A Record Romance (1912)
Young Parks, a salesman employed by John Dexter & Co., falls in love with Ruth, old Dexter' s pretty daughter. Dexter, however, will not countenance any lovemaking and forbids Parks to come to the house. The old fellow now discharges his stenographer and Ruth, who comes to the office, begs to be allowed to do the work. Dexter finally consents and shows her the workings of the dictagraph machine he uses. The old man now plans a month's hunting and, catching Parks again making love to Ruth, he shuts himself in his office after all have gone home, and dictates Park's discharge on a dictagraph record. Parks happens to be working late and hears this through the closed door. Dexter storms out. Parks goes in, smashes the record and dictates another, raising his own salary ten a week, the other help five, installing new furnishings, etc. Next morning Ruth transcribes this astonishing letter on the typewriter, and old Plodder, the chief clerk, is amazed at old Dexter's supposed generosity. Parks now marries Ruth and they go on their honeymoon. Dexter gets word of this out at the hunting lodge and. after a series of hardships, manages to get to the city office as Parks and Ruth arrive. Matters are finally adjusted through the monthly report, which shows a 75 per cent, business increase over any other month in the firm's history, all because of the new furnishings which made the boys hustle. Dexter forgives, and happiness reigns.
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