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lout above all young -and intense, the" from the' first 0 had takeii
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ensethie. geeneed such a day.
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tonal- *Old "gave poignancy to th'
reviewing of his ibusiness life a
this admission of its failure.
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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
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"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
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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
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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,
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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
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"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—"
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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
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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:
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