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Updated: June 19, 2025
I told him you must run it, and that Jepson must be fired but Rimrock, there's one thing more." "What's that?" enquired Rimrock rousing up from his abstraction and she smiled and patted his hand. "You mustn't fight him," she suggested coaxingly. "It interferes with the work." "Fight who?" he demanded and then he snorted. "What, me make friends with Stoddard?
He had had experts at work, making a report on their property, but he wished to withhold it from her. That report was doubtless for Whitney H. Stoddard, the only man that Jepson really served, the man who actually controlled their mine. But she worked on unheeding and presently, from across the room, she heard him speak again.
Clear him of course I can clear him of the unjust charge!" "Thank Heaven for that!" said Jack Jepson. "Everything is cleared up!" cried Alice gaily. "Even the sky see how blue it is!" In due time Jack's innocence was proved before the English courts, and the charge against him wiped out. He was then free to come and go as he pleased.
The storm still raged with seemingly unabated violence, but the sailors, under the direction of Captain Jepson, got a heavy piece of canvas over the worst leak, and then the repaired pumps kept the water in the hold down to a normal level. The failure of the pumps to work, until Jack and the men fixed them was due to criminal negligence on the part of Brisco.
But if any man does I don't care who he is he's welcome to try and jump it. All he'll have to do is whip me." He was winking angrily and Jepson, after a silence, cast an appealing glance at Mary Fortune. "You've got a wonderful property here," he observed, speaking generally, "the prospects are very bright. There's only one thing that can mar its success, and that is litigation!"
This oriental retreat, giving them a view of the lobby without exposing them to the rough talk of the men, was common ground for the women of the hotel, and as she looked over the railing Mary was distinctly conscious of the chic Mrs. Jepson, sitting near. Mrs.
But at the breakfast table Ruth told them of the visit of Masten and of her plan to advance the date of the marriage. Uncle Jepson and Aunt Martha received the news in silence. Aunt Martha did manage to proffer a half-hearted congratulation, but Uncle Jepson wrinkled his nose, as he did always when displeased, and said nothing; and he ate lightly.
Nothing more was said about her mysterious past, nor the stigma such a past implies; the women of the hotel now bowed to her hopefully and smiled if she raised her eyes. Even Jepson, the superintendent, addressed her respectfully after stopping off at the County Jail and all the accounts of the Company, for whatever expense, now passed through her competent hands.
Jack Jepson seemed to have warmed to Alice at once. And Ruth heard him saying, as she approached: "Well, Miss, you see it was this way. There was a mutiny, an' I was accused, but I wasn't guilty. There was a mystery about it when the captain disappeared, an' that mystery hasn't been solved yet, though I'd give a good bit if it were. It's hangin' over me like a nightmare, Miss.
In fact, as I told Aubrey, Jepson did not have time to use a paper-knife on the envelope, he must have torn it open with feverish fingers, for the telephone-bell jingled madly before breakfast when the office "wanted to know the meaning of this," and when the Angel rang off without any reply, poor old Jepson came up to the apartment out of breath. We got plenty of attention after that!
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