tanding.
When I decide to buy myself a wife I will send to you for a catalogue of
your daughter's charms."

Grant dismissed Mrs. LeCord from his office with the confident
expectation that he soon would have occasion to know something of the
meaning of the proverb about hell's furies and a woman scorned. She
would strike at him, of course, through Phyllis Bruce. Well--

But his attention was at once to be turned to very different matters.
A stock market, erratic for some days, went suddenly into a paroxysm.
Grant escaped with as little loss as possible for himself and his
clients, and after three sleepless nights called his staff together.
They crowded into the board-room, curious, apprehensive, almost
frightened, and he looked over them with an emotion that was quite new
to his experience. Even in the aloofness which their standards had made
it necessary for him to adopt there had grown up in his heart, quite
unnoticed, a tender, sweet foliage of love for these men and women who
were a part of his machine. Now, as he looked in their faces he
realized how, like little children, they leaned on him--how, like little
children, they feared his power and his displeasure--how, perhaps, like
little children, they had learned to love him, too. He realized, as he
had never done before, that they WERE children; that here and there in
the mass of humanity is one who was born to lead, but the great mass
itself must be children always, doing as they are bid.

"My friends," he managed to say, "we suddenly find ourselves in
tremendous times. Some of you know my attitude toward this business
in which we are engaged. I did not seek it; I did not approve of it;
I tried to avoid it; yet, when the responsibility was forced upon me
I accepted that responsibility. I gave up the life I enjoyed, the
environment in which I found delight, the friends I loved. Well--our
nation is now in a somewhat similar position. It has to go into a
business which it did not seek, of which it does not approve, but which
fate has thrust upon it. It has to break off the current of its life and
turn it into undreamed-of channels, and we, as individuals who make up
the nation, must do the same. I have already enlisted, and expect that
within a few hours I shall be in uniform. Some of you are single men of
military age; you will, I am sure, take similar steps. For the rest--the
business will be wound up as soon as possible, so that you may be
released for some for