COPYRIGHT M4 BY - THE RED BOOK { CORPORATION SYNOPSIS. wn Fee meeting of the Market (iall Sargent listens to = discussion about the sale of the church tenements to Edward E Allison, local traction king, and when asked fon of the church hy Rev, Sr says it is apparently a lucrative enterprise Allison takes Gall his motor car. When he su entitled to rest on the la achievements, she asks th question: “Why? Gall, returni Uncle Jim's home from her driye lison, finds cold disapproval In the eyes of Rev. Smith Boyd, who Is calling there At a bobsled party Gall finds the world uncomfortably full of men. CHAPTER [V—Continued, “1 didn't know I was,” she confessed, concerned about it herself. “All once I seem to look on it as an old shoe which should be cast aside. It is so elaborate to do so little good in the world. Morality is on the crease, as any page of history show." “1 belleve that to be true” ily assured her, glad to be agred with her upon something. “But it is in spite of the not because of it,” she added. “You can't say a tremendous moral congregation which hundred, and sends less than services. The balance show votion to Christianity by a check.” Rev. Smith Boyd felt unfairly “That is the sorrow of the church,” he sadly confessed; “the lukewarm ness of its followers.” She felt a trace of compunction for him; but why bad he gone ministry? “Can you blame manded, had suffered a personal distress. The rector flushed as if he had been struck, and he turned to Gail with that cold look in his green eyes. “That is too deep a subject to dis- cuss here, but if you will permit me, I will take it up with at the house,” was a dogged compulsion in his tone “I shall be highly interested in the defense,” accepted Gail, with an gravating smile. There _At a vestry Square church with Al that there influence in tty thelr de quarterly into them?" she you seemed to be but very say after that, and they walked silently up the hill together towards the yellow camp fire, fuming inwardly at each other. Near the 1ill her ermine scarf the throat, and, with hands, she could not locate ti! clasp with which it had ‘May 1 help offered tor, constrainin imself “Thank you." sweet about it, and perform the courtes column of her neck was white marbles in tl} moonlight, and, as sought the clasps, his fingers, drawn from his woollen gloves, touched her warm throat, and they tingled He started as if he had received : lee iric shock, and, as he looked into her little to came loose at her bed been you? to polite ness remely reached up to T™H royrr red i i D8 rouncec WAS ext as 10 he I oppressed with men tonight. The world was full of them, and they had closed too nearly around her, Suddenly she broke away with a laugh, and, taking the two-passenger sled from Smith Boyd, who still stood she picked it up and ran with it, and threw herself face forward on it, as she had done when she was a kiddy, and shot down the hill, to the intense disapproval of Reverend Boyd! Dick Rodley, ever alert in his chosen profession, grabbed a light steel racer from the edge of the bank, and, with a magnificent run, slapped himself on and darted in pursuit! The E. Allison, grinned, and it corner, but Edward looking down the hill, “Coming Allison?" ham. “There's room called Cunning for you both, think I'l ride this thanks,” returned Allison, and, also declined with Allison gave the push, and walked back fire, “I received the ultimatum today, Doctor Boyd” Allison when they were alone that entual fifty million.” “Well, yes," returned the rector briskly, and backed up comfortably to the blaze He different man now “We yroughly, ears, the “1 don't trip, as the pleasant hearty to ev was a ided that, is worth ¢ purpose ently and dec property for the in mind. Consequ i Allison surveved in ity mil you have irewdly him st for a between them He m ‘ened the clasps, rembled. “Thank you” Gail, and he did not not voice was unusually ym over to the the fire, but Rev. Smith where had left him, pidly at the ground. of bewilderment, amid which there Was some unreasoning resentment, but beneath it all there was an inex plicable sadness, “Just in time for the Palisade spe- ~fal, Gail,” called Lucile Teasdale. “1 don’t know,” laughed echan though ically fas his fingers again said that She ice low Boyd staring stu He was in a whirl she trip,” and she sought among the group for distraction from certain oppres- sive thought. Fed and Arly, were among the more familiar figures, besides a startling Adonis, proudly introduced as