Mary Minds Her Business
th him, but generally coming alone. After dinner he and Josiah would sit in the den till well past mid
to overcome her aver
" she ruefully remarked
eek I haven't been abl
ng at her with love in his sombre eyes
or me?
Spencer & Son had always been a firm, it
. But the way things are now-Well, when I'm gone, Mary, you'll own the stock of t
ll run th
the owner, of course, but I don't think you'll ever fi
le Stanley di
nd his son Burdon
e been presentiment, or it may have been t
tell me: Is that why you are making so many additions
rained him. What would a girl know about mergers, combinations, fundamental patents, the differences between common and preferred stock, and all that? "It woul
try-so you won't have so much competition when I'm gone. And instead of running those other factories, I'm going to move their machinery down here. When t
ories are now," said Mary after a thoughtful pause. "
ead. "I didn't like
e Stanley's
s enginee
elt her hear
ng an awful lot o
get it back, and more, too-but for quite a few years now it's been taking
ith his hands, Mary's eyes caught the shadow on the wall. She seemed to see a spider-a spider that