and vviiile he *aited his eyes dwelt resentfully on thegroupthat delay- ed his reckoning. Shell had turned rat -gray, though he was hardly fifty. He had grown heavy and stolid. Selfishness and conceit eat enthroned on his face, with a wooden self -complacency, while hie talk bored his companions, who endured it only because, like himself, they were creatures encased in straitjackets of habit. At last the little clique reached their customary time of adjournment and, rising, pushed back their chairs. Then Sevens touched Shell on the a -44 a high stool in 1. arm. "I'd like to talk to you," he said. "Can't it wait till we get back to the office?" inquired the older man without warmth. "I don't like bring ing business to the club. A gentle- man's club---" "This is personal -with me at least," Sevens interraptede "You- put ate into this club. To -day I've re- signed from it. During ,the years you and I have both been, members here, we haven't often sat and chat- ted. Of course if you decline to do it now—" "Oh no. I didn't de-de-clecline,"- stuttered Shell. "Let's go down to gain to wave his cigar iti 11 decisive the lounging room. always like to gEStUrg, In 'hie tone was4te stubborn finality of A slid mind. "You c -can rebel -if yeklike." For just a moment Bit sevens was silent. His face ha1*d a lit- tle. Ile realized that tik„'dhati corn- mi'tted the unfotgivable eiteeef wound - "I think it awls a mistake for you ing this matt's smug seta virtue, -to reign. doen't do a Young' and he could gness the *atty. Per - business an k harm t° be seen haps the tableau or the qteality of the fhtebehied his her, It's good lublieit. Hakes a *eks was arresting, f011OW aPPreeinte." paper, in a hearhy cheih in elderly "DOA et rinke 94ft aPpreelate me?' member found himself dIktraeted into • "Ito* has had bronelaiS;" declared Severialtralevalitlz "ands hung on Anbhortily., oday shet'Aiiing taict- 'to gq,, "What I want to know," he de- manded with a quick intake of breath is whether this last stanza is going to apply to me, too: "'He will never, Frisco, But the very last thing that he will see Will be the sailor -men a -dancing in the sunrise By the capstan that stands upon the quay.' . . "I want to know whether that's all I've got to look ahead to, Mr, Shell?" "If you mean you want to know whether B -B -Beverly B -Brothers will ever send you sailing to the G -G -Gold- en Gate," responded the chief with heavy humour, "I c-c-c-cati only say, I'm afraid not." "I'm not asking favors for myself," went on Sevens steadily. "And if I weren't there with the goods of course I couldn't get on. But I know I am and you know I am -end In not wil- ling to have Hope ternally hound to 11, this treadmill of verty with me While others go ahead' ei., "When a young man marries , so young as you did," observed Shell dryly," "he gives hostages to fortune. I think it was Bacon who said that." "Has mybeing married affected my value to Beverly Brothers?" • "No, I didn't mean that, exactly. It fetters a man's independente, though." "Then you must mean, Mr. Shell, that because you know I've given hos- tages to fortune, you're eipleiting me by the strangle hold of my necessity. You must mean that you think I don't dare rebel." ., For an instant the heay1ace grew dark under a scowl-clouVnd the first words of wrath lost thenteeltles in ex- cited fftuftering. It was. paroxysm that passed and Shell, Wl'ila had half straightened in affront, saffii back a - never, never sail to finish my eigar there by the window." When the chief had settled himself well back overstuffed upholstery, end propped his feet en an overstuf- fed stood, a picture of creature cone - fort, he said bluntly: ' lot" el*:.,,•, ' ''. 011ie tesipeet Shell ha tdettdlir- Tha 4t.tet1an was Ourt, and Shell ined.,, 1 6,4 • 4,4 ie 4.3 111 41 sel i Ill tient tel temed his tiger; front his is 11 tke ChitOthro o 411t10 gei '0'4* hit kr , , . ,Alut m knottet,, .• kil ititft, l'ottit EIG gait '41. d4141•61" lunglitetialisk*and I ,,,, , ,Of . 'id , ik./0.,..114 tikh*siOwslq',0411 iii,x000101 401* 1Wt4.,:i0010 -. 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