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'==1F OSHAWA DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, T9357 ™ PAGE SEVEN - LOVE'S PRISONER * INSTALMENT XXXV Sok A - Victory! Beth got to her feet and gripped the table with both hands. Her face was white! she feared not only tor herself but for Arnold, who had helped her put over this strategy fo? the success of Phil's plan, "I¢ you will listen--'"" she began, "1 will tell you all about it." "The truth this time, the entire truth," Nelson said quietly, scorn- fully it seemed to Beth. - The me thered aroynd the table leane ard with interest. Drama seldom intruded itselt into such dry affairs as board meetings. All of them seemed enemies to poor Noth, who saw her house of cards tumbled down by this real, this thentio message from Phil, Only ane ray of hope lit the sftuation for her, If Phil was well enough to send a wire himself he was well enough to be told of what she had tried to do, She must bend every effort now to get them to walt until she had talked to him before they revoked their action in authorizing Phil's campaign, Only the oldest member, with benevolent white hair and rosy face, seemed friendly, He actually smiled at Beth, and she welcomed that sign of friendliness as a thirsty man might welcome water. Beghis Defense | "I--1 would like to begin at the |yery beginning, if I may," she said Halals. "1 promise to tell you all the truth. ' Several months ago. {last October, in fact, Mr. Dane ad- ivertised for a secretary I obtained (the place and learned later that he was paying "my salary out of his own pocket. He had approached you gentlemen before with this idea and you had discouraged him. But fhe had faith in it and he did not think it fair to ask the firm to pay the salary of an assistant to work out a plan you had voted down." Nods of approval and understand ing around the table, . "I went to work with Mr. Dane nd for nearly eight months now we have investigated every possible angle of this new business. My re- port must have shown you that. Mr. Dane continued to pay my sal- ary, and I think I am not exagger- sting when I say that this plan be- came almost a child to him, he was {so interested in jt, so enthusiastic isbout it." i She paused and drew a long breath. "I don't know just how Iproper it is to bring personal mat- |ters in here, but I feel I must men- ition them. if you really are to un- |aerstand the situation and why I have done what I did this morning. Mr. Dane be came engaged to Miss Caroline Gibbons in February, as some of you may know. He folt that he could not take time from his work for his wedding and a honeymoon abroad until after the plan had been offéred to you. And mith that additional fncentive he worked literally day and night t complete it. He neglected his flan cee and lost weight from overwork and centered all his hopes on carry- ing this thing through with you oday." Wind oldest member smiled at her n. _MOf course it didn't mean as uch to me as it did to him, but o one could work with him and ot be infected by his enthusiasm, 1 looked forward to your action in approving the matter ear- ly as much as he did. It had be- come a part of my hopes, too, you goo. I knew that if it falled he, 'would be terribly discouraged, and "I thought of all the hours he had) from failing. Last night--'" her lvoles faltered but she picked up her words and went on bravely, "last night we finished the very last |details and he left to accompany 'Miss Gilbhons to a dance." ' The room was very still. | "It couldn't Be in Vain" { "I don't know just what happen- ed---there was an automobile accid- ent and Phil--Mr. Dane, was ser- fously hurt. I came in early this 'morning and had begun to worry 'when Miss Gibbons telephoned to tell me that Mr, Dane was in the hospital and although conscious oould not comfe to the meeting. He |had mentioned something about the {plan and she she was not sure just |what ought to be done about it." | Beth's voice grew more earnest. {*"I thought of all the hours he had {spent, and it seemed to me that it Just could not have been in vain, that surely some way must be found lo bring this before you. So, entire. iy on my own responsibility T sent that first wire to Mr, Nelson. I took a chance on his noticing that |§t had been sent a bare half hour {before the meeting from some office near here. But he accepted it and I told you about the plan and read you the report. I realize now that I did an awlully---awfully coeeky | thing--a very serious thing. I am pot at all sure that Mr. Dane would have wanted me to do it. But I eouldn't help it--it seemed to me it would help him to get well faster if he knew you had approved it. And - 1 believe it will be a success, I---I guess maybe my faith in it doesn't count for much--with business men Ike you--=but T did what 1 did be- cause it seemed right----and I'm not sorry. Only you mustn't blame any one but me for fooling you this | way" | She stopped abruptly 4&ad sat own, "Bravo," said the oldest member softly. "I'd like to have you for imy advocate 1{f T ever got into trouble, Miss Shannon." Beth hardly heard him. She was realizing now the enormity of {what she had done. She would lose her job, of course, she would pro- |bably never ses Phil again, The oldest member was «qn his feet, "Gentlemen," he sald slowly, 