Dick Rodley, by Arlene, early in the eve. 1ing, with an air which plainly stated that he was a personal discovery for which she gave herself great credit, “The Palisades special will not start without Miss Sargent,” he declared. bending upon her an ardent gaze, and bestowing upon her a smile which dis played a flash of perfect white teeth. Gail breathlessly thought him the most dangerously handsome thing she had ever seen, but she missed the foreign accent in him. That would have made him complete, “I'm sorry that the Palisade special will be delayed,” she coolly told him, but she tempered the deliberateness of that decision with an upward and sidelong glance, which she was startled to recognize in herself as distinet co quetry. “I have a prior claim,” laughed Alll- son, stepping up and taking her by the arm. “It's my turn to guide Miss Sar. gent on the two-passenger sled.” There was something new about Al lison tonight. There was the thrill and the exultation of youth in his voice, and twenty years seemed to have been dropped from his age. There was an intensity about him, too, and also a proprietoriike compulsion, which decided Gail on a certain diver sion she had entertained. She was . “That's the argument of a ban he remarked. “Why accept all that the prisoner has when his friends can raise a little more?” “1 don’t see the retorted the rector, sionally in it. “Business is business.’ Allison grunted, and flicked his ashes into the fire “By George, you're right." h ‘I've trying to handle you like but now I'm going after you business organization you who dealt profes. e agreed been lke are.” Rev the Smith Boyd reddened The that Market Square church was a remarkably lucrative enterprise was becoming general for comfort The has given you their de * he returned, standing stiff and with clasped be pay for the Ved property a cash years, will accrue liars, or you may let tone was as force ison's, thoy ugh he musical timbre too vestry his hands the it wy ‘o i wont Tat the pt ed back. "The city For a moment each other levelly that price, and I won't alone,” Allison snap needs it" the two men in the eves Sprung up some new them. A thick man mustache came puffing and sat down on his sled pay roperty looked There seemed to have nity with a stubby up to the fire, with a thump “Splendid exercise,” ing his sides between or kill me vestry's an ass.” in informing him “Same to you and many puffed Jim Sargent. “What's ble with you? ness advantage of a church.” “I'd have a better chance gkelat “Your on. ply. “Oh. go sea here, Allison! “You mustn't treat Market church with so much indignity.” “Why not? Market Square church puts itself in a position to be consid ered in the light of any other grasping organization.” Rev. Smith Boyd, finding in himself the growth of a most unclothlike an- ger, decided to walk away rather than suffer the aggravation which must en- sus in this conversation. Consequent- ly. he started down the hill, dragging Jim Sargent’s sled behind him for com- pany. There were no further insults to the church, however. “Jim. what are the relations of the Towando Valley to the L. and C.7” asked Allisdn, offering Sargent a cigar. “Largely paternal,” and the presi dent of the Towando Valley grinned. “We feed it when it's good and spank it when it cries.” “Hold control of the stock?” “No, only its transportation,” turned Sargent complacently. “Stock is a good deal scattered, 1 suppose?” “Small holdings entirely, and none of the holders proud.” replied Sargent. “It starts no place and comes right back, and the,sharcholders won't pay postage to send in thelr anunal proxies.” “Then the stock doesn't seem to be worth buying,” observed Allison, with vast apparent indifference. “Only to plece out a colleciton,” chuckled Sargent. “I didn’t know you were Interested in railroads.” re “l wasn't a week ago,” snd Allison looked out across the starry sky to the tree-sealloped hills, “With the comple- tion of the consolidation of New York's transportation system, and the build: ing of a big central station, 1 thought I was through. It seemed a big achieve- ment to gather all these lines to a com- mon center, like holding them in my hand; to converge four millions of people to one point, to handle them without confusion, and to redistribute them along the same lines, looked like a life's work; but now I'm beginning to become ambitious.” “Oh, 1 see.” grinned Jim Sargent. “You want to do something you can really call a Job. If I remember right- ly, you started with