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Bellefonte, Pa., June 19, 1908.
Saving the
Company.
By CARLETON HAZZARD.
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Copyrighted, 1908, by Associated
Literary Press.
After a long line of incompetent
stenographers Bradley congratulated
himself when Alice Fuller took her
place at the typewriter desk, and as
though by magic the crooked places
were made straight.
So quietly did the girl slip into the
routine of the office and so unostenta-
tiously did she accomplish results that
Arthur Bradley did not realize all that
she was doing. He had only the pleas-
ant feeling that at last the office was
running straight, and, manlike, be took
the credit to himself,
It had been a struggle to get the of-
fice going at all, for the firm was in
opposition to the trust, and everything
possible was done to break up the
newly established branch office.
More than once Bradley had narrow-
ly escaped some trap laid for him, but
for every blow struck at him he gave
back as good. The letters from the
e office were encouraging and inti-
ted that if he would round out the
year there would be an increase
salary as well as the present of a
of stock.
biggest feather in his cap was
when the home office turned over to
him the task of securing a contract for
some $2,000,000 worth of material.
“Such big contracts are usually han-
dled from the home office,” he explain-
ed to Alice Fuller as he gave her the
letter with instructions to place it in
the private letter file in the safe, “If
they turn this matter over to me it is a
sign that they have faith in my judg-
ment. It's going to be a ticklish mat-
ter to figure on all that material at a
price that will be low enough to cap-
ture the contract and still give us as
much of a profit as possible.”
“They probably realize that you are
close to the contract, and they know
that they can trust you,” answered
Alice. “It shows that this branch is
becoming important.”
She went quietly about her work,
but there was a happy light in her
eyes, for she was as much pleased at
this sign of confidence as was Bradley
himself.
Alice was not a girl of impulses, but
she had come to have more than a lik-
ing for Bradley, and she took a pride
in his success.
The week that followed was a busy
one. Bradley figured far into the
night on the problems of cost, and each
morning he gave to Alice the results of
his work, to be tabulated on the ma-
chine and filed in the safe until the
figures should be complete. It was
weary work with all the specifications
and blanks, but at last the estimate
was complete, and Bradley took it on
to New York in person for the ap-
proval of the home office.
He was jubilant on his return. The
president of the company had congrat-
ulated him on the excellence of his
work and had hinted that the new
London office might be opened soon
with Bradley in charge.
But the jabilation was short lived,
for two d ys later a long letter came
from the New York office instructing
the branch to alter the estimates in
accordance with a set of figures some
10 per cent in advance of the original
estimate.
“Here's a job for you,” growled
Bradley as he took the paper to
Alice's desk. “I'll have to do as the
home office says, but it's throwing
away the contract and my chance of
promotion.”
“Are you certain that it is the order
of the New York office? asked Alice
as she took up the sheets. “You know
that this contract will mean a great
deal to the trust if they are able to
take it away from us. It means a
great deal more to us to retain it."
“That's just it,” complained Bradley.
“They know that if we lose this con-
tract we lose our fight for an independ-
ent existence and shall have to sell out
to the trust at their own price. If we
get it, it will mean that we can beat
them and hold our own. Yet they
raise my figures.”
sfaiii
“And it would be worth a great ef-
fort to beat us,” went on Alice. “Sup-
pose that the trust people had some
one planted in the home office who
could copy the figures and send them
to the trust officers. Suppose, too,
that they supplied the people with our
letter heads and envelopes. We would
be unsuspicious and change the bid in
accordance with instructions, only to
find out that we had been duped after
the bids had been opened and the con-
tract awarded to the trust. I think
you will find that they have bid only
slightly lower than this, but‘ much
higher than your original figures.”
“That's possible,” admitted Bradley.
“I! wire the home office and find out.”
“And warn the traitor in the office
that his plans have been discovered?”
reminded Alice. “They will then bid
below your figures and get the contract
anyway. It would be best to hold on
and take chances by yourself. It will
be the only way to hold the contract.”
“If 1 only could be sure” exclaimed
Bradley. “But I can't act on mere
guesswork.”
“This is something more than guess-
work.” insisted Alice. “In the first
place, this letter is mailed from the
Madison square station, That is in the
»afiding In which the trust has its
main office. Our letters all come from
the Wall street station, four or five
miles away and nearest our office.
They are using the same make of
typewriter President Hammond's ste-
nographer uses, but it is not the same
. the letters from our of-
ee >, piece broken from the
cross of every ‘t.'”
“I think you are right!” cried Brad.
ley as he compared two letters. “Well
pop in the original estimate, and when
they come to open the bids out our
trust friends will have a dozen fits.”
“But answer this letter and say that
changes have been made in the bid in
accordance with instructions and that
the bid has been submitted,” directed
Alice. “Then the traitor will not be-
come alarmed and notify the trust to
put in the lower bid.”
“You're the general,” cried Bradley
admiringly. “I am only the second in
command until this is straightened out.
Do just as you please.”
That evening a letter went to the
home office reporting that the changes
had been made as directed, but Brad-
ley personally took to the office of the
contracting company the original bid.
Two days later a long telegram ar-
rived from the head office demanding
the explanation of the changes to
which Bradley made reference. It was
Alice who wrote the telegram in reply,
explaining what those changes were,
and who wrote the second message de-
claring it to be impossible to alter the
bid to the old figures, as they directed
by wire,
The next morning President Ham-
mond stamped into the office shortly
after Bradley had come in.
“I came out on the fast train to see
what it all means,” he cried. “You
have ruined the company by letting
yourself be fooled in this fashion.”
For reply Bradley brought out the
letter he had received. It startled
Hammond, for beyond question it was
on the paper of the company and not
on a cheap imitation. He sighed as he
laid it down.
“I suppose that you cannot be
blamed,” he sald dispiritedly, “but it
means that the company is smashed by
a trick of the trust.”
“Not yet,” declared Bradley, with a
laugh. “Miss Fuller's quick eyes saw
through the trick. We took a chance
and put in the original bid. I think
you will find that we are the lowest
bidders, for the trust felt safe in keep-
ing up their bid.”
“If we win, you can have the Lon-
don office next month,” declared Ham-
mond.
“Excuse me a moment,’ said Bradley
as he slipped out to the outer office, .
“It's a go,” he announced beamingly
“Miss Fuller says that she will come
as Mrs. Bradley.”
“Rather sudden?” asked Hammond.
“It's sudden only in the recent real
ization that 1 have loved her ever since
she came into the office,” explained
Bradley. “It took this crisis to force
the fact home.”
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Alice looked In at the doorway.
“The Wallington people telephone
that your estimate has won the con-
tract,” she reported demurely, and to
her great embarrassment Bradley
kissed her under the approving eyes
of the president of the company.
“We've tricked the tricky trust,” he
cried, “and we're going to London on
our honeymoon.” ’
“On my yacht,” added the president
“We can’t do too much for the girl
whose clever brain saved the company.
You're a lucky man, Bradley.”
“Don't 1 know it?’ cried Bradley.
“I knew it first.”
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