'we have just witnessed a remark. ble example of a zirl's Inyalty and avery. That she has taken advan-| 'tage of us, pulled the wool over our by Barbara Webb * eyes completely does not alter the fact that she has done a fine, brave, | thing. Nor--and this is the import. ant part of it--does it alter the fact that she has presented to us a 'very, sound plan for the expansion of our business. I regret Mr, Dane's in- jury extremely, I hope that he may recover and enjoy the fruits ot his months of werk, But all that is beside the paint. The actual thing for us to realize is that we have be- fore us an opportunity for getting in on the ground floor of a grea: new industry. The details of our going forward with the ple= of Mr, Dane's report can he worked out later. I for one see no reason at all to reseind our approval of the plan, voted a short time ago.' There were nods of approval from' all save the one dissenting member, hd 8 "Highly irregular, highly frregul- ar," he kept muttering to himsert in a shocked tone, and he peered at Beth as though she wars some strange kind of a bird that had wandered into the rom from the, 700, ! A Committee of One i "It would seem to me," President Nelson was saying, 'that our best procedure now is to await some word from Mr. Dane. We can send a representative out to talk to him as soon as he is able to see anybody and sound him out on the chances of his going forward with this work in the next month or so. As our oldest member has pointed out, Mr. Dane's unfortundte accident does not affect the intrinsic worth of his plan. Unless there are ob- jections T shall appoint a represen tative to confer with Mr. Dane, and ask him to report directly to mae. It the circumstances warrant it. 1 will call a special meeting of the board in a month to six weeks to consider ways and means of carry ing out thi new department." "Good'!, the oldest member was gpeaking egain, - "That doesn't commit us to anything either way, excspt: a4 general approval of the report, leaving the future to tell whether we put it into actual prae- tice or not." Thay digeussed it for a few min- utes and it appeared save for tle one pessimistic member to sult every one. "Have you apy suggestions, gens tlemon, as to a representative to call on Mr. Dane as soon as he Is well enough?" "Miss Shannon," eried the oldest member enthusiastically and promptly. "She knows more of the circumstances than any of us. She can best explain to him just what, has taken nlace, and later, when he, comes back to the office we can meet with him." The opposing member shook a dublous head, but it was plain from the faces all about tliat - they' thought Mr. Nelson's plan an ex- cellent one. 80 Beth, rouséd from the stupor fnto which she had fallen on the completion of her story, wag ap- pointed a committes of one fo wait on Phil at the honnital, to tell him the story, and. to bring back .to the president himeelf an account of what Phil thought hest to do. (To Be Continued Tomorrow) "Ah, would 1 were a glove upon that hand!" quoted an ardent swain "Quit your kidding!" replied his lady-love. Platitude Al: "Human nature Is a strange thing. Now, the things that interest me may not interest you at all.' RECOMMEND THAT "EMPLOYERS KEEP LABOUR RECORDS New England Council Be. lieves Record of Effects on Employees - Situation Will Be Helpful Boston, Mass, eb, 19,--~A rec ommendation to all employers of labor in New England that they begin at once accurate recording of the effects of the current de pression upon the hours of work and the earnings of their employ. ees was adopted by the Industrial Committee of the New England Council at a meeting held at the Council Offices today. The Committee also asked that state, local and regional associ. ations of manufacturers in New England encourage their members to apply the Committee's recom. mendation in their own businesses. Kx-officio representatives of the Associated Industries of Magsach- usetts and Rhode Island and the Manufacturers' Association of Connecticut participated in the Committee's discussion, In a statement announcing its recommendation to New England employers, the Committee said: "The time has come to urge all employers of labor in New Eng- land to give attention to the long time problems of unemployment. We, therefore, urge hat every em. ployer develop, at once, a sys. tem of records that will show the precise effect (hat the present de- pression has had and is having up- on weekly hours of labor of each ot their employees. This infor- mation, if accurately recorded, will serve as basic data for intelligent study of the great problem of re- curring unemployment and might conceivably lead the way to its solution, If the opportunity for gathering this and similar data during the present depression is' allowed to go unheeded, business will be con. fronted with all kinds of proposals and panaceas that, for lack of de. finite data, can not be effectively studied and thelr effects upon in- dustry weighed, "Modern industry has applied the methods of research to many difficult problems, and we have seen them yleld up thelr secrets. Let us lay the factual foundation for research into the great prob- lems of mitigating the effects of 'unemployment; perhaps it also will yield up its mysterjes." 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