an equipment of four horse cars and two miles of rust. ed rail. What do you want to conquer next? Allison glanced down the hill, then back out across the starlit sky. Some new fervor had possessed him tonight which made him a poet, his tongue which, previous to this, could almost calculate its utterances in percentage. “The world,” said. CHAPTER Vv. he Edward E. Allison Takes a Vacation. Edward E. Allison walked into the offices of the Municipal Transportation company at nine o'clock, basket tated letters out of the center of his desk; then he touche button and a thin young man, brow, at twenty, wore the traces of preternatural age, walked briskly in, “Take Mr. CGreggory these letters and ask him if he will be kind enough to step here.” “Yes, sir” fd a the concentrated basket, and his weight of responsibility. Greggory walked in, a fat man with trace of nonsense about him. “Out for the day, E47?” he surmised that pre by the gift of the letters no ybabllity “A month or rising and sur 80," amended Allison, ing the other articles m going g vacation.” time.” agreed his effi. manager. “Il think it's been years since you stopped to take a breath little?” “That's chuckled like “1 suppose wa'll have your address,” iggested Greggory. “No.” Greggory “It's cient about general four Going to play a word,” and a boy. the pondered frowningly i | | a nice crowd. Besides you and our- selves, there'll be Arly and Dick Rod- ley and Gail.” Gall, of course. He had known that, “We'll start from Uncle Jim's at eight o'clock.” Allison called old Ephraim. “l want to begin dressing at seven- fifteen,” he directed, “At three o'clock set some sandwiches inside the door. Have some fruit in my dressing room.” He went back to his map, remember ing Lucile with a retrospective smile The last time he had seen that viva- cious young person she had been emp- tying a box of almonds, at the side of the camp fire at the toboggan party. He jotted down a memorandum to send her some, and drew a high stool in front of the map Strange this new had come over him tually been about work finished; ambition which Why, he had ac- to consider his big and now, all at once, The eager desire had come to him again, and the blood in his, veins as he felt strength He was starting with a youth's enthusiasm | lusty momentum of success and the of capital. him in the Across power past the few days fertile fields and the and and, though he was capable, he loved his flesh ‘About that Sh he inquired. “There's likely ble with the village of Waveview yes ell Beach extension to be trou Thelr #08 “Settle It yourselt,” directed Allison carelessly, and Greggory stared ing the Hison's ¢ long and arduous course of Al imb, he had bu I attent to detail lighting a door. in fre of largest it his sdccess on person jon Good by.” and Allison cigar on his He walked out, way to the his runabout a stationer's and bought glo be they had ir Address, please? stopped nt +s wan stock the clerk, pencil over “Free as Air,” He Gayly Told Her. black threads, from coast to coast, everywhere else were shorter main and shorter branches, and, last mere fragments of rallroads. He with the ended with the fragments, in turns, he gave minute careful study At three o'clock took a sandwich and ordered his was gone less than an hour, came back with government reports and he car and volumes of statis- and a file more intimate infor the office of his off his coat time, spread, which of from threw when he fry 1} in Las came and on the big, a ht py Lame tabie atl Napoleon - wil ce i snned a can of ipaign, a vari raliroad maps At id Ephraim found him at the table in the mid tabulations. suggested red Sfteen ¢ mass seven the end of some neat and intricate dress, sir” arked ing up d E 1s 8 Mt rem the ad sorbed Allison, gl “Yes, sir” ant rt rr} ais returns phrain "You me Lo wwen-Of. ann teen come for you Allison arose and ru f bbed the tips of ® OVer his eyes “Keep this room locked.” he and obediently minutes he ordered, For belonged to stalked ipstairs next thirty in the seat beside him. Then he streaked up the avenue to the small and severely furnished house where four ebony servants protected him from the world. “Out of town except to this list,” he directed his kinky-haired old butler, and going into the heavy oak library, he closed the door. On the wall, de pending from the roller case, was a huge map, a broad familiar domain be- tween two oceans, and he smiled as his eye fell upon that tiny territory near the Atlantic, which, up to now, he