Evening Star Newspaper, August 11, 1927, Page 24

The Girl and the Mine. ANGHORNE, owner, stepped flom‘ the dingy little room at the end | of the long, black building, dub-| bed office, and walked briskly | to the door of the foundry di-| vision. He had come down from t city that morning and was golng ba by the afternoon train. He took out his watch “Allison!” he called A strongly built yo from the grimy inte: f looked at him speculatively “You will have this lot out o'clock, Allison, I thiuk you said d Langhorne \\'ell, you may draw and have the men b 1 shall not be down In spite of its m Allison’s face expr surprise. You don't mean close mean j been exper losing money is too poor in quality working. 1 shall b services, but all my arve fully supplied with manag foremen. Of course,” t} “if you should care again as an ordinary might—" “I do not wish to leave here," broke | in Allison impetuously, “and if vc excuse me, I thinl are mak a big mistake in closing the furn: 1t will pay well in time. ments—" “Yes, things have in vou took charge,” inter horne. “But you have nc 10 eliminate the loss. I can under- stand your enthusiasm. 1 was th way at your age. But fron Is a plai hard, practical business. And this vyour first command, to s 4 looked at his watch onc “Twenty minutes to train ti pose we walk back to the wait until we hear the w course, I shall try to sell, 1 do not expect to find either cus | ers or lessees. I would be glad to| Yease for a nominal sum, just to have somebody her. But, of course, no one | would care to operate the furnace .A( a loss.” | “If I could—"" began Allison. Then | he stopped abruptly. He was going | 1o say if he could e the mone; But he could not, so at was the thinking about it. He added, inst “it I could have charge here there | ‘would he a profit inside of three months."” Langhorne’s eyes twinkled and an | 0dd look came into them. Theygwalked | on for some minutes in silence | until they reached the office, and Lang- | horne seated himself in the only| chair it contained, motioning Allison to & box. He rather liked the voung fellow's belief in himself and his de- termination, and he knew very well what the broken sentence had started | to say. If it were not that- “You'd like to take the plant your- self if you had the money,” he abruptly. “How much would you re- | quire to carry the furnace on to what you believe would be expense-making? If I loaned you $10,000, would it be sufficient?” Allison was on his feet, his eyes| wide and looking grotesque in their rims of iron black. “You don’t mean this, Mr. Lang-| horne,” he gasped. “I have no me: no security, not even my college e: penses paid yet. Then there's— “I've seen your work,” curtl am ready to loan you the money un- til the 1st of January. Unl 3 bring the output to a profit v.hat, time, however. I will try to sell. Do you want it>” “Of course, if though——" “There’s the train whistle.,” inter- rupted Langhorne, rising from his chair and starting toward the doo “You may draw on me for the money as you need it, up to $10,000. No more. And —er——" as the train curved in sight around a hill and slowed toward the platform, “remem- ber our compact. There’s to be no| correspondence whatever between you | and Helen until you are fully able to support u wife. On my part, T will show equal confidence in my daughter and refrain from sending her to Eu- rope. Good-by.” | Allison watched him board the train Jith conflicting emotlons, then went | back to the office. He did not tell the men of the change until the furnace had been emptied and the bars of crude pig iron shipped. That ended his dulle« as employe, for, of course, with him- self as lessee there would be no need, at least for the present, of cleani up the plant for inspection. Henc: forth he was to be his own master. First he made a careful estimate of | the coal on hand, charging it against | the promised ]ozn and of the amount | of ore at the mouth of the mine, es. timating that at the cost of brlnglng out, then making a list of such other | lhln!l as he could use and which belonged to the plant. Then he wrote Langhorne, offering him one-half the profits after he had brought the fur. nace to a paying basls, in the mean time incurring all expenses of running work and improvements himself. That | done, he called the men and made them acquainted with the change. The next day he passed for the most | part at the mouth of the furnace,| lielping with and overlooking the ore | as it was poured in. But in spite ot his care and watchfulness the result was not satisfactory, and the newly | made pig iron was carried round and cast back into the furnace, to be once more melted. Again and again was this done, and though the results were often improvements on the preceding ones, they were not what he hoped and was striving for. 8o he worked and experimented, the loaned capital growing smaller and smaller until at | length he began to discharge the more shiftless of the men. At the end of | November his working force had dwindled to 10 men and himself, and his money to less than $100. During the last few weeks but little time had | been given to sleep. Through the day he had worked with the men, silent, | watchful, untiring, and most’ of the nights were given to study and the de- vising of new experiments. Somethinz was lacking, some little point which he had missed. Perhaps it was in the ore, perhaps in the furnace, possibly somewhere else. Only he had inissed it. And yet the secret was: hovering at his very finger tips. He was sure of | that. The 10 men remalning to him were the pick of the neighborhood, in whom he was every day growing to repose more confidence. working, and tried to meet his wi and in a way they were beginnin understand that v through a crisis of ning, after an unt y Allison almost staggered towar | you're willing, Olnllm- Jntt COLUMBIA RD. a1 18ST, OPPOSITE AMBASSADOR Formerly at 1801 Calvert St. TONITE “Our Famous” CHICKEN DINNER .| bit hard up now, so if it'll be any—any | his arms . don’t know how I apprec matter one way or the other. T was up | answered by Langhorne in person. all last night working and.thinking, | His face seemed unuusually excited as | them at once.’ and am going to make one. last trial, [ he swung to the platform, even be- a bolder one. 1 sent my last 50 away | fore the train stopped “Are these bars fair samples? he here on the train tomorrow morning. | dbm‘lnded this morning, and the things will be . .| The next day will decide whether we laying a detaining hand upon his|keep on or close, and whether—-| shoulder. But good-night. Be on hand at day anxiously, “you just leave that offica [ night. but after this will sleep.” |alone tonight an' go into vour room| The next morning he to bed. You're runnin’ yourseif out.|little platform when the train came ! pjant An'—an’,” hesitating a little, “it you|and took his package straight to the | don’t mind, me an’ the men have been | office. Soon after he went to the | lkin' about you some lately. We've [mouth of the furnace where the men | gepyie been workin' pretty steady am’ aln't u were throwing in ore. the package ”\ | pacity, All day he worked there | easler you might let our pay lie over |with them, feverishly, but the next 1 month or two. We don't mind, |day when he went below to w the ar % | results, when the molten iron was re- swung round and grasped |leased, he was calm [ But as he watched a strange light you for this, Brooks" he|began to glow in his eves. As svon . his eyes moiste You [as the bars were sufficiently cool t just|took several of them to the ion Tell the men so. addressing them to Mr tage of your friendship. | Langhorne. Then he went to the . ain with { office and wrote a long letter. And it I don’t m dmitting that. | lacked but two days of the year sther day or two will decide the | The firat of Jar Open Saturday Until 2 P.M. men now, Special for Friday! $1.85 and $2.50 Grades McCallum Silk Hose 3 Pairs for $3.25 Season’s outstanding hosiery value. 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