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