had called a world, because he had mastered it. His library phone rang. “Mr. Allison?” a woman's voice. Gall Sargent, Mrs. Sargent, Mrs, Davies. or Lucile Teasdale. No other ladies were on his ligt. The voice was not that of Gall. "Are you busy tonight?” Oh, yes, Lucile Teasdale, “Free as air,” he gayly told her. “I'm so glad,” rattled Lucile. “Ted's just telephoned that he has tickets for “The Lady's Maid.' Can you join us?” “With pleasure.” No hesitation whatever; prompt and agreeable; even He as carefree as a boy when reached Jim Bargent’s ho snapped when he down the in a pearl with a triple string of pea her waving hair and a rosecolored cloak depending from her gracefully ing shoulders Her Was i he use, and his saw Gall $ies dt anit linteq eyes come stairs ia 4 ris In EOWwWnh, slog ywn eves brightened at the sight of him He had been much in h Lea ingly but Was today; not a8 one of a She ite conscion that con group he liked him, gel qu in bu? was curio she was more 18 about him shake ment, she fc to clit i# that she He stepped forward to with hands und the ad never ything like she had AR sense her and, for a un in her an inclination ¢ re wv 411 7 : a warm thrill of his ¥ before been 80 aware that Ney of ar Of 80 erth heless, when withdrawn felt of relief “Hello vOICe | her hand, she the re hearty looking like *1 feel one.” Hed Allison I'm on a vacation” He was vain enough or curious enough to glance at himself in the big mirror as he passed it He did look younger astonishingly and he had about him a quality of lightness which made him reatless He had been smi! ing either 80; dry wit, scathing, satirical, used that quality when Lucile and Ted, and Arly the theater he was the same, and the fact that he He wanted her, mind to have her. He was himself a entertainment, from Gail at the Sargent house, he Immediately on his library, Allison threw off his coat and waistcoat, collar and tie, and sat at the table. “What ia there in the iceboy?” he wanted to know. “Well, sir,” enumerated Ephraim carefully; “Mirandy had a chicken potple for dinner, and then there's—" “That will do; cold,” Interrupted Al lison. "Bring it here with as few service things as possible, a bottle of Vichy and some olives.” He began to set down some figures and when Ephraim came, shaking his head to himself about such things as cold dumplings at night, Allison stopped for ten minutes, and lunched with apparent relish. At seven-thirty he called Ephraim and ordered a cold plunge and some breakfast. He had been up all night, and on the map of the United States there were penciled two thin straight black lines, one from New York to Chicago, and cne from Chicago to San Francisco, Crossing them, and paralleling them, and an gling in their general direction, but quite close to them in the main, were lines of green and lines of orange; these three, Another day and another night he spent with his maps, and his books, and his figures; then he went to hie broker with a list of railroads. “Get me what stock you can of these,” he directed. “Plck it up as quietly as possible.” The broker looked them over and elevated his eyebrows. There was not a road in the list which was im portant strategically, but he ceased to ask Allison. Three days later Allison the annual stockholders’ the L. and C, railroad, majority of the stock in that nificant line, which ran up the opposite Crescent island, joined shortly after its emer gence from its hired entrance inte New York, ran for fifty miles over the roadway of the Towando, with long-time tracking contract and wandered up into the country where It served as an outlet to cer conservatively profitable terri went inte meeting of insig shore tory. The and and called the stock holders, gray with watery to the long mestling. and grave, eyes, drew table; for they too They answered names, and they listened to ites, and waded mechanically the routine busin always with ganze straying force come among Every mar knew all about Edward E Ii. He had combined the of New York by and unsympathetic geom and where appeared, no mat his avowed intent to be radic some direc their min were to the “HE, to the new whi had them there son. terests traction in methods as as be etry. were certain al heavings Election the routine, quiry slate” Edward E Every dire New b nquiry of reached in that solemt mm yificers and faded was in the yes. The “o Was propose in Allison ve ctor nomination ted with the rest was reelected! 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